Disgusting Right-wing Slander of Cindy Sheehan

Don't question authority: that's the message behind the systematic character assassination going on in the right-wing press.

"No one wants to be the first person to call the mom of a dead American hero an idiot," writes The Conservative Voice, but launches into a rant entitled "Cindy Sheehan Gives Aid and Comfort to the Enemy". That's pretty sick. She gave a lot more to the "enemy" than these neo-fascistic wannabe pundits ever will!

As author Joseph Gutheinz, J.D. (!) put it, "There is a simple test to discern which side Cindy Sheehan is on with respect to the war on terror; don't ask her which side she believes she is on, but ask Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein if they see Cindy Sheehan as a friend or a foe. My guess is they would both say they see her as a friend. If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it would make sense that the friend of my enemy is my enemy; which is how I see Cindy Sheehan."

I beg to differ. I think that people like Osama bin Laden love people like Dr. Gutheinz, Esq., for keeping them in business. And business is booming in Iraq!

And now let's go to over to Rush, for this pathetic tidbit:
From Media Matters - Limbaugh said that Sheehan's "story is nothing more than forged documents."

How low can you go?

Now let's see what Fox has gotten up to in their disgusting slander of the mother of a dead soldier, for Christ's sake.

Bill O'Reilly :
Writing in The Seattle Post-Intelligence there, columnist Robert Jamieson, no conservative, put it this way: "Trouble is Sheehan is not sincerely interested in meeting Bush for a private, heartfelt chat about her understandable anguish and lingering questions. She wants to make a public splash by allowing critics of the unjustified war in Iraq to use her as a human bazooka against Bush."
Well, I believe Jamieson's analysis is correct. And I point to this. If Cindy Sheehan is really about getting the troops out of Iraq, why isn't she traveling to Washington to stand outside Hillary Clinton's home? The senator supports the war. Will Ms. Sheehan go to Nantucket and stand outside John Kerry's beach house? He isn't a cut and run club member."""

Well, that's just stupid. If that's the best old Bill can come up with, then that's just sad. I don't know what Sheehan really wants, but I take it she wants some kind of feeling of justice. If all that Americans will listen too, rather than, oh, I don't know, facts and logic, is cheap sentimentality, then bring it on! I think the Republicans are just mad that somebody is staling a play from their playbook.

If they can do cheap flag-waving, we can do sob stories. Mothers of dead soldiers demand an answer! Remember, this is the kind of society we asked for. Now we are reaping the rewards (along with the Terry Schiavo case, etc, etc ad infinitum)

Over and matt.