One day, I believe she will realize with some horror what she has done and she will know that she has dishonored her son's memory by embracing the pro-terrorist side. On that day, she will add guilt to her grief, and I cannot rejoice in that thought.
I'm not retracting that, but since the media has focused its lenses on Sheehan, I'd at least hope they wouldn't use the gauze to soften the actual views of this grieving mother whose opinions are sanctified by her loss. John Leo, via Real Clear Politics, has an excellent point when he notes that Sheehan called the thugs who killed her son "freedom fighters" but that CBS edited out that comment from an interview with her. And this is hardly the first outrage from her lips:
Sheehan, before and after her arrival in Texas, said a great many colorful things that failed to interest mainstream reporters. Some of her acid comments registered with the public mostly because of George Will’s powerful column of August 25 and his similar comments on the Sunday ABC TV news show This Week. A few made it on to cable news. Others simply failed to make it into the mainstream media. It’s worth reviewing what she said: The neocons deliberately allowed the terrorist attacks of 9/11. American soldiers are “being sent to kill innocent people” in Iraq. Her son, Casey Sheehan, “died for oil” and was “murdered” by President Bush. The United States is “not worth dying for.” The president, who “stole the election,” is part of the “Bush crime family,” a “lying bastard,” a “führer,” a “filth spewer,” “the biggest terrorist in the world,” and an “evil maniac” who is guilty of “blatant genocide.” Sheehan also compared Lynne Stewart, the radical lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists, to Atticus Finch, the heroic lawyer who battled racism in the book and movie To Kill a Mockingbird. She has been accused of making vaguely anti-Semitic remarks, but she attributes those remarks to her political opponents. On Hardball, she said the American attack in Afghanistan was “almost the same thing” (i.e., just as evil) as the invasion of Iraq.
If Cindy Sheehan has absolute moral authority based on her loss, why is the mainstream media denying the public her wisdom on all these issues as she sees them? Why is the media erasing her political views from the public record while recording only her grief?
Why is withdrawing from Iraq now the only opinion of Cindy Sheehan that the press has spread? Is it too much to suggest that collectively the media's sympathies lie with Cindy Sheehan's political views on Iraq as much as her loss?
I still feel sorry for Cindy Sheehan. She truly has betrayed her son Casey by siding with his killers and those who cheer them on to create more grieving mothers--Iraqi and American.
I wanted to ignore Cindy Sheehan, but the press has not had the compassion to look away entirely from Sheehan's descent into posthumous child abuse--just selectively to draw a picture they agree with. As a result, Cindy Sheehan has become the expendible cannon fodder for the extreme anti-war Left.
