Cindy Sheehan is a living photoshop image. Set her down anywhere on the planet, put a microphone within 10 feet of her, and out of her mouth will spew the counterintuitive, the illogical, and the jaw dropping rants of a half-crazed, drooling dervish; a maddening combination of weepy radicalism and angry ideologue. Her appearances, now carefully scripted and choreographed, have degenerated into caricatures of her once tearful soliloquies. She has truly and totally been captured by the revolutionary left.
Does she realize what her benefactors have done to her?
These are not your garden variety leftist lickspittles who are holding Cindy Sheehan hostage. The hard-eyed men and women who now surround her are not interested in political change except as it can be used to achieve their revolutionary ends. People like Cindy Sheehan (unwittingly?) and Ward Churchill (willingly) are stage actors in their Grand Drama of the Republic. They are the cockroaches of our culture who thrive on chaos, grow strong in disaster, and whose message resonates the most with those on the fringes of society.
Thus are the armies of the revolution built.
They have learned their revolutionary craft at the feet of the masters. Lenin, Mao, and Hitler all came to power amidst chaos and unrest following some great upheaval. Revolutionary Russia seethed with discontent but it took the massive societal dislocations of the Great War to hasten the advent of Bolshievism. Mao’s ultimate victory was sealed in the immediate aftermath of World War II as the 4 year Chinese Civil War ravaged the countryside and cost up to 6 million lives. And Hitler came to prominence and power first when the hyperinflation of the mark impoverished the middle class in the early 1920’s and later as the Great Depression destroyed it.
So what better place for Cindy Sheehan to bring her Magical Mystery Tour Bus than the storm ravaged city of New Orleans. Not only will she be able to rail against her imagined nemesis President Bush, but her script supervisors and image consultants have some wonderful visuals they can use for the travelogue DVD they are making of this quixotic, cross country defeatist tour. Are they consciously trying to evoke memories of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and their coast to coast “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests” where, besotted with drink and tripping the light fantastic on LSD, Kesey sought a changed reality that included being able to experience the psychedelic without the use of drugs?
I doubt whether the sourpuss lefties who are running Sheehan actually have the sense of humor to understand what Kesey was trying to accomplish so any parallel would be purely accidental. And Sheehan herself, suburban and sheltered for most of her life, acts the part of someone who has been so intellectually starved that the radical ideas she’s been exposed to hit her full force and bowl her over, so raw and powerful are the emotions engendered by the combination of the loss of her son and the imagined gain of a belief system that explains that horrible fact.
Sheehan on the tragedy in New Orleans:
I don’t care if a human being is black, brown, white, yellow or pink. I don’t care if a human being is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or pagan. I don’t care what flag a person salutes: if a human being is hungry, then it is up to another human being to feed him/her. George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power. The only way America will become more secure is if we have a new administration that cares about Americans even if they don’t fall into the top two percent of the wealthiest.
That quote could have come from “A Communist Revolutionary Handbook” stressing as it does the brotherhood of man, the evils of capitalism, the wildly exaggerated rhetorical flourish of “occupied” New Orleans, and a call for a “new Administration” despite the fact that even if Sheehan and her cohorts got their wish and George Bush rode off into the sunset (or climbed the steps of a guillotine) his Vice President, whose connections to Haliburton have been fodder for leftist bombast since Mr. Cheney took the oath of office, would carry on pretty much as before.
These are truly the bottom feeders of American politics. And Sheehan, once hailed as the Madonna of the American anti-war movement among the more mainstream Democrats finds almost all of her erstwhile supporters tip-toeing away hoping no one will notice or remember that they and their allies in the media made her such into such a heroic figure. No peacenik Joan of Arc she. There will be no Sheehan led assault on the still 2/3 majority idea that we must stay in Iraq until the job is done. Now she looks behind her and instead of seeing throngs of admirers she sees the crouching tigers and hidden dragons who only see the war as a way to divide America so they can conquer her.
Should we pity her loss? Yes, but for how much longer? When does her radicalism negate whatever sacrifice she has given in the effort to defeat Islamism, that other radical ideology whose rhetoric about the west and America is so similar that it could have been born of the same mother’s tongue? In Sheehan’s case, her message of hate will continue to fade until only the echoes of abomination and self-loathing are heard in the mostly empty halls and rooms of a radical on the declining slope of noteriety.
Sophocles rightly said “Only the dead are free from pain.” For Cindy Sheehan, there will come a time when she prays for the playwright’s wisdom to overtake her folly.
UPDATE
For a true and proper fisking of Mrs. Sheehan’s idiocy, AJ at Strata-Sphere is a must read.
Goldstein adds some thoughts from Billy Jack.
LGF (whose server crashed when Drudge linked the original post) has some truly great and funny thoughts in the comment section.
John Cole has an interesting picture of Mother Sheehan fraternizing with the enemy.
John Hawkins thinks Sheehan still is “an influential and beloved figure on the left, and she obviously speaks for much of the anti-war crowd in this country.” I disagree, although she’ll have one last major hurrah at the anti-war rally in Washington next week. After that, only C-Span will have any interest in her.
Sister Toldjah has a revelation regarding one of Cindy Sheehan’s new friends in Louisinana.
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What Malik Rahim really said
Malik Rahim, a new friend of ours and resident of Algiers, told us stories of the days after the hurricane.
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Constitution Day!
Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … Consitution Day edition
11:16 pm
If things keep on going this way, I believe we’ll soon learn that Cindy BooHoo is going to be the birth mother of the Raelian’s next cloned human: Michael Moore Jr.
Such a beast might actually cherish her as madonna for awhile… before it devoured her with glee. How poetic.
7:55 am
Oh give this hysterical child a lollipop to shut her up.
9:36 am
Cindy’s Decline
I think she’s embarrassing the lefties that embraced her when they thought she would help them in their Bush-bashing.
4:55 pm
Poor Mother Sheehan
Right Wing Nuthouse has a wonderful post about the latest rantings from the unfortunate Cindy Sheehan….
4:55 pm
So cindy, bad mother, sheehan thinks our troops are occupying NO, huh? This loon’s elevator does not go to the top and she has finished going completely nuts.
Brave Casey must be looking down with tears in his eyes at the way his so called mommy is going totally nuts with help from the progressive lefties.
If our occupying troops weren’t there she’d be bitchng cuz Bush didn’t send em. Someone needs to do something about this loon.
8:16 pm
Until I entered the world of blogs I had not heard of this wonder woman called Cindy Sheehan. Please excuse my Australian sarcasm. I have just been along to Power line where he has blogged on the same subject of Cindy and her “new” friend Malik. Bull, that he is a “new” friend. It is at this other blog that I learned that Mr. Malik is a former Black Panther. Even an Australian such as myself knows about the Black Panther movement, and that they want to overthrow the system of government. Panthers do not change their spots.
I am not surprised by this development with regards to who is sponsoring Cindy Sheehan as well as that idiot by the name of Michael Moore. One can tell from the rhetoric that this woman has involved herself with a movement of traitors. Her son died a hero. He went to Iraq as a volunteer.
She is behaving like a selfish spoiled baby. The same is true of the people who attacked George Bush over the response to Hurrican Katrina. If anyone has to take blame then Nagin should be the one in the firing line.
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I knew I love the Aussies—what a fine man you are, and also a wise man.
Thanks, mate.
10:41 am
Sunday’s Funnies
Sweet Spirits of Ammonia has donkeys saying they are the voice of the people. They also think the French should stick to making wine. Yuck, beer made from ruined milk?
Info4beer says the ACLU has welcomed Al Qaeda.
Cafe Oregano needs a few lesson…
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Diary of a Mad White Woman
Mother Moonbat must be feeling pushed aside by all the Katrina coverage, because her latest missive posted at Michael Moore’s website sounds even crazier than usual… here’s a particularly nutty bit taken from her closing paragraph: “Geo…
10:41 am
Mutha Sheehan is yesterdays news. Get over it
6:52 pm
Does she realize what her benefactors have done to her?
I submit they’ve done nothing she hasn’t asked for explicitly. She was a barking moonbat to begin with; they just gave her a microphone with which to shout her idiotarian leftard slogans. I don’t think they’ve hijacked her message AT ALL. They’re ALL sick, twisted, anti-American lunatics.
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Did you hear her little protest event today got put off…in NYC..the cops dragged her off the stage cause she never got her permit. LOL She was semi arrested.
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Submitted for Your Approval
First off… any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now… here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher’s Council for this week’s vote. Council li…
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Diggers Realm Nominated For Watcher of Weasels Vote
I’d like to thank those who nominated my entry “Charlie Norwood (R-GA) Lays The Smack Down On Vicente Fox’s Offer Of Mexican Labor” for inclusion in the voting this week at the Watcher of Weasels. I’m in the running against…
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Rick, you ask if we should pity her loss…
Do you mean her loss of dignity, integrity and sanity?
Yeah, I guess so. It’s sad to watch the spectacle she makes but what is even sadder is this:
(a)the “journalists” who follow her;
and
(b)any of us—including moi—who discuss her or let her (as they say in AA) live rent-free in our heads.
The kind and compassionate thing would be to ignore her, much as you would old and dribbling Uncle Harold at the dinner table. He can’t help his condition and she probably can’t anymore, either.
There may have been a time she was in control of her faculties but that period has looong since passed.
OTOH, were the “journalists” and the American people to turn away from the spectacle, even if out of kindness, she would probably implode. Attention may be the only reason she has to go on now, and the fascination with her has the same sensation one has when passing a particularly brutal car smash-up. Kind of a “prayer-and-despair” feeling.
Care to predict how all this will end?
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The Council Has Spoken!
First off… any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now… the winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are The Wild, Wild, Wild, Wild, and Wa…
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The Watcher’s Council Has Spoken!
Each and every week, Watcher of Weasels sponsors a contest to see what are some of the most link-worthy posts from the conservative side of the ‘Sphere. The
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The Coalition of the Willing
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what we consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… though I don’t actually vote unless there happens…
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Watcher’s Council best posts week ending September 22
The Watcher’s Council selected these best posts from among those nominated for the week ending September 22. On the strength of a tiebreaker, The Wild, Wild, Wild, Wild, and Wacky World of Cindy Sheehan at Right Wing Nut House carried the day. With an…
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Omniibus Watcher’s Post
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good blog is dead blog:-) long live!