Breaking: Libby half-pardon forces St. Cindy back into politics
posted at 3:48 pm on July 3, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Just when she thought she was out they pulled her back in. Ah well. Thank god our long national nightmare is over. And by “long” I of course mean 36 days.
No matter how much I try, I can’t stay mad at a woman who uses the terms “BushCo” and “sheeple” unironically.
I’m not backing off. I tried to remove myself from the political realm of the US, what BushCo is turning into an Evil Empire, but the blatant audacity of George commuting Scooter’s sentence (he’s not ruling out a full pardon —and you know he will) has dragged me kicking and screaming back in…
Did we ever think that the criminality and arrogance of the Nixon White House would be eclipsed in our time with nary a “baaaah” from the Sheeple in Congress?…
The recent commutation of I. Scooter Libby’s sentence, however, was the straw that broke my camel’s back of exhausted ennui. Patrick Fitzgerald is a thoughtful and thorough prosecutor who did a heroic job of bringing at least one of the Bush Crime Mob to justice. Even though we were all very pleased, we knew that it was not enough and that Mr. Fitzgerald would delve deeper into the feces infested executive branch. The lawlessness of the Bush Administration has reached wild west proportions and the inmates definitely have control of the US(A)sylum…
It is about time us “peasants” (in the eyes of the Fascist Ruling Elite) march on DC with our “pitchforks” of righteous anger and our “torches” of truth to demand the ouster of BushCo. I have a dream of the detention centers that George has built and filled being instead filled with Orange Clad neo-cons and neo-connettes.
“[T]he straw that broke my camel’s back of exhausted ennui.” Dare I say it, the shade of purple on that prose is downright Olbermannesque. “Pitchforks of righteous anger” also evoked a healthy redfaced embarrassment in your humble correspondent. We may — may — have a future Bulwer-Lytton winner on our hands here.
Her post ends this way, please note:
Author’s note: Please, I already see “Attention Whore Back.” If anyone thinks that I am going to walk hundreds of miles in the Deep South during July for attention, then please join us!
Exit question nudge: Admit it, you missed her.
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ian astaslam-
I checked Sheeple.org first, because I didn’t want to help any moonbats inadvertantly with the free publicity… but, when I saw it was a site “under construction” I figured that they couldn’t profit -or be hurt- by my Cindyism.
profitsbeard on July 3, 2007 at 5:26 PM
Anyone not sharing her bizarre point of view is ’sheeple,’ yet those in agreement with her are ‘righteous patriots.’
Yawn.
TinMan13 on July 3, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Mother Sheehan, about as relevant as Valerie Plame’s CIA status in this whole drama. sheesh.
bridgetown on July 3, 2007 at 5:28 PM
repvoter: “As conservatives I’m wondering why we don’t practice a little of what we preach and that is compassion. There is nothing more devastating than the loss of one’s child no matter what the circumstance. The initial time of grief is almost always followed by intense anger and lashing out. In Cindy’s case her anger is directed at George Bush. Given this same set of circumstances 10 years ago it would have been Bill Clinton.”
There is a reasonable limit to compassion as there is for everything. The loss of a child does not entitle a mother to say anything or do anything forever free of criticism. It’s hardly persuasive that Sheehan would direct such unhinged criticism toward Clinton, who was very happy to take bribes to avoid confronting the killers of our troops. Sheehan’s dead son does not immunize her from rebuttal, as her radical lefty handlers demand.
repvoter: “Cindy Sheehan is the byproduct of an out of control media capitalizing on a clearly disturbed mother who has given the ultimate sacrafice to her country. While I disagree with everything she says I cannot for one second begin to imagine her pain.”
Can you imagine the pain Cindy causes the parents of other troops killed and wounded in action when she says they died for nothing or to prop up a fascist Amerikkka or to make profits for Halliburton or because they are the terrorists? When Cindy demanded that we pull our troops out of New Orleans, it’s pretty obvious who’s out of control.
repvoter: “How many commenting in this thread have lost a son or daughter to the war in Iraq or any other conflict? I thought so…”
Assuming your logic and your lack of loss in that war, does that make your argument invalid, too? It is fallacious to argue that you must shed blood or bear the death of a family member to have a valid opinion on the war in Iraq. The game the Left is trying to play with Cindy is to assume a monopoly on the public forum by claiming a false moral authority that allows no dissent. It is a thoroughly un-American position to undermine freedom of speech.
Tantor on July 3, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Sorry, No more sympathy here for Mother Sheehan. She overplayed that card a long time ago. Grief and sympathy are just a tool her and her buddies on the left use to make her unasailable.
Does not work on me. But I guess I am one of those “mean spirited neocons she thinks should be locked up at Gitmo
conservnut on July 3, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Medea (love the name, btw :), while I agree with your sentiment 100%…I truly can’t believe I’m gonna say this…
I have trouble putting Paris Hilton in that triumvirate. She’s a dipwit, and a waste of the collective American media’s time, but to put her into the same box with Crazy Mother Sheehan and Rosie O’Donut is to say that she’s insulted us with rants of political ignorance and vitriol, which she hasn’t.
She is just a stupid little rich girl, acting like a stupid little rich girl. At least she doesn’t think her political opinion is more important than anyone else’s. We can thank her for that. :)
Now…back to not giving a WHIT about Paris. (either the person OR the city.)
tickleddragon on July 3, 2007 at 5:33 PM
Nah, sorry repvoter, she lost my sympathy too after some of her displays of Anti-
SemitismZionism.Bad Candy on July 3, 2007 at 5:34 PM
And…nope, repvoter…not feeling any sympathy for her. She dishonors her boy, we don’t.
tickleddragon on July 3, 2007 at 5:34 PM
Please explain on what grounds Cindy Sheehan went to Venzuela to covort with Chavez? Her son was fighting in Venezuela? Her son who swore an oath of loyalty to defend his nation against all enemies foreign and domestic is being served well by his mother running to a communist dictator who declares America his enemy?
This is not tragic, it’s grotesque.
naliaka on July 3, 2007 at 5:40 PM
I think she has David Hasselhoff syndrome … you’ll do anything to get back in the public eye. Plus she must’ve run low on cash.
darwin on July 3, 2007 at 5:43 PM
Slightly off-topic: For all the new people, you can get the rest of the Absolute Moral Authority Cards(TM) here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/06/hot-air-introducesthe-absolute-moral-authority-card/
Collect ‘em all.
ReubenJCogburn on July 3, 2007 at 5:44 PM
Your “question” is just another variant of the ridiculous chickenhawk epithet.
Excuse us for not bearing our sorrows in public and not exploiting those sorrows to profane everything which that lost loved one believed in and using them to cozy up to the enemies of America…unlike someone else.
baldilocks on July 3, 2007 at 5:49 PM
and not using them to cozy
baldilocks on July 3, 2007 at 5:57 PM
It’s funny how Liberal fanatics are always seeking to silence/”reeducate”/punish/constrain any
sort of thinking or ideology that doesn’t conform to their worldview.Medea on July 3, 2007 at 4:22 PM
actually, that only applies to Christian, Republican or conservative, it sure doesn’t apply to the religion of pieces!
clghitis on July 3, 2007 at 6:04 PM
Before it disappears:
Blake on July 3, 2007 at 6:06 PM
Can I change my log in name to neo-connette?
Ann on July 3, 2007 at 6:14 PM
I guess
might not mean Joos when she says “neo-con,” like so many others do.
smellthecoffee on July 3, 2007 at 6:14 PM
Someone in this thread used the term “useful idiot” to describe Sheehan. She’s not “useful” — she’s a “disgrace.”
And as it has been pointed out, HER HEROES, the ones Code Pink gave $600,000 to while my son was in Iraq fighting them, her heroes (the ones that Michael Moore calls “freedom fighters”) murdered an entire village down to the last man, woman, and child.
georgej on July 3, 2007 at 6:15 PM
I screwed up that Bree Walker Link in my above post…
Bree Walker, whose feet got wet in the anti-war movement when she protested the Vietnam war in the early 70’s after her brother got drafted, intends to keep Saint Cindy’s protest farm open and operating.
…sorry ’bout that Chief!
SilverStar830 on July 3, 2007 at 6:19 PM
This just goes to prove:
The left aint nothing without someone to really, really hate.
Always Right on July 3, 2007 at 6:30 PM
I used “Useful Idiot” in the exact same sense that Stalin did in describing American liberals. If you aren’t familiar with the term and its origins, it’s worth looking up.
ReubenJCogburn on July 3, 2007 at 6:32 PM
The dumbest woman in America.
Stankleberry on July 3, 2007 at 6:43 PM
They deleted that post off the Saint Cindy Farewell Tour thread comments already.
Too funny how the “progressives” are so “progressively” one sided and into censorship and removal of ANYTHING that contradicts them… or shows them to be the fools that they are.
SilverStar830 on July 3, 2007 at 6:49 PM
Sheehan is a grade A nut. ‘Nuff said.
Ryan Gandy on July 3, 2007 at 6:55 PM
Rove is behind this.
I don’t know how, but he is.
VolMagic on July 3, 2007 at 7:16 PM
A stageprop for St. Cindy
franksalterego on July 3, 2007 at 7:29 PM
I’ll never forget Cindy…what’s her name?
Wade on July 3, 2007 at 7:33 PM
Cindy Sheehan – “I remember once I had this discussion with my son over dinner…”
Homer Simpson – “Look lady, you’re gonna be having dinner with your son tonight if you don’t shut up!”
Coronagold on July 3, 2007 at 7:36 PM
Bush Jr has commuted a whopping four people as of now, and has pardoned no one. Someone should invite Cindy to check the Justice Department website, and see how many dozens of people Bill Clinton pardoned. Yes, pardoned!
manwithblackhat on July 3, 2007 at 9:24 PM
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TheSitRep on July 3, 2007 at 9:37 PM
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! She’s BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
sophiesmom on July 3, 2007 at 9:52 PM
And you have Sandy Berger getting away scot free and hush hush? You get that crook, William Jefferson who had bribe money hidden in his freezer. He is still in the House because the rallying cry of the Dems is – innocent until proven guilty! But Tom De Lay had to resign because he was presumed guilty until proven innocent! I don’t dayum get it!
TheSitRep on July 3, 2007 at 9:58 PM
I’m sorry, I was unaware that you ever did anything but kick and scream?
Shocking! Sheehan rides a camel? Well, so do those who she supports in this war.
Now all we need is Sean Penn to once again rant about soiled underpants and I can feel like it’s been a good week. (Background: “Well, you and the smarmy pundits in your pocket, those who bathe in the moisture of your soiled and bloodstained underwear, can take that noise and shove it.”)
RightWinged on July 3, 2007 at 10:18 PM
Allah? I didn’t miss….I never even pulled the damned trigger. I know diseased game when I see it
Blitz on July 3, 2007 at 10:46 PM
The posts here have been harsh.
If we see an animal in pain, do we not seek to put it out of its misery?
If we see a mentally challenged individual, do we not seek to support him/her?
If we see a person unwittingly being used by others for their own agenda, do we not seek to help the useful idiot?
Cindy Sheehan is all of this and more. Nobody cared that she “left” politics and nobody cares that she is announcing her return for whatever reason. This woman is too pathetic for words. The moral imperitive that launched her “career” is long passed leaving this shell of a human being that has even been disowned by her own family. We should pity mental illness in our fellow human beings.
highhopes on July 3, 2007 at 11:04 PM
blah, blah, blah, Scooter Libby
blah, blah, blah, Global Warming
blah, blah, blah, BushCo
blah, blah, blah, Paris Hilton
….meanwhile, the real threat we face is figuring out what went wrong in the UK and how to fix it to kill more Infidels. But hey – no wiretapping!
!&*%$#$-ing liberals.
reaganaut on July 3, 2007 at 11:18 PM
Are you saying that Sheehan is a mentally challenged, useful idiot animal? I prefer muffin top (you remember the photo).
RightWinged on July 3, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Walker reminds me of the two deaf lesbians that wanted to ensure that their child would be deaf also. They felt it would “teach” the child to be empathetic toward others. Walker obviously didn’t give a rats patootie that her children would be stricken with this condition as long as she got to make political hay with it.
Liberalism is a sickness.
csdeven on July 3, 2007 at 11:48 PM
And that’s not the only syntax error. The parenthetical “(he’s not ruling out a full pardon —and you know he will)” reads as if it is a certainty that Bush will rule out a full pardon. Oops, she just pricked the balloon of that overinflated argument (if I may deign to write as colorfully as Her Cindyness…)
Captain Scarlet on July 4, 2007 at 8:08 AM
I just didn’t see Sheehag this upset when Sandy Bergler stole and destroyed documents from the National Archives and got off with a small fine and a finger waving. I guess when you commit a crime for the Clintons it’s always OK. I forgot…silly me.
lynnv on July 4, 2007 at 8:27 AM
She makes me SICK!!!!
dalec on July 4, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Paging Elizabeth Edwards, Paging Elizabeth Edwards.
We have a hatemonger bringing down the national debate, please report to Hardball your self-righteous
angerrage is needed.Elizabeth? Lizzy? Huh, nothing but deafening silence. Maybe she’s ennui.
srhoades on July 4, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Gee, Cindy, don’t you think that might be kind of dangerous? After all, it is all those neocons and neoconnettes that have all those nasty, evil guns that you and your buddies like Barbara, Diane, Chucky, Franky and Teddy all want banned. If you don’t like our soldiers fightning for freedom overseas, how do you think you will like us neocons and neoconnettes fighting personal freedom here? Tool!
ogrrre on July 4, 2007 at 12:45 PM
That should be fighting for personal freedom.
Bad keyboard! Bad, bad keyboard!
ogrrre on July 4, 2007 at 12:47 PM
Perhaps we were raised differently. I cannot bring myself under any circumstance to ridicule the mother of a soldier who gave his life for my country.
repvoter on July 4, 2007 at 1:08 PM
srhoades on July 4, 2007 at 1:27 PM
Ok, Ok, we’ve proved that the HA community is so highly creative that even stories about mother Sheehan can be made interesting.
But please stop comparing Cindy Sheehan to Cher. When I confuse those two I will hire mother Sheehan to tie my shoes.
TunaTalon on July 4, 2007 at 6:40 PM
As others have said, your intentions are honorable, and you have a good heart. However, it is exactly those sentiments you have expressed that Ms. Sheehan (and those who have used her as a tool) depends upon to give her that ersatz “absolute moral authority” to say whatever she wishes with no expectation of criticism or rebuttal.
Her loss gives her not one iota more freedom of speech than you or I possess, and if her loss provides her a shield against criticism, then it also gives her that unwarranted extra freedom of speech. No sir, she deserves and receives much valid scorn and venom for the anti-American garbage which proceeds from her diseased mind, and from the minds of those who have guided her in her moments of fame.
If Ms. Sheehan has a right to continue to speak out on topics which have no relation to her son or the conflict in which he died, then I would demand that every single parent or spouse of those lost in battle be given equal time. Let’s see how that Fairness Doctrine works out for the MSM and the anti-American crowd.
Freelancer on July 5, 2007 at 2:08 AM
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