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An Embarrassment of Riches

8.30.05 @ 12:01AM

PREACHY C-SHEE
Re: Mark Goldblatt's The Best of Cindy Sheehan:

Liars... that's all you are! Cindy did not say those things and you know it.
-- Patricia Mattes

Thank you, Mark Goldblatt for the Gospel according to Cindy. She is right about one thing when she thanks God for the Internet "or we wouldn't know anything." For how would we have the full, unexpurgated text of Cindy's fulminations, were it not for Goldblatt in TAS Online? No family newspaper would stay in business long if it printed what this foul-mouthed lunatic has to say.

In fact, Cindy would not be in business long if any newspaper or any periodical printed what she actually has to say. Instead we are treated to the Myth of Cindy -- the pundits who laud her as the person who has "put a face on those who object to our being in Iraq."

Cindy does not speak for me and if I thought her face remotely resembled mine, I would slit my wrists. That may seem cruel, but Cindy's is not a face contorted with grief; but rather the visage of a person consumed by an unreasoning political hatred that probably began when Bill Clinton got caught "with his pants down" and got impeached for lying to a grand jury.

We have "Lefties-in-need-of-a-lobotomy" just like her, daily, in our local fish-wrap's Letters to the Editor column. All vitriol, all the time. The only difference is they have no KIA son to buttress their argument.

Too bad you missed her latest gibberish: "Bush wants to kill more soldiers because he has killed soldiers."

Don't know what to call it, but it's mighty lachrymose.
-- Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California

Sometimes cold logic leads us to conclusions belonging to that set of things which in a just world, a perfected world, one ought never have to think or to speak.

After reading through the collection of sayings of Chairman Cindy Sheehan, so thoughtfully compiled by Mark Goldblatt, it seems to me that Ms. Sheehan really didn't like her son Casey very much at all.

Ms. Sheehan does not seem to me to have the capacity for like, let alone love.
-- Paul Kotik
Plantation, Florida

Many thanks to Mr. Goldblatt for finally putting forth a comprehensive compilation of Ms. Sheehan's radical leftist diatribes. If there ever was a classic textbook illustration of the political agenda of the MSM in full chorus, it would certainly be their collective "ordinary mom" profile of Ms. Sheehan in juxtaposition to her unreported radical polemics. Couple this story with Byron York's piece in today's National Review Online, which details the professional radicals that have packaged and managed Ms. Sheehan as if she was in full campaign mode (which she is) and the exposure of the fraud becomes complete. I concur with Mr. Goldblatt that Ms. Sheehan should be given her own column in the New York Times. She is, after all, the embodiment of the insanity that has taken over that paper and her columns would be indistinguishable from those of Dowd, Krugman and Rich. Ms. Sheehan's loss may in some way have contributed to her radical agenda, although it appears she has traveled this path for some time; but what excuse does Ms. Dowd and the rest of the crew at the NYT have to explain their collective madness?
-- A. DiPentima

I got up and drove to Crawford on Saturday morning. I saw thousands in that little town there to support the President, our war effort, and our troops. The press, however, was out in a pasture outside of town with a maybe one hundred or so fools. I had to drive out there to see what the folks were talking about in town. It was a scene right out of the 1960s. There were middle-aged hippie fools looking for free love and drugs, and to curry favor with Ms. Cindy. She pranced and preened under her tent like a peacock spreading its feathers. What total nonsense.

The stories I heard in Crawford from plain and simple folks, like me, were so touching. Several came who had lost children in the war. All said, to a person, my son or my daughter was an adult. They knew what they had chosen to do. I am proud of them. Meanwhile, outside Crawford, Cindy spouted the ridiculous and was covered by many press vans.

I heard several Vietnam vets say they came home to be reviled but our soldiers won't because we will stand up for what is right. However, if the liberal press directs the news, as it did to cause our failure in Vietnam, I am not convinced that we can overcome. Still, I watched my honorable husband come home from Vietnam to this nonsense and I sat quietly. Others in my family will not come home to this without me speaking out this time.

Letter to the Editor

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Bill Clinton, Business, Environment, Military, Iraq, Iran, Conservatism