For quite a while, the media made much of Cindy Sheehan and her protest against the war in Iraq. After her son, Casey, was killed in the was she became a symbol for the anti-war crowd. The media treated her as a superstar for a while, because it fit their views.
Then she slammed Hillary Clinton. The media recoiled. Now suddenly Sheehan is playing to ever smaller crowds and is reduced to kissing anti-American thugs to get some, any publicity. She even was rude to the person who invited her to the Stat of the Union address and tried, hard, to make a scene.
She went back to Crawford, Texas to relive her glory days. Only not much publicity this time.
Now it comes down to making nasty claims about someone who tried, before Sheehan became famous, to do the right thing. Sheehan wrote that the funeral director who handled her son's funeral didn't pat the cemetery. The poor guy is just plain hurt by this charge.
In an e-mail sent to The Reporter Sunday, Nadeau expressed hurt and disbelief at Sheehan's comments. He said that the amount of money the military gave the mortuary for Casey's funeral service and cemetery arrangements didn't even come close to covering the costs.
"Several kind citizens made donations," said Nadeau. "I absorbed the rest."
This was not the only way in which he went above and beyond his responsibilities following Casey's death, said Nadeau. He also provided a stretch limousine and a driver at his expense, he said, and invited the family to go to the airport with him so that he could accompany them. None of this was required, said Nadeau.
"Having known the Sheehan family for many years through St. Mary's Catholic Church where Ms. Sheehan had previously been the youth director, it was my desire to provide care and dignity to Casey and the family. I did this in every respect."
Nadeau also refuted Sheehan's statement that the mortuary finally paid the cemetery only after the family threatened to bring the story to the media.
"This never happened," said Nadeau. "I would stop by the family home as I do most families' homes and check with them on necessary needs, etc."
Nadeau said the military provided his mortuary $5,736 in funding to pay for the funeral service and cemetery arrangements. The funding came in May 2004, said Nadeau, and he paid the cemetery as soon as the costs had been totaled and the donations received.
Sheehan stands by her story.
Then, further along in the article, we learn that Sheehan and her husband are divorcing.
How sad this all is. What a horrible tragedy the media and the left have done to everyone involved.
The left? Uh…you guys are the ones still talking about her. Not us.
THanks for proving my point, even if this post was a late night ramble. You’ve used her up and thrown her away.
Divorce talk was on the wind from the beginning of MSM’s infatuation with Sheehan. Her husband wasn’t nearly so willing to use the death of their son as an occasion to bash GWB, and Cindy’s emerson in farout Left Wing activism did little to help alleviate their difficulties. But, curiously, MSM didn’t consider that aspect of Cindy’s life to be all that newsworthy.
Gauis, you’re correct, the angry Left doesn’t need Cindy anymore, they have now moved-on to the retired Generals to exploit. Ah, well, I suppose that’s what we should expect from “Progressives.”
Yeah, it’s really kind of sad. They enabled her self-destruction, then abandoned her when she wasn’t useful any longer. She’s got to be in a very tough place right now.