Wave Chicken Legs At Cindy

Cindy Sheehan has well and truly jumped the shark if Norah O'Donnell, sitting in for Chris Matthews on Hardball can't stand her.

Sheehan: "Yes. Hugo Chavez is not a dictator like you introduced him. He's been democratically elected eight times. He is not anti-American, he has helped the poor people of America. He has sent aid to New Orleans, he has sold heating oil to disadvantaged people in America at low cost, and the people of his country love him."

The exchange over Chavez capped a rugged line of questioning to which O'Donnell subjected Sheehan. Other excerpts:

O'Donnell: "Americans may hate the war but they don't necessarily hate the president. How do you expect to get change by going around the world and trashing the President of the United States?"

Sheehan: "I don't hate the president either, and I don't trash the president. I trash the president's foreign policy."

O'Donnell: "But you called him the biggest terrorist in the world, so you are trashing the president."

Sheehan: "Well he says a terrorist is somebody that kills innocent men, women and children."

O'Donnell: "You have just begun a two-month hunger strike. Isn't this really just more of a publicity stunt?"

Norah later observed: "You claim not to be in the fringes, not to be an extremist." She then challenged Sheehan to name members of Congress who support her call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq.

Sheehan claimed bi-partisan support, citing Republican congressmen Ron Paul and Walter Jones, and on the Dem side Charley Rangel and John Conyers.

Newsbusters' Mark Finkelstein asks if this is a hint to Democrats to disassociate themselves from Sheehan. I think it would be a good idea to carry a chicken leg to every appearance Sheehan makes and just wave it at her. She'll crack.

UPDATE: Here's the actual transcript from Hardball. One suggestion from the comments is to have a beer swilling bear wave a barbecue chicken and jalapeño pizza at Cindy. This has serious potential!

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  By Santay, Thursday, 6 July , 2006 @ 4:34 am

  Let’s get that bear to follow her around in his Buick and wave pizza at her.

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  By Gaius, Thursday, 6 July , 2006 @ 4:54 am

  A bear swilling beer and waving pizza would definitely do the trick!

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