Niall Stanage, over at The Guardian, writes a column that continues the de-beatification of saint Cindy Sheehan. The Guardian is about as true to the left as you can get in the media. And Stanage absolutely tears into Sheehan with utter contempt.
Even the American left's netroots are getting tired of Cindy Sheehan. It's a shame it took them so long.
Sheehan, the epic narcissist who became the face of the anti-war movement, has been banned from posting any further entries on Daily Kos, arguably the most influential of all liberal blogs in the US.
The Kossacks have pulled the plug on Sheehan because of her threat to challenge the speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, for her congressional seat……
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Bereavement is no guarantee of wisdom. Yet Sheehan has been encouraged in her conceits, not just by opportunistic figures on the far left but by media icons, including America's most-overrated columnist, Maureen Dowd.
"The moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute," Dowd declared in a 2005 column.
Is the moral authority of bereaved parents who believe the war was justified, or who continue to support Bush, similarly unimpeachable? Dowd was silent on this point, though her views can easily be guessed at. Sheehan, for her part, described such parents as "brainwashed". "They know the pain and heartache and they should not wish it on another," Sheehan scolded.
The inference – that anyone who disagreed with her could be motivated only by cruelty – was breathtaking in its presumptuousness.
Presumptuousness, though, is yet another signature Sheehan trait. Like so many people at both ends of the political spectrum, she apparently believes that centrist positions can only be arrived at through cowardice, ideological corruption or bad faith.
She has compared Hillary Clinton to the ultra-conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and has asserted that "there must be an underlying shady reason" for Pelosi's disinclination to bring impeachment proceedings against the president.
Notice anything, though? Sheehan is supposedly marching right now. Read any major media coverage of it? Sheehan has been designated an unperson by the media, just as the media decided that Vets For Freedom are unpersons. They are blacked out, no stories will run. Unless they attack and remove the halo from saint Cindy, those are just fine.
I'm not sympathetic, incidentally. Cindy Sheehan is not bright enough to realize how the left used her until they used her up. She brought this all on herself. She began to believe she was important. Its hard when the fawning is replaced by verbal attacks from your old "fiends".
This does amply demontrate that left’s designation of authentic fully equates to Joseph Stalin’s designation of useful idiot. They are one and the same.