(picture courtesy NRO; h/t John Cole)
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update: HOW DARE YOU WARMONGERING FASCISTS QUESTION MOTHER SHEEHAN’S PATRIOTISM!*
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update 2: Sheehan said to her supporters today (I’m paraphrasing), “when the history books talk about the Camp Casey movement, you’ll be able to say you met Casey’s Mom”—proof positive that Cindy Sheehan believes her own press clippings and truly does see herself as a modern day Gandhi or King, Jr.
Next, she’s off on her national bus tour. After that: “CINDY!” specialty ice cream from Ben & Jerry (“Bring Our Soldiers Home Fudge Swirl”? “BUSH LIED, CASEY DIED Crunch with Poignant Strawberry Clots”?)
Jesus. The fucking hubris of this woman. Astounding!
update 3: Sheehan’s history speech.
When does Walter Mondale show up?
I cannot believe all those insensitive reporters are horning-in on Cindy’s private moment. Have they no shame>?
Media whore much?
Kind of looks like the Last Supper, if there would have been a 24/7 news cycle in 0 A.D.
In an odd sort of way it reminds me of the famous Iwo Jima photo.
My apologies to our Marines, past and present, but that was my first reaction upon seeing this.
So, who exactly is this woman? Somebody important or something? I’m really confused.
She is all of us, TVW.
Feel the pregnant pause. Loll about in the poignancy…
You mean we’re all unhinged adults acting like children?
…
Well phooey.
How about: Ben & Jerry’s Presents “St. Cindy on Ice”.
hubris ?
isn’t that pride of the gods? she ain’t a god, except maybe a demi-god to oliver willis if she brought the krispy kremes.
i’d use “self-righteous arrogance”
hu·bris
n.
Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance: “There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris†(McGeorge Bundy).
HUBRIS’D
presume “astouding” = “astounding”.
Just saying. Just saying before the trolls do.
Here’s what she said to the LA Times last week:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bush26aug26,1,776423.story
The woman certainly thinks highly of herself. Nice of the media to egg that narcissism on as well.
Oh, and the picture? In a sane world, that photo would spell the end of the CINDY! saga once and for friggin’ all.
Grieving mom?
Is the woman in front annointing St. Cindy with something or is it just a reapplication of crocodile tears? They dry so quickly under the hot lights you know.
TYPICAL JEW FASCIST ZIONIST NEOCON TO NOT BE EDUCATED ENOUGH TO SPELL, UNLIKE THE EDUCATED, SOFT-SPOKEN, CONSCIENCE-LADER LIBERALS WHO CAN SPELL EVERY WORD EVAR!
When do we get the pictures of Martin Sheen washing her feet?
B Moe, that will be on an upcoming episode of West Wing.
Meanwhile off camera, the MoveOn consultant screams into his cellphone:
“What do you mean you’re leading with the hurricane???? Mother Sheehan’s moral authority trumps Mother Nature……….Damn fascist tropical weather.”
Quick, somebody come up with scans of
A) The Last Supper, by Da Vinci
b) The “last supper scene” from “History of The World, Part I”
SB: needed
Look it’s a Liberal Party of Canada (Canadistan) caucus meeting!
I like your sentiments but deplore your use of the word “Jesus”. Maybe if you used that word as a prayer for more sanity in the world rather than a curse we’d see some change.
The woman needs help and feeding her persecutory and grandiose delusions the way the left and the media have been in order to score political points is just plain awful.
Reverend Al is making an appearance also. I can see Jesse Jackson showing up and going two out three falls to see who leaves town. I can see a Nobel Peace Prize coming!
Maureen Khan, Jesus (hey-soos) is also a first name that is very common in Mexico. Maybe that is who Jeff Goldstein is addressing. Here is a prayer for you Maureen; Jesus, please help Maureen lighten up!
yeah, it’s all fun and games until Mother Sheehan manifests stigmata and displays her bloodied palms towards the heavens, or cameras, which ever comes first.
Then what will you say, Jeff and your merry band of snarky cryptopseudoantireligiousironists,
and then what will you (plural)say?
I can hardly wait until Oliver Stone does a movie on Cindy!
I agree with Maureen. You could express your outrage and bewilderment without taking the Lord’s name in vain. Try something else like, I dunno…
KHAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!
It worked for Shatner.
You know, I hate that accusation. I didn’t take the Lord’s name in vain, I invoked it for the specific purpose of expressing exasperated outrage.
CONTEXT, people!
Jumpin Jeebus, I need to whip out Photoshop….
Ester, or is it Ruth, annoints Mother Sheehan with oil of spikenard. Sharpton wept.
BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!!!
(I don’t know if it fits, but I missed seeing it.)
What an image. If they’re fighting over a spot on Cindy’s bus, my money’s on Al. Jesse will get his ass kicked.
Spin all you like, BLASPHEMER!
Hey, hey, hey! Jeff is not a blasphemer.
He’s a Christophobe. Get your terms straight.
For Christ’s sake, Goldstein, watch your god-damn mouth!
And Reverend Al’s limo got busted doing 110 so he can catch his flight to New York shortly thereafter.
And isn’t St. Cindy only spending two days on her 24-day tour? Jesus stayed all seven on his.
Just saw this on Cindys! blog:
“The second thing that worries the crap out of me is the almost icon status that I have achieved. I never set out to become the “Rosa Parks of the Peace Movement.”
And immediately started channelling Cedric:
“Cindy Shee-han ain’t did nuthin’ but sit her white ass down!”
LMFAO She needs to take this act on the road, with all three rings and a goddam big top.
Seems like somebody’s got a bad case of Munchausen-by-Casey
The third of the Ten Commandments, the one about “do not take the Lord’s name in vain” is actually an admonition against those who would pretend to be righteous in God’s name (holier than thou) when they are really anything but righteous. Hence, it is a commandment against religious hypocricy, something people of all stripes break all the time. It is also the one sin that God does not forgive. I’m no Bible-thumper and don’t want to jihad anything down peoples’ throats, but the Ten Commandments are good things.
LMAO, C.F.
How is it possible, with a picture like this, that this group isn’t universally recognized for the sad, yet ridiculous bunch that they are?
I thought the one un-pardonable sin was “grieving the Holy Spirit”.
What?
Oh, I can’t know a little something about religion now?
Well, screw you guys.
I don’t know what it is, but there’s a very Last Supper-kind of symmetry to this shot that absolutely makes my ass ache.
This just in: The Rev Al’s limo got busted doing 110 in a 65 while clearing out of the camera-rich Sheehanathon. My bet is the driver pays the ticket. Al’s that kinda guy.
A cheap shit.
Hey look, this might be the conclusion of the story!
Hat tip to the Rottweiler.
has she channeled Paul Welstone yet?
1. Great headline!
When did the private grieving become a public event?
2. Cindy Sheehan Leads Code Pink Women For Peace To Rescue Wounded Soldiers (Part 5)
“I heard ‘raging inferno’ so hit a little ‘punch-shot’ hurricane. I was trying to land it in Dallas and spin it back to Crawford. My left hammy has been hurting and I couldn’t get my hips through. I pushed it into the Gulf. Short-sided myself.”
-God
Lady to Sheehan’s left:
Oooh Cindy, hold on, you got a little Sharpton stuck in your hair.
Reverand Jackson would like to attend but he’s too busy lunching with Chavez, that great humanitarian.
Why is it Jesse is always buddying up to dictators tyrants and murderers ?
Somehow, I am guessing that at some point, a director yelled at her to “start crying” or “cry harder, faster, faster, more grief!!!”
This woman is a total whack job. LOL at the usual leftist suspects all weeping alongside with her…most are probably social studies teachers…
And also, as well as…
http://www.khaaan.com
God, Jeff,
For a minute there I thought that was ……Poignant Strawberry </i>Clits<i> and was afraid I was going to have to trash my diet.
CINDYPHOBE!!!
Hey, I own that particular noun rooted in Greek mythology.
Expect a letter from my (fake) attorney.
Many of our troops are serving their second and third tours of duty. I personally know of one who served over a year beyond his scheduled discharge date. His wife had to work two jobs (one in a grocery store bagging groceries and the other mopping floors at night in a retail store) to support the family. I know another who is a grandmother.
Please tell me why you who are of enlistment age and fit to serve have not stepped up to the plate and offered to back up your support of this decision of the Bush administration.
You’re wrong about Cindy – Crawford.
I knelt with her at the little white cross of Sgt. Something-or-other.
She stroked this tiny, mighty symbol of a wasted life like it was a child’s hair. She then shed a single tear.
She knows. Cindy knows.
Semipundit,
Not exactly a novel issue to bring up.
Put “chickenhawk” in the search box on the upper right and peruse freely. Or just go here.
Semi;
To be honest something about your story just doesn’t add up.
Any soldier being deployed doesn’t lose any pay, base and VHA remain the same, and add hazardous duty and tax free. His wife wouldn’t have to work two jobs due to the deployment, and while many military wives work (including mine) I would think that on average, only a junior troop with a few kids would need that amount of income.
While we reserves often take a pay cut when going on active, many companies will make up the difference, and I don’t think reserves have a “discharge date” most of the folks I know who wanted out just leave.
tw- required, like I would require more information on grade and service to pass judgement
I am a bit leery of Semi’s tale as well. BTW Semi, since I have served, do I have the ability (and your gracious permission)to call you a damned fool for dragging out the most stale of arguments?
“Please tell me why you who are of enlistment age and fit to serve have not stepped up to the plate and offered to back up your support of this decision of the Bush administration. “
Translation: “I’m too intellectually lazy to come up with an effective rhetorical counter to the obvious piece of political propoganda demonstrated above, so I will employ the chickenhawk meme in order to try and cease all debate.”
Semi, since we still have reserve and Guard troops stationed in Kosovo, why don’t you sign up and volunteer to go there to show your support for Clinton’s decision to bomb and occupy the country? Chickenhawk….
Turing word: control. As in, “Liberals like semipundit have no control over the lame arguments that eminate from their beings.”
You… rock…
cause i like to see myself type, i’ll third the doubt about semi’s story so far as military pay is concerned, or else they have one ginormous family, and someone’s wife had to work three jobs when he wasn’t deployed. when my husband was deployed he was pulling in twice what he makes as a civilian.
he’s national guard, but it sounds like you’re talking about a full time military person not someone who’s leaving a civilian job.
Look at all my trials and tribulations
Sinking in a gentle pool of whine
Seriously, this picture reminds me of The Last Supper. Not that messianic figures occupy as lofty a moral plateau as Jew-hating moonbats.
Another part of the stale, asinine chickenhawk argument made above is that it wholly ignores the fact that we do still *need* good people in other jobs to keep the ol’ world spinning round.
If all us commonsensical types did indeed suit up & serve, that would leave no one but the lunatics to run the country in the interim. We’d have nothing left to return to.
SW: she
As in, semi is full of she-it.
Great. It’s now being reported that Bush is going to return to Washington in response to the hurricane. How is Cindy ever going to get the answers she so desperately needs?
Answer to questions like: Why did the military, under secret orders from Cheney, create a hurricane to trump my media circus? I mean it’s rural Mississippi, so it’s not like they matter as much as I do, right? And: Hey, where are you going with that camera!?
eh, she was planning on leaving in the next couple days anyway wasn’t she?
As the step mother of a glorious son who is a Captain in the US Army, who has served time in Iraq, I can only hope that Cindy Sheehan’s son Casey honestly never has any idea of the mockery his stupid fucking @$%^&&*^% of a mother has made of his service and his death.
What boggles me is how badly over played the Sheehan circus is. It’s similar to when the terrorists were whacking heads for prime-time consumption. Just astonishingly stupid…
There should be a section in the CODE PINK or Al (Sharpton) Qaeda handbook that covers “when enough is enough”. You want to make your target audience uneasy, make your message unescapable, and make them feel like the only resonable solution is to “give you what you want”.
All Sheehan and the head whackers have done is take it five or six steps too far and righteously piss people off to the point where we won’t stop until we make OUR point in return – and in doing so bury you.
I can hardly wait until Oliver Stone does a movie on Cindy!
I can see it now, Susan Sarandon as Cindy!, Jack Nicholson as the evil Chimpy McHaliburton (note to Oliver, make sure you work ‘nukular’, ‘strategery’ and ‘misunderestimate’ into the script) and of course everyone’s favorite child, Haley Joel Osment, as Casey.
Because we don’t like you. Happy?
And those of us who have already served don’t like you either – – still happy?
And those of us who got turned down for being too goddamned old ain’t real fond of ya either, slick.
but those of us still serving like you, the same way we are fond of a drunk puppy.
Dubya forced Katrina to turn right just to rob cindy or her press share.
I’m snikkerin’ so hard at this other stuff I can’t spell “of her press share”,, it’s not MY FAULT!
“You want to make your target audience uneasy, make your message unescapable, and make them feel like the only resonable solution is to “give you what you wantâ€Â.
All Sheehan and the head whackers have done is take it five or six steps too far and righteously piss people off to the point where we won’t stop until we make OUR point in return – and in doing so bury you.”
That is if you want to win. If your whole position is based on being a victim, and all you are really good at is being a victim and a loser, then deep down you know you have to shoot yourself in the foot and blame it on someone else. The worst thing that could happen would be for you to win and actually have to do something that you would be held responsible for. Much easier to remain a victim and blame somebody else.
Now I am off to beat the shit out of a protester, I am really getting kind of tired of having to prove my manhood to these chickenhawk fools.
tw: horse, if he rode in on one, it too, by god
The young man of whom I spoke is a self-employed housepainter.
In 1967, I volunteered for the draft (the last year before the lottery). My brother did, too, after we were unsuccessful in getting into the National Guard; it was full of the sons of local dignitaries. We accepted the fact that we would probably die, and signed up. I was rejected due to a birth defect, and my brother went on to serve two tours. He was wounded, got a real Purple Heart, and several other medals. He got back with all but a piece of his back where he got bit by a mortar shell, and was exposed to agent orange. Years later, he developed colon cancer. Bow down to this man.
Don’t expect people to buy your excuses about leaving the country to idiots. Your fathers and grandfathers left it to their sisters, wives, mothers, and daughters in World War II and they gave it back to you better than you left it–and, like it or not, they have been getting better and better since then.
So, just keep standing around watching others go and do your jobs for you while the recruiting numbers dwindle downward.