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2009-08-21 Fifth Column

ABC's Charles Gibson to Cindy Sheehan: Thanks for your sacrifice. Now get lost.

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Posted by Fred 2009-08-21 09:12|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "but enough already."

In fairness, ideology aside, some things just get old. I mean lets say the teabaggers keep on teabagging for the next 3 years. Suppose then, say, Tim Pawlenty is elected POTUS. Suppose his tax policy doesnt thrill the teabaggers (a real possibility) and they keep on teabagging. Will Fox news keep covering them? Or will they just say, rightly, this isnt "news" anymore?

OTOH, Cindy can probably get NPR to do an anniversary piece, if she can wait till 2010.

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-08-21 09:43|| 2009-08-21 09:43|| Front Page Top

#2 In fairness, ideology aside, some things just get old.

Only a liberal would preface comments by saying "ideology aside" and then launch into an ideological tirade.

But you are right liberalhawk. Some things get old.

Posted by badanov 2009-08-21 09:52|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-08-21 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Used, then discarded.

Posted by Mike 2009-08-21 09:53|| 2009-08-21 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 So basically now that the antiwar movement is no longer _useful_ to you it's "old"?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-08-21 10:23|| 2009-08-21 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 and as far as "teabaggers"? F*ck off, LH. Your Liberal is showing

Posted by Frank G on the road">Frank G on the road 2009-08-21 11:01|| 2009-08-21 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll never get tired of teabagging. Only a Beta Male could ge tired of that.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-08-21 11:49|| 2009-08-21 11:49|| Front Page Top

#7 I didnt launch an ideological tirade, I just showed an exactly parallel possibility.

As for me, I never had any use for Cindy Sheehan, and I think I made that abundanty clear. Anyone who wants to search RB for examples of me praising her, is free to do so.

If you mean not me, but the press, well again, their job is to report news. IE stuff thats new and novel. You may find it new and novel that Sheehan is protesting against a Democrat. Anyone who remembers the nasty things Sheehan et al said about Hillary, Feinstein, and other democrats, wont find that nearly so novel. And as for her antics per se, yes, those are old.

Except NPR of course. They tend to resuscitate old stuff thats convenient to them when theres an anniversary or other hook. So if you are criticizing NPR or similar, go for it. But the networks, that really do have short memories and want to cover whats novel now, I just dont see the basis for complaint.

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-08-21 12:17|| 2009-08-21 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Boys, boys ...

AoS

Posted by Steve White 2009-08-21 14:56|| 2009-08-21 14:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Liberal Hawk, leave me out of this.

Strawman

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-08-21 15:46|| 2009-08-21 15:46|| Front Page Top

#10 I didnt launch an ideological tirade, I just showed an exactly parallel possibility.

Oh goody - I thought I'd missed the Friday lecture from our Resident Pink.

Posted by Pappy 2009-08-21 17:24|| 2009-08-21 17:24|| Front Page Top

#11 For me, the Cindy Sheehan mess is a tragedy because it completely drowns out the story of what her son Casey did. He volunteered to go on a rescue mission, a heroic choice that cost him his life. That is what the name Sheehan should mean to us.

Posted by SteveS 2009-08-21 18:46|| 2009-08-21 18:46|| Front Page Top

#12 amen, SteveS

Posted by Frank G on the road">Frank G on the road 2009-08-21 19:03|| 2009-08-21 19:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Now that Bush is gone, her usefulness to the left has come to an end.

Posted by DMFD 2009-08-21 19:15|| 2009-08-21 19:15|| Front Page Top

#14 For me, the Cindy Sheehan mess is a tragedy because it completely drowns out the story of what her son Casey did.

With all due respect, if anyone is responsible for drowning Casey's accomplishments, it would be Cindy.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-08-21 21:59|| 2009-08-21 21:59|| Front Page Top

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