Monday, August 15, 2005
A Raw Nerve
"Watching a senile old pervert like Bill O'Reilly or a brainless fraud like Michelle Malkin trading insults about a Gold Star mother standing in a ditch outside Shrub's dude ranch might have been enough to drive me into either a blind, homicidal rage or a stark, dying-of-the-light depression....But it's way too hot to get angry and the whole mise-en-scene is way too absurd for despair. I mean, what could be more preposterous than the sight of the mighty GOP propaganda war machine -- built up with such effort and at such great cost -- aiming all its guns at one bereaved, 48 year-old mother camped by the side of the road in Crawford, Texas?...
At this point, to call the Commander in Chief detached from reality would be an insult to paranoid schizophrenics everywhere.
Cindy Sheehan has touched a raw nerve (both with the media and with the GOP propaganda machine) less because of who she is than because of who she isn't -- Jane Fonda...Instead of feasting on Hanoi Jane, the wing nuts are driving themselves nuts trying to figure out how to take down Vacaville Cindy: a woman who looks and sounds like she spends her free time organizing church socials and helping her husband clean out the garage-- that is, when she isn't busy searing George W.Bush's butt with a white hot poker for dragging the country into an unnecessary and failed war in Iraq, and getting her son killed in the process...
One angry mom is dangerous enough... But now there are 300 of them standing in the dirt and the heat down in Crawford --and millions more watching on TV, silently asking themselves the same questions Sheehan wants to ask Bush: How did we get into this mess? How do we get out? Have our sons and daughters been sent to die invain? The machine can try to demonize Cindy Sheehan. But it can't demonize those questions -- not any more, not when so many others are asking them."
--Billmon at Whiskey Bar
At this point, to call the Commander in Chief detached from reality would be an insult to paranoid schizophrenics everywhere.
Cindy Sheehan has touched a raw nerve (both with the media and with the GOP propaganda machine) less because of who she is than because of who she isn't -- Jane Fonda...Instead of feasting on Hanoi Jane, the wing nuts are driving themselves nuts trying to figure out how to take down Vacaville Cindy: a woman who looks and sounds like she spends her free time organizing church socials and helping her husband clean out the garage-- that is, when she isn't busy searing George W.Bush's butt with a white hot poker for dragging the country into an unnecessary and failed war in Iraq, and getting her son killed in the process...
One angry mom is dangerous enough... But now there are 300 of them standing in the dirt and the heat down in Crawford --and millions more watching on TV, silently asking themselves the same questions Sheehan wants to ask Bush: How did we get into this mess? How do we get out? Have our sons and daughters been sent to die invain? The machine can try to demonize Cindy Sheehan. But it can't demonize those questions -- not any more, not when so many others are asking them."
--Billmon at Whiskey Bar
