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Fifth Column
"Dear Useful Idiot" -- a review of Mother Sheehan's book
2006-05-26
By Catherine Seipp, National Review
My teenage daughter, who is a more sympathetic person than I am, thinks baldly calling Cindy Sheehan an idiot is a bit harsh, so I'll amend: Cindy Sheehan is a useful idiot, a rattle-headed tool of everyone from Not In Our Name, who even as the Twin Towers were still smoldering worried more about retaliation against the poor Taliban than about women oppressed by the Taliban; to pro-Palestinian terrorist apologists; to your friendly neighborhood Stalinists at various branches of International ANSWER, whose objectives range from freeing Mumia to putting a bright and happy spin on daily life in North Korea.
It's the national Fifth Column, the usual suspects whose names pop up over and over again...
And yet the most idiotic statement in Sheehan’s new book, Dear President Bush, comes not from Sheehan herself but from Howard Zinn, who writes in the introduction: “A box-cutter can bring down a tower. A poem can build up a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution.”

A box-cutter can bring down a tower. By now, I suppose, we should be used to the hard LeftÂ’s extending underdog status to the worst of mass murderers; still, the sheer gall of beginning a series of David-and-Goliath metaphors with that one is breathtaking.

So a spunky little box-cutter took on those big old capitalistic towers, the same way that a brave little pamphlet like Dear President Bush takes on Bush and his evil policies. . . .

It just gets better from there. Go read it all.
Posted by:Mike

#7  #5 - OK. So she's pretty much a mainstream Democrat.
Posted by: Matt   2006-05-26 19:23  

#6  looks like somebody sprayted water on the witch
Posted by: Frank G   2006-05-26 15:55  

#5  A refresher----
According to dear sweet Cindy:

1)Bush schemed 9/11 to profit from oil.
2)Al Quaeda did not attack on 9/11.
3)We should support the Iraqi 'resistance'.
4)The US is using NUCLEAR weapons in Iraq.
5)The President has no right as Commander in Chief to order troops into battle because his Daughters are not fighting.
6)The US is 'not worth dying for'.
7)All America has done since it 'stepped on this continent' is cause 'death and destruction'.
8)The sole purpose of the Iraqi elections was to give people 'ink-stained fingers'
9)Her son was murdered by Bush for a "PNAC Neo-con Agenda to benefit Israel".
10)Terrorists who beheaded American and other foreign contracters are "Freedom Fighters".

I could go on and on, but this bitch is making me want to vomit.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-05-26 14:36  

#4  Think she would use the proceeds to get her son a marker for his grave?

Didn't think so.....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-05-26 14:20  

#3  May come in handy at the "one hole" library out behind the barn.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-05-26 14:00  

#2  Again, I hope that's as painful as it looks...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-05-26 13:51  

#1  I wouldn't read the cover, much less the bullshit inside.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-05-26 13:45  

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