Why isn’t Maureen Dowd preening any more about the absolute “moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq”?
Maybe because she wrote those words in 2005 when Cindy Sheehan was protesting outside George W. Bush’s vacation retreat in Crawford, Texas. Now that Mrs. Sheehan intends to camp out near Barack Obama’s summer retreat in Martha’s Vineyard, her political theater can no longer serve, to borrow John Hinderaker’s expression, as “a vehicle to return the Democrats to power.“
UPDATE: Linking Byron York’s piece on how the media want the anti-war movement to go away, Glenn opines that they only “boosted it in the hopes of hurting Bush. Now that there’s a Democrat in the White House, the useful idiots are no longer useful.“
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Yes, I’d say you have Dowd’s number.
Don’t these lefties realize how obvious their phony moral outrage is? (Not that they’d care.)
Comment by Classical Liberal Dave — August 21, 2009 @ 3:35 am - August 21, 2009
Because it’s just not sexy anymore. The liberals got over masturbating furiously to the death count and have moved on to Chairman Obama’s airbrushed pecs. Shehan, on the other hand, made out with a real tyrant. She’s not impressed with a (so far) dictator wannabe.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — August 21, 2009 @ 4:42 am - August 21, 2009
Perhaps because there is an enormous difference between a President who started an unjust, ill-advised, devastating, nearly endless war based on machismo, and the President who is hoping to end in as responsible a fashion as possible?
I’ll make a pledge right now: if Obama unilaterally starts any wars in which we are the first to attack, I will wholeheartedly agree with your complaints should protests of such wars fail to receive media coverage. Last I checked though, there has been a heck of a lot MORE media coverage of protests of a public policy trying to SAVE lives, than there was for the first several years of the Iraq war, when the media gave Bush and his cronies an embarassingly free pass to pursue a policy that needlessly led to the death of thousands of Americans. If only the “liberal” media was not a wholly-concocted GOP myth, they might have actually done some real scrutiny of the lies behind the Iraq war before we were years into it, as well as some actual scrutiny of the lies being spread about health care, instead of just “even handedly” reporting the lies as “well, this is what one side is saying.” The media is so pathetically flacid that it will simply report whatever each party wants it to — unfortunately, when one party is more more likely to traffic in outrageous half-truths or outright lies (the GOP), their lies get a lot more air play than those of the left.
Comment by Jeff — August 21, 2009 @ 7:56 am - August 21, 2009
Thanks for the early morning laugh, Jeff.
Comment by Thomas — August 21, 2009 @ 8:15 am - August 21, 2009
Jeff – your “liberal media myth” meme died on MSNBC yesterday. Or do you think cropping out a man’s skin color to push the “white supremicist militia” was done by the military industrial complex in the secret lab on the grassy knoll?
Comment by T — August 21, 2009 @ 8:29 am - August 21, 2009
Jeff,
I would find myself incredulous at your post but for the fact that it is so commonplace and of thought emanating from your strata.
While most of us respect the right of our fellows to believe, and speak up, in protest of war, the fundamental a.) misunderstanding or b.) obfuscation of reality is mind boggling. The world changed on Sept. 11, 2001 along with every historical paradigm. Were that we could live in some “buy the world a coke” moment the rest of our lives. Ain’t gonna happen, you seem to have trouble dealing with that.
Recent “GOP myths” about media
1. Dan Rather forged memos
2. MSNBC “gun toting racist” report
3. John McCain love affair, NY Times
These are outright falsities.
For further clarification of this issue, try a little homework. Compare sound bites and talking points on particular hot button issues of the day from reporters and anchors at CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NY Times, AP, McClatchy, WaPo, and the DNC, and various Dem leaders Pelosi, Waxman, Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Kerry, plus the activist community HuffPo, DKos, MoveOn etc. The wording, the phrasing, the emphasis, are identical and in lockstep. That’s fact. For our side it’s not the end of the world, just the way it is. Yes we love pointing it out because calling you guys out makes you react in such a stereotypically humorous way, but at the end of the day we’re motivated by doing the right thing over doing the popular easy thing.
Continue to enjoy this country and your freedoms that have been bought and secured by all of the “needless” deaths of brave Americans fighting in “nearly endless” wars, that you and those of your ilk would never have the courage or vision to view as necessary.
Comment by AS — August 21, 2009 @ 9:05 am - August 21, 2009
Jeff – Actually he has started a war on American citizens with insidious policies that will spread gov’t control over people’s lives. And stop with the garbage about saving lives — he was the only one to vote for not saving infants born alive. His heart is ice.
Comment by Krys — August 21, 2009 @ 9:07 am - August 21, 2009
commonplace and typical
Comment by AS — August 21, 2009 @ 9:33 am - August 21, 2009
Wow, the left never fails to find some convoluted excuse to get Dear Leader off the hook and excuse their own hypocrisy. Does Jeff really think his contortions are not obvious to any thinking person?
Comment by V the K — August 21, 2009 @ 10:26 am - August 21, 2009
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Pingback by UrbanGrounds | MSM to Cindy Sheehan: Enough Already — August 21, 2009 @ 10:47 am - August 21, 2009
That was fun
. And predictable … let’s go to the videotape:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-19-2009/fox-news–the-new-liberals
Now THAT is funny …
Comment by Jeff — August 21, 2009 @ 1:53 pm - August 21, 2009
By suggesting that W “unilaterally start[ed] any wars in which we are the first to attack,” you ignore the facts, international law and just plain basic common sense.
Nope, war was not launched unilaterally. And we weren’t the first to attack. By international law, since Saddam Hussein did not fulfill his obligations under cease-fire agreements to first Gulf War, we we remained in a state of war with the tyrant.
And citing Jon Stewart as a source kind of puts you beyond parody.
If you’re gonna accuse the GOP of lies, please specify the fabrications–you know specific comments Republicans made which they knew at the time were false.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — August 21, 2009 @ 2:06 pm - August 21, 2009
You had to pull out a clip of Jon Leibowitz?
Now THAT’S f’ing sad.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — August 21, 2009 @ 6:49 pm - August 21, 2009
#3: I thought Barry was going to get us out in six months or something like that. What’s he waiting on?
Bush went to war in Afghanistan in response to an act or war. Check.
As Dan noted, we were in a state of war with Iraq when Bush assumed office… a war that was being fought at a lower level by Pres. Clinton (no-fly zones and occasional missile strikes). Bush was acting on what he (and about everyone else – including a lot of Dems like Hillary) knew AT THE TIME. What else could he do? You have to act based on what you know now, not what you’ll know in six months or a year.
Now that we’ve made our point, I think we should leave Iraq and Afghanistan with a stern warning to not mess with us or our interests again unless they want a hellish response.
As John Derbyshire wrote: rubble doesn’t make trouble. (I know it can but I like the sentiment.)
Comment by SoCalRobert — August 21, 2009 @ 9:46 pm - August 21, 2009
Unless I’m remembering incorrectly, Afghanistan never attacked us. Yet Obama has sent troops to fight in Afghanistan. Time to get after the media, Jeff. They just aren’t pointing that out.
Comment by polly — August 22, 2009 @ 12:37 am - August 22, 2009
Polly – Afghanistan the country may not have attacked us but its Taliban government did harbor and aid Al Queda which did attack us (more than once).
Comment by SoCalRobert — August 22, 2009 @ 1:28 am - August 22, 2009
Jeff, for your viewing pleasure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwSDvgw5Uc
Comment by Splinter — August 22, 2009 @ 9:52 am - August 22, 2009
#17: Also for Jeff’s viewing pleasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNdiq2oycTg
It’s a 1992 speech given by Al Gore in which he literally rants for 10 solid minutes about how the Reagan and Bush, Sr. administrations IGNORED all of the evidence that Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator guilty of horrible atrocities against his own people, that he was unquestionably in possession of WMDs because he had ruthlessly used them on innocent, defenseless people (poison gas), that there was clear evidence to show that he was actively seeking to acquire nuclear technology, and that he had actively assisted in the escape of terrorists responsible for scores of civilian deaths (the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, for one).
Comment by Sean A — August 22, 2009 @ 1:29 pm - August 22, 2009
Personally, I think MoDo needs to get laid. Badly.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — August 23, 2009 @ 3:29 pm - August 23, 2009