the hokey-pokey--that's not what it's all about

"Cindy Sheehan camps outside of Bush's ranch and tells her story over and over to the TV cameras and on every radio talk show she can get her lips on. After her son, Casey was killed last year in Iraq, she met with the president at Fort Lewis, then became an antiwar activist. She says she'd going to stay out infront of the ranch until Bush speaks with her again. She'll be waiting a long time, we'll wager.

It's a demonstration that's doing what it's supposed to do: grabbing media attention away from the missing girls and murdered cases that dominate the summer "news" season. You can always tell when Republicans are feeling threatened by how hard they thrash their critics. John Carlson (KVI m-f, 3-6p) called Sheehan a liar, so did Sean Hannity (the hypocrite). Bill O'Reilly put her in bed with Michael Moore and said she'd become radicalized by the hard left. Michelle Malkin on the Hannity show clucked-clucked in that funny little way she has and cut off Sheehan's balls (or the female equivalent thereof) with that cute little tongue she keeps razor sharp by steeling it on those sensational lips. Sheehan's being accused of lying, stealing, being duped, being stupid, duping other people, hating America, promoting herself, exploiting her dead son. Haven't heard "fornicating" yet but give 'em time. "A little bit nutty and a little bit slutty?" it's coming.

She's one of the shock troops--one of the first wave in the undoing of the Gordian knot of deception around this war. The murder of her character by the right-wing is some of the first blood drawn from the military and their families starting to ask the questions, make the demands. That's when Vietnam support really began to crumble--when the military and their families started questioning, protesting, and defacing the war.

Defacing? Today a full-time Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel was caught allegedly vandalizing cars parked at Denver International Airport bearing pro-Bush bumper stickers. He spray painted "Fuck Bush," and defaced the bumper stickers. A lieutenant colonel.

Something's happening."-from the post late Thursday night on blatherWatch.