Memo to Cindy: I think your 15 minutes of fame are up.
Comment by Ziggy Freud
29 November 2005 @ 9:34 am
Memo to Cindy: I think your 15 minutes of fame are up.
And not amoment too soon either. God, she has taken this grieving mother act way too far. Her son is probably rolling in his grave. He was a proud soldier once.
Whether or not you support the war in Iraq, this lady has burned too many bridges and crossed too many lines to speak on any parent’s behalf anymore.
There are at least 2,443 other parents out there [including Pat Tillman’s] who seem to accept their terrible losses much less absurdly; maturely even, perhaps sometimes even proudly, proud to have laid such an enormous sacrifice on the altar of freedom.
These kids died doing their duty, a duty they chose, an honorable mission to bring freedom to millions of people who have known nothing other than tyranny for generation after generation.
Death is sad, and tragic, and painful, and horrible, but not nearly as ugly as Cindy’s ungrateful and spiteful mocking of her son’s sacrifice, and her mocking of the freedom’s that sacrifice and so many others like it assure to us and millions of others around the world every day.
She should crawl into a hole with Michael Moore and just disappear.
There, I finally spoke my mind on this issue for the first time. My thoughts are mere blog notes, not a developed thesis so they lack clarity and depth, but feel free to flame away anyway.
And thaks for reading this far.
Comment by Eric Kruse
30 November 2005 @ 4:56 pm
While I certainly don’t agree with the war in Iraq, I do agree with Ziggy’s point that Mrs. Sheehan has taken things too far. The soldiers that have been killed or wounded in Iraq should be honored not Jerry Springered (yes, I’m making up verbs, but it seems appropriate).
I think that photo says it all.
Comment by Kevin Kim
30 November 2005 @ 11:03 pm
I’ve been watching the Sheehan shenanigans with a mixture of chagrin and morbid curiosity. When I saw this photo, I had to wonder– did she get NO requests to sign her book? None at all?
Then, after a Google search, I found this just a few minutes ago.
Upshot: she got signatures, but had only about 100 copies of her book to sign. The infamous photo and its caption can be interpreted as meaning she didn’t get any takers, but if we take the word of the people in the article, some folks did show up.
Having said that, I think we have to put her book signing in perspective: she’s no JK Rowling. A hundred books ain’t diddly, and all she did was bumble into a photo opportunity that didn’t work in her favor.
Next step in the book signing affair: accusing the media of blanket conservative bias.
Kevin
Comment by Silly Sally
3 December 2005 @ 1:38 pm
Cindy has the same moral courage exemplified by Jeffry on this blog site … she writes for herself … and doesn’t care who reads her book.
I like to visit Jeffry’s site as a gesture of pity … I would do the same for Cindy Sheehan.
Comment by Brendon Carr
3 December 2005 @ 10:31 pm
This is my favorite news photo of the year. But I’m pretty surprised to have seen it. This is the kind of thing they typically overlook.
Comment by Ziggy Freud
5 December 2005 @ 8:24 am
Cindy has the same moral courage exemplified by Jeffry on this blog site … she writes for herself … and doesn’t care who reads her book.
Although I’m sure you wouldn’t recognize moral courage if it ran you over in the street while you were staggering drunk, I think you are mistaken when you confuse Cindy’s emotional bereavement [however overacted] over the loss of her son with Jeff’s rational discussion of his observations of Life in Korea.
Neither one is based on moral courage. One is an emotional appeal to end a war because people are getting hurt, while the other is something along the lines of “This is what I observed here today, and this is how it affected me.”
The “fact” that neither one cares who reads or listens to them is not courage, it’s called apathy.
Courage is what the rest of us display when we read and respond to your constant stream of meaningless drivel.
Comment by Danielle
7 December 2005 @ 11:38 am
Can’t say I was for the war but I am for respecting the death of every soldier who died for his country.
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In any case, I can’t say I feel too motivated to write any books after looking at that picture O.o
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