I haven’t written about Cindy Sheehan, the mother staging a protest outside of President Bush’s Crawford ranch, mostly because I don’t really have that much to say about it. For the most part, it seems to me like a media-created sensation —- if the reporters went away, so would Mrs. Sheehan.
Over at Vodkapundit, though, Stephen Green asks some very good questions about this whole story.
Who brainwashed this woman?
If six million Jews must be displaced in a modern diaspora to assuage her grief? well then, who are the Mass Media to question her? Have you seen one, just one, non-blog juxtaposition of Sheehan’s demands on Israel, with the self-inflicted violence Israel is suffering today? What Sheehan demands, Ariel Sharon is already trying to deliver - at a price paid in lost blood and political support.
Who brainwashed Cindy Sheehan? What made her snap? Why is she taking out her excusable rage on a people who have nothing to do with her grief?
Sheehan’s grief over the loss of her son has apparently turned into a hatred of All Things Western. She says she won’t pay the taxes President Bush already reduced for her. She seems to think that Israel ? not radical Islamists ? are to blame for her deaths. She says that this war is about cheap oil, even as we pay ever-higher prices for light, sweet crude.
What I want to know is, who brainwashed Cindy Sheehan?
Good question. Read the whole thing.
