According to Redstate.org, Cindy Sheehan, mother of Casey Sheehan – a soldier who died in Iraq because the President they support sent him over there, is a whore.
UPDATE: Rightie radio host Neal Boortz also calls Sheehan a “whore”.
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Truly trashy mud slinging there – I like how they say that there is no Major News in August…hmmm…I wonder how the parents in Ohio who lost their children would respond to that…seems pretty major to me.
No disrespect for Cindy Sheehan or anything, but how many times have we called somebody from the far right a “media whore” or worse? It’s not something I’m proud of, but I’m not going to duck it, and I’m not going to blast somebody on the other side for doing the same thing. She is a media whore, the fact that I agree with the point of view she’s whoring notwithstanding. I’m glad she’s being a media whore, it’s a message that needs to be heard.
You should probably ban ignatz for calling Judith Miller and her co-workers whores if you’re going to be so puritanical about it.
The way the post described it, I thought that someone was actually calling her a whore. In the context of politics and political banter, I have heard media whore many times before, and never thought it amounted to someone’s sexual practices. While I admit, I would not have used this phrase to describe her, but I hardly think that this was a mark on her morality. Don’t you think you portrayed this in a sensational light Oliver? Of course I do agree, I would think long and hard about lambasting a woman over her words or deeds after her child was killed in battle.
Hooah!
Because she disagrees with AWOL George that makes her un-patriotic also. That means about 72% of all americans are un-patriotic.
I don’t believe that it’s been established that she is a media whore, unless you have some insight that the rest of us don’t. It doesn’t appear to me that she is doing it for the sake of publicity (as an end in itself) or for a quick buck. At worst, she is a mother having difficulty accepting the death of her son.
I agree with you that there is a hint of hypocrisy in objecting to the term, although I have to admit that the speed in which the accusations deteriorated to this is breathtaking. This woman seems to have hit a nerve.
But the idea of calling the grieving mother of a dead soldier any kind of whore is simply disgusting.
Then why the circus? Why set up shop in Crawford and demand to see the president? She must know that Bush will never meet with her. She’s doing all of it to make a point. If she weren’t interested in getting publicity, she could have stayed at home and grieved in private.
I’m not defending anybody for calling her a media whore, I’m just saying that this is hardly a new thing, and hardly the outrage that lots of lefty bloggers are making it out to be.
Well, she had to go to Crawford because that’s where the president is (interminably, it seems). As for setting up shop, it seems that whole rigmarole could have been avoided entirely by Mr. Bush simply giving her the time of day.
I agree. That disqualifies her as a media whore then, doesn’t it?
Don’t agree: If she didn’t have a point to make, she would have stayed home etc. But obviously, she did have a point to make, and maybe she is also a bit angry (that’s a natural part of grieving), and she feels that she deserves an honest answer from the President (God knows everyone deserves one by now). Maybe she also feels that she owes it to her son and to other military families who may yet have daughters and sons to lose in a war she doesn’t understand. And if you listen to her, it seems to me that is exactly what she’s saying.
And since the president won’t listen to her, why shouldn’t she make sure that her voice is heard across the nation so that he is forced to at least hear her? The last time a parent tried that, I believe the President stopped his vacation in its tracks and flew to Washington to sign a special bill. Why is it that the mother of a dead soldier does not receive the same courtesy and attention?
I suggest to you that it is the President’s callous disregard that is really responsible for the media circus that exists outside his vacation home.
“Then why the circus? Why set up shop in Crawford and demand to see the president? She must know that Bush will never meet with her.”
Translation: “The president will never do what you want (withdraw the troops) so pack up and go home now woman”.
What if MLK had done that? Or Ghandi? Or Nelson Mandela? Would anything ever change? The Right always wants its critics to shut up and go away because they don’t want to face the truth of their actions.
Settle down, kids, I said I agree with what she’s doing. I don’t discount her reasons for doing it. But if you’re honest with yourself, you’d admit it that if a pro-war right-winger used the death of a child to garner media attention to further a political agenda, you would call it media whoring, and rightly so.
I agree. That disqualifies her as a media whore then, doesn t it?
No, that’s what makes her a media whore. She’s purposely putting herself in the spotlight, purposely courting media attention, purposely meeting with celebrities, in order to draw attention to her agenda. That is called media whoring. Just because you agree with her agenda (and I do) doesn’t make it something other than media whoring.
Ryland it seems that we disagree on the definition of the term media whore. For example, I didn’t think that the Schiavos were out of line, regardless of whether they were right or wrong about their daughter’s condition.
I still don’t agree but accept that there may be more than one definition of the term.
Regardless of whether you think she is a “media whore” or not, wouldn’t you say that is a little different that calling her a “whore.”
Obviously taking out the word “media” is a rhetorical trick designed to get a different reaction.
I pray for Cindy Sheehan and her family. Her son made an adult choice to re-enlist to go back to Iraq and died in the process. It certainly must be very hard for her. I don’t agree with what she is doing with her son’s choice, but I have no problem with her for doing it. It’s proof of the freedom we have here in the U.S. (no matter how “facsist” some of you may think this country has become.)
Although I do wonder why she thinks she deserves two meetings with the President. But that is another issue.
As for the media whore issue, I agree with Ryland.
Dissent is a part of America. More power to her. I just think she is wrong.
Not everyone who protests the actions of our government is a media whore. The students who were shot by the National Guard at Kent State during the Viet Nam War, were not “media whores”. They were using their rights under the First Amendment to protest the war. To me, that’s what Cindy Sheehan and others are doing.