Sheehan Bails on the Democrat(ic)s
As my compadres at Common Sense Political Thought have pointed out:
Did you hear Cindy Sheehan left the Democratic Party? Neither did I!
They’re commenting on the NewsBusters article citing an apparent lack of interest by the mainstream media concerning Sheehan’s actions when those actions oppose the Democrat(ic)s rather than bash the President. From NewsBusters:
It’s been a full 48 hours since antiwar icon Cindy Sheehan publicly announced that she was leaving the Democrat Party due to Thursday’s bipartisan agreement on an Iraq war funding bill.
Yet, Google News and LexisNexis searches have identified that not one major media outlet has covered her announcement.
Not one.
Well that’s weird. If I remember correctly, the media really liked to report on Sheehan’s doings. NewsBusters reports that since August 2005, there have been 2,272 articles on Sheehan and her cause. If we are allowed to play meaningless staticstics for one moment, since August 1, 2005 to today we have a grand total of 665 days. That’s an average of 3.4 articles on Cindy Sheehan per day. Not a single one of those has appeared in the past two, though, since her announcement on the Daily Kos.
And what of her announcement on the DK? Sheehan writes:
As for myself, I am leaving the Democratic Party. You have completely failed those who put you in power to change the direction our country is heading. We did not elect you to help sink our ship of state but to guide it to safe harbor.
Spider-Man responds from New York with what most Republicans have been saying since the Sheehan circus began:
If Sheehan would just talk to John Edwards, she’d see she’s just being silly. After all, there is no War on Terror.
UPDATE
Sheehan’s own words:
When she had first taken on Bush, Sheehan was a darling of the liberal left. “However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the ‘left’ started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used,” she wrote.
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