The Cindy Sheehan Show

If I were in charge of programming, I would have cancelled The Cindy Sheehan Show long ago.

I don't know why the sensible members of the Left don't realize what a liability this buddy of Hugo Chavez is to them. Perhaps it's because there is no such thing as the sensible Left.
Latest episode of The Cindy Sheehan Show:
NEW YORK -- Cindy Sheehan, who drew international attention when she camped outside President Bush's ranch to protest the Iraq war, was arrested Monday along with three other women during a demonstration demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

The march to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations by about a dozen U.S. and Iraqi anti-war activists followed a news conference at U.N. headquarters, where Iraqi women described daily killings and ambulance bombings as part of the escalating violence that keeps women in their homes.

Women Say No to War, which helped organize the news conference and march, said Sheehan and three other women were arrested while trying to deliver a petition to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations with more than 60,000 signatures urging the "withdrawal all troops and all foreign fighters from Iraq." Police said they were arrested for criminal trespassing and resisting arrest.

Richard Grenell, the spokesman for the U.S. Mission, said in response to Sheehan's arrest: "We invited her in to discuss her concerns with a U.S. Mission employee. She chose not to come in but to lay down in front of the building and block the entrance. It was clearly designed to be a media stunt, not aimed at rational discussion," Grenell said.

Grenell succinctly sums up Cindy Sheehan.

She's a publicity hound with no interest in rational discussion. Sheehan didn't want to talk. She wanted to get arrested. She wanted to make headlines. Her objective was purely self-serving -- to get noticed.

In other words, Sheehan is a fraud. She is insincere. She disgraces her son's memory by playing these "Look at me, look at me" games.

Besides Sheehan's pathetic addiction to publicity, there's something else about this report that I think is worth noting.

Why would the lib media focus on such a small group of only "about a dozen U.S. and Iraqi anti-war activists" taking part in a "march to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations"?

About twelve people held a "march"?

That's ridiculous. Let's be honest. It wasn't a "march."

There are sightseeing walking tours that have more participants than this so-called demonstration did.

If Sheehan's tiny gathering constitutes a newsworthy demonstration, then the next time I take walk, I'll carry a "Support the troops" sign, call it a "march," and alert the media.

The reality is the Associated Press and other lib media outlets are obsessed with Sheehan, documenting her every move. Sure, she's a face of the far Left and promotes the lefty agenda. It's no surprise that the AP likes to highlight her; but it's laughable that a group of a dozen people would be reported as a demonstration of significance.

Sheehan's antics are detestable; and the lib media's reporting of her escapades makes them complicit in her buffoonery.

The lib press must stop acting as enablers in Sheehan's quest to satisfy her obvious addiction to publicity. They are embarrassing themselves when they grant her coverage for these lame little capers.

As this current pattern of media attention for Sheehan's clearly staged stunts continues, the anti-war squad loses credibility. A blurb on news wires is no substitute for rational policy discussion.

When the supposed face of a movement appears to be more concerned with self-aggrandizement than issues, it's not a plus for the movement.

Sheehan is doing more harm than good.
She's having a great time getting arrested.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! WOO HOO!

It's easy to imagine her saying, "I'm ready for my close-up!"

Sheehan should take a good look at the photo of her being arrested.

I think her next media stunt should be a hunger strike. Yikes!