"Absolute" Treason

It is often said that nothing of consequence happens in regards to the news cycle in the month of August. With both Congress and the President on vacation, the nation takes a break from caring about substantive news and commentary and starts waiting for things to happen again in September after government returns from its summer break. In the meantime, the media gets desperate, looking for anything they can make a story out of in hopes of filling up twenty-two minutes in an otherwise empty newscast.

Case and point is their obsessive round-the-clock coverage of a stark raving mad mother of an American serviceman killed in action in Iraq. Cindy Sheehan, the nation’s most famous unemployed woman, has been given close to 20,000 stories on cable and broadcast news since she took up panhandling in Crawford, Texas. In the meantime she has blamed Bush and America for everything that has gone on in her otherwise unremarkable existence and has been asked questions on Good Morning America as difficult as “how do you feel?” Not even the Olympics tolerate such softballs. Meanwhile, those who still cling to rational thought and common sense rightfully ignore Sheehan’s insanity.

In their fanatical and all-consuming hatred of President George W. Bush, the left in this country has made a hero out of Cindy the Psycho. Meanwhile, in the midst of their worship of this derelict dissident they have completely ignored everything she has ever said. Maybe it’s because her statements run the gauntlet from idiotic and asinine to paranoid and treasonous. She has called America a fascist state and not worth dying for. She has referred to flag-waving and patriotism as B.S. She has said- as Michael Moore, George Galloway, and most of the more radical members of the Democratic Party have said- that Iraq is part of a war of terror and genocide waged for profit, oil, and Zionism by “the real terrorist,” George W. Bush. Maybe those on the left actually agree with the opinions of her and her fellow squatters in Texas. Or maybe they realize the poison and excrement spewing from the mouth of Cindy the Psycho and seek to place a continent’s worth of distance between her and themselves.

It’s becoming quite apparent that Cindy the Psycho doesn’t even care about her late son anymore. If she did, she wouldn’t be doing or saying what she is. On the contrary, she cares only about her Bush-bashing, America-hating agenda, crafted by the most extreme and treasonous elements of our society. Instead of recognizing his sacrifice and his heroic actions, Sheehan is dishonoring her son and the entire armed forces in the most despicable way possible. There quite simply is no greater insult a person can give than to say that a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine died for nothing. The fact that she is saying this about her own son speaks volumes. Every time this wretched woman opens her mouth, Casey Sheehan is dying again and again. Her outrageous comments amount to actions worse than filicide.

Perhaps instead of focusing on the Michael Moore and MoveOn.org-inspired rants of Cindy the Psycho, the media should be covering the words and actions of those who actually know her. Sheehan’s entire family has condemned what she is doing, rightfully stating that she is dishonoring the memory of her late son. Sheehan’s hometown of Vacaville, California, instead of holding ANSWER-backed treason fests, Bush-bashings, and flag-burnings, like many of the media’s favorite cities, they actually had the audacity to support America and her troops and dare to criticize the actions of a woman Maurine Dowd has anointed with “absolute moral authority.”

Dowd’s ironic and comical use of such a term should be enough by itself to successfully and unintentionally discredit this woman, if Sheehan hasn’t done so herself. Cindy the Psycho gradually pissed away any chances of her being taken seriously by the mainstream by opening her mouth and letting her MoveOn.org talking points ooze through. Indeed, President Bush was right in not meeting with her and instead spend his vacation time on more worthwhile activities, like chopping wood. The leader of the free world is a busy man, and perpetually has much more important things to do than meet with those of the intellectual capacity of a doughnut hole. Perhaps instead of trivializing the activities of the President of the United States by demanding he meet with dim-wit dissidents, those in the media and elsewhere should ask themselves a simple question: What Would Nixon Do?