The Associated Press is reporting this evening:

The husband of Cindy Sheehan, the mother camped outside President Bush’s Texas ranch to protest the death of a son in the Iraq war, has filed for divorce, according to court documents.

Patrick Sheehan filed the divorce petition Friday in Solano County court, northeast of San Francisco. His lawyer did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.

The Smoking Gun has posted the petition here.

I referenced the filing in a straightforward post on Sunday here.

Unhinged critics have gone ballistic over the fact that I linked to this news, which was first broken by another site called Dang If I Know over the weekend.

In response, this blogger spewed profanities left and right. This one declared:

Open war on the self-hating racist bitch Michelle Malkin. OPEN. WAR.

Looks like they need their prescriptions filled. Pronto.

The rabid dogs play the hypocrisy card by raising my objection to John Kerry’s reference to Mary Cheney’s lesbianism and my criticism of the NYTimes’ dumpster diving into the adoption records of SCOTUS nominee John Roberts. Unlike Cindy Sheehan, Dick Cheney and John Roberts did not cite their family members’ political or ideological positions to support their campaigns. Mrs. Sheehan herself–not any Karl Rove operative or right-wing smear merchant– put claims of family solidarity on the public record.

And that is why the Associated Press and The Smoking Gun deemed the divorce petition newsworthy. So have Reuters, dozens of other bloggers, and hundreds of MSM outlets. CNN and the New York Times have also both reported on the Sheehan’s marital distress.

So, I guess they should all be expecting the same four-letter-word-laced blog diatribes and hate mails and declaration of “open war” against them.

Right?

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One of the loudest supporters of Cindy Sheehan has been beleaguered Air America Radio, which we continue to investigate and will have much more on in coming days–and which is all too happy for a diversion from its continued financial problems. The liberal radio network is having a field day and as Brian Maloney reports at The Radio Equalizer this evening, at least one host is milking it for all its worth.

According to an internal memo Maloney has obtained, Randi Rhodes has been leaning on Air America management to fly her down to Crawford on a private corporate jet.

It’s for the cause!

Captain Ed:

Money is no object to Randi, especially when she has the opportunity to leech onto someone else’s national publicity. Unfortunately for the children of the Bronx, AAR doesn’t have the same regard for the victims of their own financial shenanigans.

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Meanwhile, Move America Forward has a new spot from the head of Marine Moms of America here. They are also organizing a caravan of military families that will head to Crawford, Tx., to counter the anti-war circus.

No corporate jets for these grass-roots activists.

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Update: Christopher Hitchens weighs in.

Read Jeff Goldstein.

Response to Mrs. Sheehan’s latest blog postings here.

Lyflines looks at the Sheehan public relations firm known as the Associated Press (via Lorie Byrd). Confederate Yankee on Dems not rushing to Sheehan’s side.

More parents for the war.

Opinion Journal on “the sorrow and the pity.”

Morning update…

John Hawkins at Right Wing News has the Cindy Sheehan & Friends quote round-up.