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It has been 10 days since I first posted on Cindy Sheehan, and after sticking my neck out and taking massive amounts of ongoing abuse and ridicule for giving her the scrutiny she deserves, I am more than happy to let others pick up the slack.
Byron York highlights just how radical Sheehan and [...]

Unhingedness all around us. Some nutball drove his truck through an anti-war display of crosses down at Camp Cindy Sheehan.
Nice to see the far Left finally outraged about the desecration of crosses.
Don’t seem to recall their outrage about this or this or this, though. Or, of course, this.
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Update: A closer look at one of [...]

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 [...]

While the MSM showers attention on Cindy Sheehan, Chrenkoff reminds us that not every parent who lost a child in Iraq opposes the war. Check out his list. He concludes:
[B]oth sides can play the “grieving parents” game -– except that it’s not a game, and it shouldn’t be played. The right has not used people [...]

Just read this. You won’t believe it. Here’s the intro…
Aug. 22, 2005 issue - The grieving room was arranged like a doctor’s office. The families and loved ones of 33 soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan were summoned to a large waiting area at Fort Bragg, N.C. For three hours, they were rotated through five [...]

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Like it or not, the dispute between Cindy Sheehan and some of her family members is news. According to a Solano County court document unearthed by Dang if I Know, there may be a new development in that rift:

Assuming this report pans out, it will be interesting to see if Cindy Sheehan continues [...]

The Los Angeles Times graciously admits it was wrong when it said I disdainfully called activists supporting Cindy Sheehan “grief pimps:”
An article in Thursday’s Section A about war protester Cindy Sheehan said conservative blogger Michelle Malkin had called activists supporting Sheehan “grief pimps.” Malkin’s blog carried the headline “The Grief Pimps,” but it referred to [...]

You have to scroll all the way down to the 18th paragraph in this front-page Washington Post article, but there it is–an acknowledgement that Cindy Sheehan has changed her account of her first meeting with President Bush, which occurred two months after her son’s death in April 2004:
After the meeting, [Cindy Sheehan] was quoted by [...]

From Mohammed at Iraq the Model. Must-read.
And from Varifrank, who posts a very powerful and personal essay, “The Call.”
Others blogging…
- Michael Fumento on Mrs. Sheehan’s complaint that she’s not getting enough media attention. Really.
- Vicious moonbats–mad about the firing of one of my hate-mailers from the law firm he sent his bile from–tried to retaliate [...]

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Anti-war activists and far-left organizations have been galvanized by Cindy Sheehan’s continuing protest outside President Bush’s Crawford, Texas, ranch. MoveOn.org has hopped on the bandwagon with a newspaper ad and Internet campaign. Air America hosts, all too happy to talk about something other than their own unpleasant political and financial woes, have [...]

Still lots of e-mail and blogger reax pouring in on anti-war protester, Cindy Sheehan (currently the #3 search term at Technorati). A sample:
From Avenue B Alum…
I wonder if the lefties pimping the grief of that dead GI’s mom are pro-life. (The Grief Pimps would make a great name for a band but the lefties, apparently, [...]

Harry Belafonte , who referred to black members of the Bush administration as “black tyrants,” wasn’t the only one flying off the handle at the Voting Rights Act march in Atlanta this weekend:
A featured speaker at Saturday’s civil rights march in Atlanta said the Bush administration and Republican Party leaders are “thieves” who “need to [...]

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The Bush-bashing mother of a soldier who died in Iraq last year has garnered quite a bit of buzz from the MSM for her anti-war vigil outside of Crawford, Texas. Drudge highlights her rather drastic change of heart:
CINDY 2004
THE REPORTER of Vacaville, CA published an account of Cindy Sheehan’s visit with the president at [...]