Scum With Tits

There’s an interesting little point/counterpoint in my local birdcage liner about the upcoming slate of Iraq War-themed films, and how they are inevitably going to be left-wing and anti-war.  The liberal, arguing in favor of the anti-war films, writes the following.

“Grace is Gone” concerns a road trip taken by a man (John Cusack) whose wife has been killed in Iraq. In light of the right’s brass-knuckles treatment of antiwar mom Cindy Sheehan, I expect no end of jokes will be made at the expense of this film by the ever-sensitive Ann Coulter and her ultra-scrupulous confederates.

Readers of this blog know that I think Mann Coulter is a vulgar, vile, disgusting transvestite who has done as much to sully the name of conservatism as anyone else the last few years, but in this case I’l taking her side.  The “brass-knuckles treatment of antiwar mom Cindy Sheehan” was/is entirely deserved, because Cindy Sheehan put herself in that position.  To argue that “the right” is hostile towards anti-war mothers of dead soldiers, I’d like to see another mother this “brass knuckles” approach was used against.  I’m sitting here and I can’t think of the name of another single anti-war mother, even though they inevitably exist.  Why is that?  If the right was so “brass knuckles” in its approach, wouldn’t the ground be littered with the corpses of the poor, harmless mothers of dead soldiers, struck down in their prime by the right-wing hit machine?  Their names should be household, but they aren’t, because ONE NAME decided to hog all the press for herself. 

Let’s take a look back to my first post on the subject of the treatment of Cindy Sheehan, from 8/11/05, when she was really starting to make a name for herself.

By holding herself out as the hood ornament for the anti-war left, Sheehan has certainly opened the door for legitimate criticism of her motives and beliefs.  You won’t find anyone more supporting of that than me.  But all too often I have seen a real degree of contempt for the woman creep in to what should otherwise be legitimate comments, and I think that’s absolutely fucking shameful.  This woman lost her son, and while you are and should be free to discuss her recent political activism, cut the woman some slack in the other areas.  I think some of the things she has said and done recently have been absolutely disgraceful and I have said as much, but I’m not going to attack the mother of a wounded soldier.

Let me put it this way.  As Jim rightfully wrote earlier today, the real focus here should be Casey and his sacrifice for a cause he believed in.  That being said, this is the woman who gave birth to Casey; who breast fed him, and wiped his behind, and taught him to walk, and pinned his corsage on his prom tuxedo, and loved him for every year of his life.  I have no doubt that Casey loved his mother in return.  No matter how much he might have disagreed with his mother on certain political views, I don’t doubt for a second that if Casey could read some of the things that “patriotic Americans” have said about his mother he would be absolutely devastated, and were he here in person there’s a whole lot of people who would find themselves knocked on their asses by him.

Have some fucking respect.

I meant every word of that then, and I stand by it now.  It was only when “Peace Mom” began badmouthing the mothers of dead soldiers who happened to disagree with her anti-war political views that I decided she had lost any inherent respect the mother of a dead soldier deserves.  If Sheehan wasn’t prepared to show proper respect to her contemporaries, then I sure as hell wasn’t required to show any to Sheehan.  But before Sheehan was belittling pro-war mothers, and hobnobbing with Huga Chavez and America’s enemies, there were many of us on the right who felt that, as the mother of a fallen soldier, she was worthy of the highest levels of respect.  It’s just a shame that there are so many people out there who think that only mothers who hold an anti-war stance are worthy of this fundamental decorum.

Cindy Sheehan is the mother of a fallen US soldier.  She is also a traitorous anti-American scumbag, who deserves every bit of criticism she receives from the likes of Mann Coulter.  Both of them are filth.