War Porn

Indie war correspondent Michael Yon is suing Michael Moore for copyright violation.  Basically he used one of Yon’s pictures in the banner on his website, and despite numerous requests to take it down has refused to do so.  Be sure and read the whole thing for the specifics, but this section really struck me as being right on.

Justice Potter Stewart once defined pornography by saying, “I know it when I see it.” Pornography and propaganda are closely related, as they are both cynical attempts at manipulation, rooted in a lack of respect for humanity. War Porn is one of the more disturbing developments in the new media, as people on both sides of the Iraq War get their kicks watching video images of death and destruction – as long as it’s their opponents who get killed. Whether it’s an Al Qaeda cell-phone video of an IED attack or the grisly footage of a Coalition air strike, War Porn is degrading and incendiary. Of course, some footage is newsworthy and informative and the public deserves to see it. There is also great value to soldiers in watching footage for training purposes and to better understand battlefields and weapons. But at some point, especially when the material is used to make political points, images of combat can cross the line into pornography. People die in war, but we must never forget that each casualty is a human being, even people as deserving of death as Al Qaeda. Denying our opponents’ humanity, we lose a little of our own.

When someone’s grandmother disseminates the photo of Major Beiger cradling a dying girl in his arms, I allow the usage because I feel she is trying to share the human tragedy. When Michael Moore puts that same photo on his web site, alongside images of George Bush, John McCain and Hillary Clinton, the clear implication is that Farah’s death is their fault. That is a misrepresentation of the facts on the ground, as well as the story of the photo. Farah was killed by a suicide car bomb in Mosul on May 2, 2005. Major Bieger and other soldiers literally risked their own lives to save many children and adults that day, but Farah didn’t make it. Michael Moore apparently does not understand – or refuses to acknowledge – the moral distinction between a man who would murder innocent people, and a man who would sacrifice himself to save them. The photo, as I took it, is the truth, but Moore uses it – illegally – to convey falsehoods. His mind is that of a political propagandist who sees Farah’s death not as a human tragedy, but a tool.

Hey, as long as Mikey can sell his shitty movies and books and keep on making himself even more millions, what the hell does he care?

Broken Clocks

Jim summed up Mikey’s screed nicely in the previous post.  There is, however, one small section I want to focus on.

Let’s assume that’s true. Do you want a President who is so easily misled? I wasn’t “misled,” and millions of others who took to the streets in February of 2003 weren’t “misled” either. It was simply amazing that we knew the war was wrong when none of us had been briefed by the CIA, none of us were national security experts, and none of us had gone on a weapons inspection tour of Iraq. And yet… we knew we were being lied to!

We’ve all heard the expression that even a broken clock is right twice a day.  Michael Moore opposes war. All war.  Especially when it could in any way conceivably benefit America.  He opposed Afghanistan.  He opposed Kosovo, going so far as to make the asinine assertion that it inspired the Columbine killers. He opposed the first Gulf War.  He opposed the Cold War.  He just opposes ALL WAR.

Now, let’s look at what he wrote. By his own admission he had no inside information.  He wasn’t briefed by the CIA.  He isn’t an expert on national security.  He’d never gone on a weapons tour of Iraq.  Yet somehow, mysteriously, he just KNEW he was being lied to.  My question is, how did he know?

Imagine, for a second, if I wrote the following.  “I didn’t graduate from Harvard medical school.  I hadn’t been Chief of Thoracic Surgery at John’s Hopkins for the past ten years.  I hadn’t done over 600 heart transplants.  But I KNEW that my child didn’t need surgery.” Sounds pretty ignorant, doesn’t it?  Even if it turned out that, in the end, the surgery was indeed unnecessary, so what?  The doctor was basing his opinion on his education and years of experience, and the parent is basing it on a gut feeling.  When it comes to making critical decisions, which do you think is a more prudent course of action?  President Bush makes a lot of his decisions based on “gut feeling” and we can all see how well those turned out, can’t we?

So, back to Mikey.  Somehow, through some mystical, magical process he just “knew” that this war was bad.  I imagine he “knew” this in the same way that a fundamentalist Christian “knows” that fags are going to burn in hell, or that a suicide bomber “knows” that there will be 72 virgins waiting for him in Paradise. 

Here we have a guy who just opposes all war, period.  Eventually he opposes a war which, guess what, turns out to be a disaster.  Then, completely disregarding all the other wars he’s opposed in the past and been wrong about, he hails himself as possessing some kind of mysterious power of prognostication, wherein he “knew” that something was up with this war.  This despite the fact that, by his own admission, the very people who had access to all the information and data disagreed with him.  But somehow he “knew.”

So, which is more likely.  Did he “know” something, or did the broken clock just happen to be right this time?

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.

Rising from Lenin’s Tomb

Oh God, this would be brilliantly entertaining to watch.

Cindy Sheehan, the soldier’s mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to seek House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That’s when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group’s war protest site near Bush’s Crawford ranch.

“Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership,” Sheehan told The Associated Press. “We hired them to bring an end to the war. I’m not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn’t be too big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her money.”

She’s absolutely right.  There are no more than a handful of people who could run against Pelosi in San Francisco and launch a legitimate challenge.  You’d have to find a candidate with credibility who’s even more of a batshit crazy leftie, and Sheehan certainly meets those criteria.

Sheehan, who has never held political office, recently said that she was leaving the Democratic Party because it “caved” in to the president. Last week, she announced her caravan to Washington, an undertaking she calls the “people’s accountability movement.”

“I didn’t expect to be back so soon, but the focus is different than it was before,” Sheehan said Sunday.

“But it had been a few months, and frankly my ego couldn’t handle it,” continued Sheehan.  “I went from being someone in the public eye to being a disgusting, wrinkled, prune-faced has-been failure.  Think about it.  I was being hosted by such visionaries as Hugo Chavez.  I went from Marxist revolutionary for peace to a suburban housewife.  Uh, thanks but no thanks.  Now where are those cameras, I’ve got a dead son to whore out!”

Casey’s mom gives up

In what I hope will be the last time we ever discuss her on this website, this story came out yesterday...I just didn’t want to post about it on Memorial Day.

“I’ve been wondering why I’m killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to
George Bush,” Sheehan told The Associated Press while driving from her property in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California.

“I’m going home for awhile to try and be normal,” she said.

Well, her Crawford House charity is under investigation, the Gold Star thing may in fact have been fraudulently collecting money as a registered charity when they were not, the Democrats have been ignoring her so much she quit the party, she’s not being flown all over the country in style anymore, the crowds at her appearances are dwindling faster than Lindsay Lohan’s 21st birthday party sponsors, the media has tuned in to what a...unique...individual she is...yeah, it’s time to quit.

Her “diary” entry on DKos is here.  Normally I wouldn’t link that site, but I want people to read these words, then maybe go back and read some of her first diary entries.  Weird, right?  The writing style is so remarkably different.  As I went back, I noted this one in particular.  I wonder if she still feels that way now that her friend Hugo Chavez has gone apoplectic and...dare I say...dictatorial?

One last thing to point out; we’re told over and over again that dissent is the truest form of patriotism.  The anti-war movement only has America’s best interests at heart, they love this country, etc.

This is not my “Checkers” moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.

Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

That is not love of country.  Do we need to improve?  Always.  When your world view is based on the fact that America is imperialist, you call this country the greatest sponsor of terrorism and you feel the need to try to make it into something you want rather than improve what is...I’m sorry, that’s not patriotism.  It just isn’t.  It’s some internal dialogue being forced out and projected onto the nation.

Casey’s mom, I hope you move on and find some peace.  Be with your kids.  Learn to see the forest for the trees.  Smell a rose or two.  Even a yellow one from Texas, if you can find one.  These United States are not all bad.  Just look around.

Beat to the punch

I was preparing a fisking of Moore’s latest email screed.  Whenever I do these long fiskings (which I admit is rarely!) I often stop a number of times to help me 1. get away from it for a bit and 2. formulate what I want to say.  Well, I popped over to Wizbang and Jay Tea already wrote almost every single thing i wanted to say.  Yay!  Less typing for me.  Definitely read the whole thing...he nails Mike’s hide to the wall.

Example:

The Soviet Union got out of Afghanistan in 36 weeks. They did so and suffered hardly any losses as they left. They realized the mistake they had made and removed their troops. A civil war ensued. The bad guys won. Later, we overthrew the bad guys and everybody lived happily ever after. See! It all works out in the end!

Funny how Moore fast-forwards from “the bad guys won” to “we overthrew the bad guys.” What happened in the meantime? Well, a little thing called the Taliban happened—the Islamist thugs who brutally oppressed their own people and gave a home to an innocuous little group called Al Qaeda. You might have heard of them—they’re the ones who killed 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia back in September of 2001. Yeah, that’s an example we should be looking to emulate.

Nice.

Project Valour-IT

Doesn’t get easier to actually support the troops than this, people.

Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, provides voice-controlled laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand and arm injuries or amputations at home or in military hospitals. Operating laptops by speaking into a microphone, our wounded heroes are able to send and receive messages from friends and loved ones, surf the ‘Net, and communicate with buddies still in the field without having to press a key or move a mouse. The experience of CPT Charles “Chuck” Ziegenfuss, a partner in the project who suffered severe hand wounds while serving in Iraq, illustrates how important this voice-controlled software can be to a wounded servicemember’s recovery.

Read more about it here.  Donate here:

I joined Team Marines, but there are no losing teams here.  Go!  Now!  Give a few dollars.  Two, five...whatever you can spare.

John Kerry: “Troops are stupid”

Wow.  Just...wow.  Head on over and take a look for yourself - my headline is not that much of an exaggeration. 

Didn’t they give that to a terrorist once?

Let’s be honest, if they’ll give one to Arafat, they’ll give one to anyone.

The president’s most vocal critic against the war in Iraq was in the Capitol City Wednesday night.

...

Sheehan also announced at the signing that she’s a finalist for a Nobel Peace Prize.

So...how do we find out if this is true?  Anyone know how to verify this?

Update

Thanks to the quick work of reader Doug, we have this:

Q: Has X been nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize?

A: Information about the nominations, investigations, and opinions
concerning the award is kept secret for fifty years.

Q: What about the rumors circling around the world about certain people
being nominated for the Nobel Prize this year?

A: Well, either it’s just a rumor, or someone among the invited
nominators has leaked out information. Since the nominations are kept
secret for 50 years, you’ll have to wait until then to find out.

So...it looks like anyone can say they are nominated, and by the time it can be verified, odds are we’ll all be dead.

Hey...did I tell you guys I’m a finalist for a Nobel Peace Prize?

Update on Friday, 0ct. 13 (Also known as Vorhees Day):

Bankers for poor win peace Nobel

Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, particularly women.

See, now that makes sense.

SGT Mike Stokely, a year later

Last December, I wrote about SGT. Mike Stokley over at Moorewatch.  His father, Robert Stokely, graciously responded to me via email to thank me.  Unfortunately, I let other mail pile on top of them, and I only just found the two emails he sent me again.

Last night I went through a lot of old mail to delete things that were just taking up space.  Email with attachments, spam I missed, messages from servers, auto-responses...the clutter that accumulates.  I get around 250-500 messages a day depending on spam levels, and things often get lost or buried.

I’m kind of ashamed that I let these two slide by.  I was reminded of SGT. Stokely just the other day from this post at Blackfive.  I suppose it was serendipity that led me to re-discoverthose two email a couple of days later.

When I wrote at length over the last year about Casey Sheehan and his mother, and by extension about how I felt a parent could - not should, but rather could - grieve for their child and not cross lines of taste, decorum, honesty and sanity, Robert Stokely was the man I kept in mind.  The things he said about Mike, the way he talked about him as a person, they way it was always about Mike and not any political agenda...these are the kinds of things that struck me as good and decent and above all, honorable.  Whenever I read an email that Robert sent to someone for their site, I felt like he was honoring his son as a person and a soldier.

It is sad that a man who inspired such love and pride in his father was lost to us, but at the same time if anything good can come from this kind of loss, it’s that sense of honor, dignity and love.  I hope other people can see it.

Nothing illustrated it more than this story:

It is an irony that you can have so much grief interspersed with such pride swelling in your heart even as tears well in your eyes, and still be able to laugh.  The memory of the very loved we had lost was caught in a moment Mike would have found humorous, and laughed himself that special laugh he had.  As we traveled the highway through Loganville that day of his “welcome home parade”, and again to the church for his funeral, many businesses had posted a tribute to Mike on their sign boards.  Our favorite and one to be remembered for all time, was at a small meat market and said this:

“IN HONOR OF MIKE STOKELY”
pork ribs $1.69 lb.

Although they probably didn’t mean it to come out that way, we loved it, and laughed a much needed, deep down laugh.  Mike would have loved it and probably thought this business was the only one with any sense left, given all the fuss being made over him.  Forever more, whenever I see pork ribs, I will think of that day and what we now call the “Mike Stokely Special”.

A few days past a year later, and I still think about Mike Stokely and everyone else who gives up time, health, safety and sometimes their lives in service to their country as warriors.

I only hope that we can someday deserve what they do for us.

Mr. Stokely, if you should see this, I apologize for my lack of response and lack of respect in not paying more attention to your email.

Army Meets Its Retention Goal

You often hear from the media (and coincidentally, the left) that the U.S. military is stretched thin and can’t staff the positions they need staffed.  Not exactly true.

Both the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve expect to meet their re-enlistment goals for this fiscal year, which are 34,875 and 17,712, respectively. Both totals are slightly higher than last year’s goals.

Granted, this is re-enlistment and not recruiting, but the recruitment picture is no less optimistic when you get past the political rhetoric.  Regardless of how you feel about the war, the fact - that is an important word, fact - the fact is that the military branches are meeting thier goals.

Another far-left/mainstream media meme shot down.  Look for headlines to never appear anywhere, ever.

Michael Hearts Cindy - The Musical

Nice.

Casey, I love the way she says “bullshit!” (says “bullshit!")
and that the evil Jooz did it (the Jooz did it)
Did your mom get back from her Crawford trip? (Crawford trip)
Is she there, or is she still giving Dubya some lip? (Dubya some lip)

You’ll have to head to The Jawa Report for more.

Now late the hate-filled comments pour in!

One of these things is not like the other

I defy anyone, left right or center, to read this and then ever again compare the US military to Saddam’s sadistic regime.

Some rooms in the museum don’t have pictures at all. Instead they show the instruments and the methods of torture. In one room, the so-called “Washington Room,” men and women had hot electric irons pressed into their skin.

Torture:

Not torture:

Let’s stop pretending Saddam’s Iraq was a kite-flying paradise already shall we?  From the comments at Michael J. Totten’s site:

Two years ago, I produced the documentary film VOICES OF IRAQ, where we sent 150 DV cameras across Iraq and allowed Iraqis to film their own lives. The cameras got into the prison you visted and others. I viewed several hours of video and testimony detailing the horrors of Saddam’s torture. One woman recalled tearfully how her newborn baby was fed to dogs infront of her eyes. Another video shows floors stained with blood and fat that liquified off torture victoms and poured onto the tiles below them.

Americans, and especially a certain political group of Americans, completely ignored that film.  What a shame...and how shameful.  Shameful to disrespect those who suffered by dismissing them as political fodder.  Shameful to line the pockets of a man like Michael Moore while ignoring the voices of those who were there and suffered losses unimaginable to the average American.

I don’t care why we went into Iraq.  I stopped caring about why the first time I heard about stories like these.  I don’t understand anyone who doesn’t feel the same way.

Smash has the story

Why isn’t the mainstream media this good at asking tough questions?

DEBORAH JOHNS: And this gentleman is absolutely correct, because it’s Debbie Argel. The Williams… I have over 1200 families that have sent you requests…

CINDY SHEEHAN: Sent me requests? I’m not in charge of those memorials.

DEBORAH JOHNS: ...California, spoke with you personally, on the telephone, and demanded that you stop using her son’s name. So did Joe Williams…

CINDY SHEEHAN: I’m not using anybody’s son’s name.

DEBORAH JOHNS: You have used their names in Crawford, Texas, Cindy. I was there. And I removed their sons’ names. And the sheriff down there took the list of the names from me, because he said in the middle of the night, you and your people go back up and put the names back up…

CINDY SHEEHAN: You’re…

DEBORAH JOHNS: Cindy, you have used their names in the newspaper.

CINDY SHEEHAN: You know what… Deborah, that’s not the truth.

DEBORAH JOHNS: You have used their names in the newspaper…

CINDY SHEEHAN: No, I haven’t used anybody’s name in the newspaper.

DEBORAH JOHNS: USA Today, Cindy…

(applause)

CINDY SHEEHAN: What… what newspaper have I used their names in?

DEBORAH JOHNS: USA Today, Cindy, when you took out ads across the United States…

(crosstalk)

CINDY SHEEHAN: ...I can’t take that. I’m not the only person who does this stuff…

You’ll have to go to Smash’s site and follow the links that prove how many lies Mama Moonbat tells in a short exchange.

As an aside...obviously she’s Moore-related, and as long as she runs her mouth, we shoudl call her on her bullshit.  But...and I never thought I would say this...I cannnot WAIT for Mikey to release another movie so we can start talking about something the fuck else.  I can’t wait to show Casey Sheehan’s mother the bottom of my shoe.  Maybe she’ll hug a few Hamas or Hezbollah after she’s done protesting the wounded and they can explain it to her.

Terrorist-loving, Dictator hugging “Peace Mom” to protest in Germany

One soldier’s opinion on Mama Moonbat’s planned protest:

One soldier, who recently returned from Iraq, did give his name but didn’t have much to say about Sheehan.

“Anything I would have to say about her, you couldn’t print,” Army Staff Sgt. Mark Genthner said.

Thank you, Sargeant.  We read you five by five.

At least someone is planning to step up.

Buffalo Soldiers

This post is dedicated to Cary Randolph, who inspired it.

Get along home, Cindy

Mama Moonbat likes the cuffs

The attention whore publicity-seeking mother...person was at it again.

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush’s State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said.

Sheehan, who had been invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, a misdemeanor, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. Sheehan was taken in handcuffs to police headquarters a few blocks away and her case was processed as Bush spoke.

Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan to the speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed, but she did not respond, the spokeswoman said.

So...being sneaky and lying, violating the rules and being duplicitous is OK, as long as you’re in it for attention.  Mikey must be so proud of her.  Meanwhile someone with honor and integrity would have walked in wearing the shirt and took their chances.  No, wait...someone with honor and integrity would have sat politiely and listened to the speech in the first frigging place.  An honest activist would have worn the shirt in the open instead of being a lying sneak.

Police handcuffed Sheehan and removed her from the gallery before Bush arrived.

Oh that’s frigging classic.  She accomplished exactly nothing.  Beautiful.

“I’m proud that Cindy’s my guest tonight,” Woolsey said in an interview before the speech. “She has made a difference in the debate to bring our troops home from Iraq.”

Wow, talk about blinders...Sheehan has accomplished, as she did with this protest, nothing but getting her name in the paper and getting Code Pink, MoveOn, Moore and that ilk to fund her life.  They’re treating her like a star, paying her bills, making her feel like her dumb ass matters.  That’s what this has always been about...someone paying attention to her.  The troops aren’t coming home until they are finished.  They never were.  Most of them don’t want to.  Maybe if she actually talked to them…

Hey, when is Code Pink and that set gonna send Mama Moonbat to Iraq?  Let’s see her put other people’s money where her mouth is.  Go ask a few thousand troops if they want to bail out on Iraq, see what kind of answers she gets.

Casey who?  If she had half the relationship she pretends to have had with her son, she’d get what total strangers already understand...these guys and gals do what they do out of a sense of honor and duty.

Wizbang’s Kevin Aylward asks:

What’s next for Mama Moonbat, streaking through a presidential press conference?

O.K., that’s enough.  Now I have to bleach my brain.  Thanks, Kevin...thanks a lot.

Please let this happen

Everyone’s favorite attention-seeking mother...person… isat it again.

Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who set up camp near President Bush’s Texas ranch last summer, said Saturday she is considering running against Sen. Dianne Feinstein to protest what she called the California lawmaker’s support for the war in Iraq.

Not only would the press finally turn on her and expose her vacuousness and her ignorance, but it would teach the KosKids a lesson in humility...they worship at her feet and she would get humiliated in a real political race.

Do it, Cins.  It’ll be hysterical.

Update

Yeah...g’head.  Run for office, nutter.

Mikey Loves Osama

There’s trouble a-brewin’ in the love triangle of Chris Matthews, John Kerry, and Michael Moore.

A remark by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in which he said that Osama bin-Laden “sounds like an over-the-top Michael Moore here, if not a Michael Moore” has outraged opponents of the war in Iraq and leading Democrats including former presidential candidate John Kerry. Matthews made the comment during an interview with Sen. Joseph Biden on Hardball Thursday in which they discussed an audio tape by bin-Laden that aired earlier in the day on Al Jazeera, the Arab news channel. Kerry commented: “You’d think the only focus tonight would be on destroying Osama bin-Laden, not comparing him to an American who opposes the war. ... If the administration had done the job right in Tora Bora we might not be having discussions on Hardball about a new Bin Laden tape. How dare Scott McClellan tell America that this Administration puts terrorists out of business when had they put Osama bin-Laden out of business in Afghanistan when our troops wanted to, we wouldn’t have to hear this barbarian’s voice on tape.”

Okay, let’s begin by ignoring Kerry’s usual blustery idiocy regarding Tora Bora and focus on his haughty indignation regarding Matthew’s statement.  The fact is, when you look at what OBL said and the crap that Michael Moore has been spewing for the past five years, there’s no a whole lot of difference between the two.  Here’s just a few of the more glaring similarities.  (The Osama bin Laden quotes below are all from the BBC News transcript.  The Michael Moore quotes are as linked.) First there is praise for the Islamofascist forces currently fighting the United States.

OBL: “I say that despite all the barbaric methods, they have failed to ease resistance, and the number of mujahideen, praise be to God, is increasing.”

MM:  “The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow—and they will win.”

Bush has no plan.

OBL:  “The wise ones know that Bush has no plan to achieve his alleged victory in Iraq.”

MM:  “In your heart of hearts you know Bush is a miserable failure. From having no plan on what to do in Iraq once he conquered Baghdad to the 380 missing tons of explosives that could be used to kill our brave young men and women, this guy doesn’t have a clue how to fight and win a war.”

The war in Iraq has made America less safe by creating terrorists.

OBL:  “Reality testifies that the war against America and its allies has not remained confined to Iraq, as he claims.  In fact, Iraq has become a point of attraction and recruitment of qualified resources.”

MM:  “We are hated, we are despised, we are less safe,” Moore said, inciting cheers and applause from the audience. “George W. Bush has made us less safe in this world.” Moore made it clear that the war on terror, or in his words, “the war on a noun,” is not making the world a safer place, but serving as a training ground for more terrorists. “You do not liberate a people with the barrel of a gun,” Moore said.

The war was all about corporate profit.

OBL:  “There is no defect in this solution other than preventing the flow of hundreds of billions to the influential people and war merchants in America, who supported Bush’s election campaign with billions of dollars.  Hence, we can understand the insistence of Bush and his gang to continue the war.”

MM:  “Halliburton is not a “company” doing business in Iraq. It is a WAR PROFITEER, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested—or worse.”

I could have posted twenty more similarities between the two, but these are sufficient for illustrative purposes.  There are significant parallels between the rhetoric we hear coming from the Islamist terrorist camp and from the radical western left.  There always have been.

Now, that being said, there’s more going on here.  Basically OBL, with this “truce” offer, is playing to an audience.  The offer isn’t aimed at Bush or the Muslim world.  No, my friends, it’s aimed at the activist liberal left, the MoveOn and Michael Moore crowd, the bongo playing drum circle hippie asshats who stage a protest every five minutes because they have nothing better to do.  Much like the USSR used the anti-war movement to great benefit during the Vietnam era, so the terrorists know that the useful idiots in the contemporary peace movement can serve the same purpose.

Bin Laden’s message is simple:  “We are only fighting back against American imperialism and aggression, and for the liberation of Palestine from the Zionists.  The so-called war on terror is a war Bush cannot win.  Prolonging the war will only serve to enrich Bush’s corporate masters even further.  I am offering you a truce.  You might not like me, but I am willing to end this war right now.  If you believe in peace you will support me.” This is EXACTLY the mantra of the peace movement.  Go down the list of left-wing beliefs.

1) America is an aggressive imperialist which seeks global economic hegemony.
2) Israel does not have a right to exist, and the Palestinians are an oppressed group on par with black South Africans.
3) The war on terror is not an actual war, since terrorism is a tactic, and a war cannot be waged on a tactic.  Therefore the war on terror cannot ever actually be won, and is used solely as a justification for endless war, resulting in massive corporate profits.
4) Peace is defines solely as the absence of conflict.  Anyone should be trusted when they claim to have peaceful coexistence as their primary motivation.

It goes on and on and on.  What remains to be seen is if Michael Moore and his ilk will repudiate this message.  Don’t hold your breath.

Update: It appears that the fine folks over at Ankle Biting Pundits had exactly the same idea I did.  Don’t miss their selection of Mikey quotes.