Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media: Wheels coming off Sheehan’s antiwar juggernaut

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August 16, 2005

Wheels coming off Sheehan’s antiwar juggernaut

After nine days, the activist that has become the face of the antiwar movement in the United States expressed fatigue and complained about how her solitary protest now has a “Disneyland” atmosphere. Cindy Sheehan has been overwhelmed by the support she has received from groups ranging from the pro-terrorist Code Pink Women for Peace to MoveOn.org and Democrats.com, which form the base of the Democratic Party. But it seems her simple message of a mother’s grief has been overtaken by her own contradictory statements about her meeting with President Bush last year and her recitation of Leftist talking points about Israel and empire.

Members of her family have issued public statements disagreeing with her protest and expressing support for the war and the President. Her son is pleading for her to return home. Sheehan’s husband has filed for divorce. But Casey’s mother is now a captive of the antiwar movement, no more able to return to private life now than John Kerry was in 1971. She has vowed to continue her protest until all American troops are withdrawn from Iraq.

The Old Media fawns over Sheehan while she conducts press conferences scripted by Fenton Communications, media consultants on loan from MoveOn.org. Liberal pundits shriek about the “smear campaign” being conducted by their conservative counterparts who would have the audacity to question Sheehan’s motives or extreme rhetoric. Talking heads bloviate that the White House needs to be concerned about this woman and her impact on Americans’ support for the war in Iraq.

But it’s Democrats who need to be concerned about what Sheehan has started. The words she speaks about a lying George Bush murdering her son and members of the administration being held for war crimes sound like the delusional rantings of a John Conyers or Louise Slaughter, and emphasize a radicalized Democratic party that presidential hopefuls like the newly-minted centrists Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden need to rein in order to win in 2008.

The antiwar playbook hasn’t been updated since the 1960s and what worked then to turn a nation against the struggle to stop the spread of Communist tyranny isn’t going to be successful in 2005. Cable television, talk radio and the Internet has destroyed the Old Media’s ability to significantly influence public opinion. Already, there have been counter-demonstrations that support the United States’ efforts in the global war on terror and other mothers who have lost sons are able to come forward to say that their sacrifice is for a noble cause.

Christoper Hitchens writes about Sheehan's "Sinister Piffle" for Slate and a San Antonio news outlet's headline summarizes the troublesome message of her protest.

Posted by jeffgannon at August 16, 2005 06:34 AM

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