Wednesday, September 21, 2005
This is News?
Yawn. Cindy Sheehan arives in D.C. and is ignored by everyone but the media. She has 30 people with her. 30 people! They are expecting more on Saturday--maybe several thousand. I remember anti-war protests in D.C. in October and November 1969, what?-- 36 years ago, with hundreds of thousands, maybe even a half million. There are 30 people in the United States who want us to repeal laws prohibiting sex with animals. Why is this collection of somewhat loopy protestors newsworthy? Oh that's right, because they reflect badly on the Bush administration. That seems to be the sine qua non for a lot of political coverage lately.
Sheehan says she wants to meet this week or next with Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY). As John Wayne said so well in The Searchers, "That'll be the day."
UPDATE: Byron York over at NRO has a great piece which provides details on some of the 30. It's worse than I thought. Money quote:
About that time, a cameraman shooting the scene noticed something. "I've seen a lot of these people before," he said. Pointing to a woman a few feet away, he said, "That one was at the World Bank thing. They're professional protesters."
And indeed, that one — Fithian — had been at the protests in Washington a few years earlier. And so had some of the people working with Fithian. And Code Pink's Medea Benjamin, exchanging a warm hug with Fithian on the Capitol lawn, had been at hundreds, if not thousands, of protests. There were some real protest veterans in the group.
UPDATE II: The only democrats planning to attend the "big" antiwar rally in D.C. on Saturday are perennial moon-bayers Reps. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and John Conyers of Michigan. The rest, including, significantly, Hillary Clinton, are avoiding Cindy Sheehan and her ilk like the plague.
Sheehan says she wants to meet this week or next with Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY). As John Wayne said so well in The Searchers, "That'll be the day."
UPDATE: Byron York over at NRO has a great piece which provides details on some of the 30. It's worse than I thought. Money quote:
About that time, a cameraman shooting the scene noticed something. "I've seen a lot of these people before," he said. Pointing to a woman a few feet away, he said, "That one was at the World Bank thing. They're professional protesters."
And indeed, that one — Fithian — had been at the protests in Washington a few years earlier. And so had some of the people working with Fithian. And Code Pink's Medea Benjamin, exchanging a warm hug with Fithian on the Capitol lawn, had been at hundreds, if not thousands, of protests. There were some real protest veterans in the group.
UPDATE II: The only democrats planning to attend the "big" antiwar rally in D.C. on Saturday are perennial moon-bayers Reps. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and John Conyers of Michigan. The rest, including, significantly, Hillary Clinton, are avoiding Cindy Sheehan and her ilk like the plague.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 9:24 PM 
