Newsweek’s Latest Paean To Cindy Sheehan

From her love slaves at the ersatz news magazine Newsweek:

Sheehan is at a substantial disadvantage in funding but believes her human resources and antiwar message will help her topple the incumbent, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

The War At Home

Cindy Sheehan’s uphill battle.
Miyoko Ohtake
Mar 21, 2008
Cindy Sheehan barely fits into her “campaign limo,” her sister’s blue Hyundai Tiburon. She ducks low to avoid hitting her head on the way in, and her knees are nearly at her chest when she sits, even with the seat rolled all the way back. Traveling over the Oakland Bay Bridge, her campaign manager at the wheel–steering with one hand and scrolling through e-mails with the other–the 6-foot-tall antiwar activist turned congressional hopeful tries in vain to stretch out in the passenger seat. It’s raining when they pull into a parking spot near Berkeley City College, where Sheehan is about to give a speech, but she opens the window anyway; it’s the only way to exit the car. The interior handle is broken, so the door must be opened from the outside.
It’s not easy–but then little on Sheehan’s long and improbable journey to this place has been. When she first set up her lawn chair outside George W. Bush’s Texas ranch in the summer of 2005–a grief-stricken mother demanding to speak to the president about the death of her son Casey in Iraq–she had no idea how she would capture the media’s imagination and spark a movement. Her 26-day roadside vigil three years ago drew thousands of supporters to Crawford, Texas, and prompted marches and protests across the country. But her celebrity came with steep costs; divorce, heartbreak and exhaustion caused her to quit her antiwar activism in May 2007 to return home to Dixon, Calif., to mother her surviving children.
Her retirement didn’t last long. Earlier this year, Sheehan moved to San Francisco and filed to run as an independent against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom she blames–along with Bush–for perpetrating the war in Iraq. When Pelosi, a Democrat, refused to hold impeachment hearings against Bush last summer, the Speaker found herself in Sheehan’s cross hairs. “Her refusal to hold George Bush and Dick Cheney accountable is when I just said, ‘That’s it. We have to hold her accountable’,” Sheehan told NEWSWEEK at her San Francisco campaign headquarters…
Sheehan thinks she can persuade the city’s voters that Pelosi is a sellout. “She is a supporter of the status quo, the establishment and the elite,” Sheehan says.
Pelosi’s also got a massive advantage in resources going into the fight. Pelosi, whose spokesman declined comment on Sheehan’s challenge, had raised $1.6 million for her re-election campaign as of March 21. By contrast, Sheehan has raised $49,000 to date. Her strength, Sheehan says, lies in her human resources. “I’m superconfident we’re going to win because we have the people on our side,” Sheehan said. “With my name recognition, my face recognition, I can’t walk down the street without someone stopping me.” She has a campaign manager, a paid staff, armfuls of volunteers and a storefront office in the city’s gritty Mission district. The antiwar movement got a boost last month when Ralph Nader, announcing his 2008 presidential campaign, tapped a San Francisco politician, former city supervisor and Green Party mayoral candidate Matthew Gonzalez, as his running mate. Gonzalez endorsed Sheehan last December and has since been on board as an adviser and speaker at public events…
The coming weeks are crucial. In order to secure a spot on the ballot in November, Sheehan must collect 3,000 signatures from registered voters in the district, beginning April 25, and submit them to the county elections office by July 24 or pay a $1,652 filing fee. By Aug. 8, Sheehan must submit 10,198 nomination signatures–3 percent of the number of registered voters in the Eighth District prior to the 2006 general elections. Her aides hope the compact nature of the terrain will help them reach that goal. “The advantage of being in the second-smallest district in the U.S. is that we will be able to literally walk every street and shake hands with each of the 600,000 constituents,” said Sheehan’s campaign manager, Tiffany Burns. But even if the door-knocking and hand-shaking convinces voters to cast their ballots against Pelosi, Sheehan will also need to persuade them that she is the best alternative to Republican candidate Dana Walsh, Libertarian Philip Berg and Democrat Shirley Golub, who is challenging Pelosi in the June primary.
Sheehan knows that her fortunes will turn largely on the way folks in the Eighth District feel about the war, a conflict whose artifacts–Casey’s military portrait, a picture of the Purple Heart he was awarded at his funeral, a congressional commendation from New York Rep. Charles Rangel–decorates Sheehan’s otherwise cheerfully painted yellow office. “If there’s any good to come out of Casey’s death, I hope it is to make this country the country he supposedly died for,” she said. Despite her busy schedule, Sheehan is still grieving her dead son. She cries in her office and again at dinner. She laments the fact that her grandson will never meet his Uncle Casey. Despite the activists who took to the streets Wednesday to protest the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, polling from the presidential primaries has shown that the economy has become the leading issue in voters’ minds. Sheehan says this only helps her campaign: “Our tanking economy is directly connected to the war economy,” she says. “An economic-stimulus plan that no one’s talking about is bringing our troops home and putting that money into America.”
Sheehan declines to discuss what she’ll do if this campaign falls short. “I haven’t even looked that far,” Sheehan says. “I don’t put that negative energy into the universe because I’m pretty sure I’m already going to win. I’m already decorating my office in Washington, D.C., in my head.”

Newsweek gives the professionally grieving mother and America-hating yet another bouquet.

Note how the article does not have one untoward thing to say about their idol. That’s our hardworking watchdog media at work.

It’s odd, because we were just thinking how this was the first Easter in a while that we haven’t seen Cindy toting a cross.

She has probably sworn off such hateful Christian imagery. And Allah knows she would never put any “negative energy into the universe.”

Still, we do have a soft spot for Cindy’s ~~concubine~~ campaign manager:

And like Newsweek, we find it hard to believe that no one is taking Mrs. Sheehan’s candidacy seriously.

Even though she hasn’t even managed to get on the ballot yet. — She’s been busy.

What with crying for the cameras, cheering on the terrorists, and decorating her DC office in her head.

(By the way, note the Freudian yellow streak running through her name on her campaign sign. That is something her hero son Casey never had.)

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33 Responses to “Newsweek’s Latest Paean To Cindy Sheehan”

DW
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
…steering with one hand and scrolling through e-mails with the other…

Always one to look on the bright side, we can hope that when she gets elected to a position of power, hopefully she will do something about those dangerous idiots on the highway who drive and scroll through e-mails at the same time…
JohnMG
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I can’t believe Newsweek actually wasted paper, ink, and salary money to bring this bit of stupidity to the public’s attention. And just who the hell is Miyoko Ohtake? Is this Jason Blair’s new nom de plume? What a vapid piece of journalism!
Noyzmakr
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Cindy says…
“With my name recognition, my face recognition, I can’t walk down the street without someone stopping me.”

No doubt, in San Francisco, that’s a homeless person looking for a place to urinate.
JohnMG
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
….Cindy says…
“With my name recognition, my face recognition, I can’t walk down the street without someone stopping me.”

In San Francisco that’s some kind of accomplishment! Last I heard, the businesses out there were willing to pay more taxes if the funds were earmarked for building a fence to keep the fruits from picking the people. And with a face like Cindy”s you could stop a freight train at midnight……or at least cause it to jump the track and turn up a dirt road. What an ego!!
1sttofight
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:29 pm
“With my name recognition, my face recognition, I can’t walk down the street without someone stopping me.”

I could carry a three day old dead horses ass down the street and get the same reaction, and less flies.
JohnMG
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
That reminds me of a line from a movie….I wish I could remember which one. It was, “If I had a face like that, I’d buy a dog, shave its ass, and teach it to walk backwards.”
DEZ
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
“I could carry a three day old dead horses ass down the street and get the same reaction, and less flies.”
Bwhahahaha.

Man that articale is a laugh riot too.
Of course she can barely fit in a Hyundai, Cows are usually confined to trailers.
DEZ
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
JohnMG, The movie is Gleaming the Cube, Funny I never even saw the movie!
JohnMG
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I didn’t either, DEZ. My kids told me about it a long time ago, and they, knowing my twisted sense of humor, figured I’d appreciate it.

Hey, while I’m thinking about it, I hope all of the S&L-ers have a wonderful Easter. Give thanks to the risen Lord with a special emphasis on being an American and living in a land where this it is still possible to do so!!
Noyzmakr
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
JohnMG says….
“Give thanks to the risen Lord with a special emphasis on being an American and living in a land where this it is still possible to do so!!”

Amen. Happy Easter all.
JohnMG
March 22nd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
…….”Cindy Sheehan barely fits into her “campaign limo,” …..

Cindy Sheehan barely fits into a deuce-and-a-half truck…….the BACK of a deuce-and-a-half truck!!

This was too rich. I just had to re-read it. ;-))) (notice the double-chin)
navycopjoe
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Oh man, just got home, hungry as sin, popped open my chef’s salad and saw the bottom photo.
I hope the cats like salad.
Got to bleach the eyes…..
DEZ
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
SG has a mean streak, Huh Navy?
Pass the bleach please.
wardmama4
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Thank you all for the great laughs on my favorite fiberal to hate Mother Sheehan. . .I wonder if the ‘history major’ does realize the Freudian implication of the yellow through her name (it is part of the banner at her Cindy for Congress website too). . .

I am really glad to see this vapid story - perhaps BSCS’s 15 minutes of fame are finally over - at least she is soiling her own home territory - but I do believe that there is an arrest warrent out for her in Texas and DC - which will be a bit pesky for her when she wins the Congressional seat and becomes Shrieker of the House (oh wait, that is the nightmare in my head).

Really, the DNC has let the lunatics run the asylum and the Convention and General Election are going to be a hoot - with all the crack pots and ‘activists’ attempting to take over the Dem Party - I wish them well - everything they have been pushing for, for decades is about to come - oh I can’t believe I’m about to write this - home to roost.

He Is Risen. Happy Easter to All.
JohnMG
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
wardmama4; ….” with all the crack pots and ‘activists’ attempting to take over the Dem Party…..”

Dateline: Denver
Event: Democrat National Convention

Headline: ACTIVISTS, CRACK-POT, CRACK-HEAD, CRACKERS TAKE OVER DEM. PARTY–HRC NOMINATED!!
Petra
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:36 am
# JohnMG
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 pm

This whole thread was hilarious. lol

SG->That’s our hardworking watchdog media at work.

How very true meanwhile we’ve got a blank slate seeking to become our next president.

Happy Easter All!

Petra
Petra
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:39 am
Oops missed the delete - too big of a hurry. I had just read your post MG and was just going to respond to you but decided to go back and read the whole thread. Glad I did. Funny as hell. :)
Petra
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:48 am
[# JohnMG
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I can’t believe Newsweek actually wasted paper, ink, and salary money to bring this bit of stupidity to the public’s attention. And just who the hell is Miyoko Ohtake? Is this Jason Blair’s new nom de plume? What a vapid piece of journalism!]

Newsweek is as useless as two tits on a bull. See the article they wrote about Obama here:
http://sweetness-light.com/arc.....7#comments

Our whole media stinks! The Weekly Standard had a good article about them recently based on a recent Pew poll - they compared from 1962 - present.
JohnMG
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 am
Petra; …..”Our whole media stinks!….”

Maybe it’s because it is……..”based on a recent Pew poll……” ;-}
1sttofight
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
I already see that the bar is going to open early today.

We are going to have a Farewell gathering for the Young Marine today. BBQ, big fire in the backyard, a keg, much drunken debachary, naked women, cant wait to see where they hide those easter eggs….
Gila Monster
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Sniffle,…sniff, ….sniffle, doesn’t this just tear you up?

“But her celebrity came with steep costs; divorce, heartbreak and exhaustion caused her to quit her antiwar activism in May 2007 to return home to Dixon, Calif., to mother her surviving children.”

Yeah, right!! And I have a date tonight with Jamie Lee Curtis and Cindy Crawford.

The Snag is about as much a mother as she’s a nuclear sub captain.

Jeez, this Ohtake character sure took liberties from the truth when writing this piece of litter box liner.
OneAmericanCitizen
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Can someone tell me who the lady is in the lovely pink crown?
DEZ
March 23rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
“yellow streak running through her name”

Yup and the one running up her back has migrated all the way to her chest.
wardmama4
March 23rd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
OneAmericanCitizen - that would be one Ms Tiffany Burns - a code pink activist - alas I think their friendship went by the wayside when code pink threw Mother Sheehan under the bus. . .so to speak.
sheehanjihad
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
a grief-stricken mother demanding to speak to the president about the death of her son Casey in Iraq–she had no idea how she would capture the media’s imagination and spark a movement.

Read: a stupid anus with ears hoping to garner some attention because of her mental illness using her son’s grave as a soapbox, not realizing that any kook in the slow news month of August would get media attention, especially anyone who didnt like Bush for whatever reason.

(That, plus the fact that she was showing passersby her shoebox filled with odd shaped pebbles she collected from the neighbors discarded litter box.)

divorce, heartbreak and exhaustion caused her to quit her antiwar activism in May 2007 to return home to Dixon, Calif., to mother her surviving children.

Read: Her husband was so embarassed he distanced himself as far as possible from the fact he ever married her in the first place. She was heartbroken at not being asked to serve on the city council of Vacaville. She was exhausted carrying the suitcases and trunks of cash she grifted in Covington La. She never quit her activism…she was discarded like a used condom by all her “supporters” except for Islamic terrorsts, who use her as an example of what happens when you convert to Christianity. She returned home because there was literally no one else who would take her….she was like Ebola to them all. Her surviving children all managed to have another address in another state as soon as they heard “mommy dearest” was coming back. Most left all of their belongings behind and changed social security and phone numbers.

(That, and, She wanders around Dixon after midnight, dressed in her canvas nightie, holding a large bottle of Fabreze and trying to spray the moths on the lightpoles. She is tacitly ignored by law enforcement even though her drawers cancel out the benefits of the air freshener.)

With my name recognition, my face recognition, I can’t walk down the street without someone stopping me.”

Read: Everyone recognizes that stupid idiot moron atttention whore waddling down the street, and they stop her and ask her as politely as possible to kill herself within the hour. She has to be careful not to slip on the puddles of vomit they leave after being near her for six seconds or more.

(She carries an old plastic Sears discount handbag with her special tube of super glue, and has been seen fastening the leaves that have fallen off trees in the fall back on, making sure they match a picture she tore from an old Popular Mechanics magazine she found rummaging for empty Jamba Juice bottles at the reclaimation center.)

In order to secure a spot on the ballot in November, Sheehan must collect 3,000 signatures from registered voters in the district.

Read: She is hoping that her two friends can find out how the democrats manage to have six people become ten thousand signatures on a petition. She figures if pelosi can do it, so can she. The big difference is, Pelosi had bribe money. The Snag has wrinkles and an open mouthed vacuous stare. And no money. Wait! She does, the Katrina rip off……oh, wait. She sent that to the insurgents to have American soldiers killed. Oh well…

(And, She sits underneath the wooden porch of the old cannery on Pimbro street, furiously writing different names on Double Mint gum wrappers, folding them carefully into triangles, and stuffing them in an opaque with age glad bag, hoping that these are the signatures that will automatically make her mayor McCheese.)

She cries in her office and again at dinner.

Read: She cries all the time. Rocking back and forth, staring at the wall, talking to her pet spider who is according to her the manager of her campaign. She cries, wimpers, sucks her thumb, holds a special blanket they gave her at the “nice people place”.)

( That place she spent a couple of weeks at after she was put there by concerned police after they responded to calls that a woman who resembled a burlap sack full of yard waste was spinning in cicles around a downtown lampost, flinging glitter on cars as they passed by, then bouncing up to the traffic light and licking it off the car’s windsheild, and demanding “campaign contributions” for doing it. She keeps insisting that a small stray cat with one eye encouraged her to do it)

I don’t put that negative energy into the universe because I’m pretty sure I’m already going to win. I’m already decorating my office in Washington, D.C., in my head.”

Read: She doesnt put anything in her head because that insinuates she has a brain in her head to affect. She is already decorating her office in DC…just like she was on Dancing with the Stars last week, Winning the Million Dollar Douchebag show the week before, and she was decorating her special “forest glen”: having tea with the elves, then she was the full figure skating champion of Rawanda, and then, she made a leash for her pet squid, “gordy”…and built a fusion reactor out of Marie Calender’s pie boxes, noticed in the mirror that she could be a stunt double for “ALF”, practiced air guitar riffs using a broken pine branch she disloged from a dumpster lid, and pictured herself as “King of the Universe”, and ran around her back alley dressed in a green leotard and an old afghan, carrying an toilet plunger and plopping it on unsuspecting homeless people as they lay passed out near her shopping cart.

She is a douchebag extrodinaire! I hope she wins…hell, I would sign at least seven hundred times for her myself, just to keep her in the news! Newsweek is living proof that you have to have a special mental mindset to say anything..ANYTHING kind about this fat pig lying thieving rotten good for nothing terror loving tubby wrinkled sow. But I hope she runs!! Then she will be part of the problem, and stalked by “Snags” worse than her.

Uh, no, that cant actually happen. Large universe, unique stupidity in her. Well, remember, she can still out drool any candidate.
Petra
March 24th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Ann Coulter: Hillary Clinton being viciously attacked and treated like a Republican by the media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Be5KMg__A
1republicanscientist
March 24th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Hate to get personal here, but these “ladies” have one thing in common, they are uglier than a mud fence on a rainy day. This is the only way for them to get noticed. Unfortunately, I must now get a hot poker and burn the impeach Bush image from my mind (wtf). Thanks MSM, this is a nice thing to have to see at first light.
The Redneck
March 24th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Still, we do have a soft spot for Cindy’s –concubine– campaign manager:

If the picture’s any indication, she’s got plenty of soft spots of her own….

Otherwise, it’s nothing we haven’t heard before. Wait until she she starts blaming the Jews again.

And I really hope she gets the signatures, because it’ll be hilarious to watch her campaign tank in a matter of minutes.
Gila Monster
March 24th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Kudos SJ, another great literary riff on the Snag!!
ATLien
March 25th, 2008 at 11:39 am
puke
james t.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
the commiecrat’s have used her poor son’s death for there slanted view’s. she
remind’s me of abby hofmann and crew that think they stopped the war in
vietnam. all they did was cause us to lose it. if she doesn’t make it for
congress maybe nbc, cbs, abc, or cnn can make her one of there talk show host’s!!
Noyzmakr
March 27th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Want to see what the MSM won’t show you about waht the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war protests in San Francisco looked like?

http://www.zombietime.com/iraq.....y_protest/

If this wasn’t so scary it would be funny. Just like the old protests from the 60’s and 70’s were financed by the KGB these are no doubt financed by Iran or other terrorist states/organizations.

These people are really living in a dream world. I’ll bet Hillary and Obama are proud.
JohnMG
March 27th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Noyz; These vermin are breathing air that decent people could use.

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Newsweek’s Latest Paean To Cindy Sheehan

Sheehan is at a substantial disadvantage in funding but believes her human resources and antiwar message will help her topple the incumbent, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

The War At Home

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