Cindy's Decline

Remember Cindy Sheehan, the distraught mother of a soldier who was killed in Iraq? For weeks, our MSM was full of Cindy Sheehan — she was page one in nearly every print media, and one of the lead stories on every broadcast.

So what happened to her? She's all but disappeared from the MSM. The only news reports I've been able to find are buried and ... discreet ... especially if you happen to know what she's really been saying. For example, consider this recent quote (about the aftermath of Katrina):

I don’t care if a human being is black, brown, white, yellow or pink. I don’t care if a human being is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or pagan. I don’t care what flag a person salutes: if a human being is hungry, then it is up to another human being to feed him/her. George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power. The only way America will become more secure is if we have a new administration that cares about Americans even if they don’t fall into the top two percent of the wealthiest.

This quote has been circulating the blogosphere for a couple of days. My first reaction upon reading this: Cindy needs to visit a shrink, and I hope that whatever ails her can be helped with psychoactive drugs (because they work quickly). Dig a little more, and you'll find that she's been spouting a lot of stuff like this, and worse.

I think she's embarrassing the lefties that embraced her when they thought she would help them in their Bush-bashing. I suspect that ever since a little bit of her craziness became visible while she was still at Crawford, her new-found liberal "friends" have been carefully managing her press contacts, in an effort to shield the world from full knowledge of Cindy. You know ... like parents used to do to hide the 'shame' of their pregnant daughter...

Rick Moran, over at Right Wing Nut House, has some similar thoughts. An excerpt:

Does she realize what her benefactors have done to her?

These are not your garden variety leftist lickspittles who are holding Cindy Sheehan hostage. The hard-eyed men and women who now surround her are not interested in political change except as it can be used to achieve their revolutionary ends. People like Cindy Sheehan (unwittingly?) and Ward Churchill (willingly) are stage actors in their Grand Drama of the Republic. They are the cockroaches of our culture who thrive on chaos, grow strong in disaster, and whose message resonates the most with those on the fringes of society.

Thus are the armies of the revolution built.

They have learned their revolutionary craft at the feet of the masters.

It's an excellent piece; you'll want to read the whole thing.