Posted by
Tzimisce on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:31:09 AM
Cindy Sheehan where are you? It seems that the first Veteran's Day in several years has come and gone without you gracing the front page of every newspaper, magazine and cable news show and every reporter on the planet reminding me that your son died in Iraq.
Where are the pictures of you throwing yourself on your son's grave? Where are the pictures of you looking all self righteous as they drag you out of another peace protest (denying you of your "right" to be obnoxious and disruptive)? Where are all the celebrities and foreign tyrants who were racing to have their pictures taken with you?
Do you still have a movie in the works? Or did Susan Saradon drop you when you became unfashionable? Where is your play? Is it still being acted out to what (I was told) were sold out theaters? And how is your campaign for Representative from San Francisco going? Hm...now that I think about it, seems like you dropped off the face of the earth about three days after announcing you were running.
I'm not accusing the media of being biased, but it sure is interesting that six months ago you couldn't use a public restroom without it being a "statement" about the evils of the Bush administration. I can only assume that you've been hiding at home under the bed. Which is really strange when you think about it. I would assume that now that you're running against Nancy Pelosi you would be more politically active, not less. How odd is it that journalists no longer seem to find you interesting.
I notice that Code Pink is still around. Isn't that your outfit? If I remember correctly you were deeply entrenched with the rotting geezers that make up that group. Yet your face is oddly missing from the wrinkled, toothless, shower hungry crones that make up that fine organization. Weren't you at that "haunted house" in Washington DC just before Halloween? You didn't make it in to any of the pictures. You provided us with no quotes or sound bites from the Code Pink vandalism of Recruiting offices a few months ago.
DailyKos isn't lamenting your absence. I have yet to see a diary in the top ten that even mentions you when talking about the innocent people effected by the "illegal" war. Those diaries used to be a staple.
It's so odd that the urgency is gone. It's so odd that the anti war movement no longer has a face, a victim, a sacred cow that could go out and say anything that the critics aren't supposed to respond too. And it's really funny that the last few mentions of you in liberal blogs state the some of the very observations I've been making over the years. So I guess I was on to something.
Look on the up side Cindy, you had your run - enjoy it. At least you got some land in Crawford Texas...land that you bought under less than honest and truthful circumstances...land that you lied about when promised to build a park on in rememberance of your son...land that you are now trying to sell for two or three times what you paid for it. But that doesn't make you greedy any more than all your activism made you a media whore.