The Black Republican

In a July 5th interview which came to my attention as I listened to Laura Ingraham's radio show this week, Norah O'Donnell interviews and lambastes the radial leftist and media darling Cindy Sheehan. In question after question O'Donnell challenges Sheehan's positions and actions. And, I attribute O'Donnell's ability to be so aggressive with the airhead Cindy to Ann Coulter's book. Coulter has exposed both the liberal media, and those who use their relationship to victims as a shield against criticism. And thanks to Coulter's work, those media types who are willing to go after the truth are now free to assert themselves. Bravo Coulter!! And, as you'll come to appreciate from reading the interview, bravo O'Donnell!

"Cindy. Let me begin by asking you, you know, Americans may hate the war, but they don‘t necessarily hate the president. How do you expect to get change by going around the world and trashing the president of the United States?

CINDY SHEEHAN, ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST: Actually, I don‘t hate the president, either. And I don‘t trash the president; I trash the president‘s foreign policy, which is fundamentally and inherently wrong and immoral. And I don‘t tell people around the world anything that they don‘t know.

O‘DONNELL: But you called him “the biggest terrorist in the world.”

So you are trashing the president."

That exchange, if related in the terms used on the old Batman television show would go something like; "Kapow!!! OOF! SMACK!!! AH!, BAROOM!!! But, Norah wasn't finished.

"O‘DONNELL: Cindy, you have just begun a two-month hunger strike.

Isn‘t this really just more of a publicity stunt?"

And then, revealing more of Sheehan's naive self-indulgent campaign:

"O‘DONNELL: But do you honestly expect Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or the president of the United States to say, Cindy Sheehan is going on a hunger strike and so I‘m going to end this war?

SHEEHAN: Well, that would be nice, ..........................

O‘DONNELL: And nor, quite frankly, do you see members of Congress—and you claim to not be in the fringes, to not be an extremist, and yet what members of Congress support you in your policy?"

SHEEHAN: Well, ..............................

O‘DONNELL: And in the Senate?

SHEEHAN: In the Senate, well we would have many supporters in the Senate too.

O‘DONNELL: Who? Who?

SHEEHAN: John Kerry.

O‘DONNELL: John Kerry supports an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. (?)

Did he tell you that?

I wonder if that is the same John Kerry who can not find the guts to release his military records from his service days? Without them how we ever know where he served?

"O‘DONNELL: Well, in fact, the bill that Senator Kerry has proposed went down in flames in the Senate.

SHEEHAN: Yes, it did but, you know, only—you know, in Vietnam, there was only a few senators at first, and then it turned around."

O‘DONNELL: Let me challenge you on this, Cindy, because what you‘re calling for is, in fact, an extreme position, because there are very few members of Congress who support immediate withdrawal. You would, if you could, fly a bunch of planes over there, pick up all our troops and take them home tomorrow, if you could, if it was in your power. There is no one in the United States Congress, Democrat, Republican or Independent who would do that.

PUNCH!! STAB!! ROUNDHOUSE!!! flop.

And then came the part that closely links with the recent furor over Ann Coulter's new book, and her contention within that book that Sheehan, Murtha, the Jersey Girls et al are getting a pass from the media. Norah honors Casey Sheehan for his service, and mentions that Cindy lost him as a result, without indulging in the now too familiar pattern of allowing that loss to insulate Cindy from Cindy's own words and deeds.

"O‘DONNELL: You speak very passionately about your cause. You lost a son in Iraq. We honor his service and sacrifice. But you‘ve been traveling the world—Scotland, Spain, Venezuela, Ireland, Australia, Austria—how does that help the cause when, again, you‘re around the world trashing the president, calling him a terrorist, calling him worse than Osama bin Laden. How do you honestly expect to affect change with those types of remarks?"

Before Ann's book came out, who in the media would, or could, have attacked this woman in this way? O'Donnell showed her up in so many ways, and the airhead stubbornly stuck to her radical agenda, oblivious to the fact that she should have been ashamed of her stance and her answers. To get the full effect of Sheehan's lack of intellect one need only to listen to the interview and the air between her synapses is revealed. (the video is supposed to be there, but even after I updated Internet Explorer it would not load, perhaps you will have better luck, if luck is what I should call it.)