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Post by HardcoreHeroes on Jun 9, 2006 12:23:40 GMT -5
Ever wonder what the expression "Stuck on Stupid" meant? Well here is an example:  The grinning idiot clinging to Je$$e Jack$on is Cindy Sheehan... the sob sister protesting the war at Bush's ranch, who lost her son in the war, the same son she gave up in her divorce when he was 7 years old. And by the way if you wonder why she has so much free time ... she is going through another divorce right now and guess what? She is giving up custody of another son. As Forest Gump once wisely proclaimed, "Stupid is as stupid does." What Is This Picture?  Obviously, it's a picture in a cemetery. What cemetery and whose grave? Sadly, it's the grave of Casey Sheehan. After two years, and a DoD payment of $250,000 to the "Peace Mom," Cindy Sheehan has not had the time or bothered to have a headstone placed on this young hero's grave. And, she doesn't even have to pay for one, the DoD will provide one: "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes upon request, at no charge to the applicant, a government headstone or marker for the grave of any deceased eligible veteran in any cemetery around the world. For all deaths occurring before September 11, 2001, the VA may provide a headstone or marker only for graves that are not marked with a private headstone. Flat markers in granite, marble, and bronze and upright headstones in granite and marble are available. The style chosen must be consistent with existing monuments at the place of burial. Niche markers are also available to mark columbaria used for internment of cremated remains." Apparently she can find time to protest on at least 3 continents, get arrested various times, go on vacation in Hawaii, have photo ops with the Marxists in Venezuela, but can't seem to find the time to properly mark her son's grave. Way to go, mom! |
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Post by GarvinStomp on Jun 9, 2006 13:30:26 GMT -5
She also is an activist for the Democratic Party. I don't favor the Republicans either, but a lot of these female Democratic party activists are a bunch of bitches.
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Post by The Hammer on Jun 9, 2006 14:01:51 GMT -5
I don't agree with what she did, or is doing now. But for Ann Coulter to make the statements she is making about the widows of 9/11, is horrible. This has to be the most insensitive person on the planet. The things she said about them are ridiculous. But I have to say, I do like Kieth Olbermans response............. www.crooksandliars.com/2006/06/07.html#a8626 To recap Coulter's argument: The wives of those who died in the worst attack in this nation's history enjoyed their husband's deaths and profited off them, they have politicized 9/11, their positions as widows immunize them from any criticism or debate over their opinions. All of this stated by a commentator much of whose income in the last four and a half years has derived from *her* speeches and writings about the deaths of those same men on 9/11. All this stated by a commentator who has staunchly, repeatedly, and enthusiastically defended an administration that began to politicize 9/11 within a month of the nightmare and has never paused for a moment since. All of this stated by a commentator who has called those who have criticized her and her party "un-American" and now, "godless." All of this stated by a commentator who is bitching that these 9/11 widows can't be criticized while she is writing a book and going on TV and venomously criticizing them. [Tucker Carlson interview tape, ending with Coulter saying, "these women got paid, they ought to take their money and shut up about it."] The way Ann Coulter always does when she's criticized. Ms. Coulter's walk on the swaying tightrope of her own emotional stability did not end there. In her book she also wrote, "And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy..." |
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Post by bobbyryates on Jun 9, 2006 15:07:35 GMT -5
the way i heard about what Ann Coulter's comments about the 4 women, she is right. if they are making a holiday out of being victimes, they are in the wrong. and i see nothing wrong with coulter, me, or anyone else pointed that out. just because they have lost their husbands in a bad way, it doesn't give the free reighn to influence politicians and be experts about everything. or to get a free ride, either.
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Post by The Hammer on Jun 9, 2006 15:14:46 GMT -5
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Post by GarvinStomp on Jun 9, 2006 15:26:35 GMT -5
I agree with Bobby.
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Post by bobbyryates on Jun 9, 2006 15:58:06 GMT -5
the link wasn't working for me.
i heard Ann Coulture on the Neal Boortz radio show yesterday and that is where i got the "4" women at. thats who i thought you meant.
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Post by ncringfan on Jun 9, 2006 18:46:05 GMT -5
That is one funny (and telling) picture.
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Post by dogthuhoops2k on Jun 10, 2006 1:56:42 GMT -5
That clip was the PERFECT example of what's wrong with today's newsmedia!!! Geez... what a waste of 7minutes.
First, Lauer comes off even in the very beginning of the interview as a condesending bast**d with an agenda of bashing Bush. There are a lot of bad network (and local) anchors but Lauer is not even trying to hide his bias. Coulter, who I think is nothing more than a bottomfeeding political gabfly for the right -- the same way Paul Begala and James Carvell have become for the left, is automatically on the defensive. Watch the body language of these two, neither one of them look comfortable and look like they'd like to choke each other to death. If I had to wager I'd bet on Coulter, she has the most manly features of the two of them.
Once they get on the topic of the 9-11 widows, Coulter is talking more about how the press/television journalists consistantly interview the 9-11 widows instead of speaking with people in the know regarding 9-11, ie foreign policy makers and such. So basically you have two people arguing two seperate things.
As far as Coulter saying the 9-11 widows are profiting from their husband's deaths, it's her right and they are profiting from it. George Bush has used 9-11 for his agenda as well. As far as the name calling and other statements, it was Carvell and Begala that talked about dragging a dollar thru a trailer park to get someone to lie in the Paula Jones case. While the 9-11 widows might strike a cord emotionally with a lot of people, and the Democrats have played to that too, political nutjobs on both sides have been spewing hate for years...nothing new. And the media loves it because more hacks you put on the air who aren't afraid to say anything, no matter how outragous or wrong, the less work you have to do. Meaning, the more news you create, the less you have to physically go out and research.
Both sides play the media very well. The media goes for it because it provides fodder for them. It's funny, Don Henley's song "Dirty Laundry" came out almost 25 years ago, but it holds up over time.
As far as Cindy Sheehan is concerned, the left needed a symbol or a face for their anti-war movement. And there you have it. Another painfully contribed, politically motivated celebrity, who if ever had to listen to what she says on her own, not a written speech by someone else, or talking points from a handler, you'd wonder what world she lives on. Yeah the meeting with Chavez was a great way to win support for her cause.
As I have said before most political posturing done by politicans, political gabflys, talkradio hosts, news commentators and anchors, and even news reporters sometimes has so little to do with the subsitive issues and more about getting people to buy your spin no matter what the long term effects are.
What people dont seem to realize is both the Democrats and Republican are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't have the same value it once did.
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