Tim Blair, and hell no, the tragedy of not having Cindy Sheehan to kick around anymore

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Tim Blair shedding crocodile tears on the media's lack of interest in Cindy Sheehan, under the header So Long, Cindy:

The anti-war movement’s favourite mother gets her marching orders:

In an appearance August 18 on WLS radio in Chicago, ABC News anchor Charles Gibson was asked about anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan’s plans to travel to Martha’s Vineyard next week, where she will protest the Iraq and Afghanistan wars while President Obama is vacationing there. Gibson, whose newscast and network featured Sheehan when she led anti-war protests outside President Bush’s Texas ranch in 2005, answered, “Enough already.”

That’s a remarkably different stance from the one Gibson took four years ago.

Read on. It’s as though, with Obama in office, they have no further use for her.

The bastards! How dare they. And she was so precious to Tim Blair, he loved her so.

How long before Tim Blair goes like Fox News and turns into a lib'rul? Sorry to see Sheehan head off into the distance while the vile lib'ruls wage war in Afghanistan against innocent folk who just want to make a decent living? Growing opium for the American market.

How dare they treat this sweet anti-war fighter in this way?

Besides, Tim Blair might lose his favorite whipping girl. Take a stroll through the archives with me:

Tim Blair on Cindy Sheehan 30th January 2006:

CINDY SYMMETRY

Cindy Sheehan is again planning to camp outside George W. Bush’s Crawford home. No word yet on whether Cindy Crawford plans to camp outside Mao Tse-Tung’s Sheehan home, but the year is still young.

Blair on August 12, 2005:

DEATH ANTICIPATED

Activist Buddy Spell at the Air America forum sends an update from Cindy Sheehan, who is demanding a (second) meeting with George W. Bush over the death of her son:
Briefly, I just got off of the telephone with Cindy at 10:58 PM (CST).

She’s on the side of the road with six (6) other activists.

They expect others to arrive from the VFP convention in Dallas to spend the night with them tonight.

Cindy says that the protesters will be killed if they stay the night.

“We’re not letting them intimidate us. If we get killed out here, know that the Secret Service killed us.”

She asks that we all light candles in solidarity and looks forward to more company in the days ahead.

What? After she’s been killed? Meanwhile:

Family members of Cindy Sheehan, the Vacaville woman camped outside President Bush’s ranch in Texas protesting the war in Iraq, reportedly have denounced her actions.

In an e-mail to a San Francisco radio station, Cherie Quartarolo, a sister-in-law and godmother of Sheehan’s son, who was killed in action in Iraq in 2004, said: “We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the expense of her son’s good name and reputation.’

UPDATE. Dorkafork in comments:

It’s an all out brawl, with the winner to be crowned “Absolute Moral Authority”. But what’s this? A tag team match! Here comes Big Jim Krause! A father who also lost his son in combat. He met Sheehan before at the meeting with President Bush, now they meet again as foes! Whose moral authority will reign absolute? Find out Sunday Sunday SUNDAY!

Tim Blair on 31st October 2005

NEW MOTHER MOOTED

Charles Krauthammer reveals his Sheehan replacement:

Now that Cindy Sheehan turns out to be a disaster for the antiwar movement—most Americans are not about to follow a left-wing radical who insists that we are in Iraq for reasons of theft, oppression and empire—a new spokesman is needed. If I were in the opposition camp, I would want a deeply patriotic, highly intelligent, distinguished establishment figure. I would want ...

Who might it be??????? Read on ... if you dare! Meanwhile, Sweden’s Orgen-Borgen Smorgen asks:

Will the American War Mom Cindy Sheehan—who is repeatedly arrested for demonstrating outside the White House because she wants to know why her son had to die in Iraq—be equally famous for her civil disobedience as Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to yield her bus seat to a white man on a cold winter night in 1955?

Short answer: no. Slightly longer answer: hell no

Tim Blair August 23rd 2005

VISION OF ABSOLUTE MORAL AUTHORITY

A Mother Sheehan miracle has been removed by eBay:

Online auction site eBay has pulled off the Web an ad for a baseball the seller claimed bore the face of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, saying the ball was not properly authenticated.

Looks pretty authentic to me:

Tim Blair 23rd October 2005:

TURKEY FLIES SOUTH

Bush-haters Phillip Adams and Alan Ramsey may be surprised to learn that their deeply intellectual belief system is shared by certain residents of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Here’s that city’s Kathleen Ferris:

Remember the plastic turkey the commander in chief took to the troops in Iraq on their first Thanksgiving there, when was it, three years ago?

Well, no, because it never happened. Ferris, an instructor at the Nashville State Community College, donated $450 to John Kerry’s campaign. Lately she’s been engaged in chain whispering with other Mother Sheehan supporters:

More than 200 people gathered in the rain last night in Centennial Park for a candlelight vigil supporting the cause of Sheehan, who has been conducting a personal vigil outside Bush’s ranch in Texas for the past few weeks.

Participants also did a “chain whisper” in each other’s ear: “We honor Casey Sheehan and other fallen soldiers. Pass it on."

I’d love to know how that line ended up after being processed by 200 Sheehan-obedient turkey whisperers ... “We hombres are soldiers for Casey Kasem. On Passover!”

Tim Blair May 23rd 2006:

MOTOWN

The Mother Downunder 2006 Tour opens in Sydney:

A prominent American anti-war campaigner is urging Australians to take to the streets in protest against the Iraq war.

Local anti-war protesters slap foreheads and yelp: “Why didn’t we think of that?”

She says Prime Minister John Howard had no mandate to involve Australia in the war, which began in 2003.

Apart from being re-elected in 2004.

"I think Australians, they just need to get out on the streets and they need to say, ‘John Howard, you work for us’,” Mrs Sheehan said.

“‘We want our troops withdrawn and we don’t want you to support America.’"

Australians: please do exactly as the American woman says.

Mrs Sheehan has questioned Mr Howard’s friendship with US President George W Bush.

"George Bush isn’t even popular in America any more so I don’t know why any leaders in any countries who claim to govern their countries with the consent of the people they govern would align themselves closer with George Bush,” she said.

So if Bush’s poll numbers were up, Sheehan would quit protesting? Unlikely.

"[When] 14 Marines were killed one day, George Bush went on the TV and said they died for a noble cause ... and he had to complete the mission to honour their sacrifices,” Mrs Sheehan said.

"I wanted to know what noble cause and I wanted him to stop using Casey’s name to continue and to justify more killing."

I’m not sure that Bush has mentioned Casey Sheehan all that often.

"To say I’m a tool of the loopy Left, let me tell you almost 70 per cent of Americans agree with me."

Not even 70 per cent of Sheehan’s family agrees with her. Cindy’s new friend plays the absolute moral authority card:

The activist was welcomed to Sydney by NSW Attorney-General Bob Debus, who urged her detractors to walk in her shoes.

"Those people who seek to criticise parents of a child who has died, let alone one who has died in a war, should just walk a mile or two in their shoes,” Mr Debus said.

Looks like Bob is attempting to shut down dissent.

Tim Blair 25th May 2006:

HEROES

Most of us can name war heroes from past conflicts, but—despite living in an era of constant information—identifying heroes in the current war seems difficult, for some reason. Cindy Sheehan may be the world’s best-known protester against the Iraq war, but where are the well-known soldiers?

In advance of Memorial Day weekend, Chuck Simmins puts forward Leigh Ann Hester, Brian Chontosh and Paul Smith. Names we should know.

UPDATE. Cindy Sheehan spent the day campaigning for the release of David Hicks:
Protest organiser Mark Pendleton, from Civil Rights Defence, said Ms Sheehan empathised with Hicks’ family.

"Cindy Sheehan lost her own son in Iraq,” he said.

"She knows what David Hicks’ family must be going through.”

Well, they’ve got so much in common. Sheehan’s son volunteered to serve in a force liberating Iraq from dictatorship; Jew-hating Adelaide bogan Hicks joined al Qaeda.

Is Blair besotted or what?

Oh yes, farewell Cindy Sheehan, Tim Blair won't have you and your pacifist ways to kick around anymore. Wonder if he'll start on Obama continuing that futile war in Afghanistan?

Short answer: yes. Slightly longer answer: hell yes.

Perhaps he and Cindy are deep down just peas in the same peace loving pod.

(Below: vale Cindy Sheehan, mourned by Tim Blair. And remember, never smile at a crocodile, No, you can't get friendly with a crocodile, Don't be taken in by his welcome grin, He's imagining how well you'd fit within his skin).