Fair, Balanced, and Unafraid
It's good that in order to counter the right-wing bias of Fox News, and the credulous administration megaphone that is the Washington Post, we have the Associated Press and CNN to keep the record straight with hard-hitting fact-constrained reportage.
Who knew that Cindy Sheehan -- Mother, Speaker of Truth to Power, Catalyst of Rightness, Leader Person of a Movement -- was not only one of the Great Persons of Our Age, but also a profound and insightful writer! Not merely Bolivar, leading her people to throw off the chains of their oppression, but also Da Vinci, a genius polymath:
And how very fortunate to number among her best friends good old Arnie, whom she had "moved". No doubt.
One can only hope that Ms. Sheehan had a good agent, lest her "literary" efforts resemble her political life: Hijacked by others with their own cruel and dangerous agenda.
AP story on CNN HERE.
Who knew that Cindy Sheehan -- Mother, Speaker of Truth to Power, Catalyst of Rightness, Leader Person of a Movement -- was not only one of the Great Persons of Our Age, but also a profound and insightful writer! Not merely Bolivar, leading her people to throw off the chains of their oppression, but also Da Vinci, a genius polymath:
After spending scorching August days with hundreds of war protesters at her makeshift camp near President Bush's Crawford ranch, Cindy Sheehan slipped away each night to her tent or RV for a few quiet moments on her laptop.[SNIP]
The words came easily as she opined about the war, U.S. leaders, her critics, her supporters. And the tears started to flow no matter how many times she wrote about her 24-year-old soldier son Casey, who died in Iraq last year.
Sheehan gained national attention during her 26-day vigil on a Texas roadside near President Bush's ranch in August. She refused to move until the president met with her or ended his vacation. That moved Arnie Kotler, the founder of a Hawaii publishing company who saw news coverage and read Sheehan's Internet blog entries from the protest.The AP's reporter does a good deal more school-girl gushing and clapping of soft little hands while hopping up and down in gleeful admiration.
"I thought, 'This is already a book. This is incredible,"' said Kotler of Koa Books, which printed about 20,000 copies. "We got it done as quickly as we could, and the deepest reason is to stop the war."
And how very fortunate to number among her best friends good old Arnie, whom she had "moved". No doubt.
One can only hope that Ms. Sheehan had a good agent, lest her "literary" efforts resemble her political life: Hijacked by others with their own cruel and dangerous agenda.
AP story on CNN HERE.
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