Does the rightwing's response remind anyone else of the Wellstone funeral?

[Sparkly]

Remember how they attacked Democrats, including Wellstone's OWN FAMILY, for supposedly "turning his memorial service into a political rally?" (Not that that's even what happened.) All of a sudden, THEY were the judgmental arbiters of how other people should grieve their losses.

Now we're hearing something very similar: Cindy Sheehan isn't honoring her son, is exploiting his death, etc. -- Horowitz claims she's "hateful," etc., and all the rightwing shriekers claim to be able to read her mind and her heart, and they judge her grief and her actions.

Sickening.

[knowbody0]

1. sofa king rovian

same thing with max cleeland last year at the ranch.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Thought of that yesterday. And of Terri Schiavo's husband

[Sparkly]

5. Another good example, thank you.

Yup, there's always "some other agenda" that their x-ray vision sees and judges.

[ReadTomPaine]

3. People are doing this right here on DU, sadly.

Nothing new to this, tho you would think by now that progressives would know better and have a proper gameplan in place for these sorts of smears.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Oh, fuck them. They make EVERYTHING political (the most

egregious example being the politicization of religion).....

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Which Horowitz ? The formerly crazed left wing fanatic who...

...morphed into a crazed right wing fanatic?

[Sparkly]

8. Yeah, that one.

He had a truly bizarre rant on MSNBC's "Connected" just now.

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. 'Cause "ranting" is pretty much all a one-trick pony like H can do.

In the 60's he was ranting; in the 90's he was ranting. In the 90's, he was ranting about the ranting he was doing in the 60's.

It has less to do with politics than psychology.

[Armstead]

7. At least this time the Democratioc establishment isn't apologizing

The groveling response of Democratic Establishment leaders about the Wellstone funeral was one of the more shameful episodes of the last few years.

At least this time they aren't trying to distance themselves from Sheehan. Yet.

[Sparkly]

9. Good point. n/t

[TomClash]

10. "Horowitz claims she's hateful"

coming from a demented man who hated his own mother.

[Sparkly]

12. Now Melanie Morgan is on Tweety's show, doing the same thing.

"Cindy, you don't speak for me."

When did Melanie's child die in Iraq?