Heads-up: The New RW Spin about Cindy Sheehan

[AlienGirl]

The attempted smear seems not to have worked, so the latest meme from the RW Machine is that "the leftist leaders are using Cindy's grief." My mom, who watches Fox News incessantly and talks a lot to my RW sister, told me tonight that she's really angry at the people "using" Cindy.

Tucker

[seabeyond]

1. tell your mom cindy will be the first to admit she is USING the

left to help get her voice out. she is using our voice as background support. she is using our money. she is using our supplies we send to her. she is proudly and blatanly using all people that see this war is bogus, lost and bush cant/wont do a damn thing about it.... to get HER message out. and she is most absolutely saying the sweetest thank you as she uses us all. and we all say, you are welcome

[Erika]

6. My relative protested Bush here in Idaho

as her son left for his 2nd tour in Iraq. Your mother is thinking of other days and other wars, not the realities of Bush's imperialism in Iraq using our kids.

Also tell her, women's rights are going backward by centuries in Iraq.

[seabeyond]

9. women's rights are going backward by centuries in Iraq.

and decades here in the u.s.

[kliljedahl]

2. I've seen it already

They've been referring to those "Murika Haters" like MoveOn.org & *GASP* Michael Moore

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. They've actually been saying variations of this for weeks now.

She's a puppet of Michael Moore, moveon, etc.

[eleny]

4. The president used a mom just the other day

And using dead soldiers as a rationale to keep the war going. How does your mom feel about all that?

[SledDriver]

5. So... what..?

"...using Cindy's grief."
Now we aren't supposed to grieve for fallen soldiers? :wtf:

I'm sure Bush, Cheney, and Haliburton aren't.

[WiseButAngrySara]

7. This isn't entirely new, though. They have been saying that Cindy

has been used by Moveon.org and Mich. Moore, and other LW groups for their own personal agendas, for a while now. But they DON'T report that the Pro-War Pro-Bush group is funded by the RNC.

[Pepper32]

8. Cindy can easily debunk this...

...with just one speech and perhaps a few talk show visits. It's more than obvious that Cindy thinks for herself and is no one puppet. Can Bush* say the same?

[ima_sinnic]

10. yeah, just like the civil rights movement "used" Rosa Parks

:eyes:

[Kurovski]

17. And ain't it awful how all those poor people used

Mother Theresa?

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. It's not working

It is in fact accelerating the slide.

[Sunkiss BlueStar]

12. They have gots to be kiddin

Was Cindy supposed to ask Falwell if she could protest?

[Mr_Spock]

13. Is this the NEW NEW NEW RW spin on just another citizen Cindy?

How can you stick a political message onto a non-political person/situation - it just bounces back in their faces every time. Dumb asses. :rofl:

[Kurovski]

14. I'm angry at how FOX uses your mom. n/t

[Eloriel]

18. Ah! Good one. n/t

[Kurovski]

20. Hi, Eloriel!

:hi: I enjoyed your smack-down in the "B" anti-Cindy protest sign thread yesterday.

If you ever catch me using the B-bomb please go gentle on me! :scared:

[Scout1071]

15. I'm really effin' angry at the way * uses 9/11. So there.

What the hell are they going to do about that?

[NMMNG]

16. I'm angry at Faux News

They've been using Beth Holloway Twitty for months now. How can they cash in on a grieving mother like that just to get viewers???:sarcasm:

[displacedtexan]

19. Did you read the DU Blog Box column yesterday?

I included a terrific blogger's response to the wingnuts who claim Cindy is being used.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/blogbox/05/029.html

Scroll down to the heading, "86 President 36%."

This isn't just an attack on Cindy. It's an attack on all women.

[Kurovski]

21. Heheheh! SHOCKING!!

...and ever so unladylike...