What if Cindy Sheehan held a protest and nobody came? « NewsReal Blog

What if Cindy Sheehan held a protest and nobody came? « NewsReal Blog: "That’s the question Sean Hannity posed on his FOX News program last night.

Cindy Sheehan first made headlines in 2005, when she began camping out in front of President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. At first, Sheehan said she simply wanted a meeting with Bush to discuss the death of her son Casey, a U.S. Army soldier killed in Iraq.

Sheehan wasn’t particularly telegenic or articulate. However, a moribund mainstream media desperate to relive the “glory” days of anti-Vietnam War protests showered her with attention, and Sheehan dutifully reinvented herself as an all-around radical with a growing list of political peeves.

Public sympathy for the mourning mother eventually turned to disgust, as Sheehan’s self-promoting pronouncements grew increasingly petulant. In one day alone, Sheehan called President Bush a “lying bastard,” a “chickenhawk,” a “filth-spewer,” and a “warmonger.” Meanwhile, she cozied up to the likes of Venezuela’s Marxist President Hugo Chavez (pictured above) and the terrorist-abetting “radical attorney” Lynne Stewart (below, right)."