If Cindy Sheehan WERE a media whore, she'd be very bad at it.

The Witch

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Wed Feb-01-06 01:28 PM
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If Cindy Sheehan WERE a media whore, she'd be very bad at it.

Just posted on Last Midnight ...

Oh my goodness. There goes Cindy Sheehan, getting arrested again. My god, the women will do anything to get the cameras rolling on her. She'll pull a stunt and act up at the State of the Union address just to get face time on TV.

Wait a minute...
Did you just say that no video cameras caught the incident?
None at ALL?
Dear lord! She's going about this media-whore thing all wrong!

Is it at all possible, folks, that she just wasn't thinking about choreographing her every move? Let's go, for once, from the assumption that she was. Cindy Sheehan, Certified Media Whore, wants to create a stir during the State of the Union. Her plan is to get herself plastered across every TV screen in this nation. So she's going to take off her jacket during the SOTU speech. But she gets hot, and starts to take it off before the speech, and she's shuttled out before the chance ever comes... So she's a miserable failure at mediawhoring? Or just a victim of bad luck?

Does it seem at all plausible?

Now, let's assume she wasn't planning anything dramatic. She was wearing a T-shirt under her jacket -- a T-shirt she'd been wearing at events earlier that day. She got hot and started to take the jacket off because she had been climbing stairs. Someone noticed and she was shuttled out.

Seem a LITTLE more realistic?

I know we're used to a world where everything is politically motivated. But what draws me to Cindy is how personal her message is. She doesn't pull stunts. She goes places when she's invited and she speaks when she's asked to, but she really does not pull stunts. Crawford happened on the spur of the moment, as many of us who were around at the time remember. The fact that it made national news stunned us all.

So if Cindy was asked to join a Congresswoman at the State of the Union address and she accepted that invitation, could it be that she wasn't planning a stunt? Sure, she thought that maybe the media would put her onscreen for a second, but this was definitely not meant to get maximum media exposure or she would have been smarter about it. If you consider her a media hog, she's sure not good at it... but if you consider her to be someone who is being scapegoated and treated unfairly, she fits right in.

To sum it up:

Cindy didn't do anything.
She was arrested for being there.
Not for doing anything objectionable.
Not for saying anything objectionable.
But for being there.
And for being Cindy Sheehan.

And that's the reason a lot of people dislike her.

Not because she's done something outrageous.
Not because she's said something offensive.
But because she's Cindy Sheehan.
And because she's there.

And it's hard to face the fact that people like her, who make you feel uncomfortable about your view of the world, are out there, and you have to live with them.