Wacky Cindy Sheehan hijinks

Dana Milbank catalogues the wackiness of Cindy Sheehan.

How outside the mainstream is Sheehan? Even left-wingers have ostracized her:

The left-wing Daily Kos Web site banned her postings because of her challenge to Pelosi. Britain's Guardian newspaper, which has a large antiwar following, ran an article titled "The epic narcissism of Cindy Sheehan."

How strange is her understanding of reality? She claimed impeachment is mandated under the Constitution:

"If Nancy Pelosi doesn't do her constitutionally mandated job by midnight tonight, tomorrow I will announce that I am going to run against her," Sheehan announced outside the cemetery's gates yesterday. "I will beat her in California."

Sheehan then waded into constitutional law, and the little- known mandatory impeachment clause. "Impeachment is not a fringe movement -- it is mandated in our Constitution," she asserted. "Nancy Pelosi had no authority to take it off the table. If she takes impeachment off the table, what else will she take off the table -- the First Amendment?"

How paranoid is Sheehan?

[B]y yesterday Sheehan even thought the planes departing from National Airport were conspiring against her. "They stepped up the air traffic," she complained as a jet interrupted her speech.

If you're interested, Milbank made an accompanying video report on Sheehan's protest march in Washington yesterday. It features a man with a President Bush mask and a devil suit as well as a Free Republic protester yelling about "sex, drugs, and Geritol."

Comments

[Rob]

Isn't it curious? When Cindy Sheehan was camped out near Bush's Texas home, demanding to see him (again), she was just as deranged as she is now, but then she was a favorite story of the networks and the newspapers. Ms. Sheehan was lionized, and her efforts were treated as heroic.

Now that she's turned her ire on the Democrats, she's guilty of "wackiness," she's "outside the mainstream" and her publicity stunts have been transformed from a noble crusade to "hijinks."

The hijinks and wackiness are the same, the only thing that's changed is her target. And that makes all the difference.

[EPJ]

Nye-Nye,
You're non-objectivity is again showing. Why don't you stop pretending you're "No Spin" and just admit the fraud you are.
Cindy Sheehan's not "wacky" but a supposed "No Spin" linking to the attack job and BAD JOURNALISM is. You shame yourself every day. Guess you and your Spinsanity crowd never made it to the big time. No surprise.

[ZacC]

EPJ,
you're defending a woman who openly embraced and supported Hugo Chavez (that Venuezalean president who first tried to attain control of Venezuela through a violent military coup, who recently shut down independent tv stations that criticized him, and threatens to expel all foreigners who criticize him). Cindy Sheehan does not believe such a guy is a dictator or anti-American.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10704025
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7K2HdFZiKw

Ms. Sheehan also stated that the destruction of the twin towers looked like a controlled demolition, giving some support to the conspiracy theory that the government may have been behind 9/11.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/310507cindysheehan.htm
(Note she's featured on a conspiracy theory site).

Deny what you will, but calling Cindy Sheehan "wacky" may be generous on Mr. Nyhan's part.

[Barry]

IIRC, Daily Kos has a policy of supporting Democratic Party candidates (with, of course, massive primary fighting encouraged).

See:
http://www.dailykos.com/user/CindySheehan

Brendan, why did you fall for this?