Charles Schuyler, an attorney in Chicago, writes:
Professor, you've brought your ammunition to bear on a completely deserving target, and it's a joy to watch. There's nothing left but rubble.
It's beginning to appear that the closest thing to a substantive case against Cindy Sheehan consists of the following:
1) inconsistencies between her reports (a year apart) of her meeting with that grinning little Texas troll; and2) her espousal of a series of left of center talking points.
As you've pointed out, the talking points are never, or hardly ever addressed on their merits; it's just assumed she must be loopy, or dishonest, or under undue influence to be expressing these opinions. It should be added, I think, that it is the height of effrontery for Bill O'Reilly, or James Taranto, who never utter anything but predigested right wing bromides, to be
attacking her for following an ideological dance card. I have no idea how well-considered her thoughts on, say, Israel are (urging Israel "to get out of Palestine" certainly cries out for a clarification of terms); but it really is neither here nor there.
I guess that everything else is just undiluted slime. Quite sickening.
Anyway, as someone who's expressed misgivings about your forthrightly brutal polemics, I say now: keep hammering the bastards.
It is my intention to do so.
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