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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock
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 Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject: Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan's Other Son Drowns In NoLa |
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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40764
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WASHINGTON, DC—According to White House sources, President Bush is bracing for intensified criticism following Monday's report that the body of Tyler Sheehan, son of outspoken anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, was recovered from the receding floodwaters in New Orleans.
Although the White House has not released a statement, a firestorm of controversy is expected to follow the death of the dynamic, well-liked young man, who was working on a levee-upkeep crew while completing the EMT-certification training he needed to become a firefighter.
"Tyler was the very picture of an American hero," said Jorge Guiterrez, an Ochsner Hospital orderly present when Sheehan evacuated dozens of patients from its intensive-care unit. "He pulled off-the-clock double shifts moving guys in wheelchairs, guys without arms, guys on dialysis—you name it, he got them on a bus to Baton Rouge." |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Isn't this article kinda making fun of the entire Sheehan thing? |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Well spotted, that man, well spotted. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| Isn't this article kinda making fun of the entire Sheehan thing? |
Yes, it is, but not really ... but more so it is making fun of (almost) every single thing the Bush Administration has done to make life in the future for America and the world a little closer to hell than it might have been otherwise.
Read this last week, and thought about posting - now, I wish I hadn't let hypnotist beat me to it. It is inspired, and the entire thing deserves space in our bandwidth ... why didn't I post it? I blame Joo, who got me into a debate about her (where he used lies and innuenda, his usual M.O.) that probably made me think I needed to treat the entire topic with greater seriuous than was efficient ... mea culpa.
Before Sheehan moved to New Orleans, he was a struggling coho-salmon fisherman in Oregon's Klamath Basin. However, when the Bush Administration relaxed federal protection of the endangered fish, Sheehan's catch became contaminated with mercury. He gave up fishing and moved to Oakland, CA, where he opened a free clinic, which lost its federal funding in 2002 for giving out oral contraceptives to poor women. (...)
Sheehan moved to New Orleans in 2004 to take a year off from the University of California at Berkeley, where administrators had temporarily suspended the stem-cell research program in which he was enrolled in hopes of helping to combat his younger sister Ruth's spinal meningitis. Friends report that his public spirit continued in the Big Easy, as he delivered meals to elderly New Orleans residents affected by recent Medicare cuts, and doggedly petitioned the Justice Department for the release of his life partner, Amin Sagheer, who has been detained without charge at Guantanamo Bay for nearly three years. (...)
Cindy Sheehan was unavailable for comment, as she was busy trying to contact her lone surviving son Teddy, a meteorologist studying global warming with the International Geophysical Foundation in Antarctica, who is believed to be marooned on a 45-square-mile chunk of the shrinking Ross Ice Shelf that broke off Tuesday morning.
If anyone has noticed, I'm probably Cindy's biggest fan in this forum. Anyone interested in accuracy will need to do their own research to decide whether Cindy has another son, or a daughter with a crippling disease - this is satire, and some of the best I've read in years.
(For the record, her surviving family has disavowed and disagreed with the amount of energy she has chosen to spend on this - actually, I might agree, if it were someone close to me, but even though I don't agree with everthing she says, I'm glad someone is saying it. The debate needs to happen, and it hasn't so far.)
Um, no, Kuros, it's not really making fun of Cindy, except obliquely (and rather darkly). It's making fun of the fact that this lone woman who has devoted her life to simply standing outside the President's door and asking, "Why won't you come out and tell me why my son is dead?" has done more to shame and detract from any legacy of this bunch of crooks and liars than anything anyone else has so far been able to say.
Oh, and now there is Katrina, of course - and the joke. Kuros, is that if Bush's malfeasance had made THAT happen (seems likely) and another Sheehan son had died ... what kind of faeces should we expect to hit the rotating indooor breeze generator? Dark humor, very dark ... and very apt.
Love The Onion. Glad to see this here. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Damn, saw the headline and was all ready to post a
"Don't you fools read Snopes?!?" rant.
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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| Cripes, I didn't realise this was doing the email rounds as genuine! |
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