After Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan, I'm convinced, became an instant celebrity because she was a useful idiot for the left. They found her to be a great amplifier for their inanities against the war. No distortion, just louder. Of course, the reason she was anointed was that her son was killed in Iraq, and thus disagreeing with her makes one insensitive and cruel.

James Lileks no slouch as a loving parent himself, has challenged the tactic and dared to note the Emperor's state of undress: "Joe Trippi set up a conference call with anti-war bloggers, and Sheehan rolled out sheet after sheet of thin-hammered boilerplate."

The catalog of her activities and banalities is something that needed to be pointed out. There is nobody better to present it. Nobody familiar with his blog could accuse him honestly of not understanding her pain or the immensity of her loss.