Arthur Silber: The Unhinged Right

THE UNHINGED RIGHT: CINDY SHEEHAN, NAZI

August 18th, 2005

As John Nichols has observed, Cindy Sheehan’s remarkable success in galvanizing opposition to the failed Iraq war has led the Bush True Believers to the brink of a nervous breakdown.

Some of them have gone over the edge entirely, and are now in the advanced stages of a dementia which is both appalling and hilarious. It’s not surprising that one particularly disgusting example of this phenomenon should be found on the site of the vile David Horowitz:

American Nazi Idol <>LAST NIGHT THERE WERE 1,500 CANDLELIGHT VIGILS FOR CINDY SHEEHAN AND ONE BURNING CROSS. Sheehan has become the poster girl for the antiwar Left, because her status as a grieving mother renders the 48-year-old Vacaville, California, native more sympathetic than Medea Benjamin, Ramsey Clark, or Michael Moore (whose website hosts Sheehan’s blog). However, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and racist extremist
s have also begun gathering around the Gold Star Families for Peace founder.

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Everyone can now see many of Bush’s most zealous defenders for the very ugly, militantly anti-intellectual, barely human bigots that they are. If Cindy Sheehan keeps this up, and she has stated she has every intention of doing so, a lot of these Bush defenders will end up in rubber rooms, desperately fighting off their imaginary enemies and screaming incoherently about how only they are the true guardians of civilization, while the drool runs down their chins.

I’d pay good money to see that.

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