The Daily Howler - August 13, 2005

SHRUM AND OATES! Democrats should be more like Rush Limbaugh, a famous Born Loser advised us: // link // print // previous // next //

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2005

VACAVILLE MEMORIES: Our favorite case of inane Sheehan-sliming occurred on Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor. Guest host John Gibson was speaking with the New York Sun’s Ira Stoll. How inane will a cable hack be? Try to believe that he said it:

GIBSON (8/11/05): I can't help but notice that Cindy Sheehan is from Vacaville, California, very close to U.C. Davis, very close to U.C. Berkeley, reasonably close to U.C. Santa Cruz, where I believe that a lot of those WTO protesters came from. What do the university anti-war protesters have to do with her?

Poor Stoll! Confronted with the world’s stupidest question from the world’s biggest fraud, he found a way to continue without taking notice. “Well, in some ways, she's a more appealing face for the anti-war movement than some eighth year PhD student in a nose-ring and pony-tail,” he told his inane host. “She's a mom. And so that's why all these groups would prefer to have her out there than their real face.”