Tony Snow of Fox describes Camp Casey and Cindy thusly

[AnnInLa]

It's 1968 in Crawford, Texas
August 18 '05
By Tony Snow
Published: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:09 AM EDT




These fellow squatters include a man who refers to himself as Mr. Foot Massager. Mr. Foot Massager massages feet. Actually, he limits his ministrations to two feet, both of which belong to Mother Sheehan. He has become her designated bunion kneader.

The Merry Band also includes Patient Zero, a young fellow with a shock of hair the color of Tang. He has decorated his classical guitar with a sign, "My other guitar is a syringe," and a cryptic, spray-painted equation: "1001 = 0." He also comes equipped with a placard, which he held as the president drove by: "Honk if your kids are in Iraq."

The same goes for the cadre of nostalgic malcontents, which includes septuagenarian ex-war protesters, a confirmed beatnik and some people who regularly wear shoes. Their bodies are there, but alas, most of them abandoned their minds in 1968.

The "Peaceful Occupation of Crawford," as Sheehan has dubbed it, seems a protest less against war than against good manners, deodorant soap and the march of time. Yet the most heart-rending feature of the entire spectacle is Cindy Sheehan herself. She seems to believe this transient crew will help her piece together her shattered life — a dead son, a wrecked marriage, a shredded family. But how long can one lean on people who don't even call themselves by their own names?

Sheehan, taking her moment in the sun far too seriously, recently declared, "I am the spark the universe chose." That might be more true than she realizes. Like an ember whirling into the night sky, her spark will ascend, then darken, leaving behind a peacenik version of Courtney Love — an ashen specter you might expect to see standing by a roadside, bearing a hand-lettered sign: "I was somebody. Once."

more at http://www.dcexaminer.com/articles/2005/08/19/opinion/op-ed/23oped18snow.txt

[acmavm]

1. As a human being, Tony Snow is completely irrelevant. Why do you

bother?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I read two words and stopped

sorry, I don't want to lose my supper.

[classof56]

3. Not sure what else we'd expect out of Faux news...but Snow is...

as he's always been...an IDIOT!

Tired Old Cynic

[fooj]

4. That man is a full-on jackass!

"Mother Sheehan"...what a prick!

Peace.

[movonne]

5. I can't bother with anything that come from faux,,

[Warren Stupidity]

6. they are terrified that their comfy world is falling apart. eom.

[kentuck]

7. If he looked at the color of their words instead of their hair color...

It might have more meaning. So what if they don't have shoes on their feet. Neither did Gandhi.

[Fridays Child]

8. Another Dixie cup of Kool-Aid, Tony?

His muse must be Ann Coulter. She'd love that slop.

[AnnInLa]

9. The Swift-Boating Continues by Fox

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/08/21/fox_news_completely_distorts_cindy_sheehans_comments_take_action.php#more

8/21/05

FOX News Completely Distorts Cindy Sheehan's Comments. Take Action!

A little while ago, at 2:05 PM ET, FOX News Live edited one of Cindy Sheehan's quotes so as to completely alter its meaning.

Laurie Dhue introduced the segment by saying snidely that Cindy Sheehan is the "so-called Peace Mom," as if that in itself is something distasteful.

Molly Henneberg reported from Crawford, TX that Sheehan "says America is not worth dying for." Rather than provide a specific source or a clip, Henneberg merely told the audience Sheehan said that "back in April at a rally in San Francisco for a lawyer convicted of providing support to terrorists." Perhaps the reason no clip or source was provided was because Henneberg completely distorted what Sheehan said.

In fact, Iraq was the country Sheehan said was not worth dying for, as this complete quote from a transcript at wikipedia shows:

I'm going all over the country telling moms: "This country is not worth dying for. If we're attacked, we would all go out. We'd all take whatever we had. I'd take my rolling pin and I'd beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq." {applause}

[jsamuel]

19. that should be its own thread

[kliljedahl]

10. FUCKWAD!!

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[IowaGuy]

11. If Snow is gettin' worked up enuff over her to start the personal ...

attacks, she must be doin' something right. I personally would look at it as an affirmation of of my personal dignity as a human being to have Tony Snow sneer at and condemn me.

[peacetalksforall]

12. Does anyone know when Blair went there? If not, did the person who

fed him the information receive credit?

Anyway, that is what I like about Dems - diverse. The crowd who pays all the taxes and who usually obey all the laws and who never pursued a path of imperialism or sent young to die and kill innocent people. You know, the Dems, the ones the Republicans declared war against - just as they declared war against Moslems with the help of big time corporate netorks who restructured themselves as propagandists for the Republican Party with the help of an Australian.

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. Talk about ANYTHING but the issue

For God's sake let's not talk about Al-Quagmire.
:eyes:

[leftupnorth]

14. I heard

Tony snow has cancer or something, all those years of rw mental toxicity i guess...............

shame that anyone has to die from cancer though......

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. That was an actual news article? Not an oped? Whew.

Used to be that we were expected to make our own conclusions.

[Cocoa]

16. 1968 was the year the public turned against the war

Snow's analogy is partly right.

[gratuitous]

17. They're pulling out all the big guns, aren't they?

Imagine, a grieving mother asking a simple question being such a thorn in the side to so many folks who you would think should be quite happy as the Masters of the Universe.

Tony Snow's life must be very hard.

[QC]

18. Has Snow actually been to Camp Casey?

Or is he just making shit up, as per usual?

[Supersedeas]

20. Paid to read party script--he reads out loud

[SpiralHawk]

21. 1001 = 0

Long Division in Binary

Date: 05/16/2000 at 12:14:54
From: ......
Subject: Base 2 division

Dear Dr. Math,

My problem is 1011 base 2 divided by 11 base 2. I only know how to
divide in base 10. How can I solve this?

Thank you for your help,

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55944.html

[kbm8795]

22. Look...these people all say the same things. ..

it's part and parcel of their fear and smear mentality.

Perhaps we need to recruit more people to demand op-ed rebuttals.

[Cats Against Frist]

23. The thing that I find the most fucking hilarious

is that these same people, who denounce "woo-woo," interestingly enough, believe the world is 6,000 years old, if you talk into your hands, long enough, your cancer will dry up, and that wacky, archaic Jewish laws trump all of modernity.

I don't get it. "Patient Zero," sounds just as plausible to me as a person whose every waking moment is spent babbling about ghosts in the sky.