Nora O'Donnell - Attack Poodle

lThe always on point Crooks and Liars has the video from Nora O'Donnell's interview with Cindy Sheehan on Hardball. Just look at the subtitle from the screenshot - "Starving for Attention" just about says it all.

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We often rant at the likes of O'Reilly and Gibson on Faux News, but there are also those on supposedly neutral "mainstream" networks such as like O'Donnell on CNN and MSNBC or Katie Couric who frequently sound like full-on Wing-bats during their interviews of prominent anti-War critics.

O`DONNELL: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Cindy Sheehan is America`s most outspoken anti-war activist. But does she speak for America, or just the fringes? She`s called President Bush "the biggest terrorist in the world" and she stood side-by-side with socialist dictator Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.

As it turns out according to Polling Report.com, 62% of the public disapproves of how George Bush is handing the War 58% of the public feels that War in Iraq "Wasn't worth fighting for" - so just where are these "fringes" that O'Donnell speaks of?

Transcript.

CINDY SHEEHAN, ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST: Actually, I don`t hate the president, either. And I don`t trash the president; I trash the president`s foreign policy, which is fundamentally and inherently wrong and immoral. And I don`t tell people around the world anything that they don`t know.

O`DONNELL: But you called him "the biggest terrorist in the world."

So you are trashing the president.

SHEEHAN: Well, you know, he says a terrorist is somebody who kills innocent men, women and children, and there have been over 100,000 innocent men, women and children killed in Iraq on his orders.

Poor Cindy, doesn't she know that daring to criticize the President is like insulting America itself? How Dare She, uh... um... actually Use one of the right thingees from the 1st Amendment. The nerve.

O`DONNELL: Cindy, you have just begun a two-month hunger strike.

Isn`t this really just more of a publicity stunt?

SHEEHAN: No, actually it`s not. It`s a moral reaction to an immoral war. Thousands of people all over the world are joining us. And hunger strikes have proven to be effective tools in civil disobedience and changing policy.

O`DONNELL: But do you honestly expect Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or the president of the United States to say, Cindy Sheehan is going on a hunger strike and so I`m going to end this war?

SHEEHAN: Well, that would be nice, but what we`re trying to do is also awaken consciousness in the United States and around the world to get more people out and active, because we know two-thirds of America disapprove of George Bush and his policies in Iraq, but I don`t see two-thirds of America out protesting, writing their congresspeople and changing policy.

In fact, Hunger strikes were used by Gandi to drasticly change the policies of the English Government in India, but let's not confuse ole' Nora with facts or history. She's having so much fun making shit up to stop now.

O`DONNELL: You speak very passionately about your cause. You lost a son in Iraq. We honor his service and sacrifice. But you`ve been traveling the world--Scotland, Spain, Venezuela, Ireland, Australia, Austria--how does that help the cause when, again, you`re around the world trashing the president, calling him a terrorist, calling him worse than Osama bin Laden. How do you honestly expect to affect change with those types of remarks?

SHEEHAN: Well, it`s really important too that the people in the world know that there are Americans on their side, because as anti-Bush sentiment goes up in the world, anti-American sentiment goes up also.

When exactly did Sheehan call Bush "worse than Osama bin Laden"? And even if she did - what the fuck does it matter whether she did in her own backyard or in Timbuktu? Why do we constantly see this arguement not only that American citizens don't have the civic duty as well as right to criticize their government when they disagree with it's policies - but that somehow that barely existent right is somehow neo-treason if it's said overseas?

How do we win the hearts of minds of Mainstream America back to common sense when even the so-called Mainstream Media has out-an-out attack poodles like O'Donnell nipping at our heals while using the so-called neutrality of MSNBC to hide their bias?

Those who take the time and effort to speak out about what they believe, particularly those who've shed and lost flesh and blood in the battle, be they Cindy Sheehan or the Jersey Girls - deserve better than this.

America deserves better than this.

Vyan