No End In Sight

To Cindy Sheehan's ubiquity, that is. Political bloggers are inherently reactionary and always horrified at the things their opponents are doing, meaning everyone probably will continue hammering Sheehan back and forth until she goes home or has her tete-a-tete with President Bush. And if anyone was ever civil in this tawdry mess, that's out the window: Conservatives are snickering that Sheehan's husband has filed for divorce (the forms are our no. 23 link today, from SmokingGun) and that she's found an unexpected ally in the famed racist and David Duke, whose website is link no. 9. "The conclusion to draw is that Cindy Sheehan's anti-war views are so off-the-wall nutty that rabid anti-Semitic kooks like David Duke agree with her," says WizBang.

FLASH! Bloggers Upset With MSM!
Even the world's largest news-gathering organization isn't immune from the web's legions of armchair media critics -- The New York Times reports in our no. 8 link that the Associated Press is getting criticized for its reporting on Iraq, which isn't sufficiently rosy. AP reporters in Iraq seem biased against, ah, getting killed, and aren't attending enough elementary school dedications to write about in their dispatches. Not good enough, says a post here: "I guess the simplest explanation is that the editors and reporters of the AP hate Bush, hate America, and want us to lose... because in their minds, that's a better story." The Bullpen has a different theory: "The plain and simple fact of the press is that violence and conflict sell. More people would tune into or buy a copy of the local newspaper which covered a horrific attack versus how Iraqis are rebuilding oil pipelines which will fuel their economy."

Hello Again, Doktor Dobson!
Dr. James Dobson is in the blogosphere again -- last time we saw him, he was advising parents on how to tell if their 5-11 year-olds were gay -- decrying America's "unelected, arrogant" judges. (It's our no. 15 link today.) The rally was to "educate evangelical Christians about the Supreme Court," and help gird the faithful for the Senate hearings on President Bush's nominee John G. Roberts, which begin Sept. 6. But bloggers, as is often the case when Dobson appears, are dubious. The World Wide Rant says the rally was basically ignorant in its criticisms of the Supreme Court --"They must really hate America," Andy writes with a heavy injection of irony. And Jim, a religious blogger, is uncomfortable with how heavily politics and faith were mixed here. "I am totally opposed to conducting this kind of political event in a church. God’s house should be a place a prayer, but you have made it a den of politicians," he says. That merits a nondenominational, nonpartisan amen.

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