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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Today's new vocabulary word is "Plame" (verb)
Posted by Jill | 2:50 PM

PLAME. (v.) to publicly denigrate of an individual opposed to Administration policy, followed by a call to the usual suspects in the wingnut media to beat the person to death metaphorically, then spit on the corpse; i.e. "She was opposed to the war, so they plamed her."

Now it's Cindy Sheehan's turn:

A few weeks ago, David Frum -- the neo-con author of the “axis of evil” doctrine -- had the audacity to call Cindy Sheehan an “anti-war crazy.” The neo-cons are good at that sort of thing. When they come up against compelling arguments for which they have no canned retort, they never hesitate to go for the jugulars. As Ambassador Joseph Wilson or Hans Blix can attest, they have a nasty habit of viciously Plaming dissenters to teach them the proper etiquette for addressing impertinent questions to our White House governors.

Within 48 hours after Cindy marched on Bush’s Texas ranch, the long knives were being sharpened. Instead of answering her questions, the Rove squads made the decision to give her the “Valerie Plame” treatment. Plaming is a two-step process -- first you denigrate the offending serf in the public square. You then call in the mass media muscle guys to dump the remains some place where the victim can safely be ignored. In keeping with the game plan, CNN and FOX are back filming the endless soap opera in Aruba and monitoring shark attacks and Tsunamis. If only they could spare that kind of coverage for Cindy Sheehan -- George Bush would be permanently retired in Crawford and the neo-con brigades would be sharing bunks in a federal penitentiary.

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George can’t spare the time to discuss the war with Cindy because they both know the questions and they both know the answers. He doesn’t want to talk about it and Cindy wants the whole country in on the conversation.

The loss of a child is traumatic enough for any mother. But Cindy Sheehan has to deal with the additional burden of knowing that her son might still be alive if Bush had made different policy decisions. Driven by the weight of that burden, she is now on a mission to prevent the Pentagon from wasting another mother’s child in the deserts of Mesopotamia. To the everlasting gratitude of tens of thousands of Iraqi mothers, Cindy also insists on holding the President responsible for the many innocent Iraqis who have perished as a result of his decision to invade and occupy a country that posed no threat to American national security.
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