MSM wringing the last drops out of "grieving mom" story...

Thanks to the beautiful thing that is the internet (as well as talk radio), the Main Stream Media is learning that they can only ride this story until it runs out of gas - and the "E" warning light is beginning to flash.

George Neumayr in The American Spectator sums it up well:

What the media are interested in is Sheehan's politics, and the window of that interest will close for good once the public learns of her ambitiously radical views -- that Bush should be impeached as a war criminal, that America is an abomination not worth defending against terrorists, and so forth. In the end, the media will probably have added to her grief once they take away from her the new life of celebrity activism they have encouraged her to pursue in the absence of the life of her son.

Sheehan doesn't speak for war widows and grieving moms any more than the Jersey Girls spoke for all relatives of 9-11 victims. And like them, Sheehan hasn't crafted her case very carefully or modestly. Just as the Jersey Girls acted as though their grief somehow made them experts on rearranging the CIA and entitled them to harangue Condi Rice, so Sheehan is making outrageous demands upon the military's commander in chief -- demands only possible in a democracy in which a fatuous media can get its leaders, who are supposed to be thinking about the common good, entangled in all sorts of absurd and superficial controversies.

That little tick-tock sound you hear is the final seconds winding down on Ms. Sheehan's 15 minutes of fame.

Cross-posted at The Llama Butchers - Llama alert! Robb-o is baaaaaack!

UPDATE: 2:06pm
Is it me? Or do these quotes sound a little to "chipper" for a grieving mother? And this is very telling:

"I have discovered that the White House press corps is always looking for something to do and someone to cover. We have been happy to oblige them..."

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