Yesterday, I noted that with all the insane quotes that have been in the air since Katrina hit land at the beginning of the month, "The Silly Season", ordinarily purely a summer event to keep the press busy during an otherwise slow period of real news has extended deep into September. I sagely wrote, "Hurricane Katrina has rightly pushed [Cindy] Sheehan's ravings into the background".

Evidently, I spoke prematurely (and just now, far too adverbially). In order to form The Rosetta Stone Of Silliness, all of the disparate elements converged today, as Cindy posted on (but of course) Michael Moore's Website:

I don’t care if a human being is black, brown, white, yellow or pink. I don’t care if a human being is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or pagan. I don’t care what flag a person salutes: if a human being is hungry, then it is up to another human being to feed him/her. George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power.

Just think--it was only a couple of weeks ago that the press was castigating President Bush for not sending troops into New Orleans fast enough. Now the heroine they've created wants them out of there.

Meanwhile, Power Line's John Hinderaker catalogs Cindy's association, not just with Michael Moore, but with an ex-Black Panther and Communist:

Who is Cindy's "new friend" Malik Rahim? He is conventionally described as a "veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans," and was recently a Green Party candidate for local office there. But the truth is somewhat worse. Rahim is a Communist. Here is a speech he gave to the Communist Manifesto conference in December 1998; it begins:

I'm here on behalf of two revolutionary freedom fighters that have spent the last 26 years in solitary confinement in Angola, a state prison in Louisiana. I met these freedom fighters as a political prisoner in 1970. I was in a shoot-out with the police in New Orleans as a member of the Black Panther Party.

The Communist Manifesto conference was reported on by the Workers World Party ("Workers & oppressed peoples of the world unite!"). The Workers World Party is currently the most active Communist group in the United States, in its own name and through its subsidiaries International ANSWER and the International Action Center, which is headed by former attorney general Ramsey Clark.

Hinderaker concludes:

The question is, why is she not just a hater, but a famous hater? Obviously, because she was a mainstream media darling throughout the summer. But where are the media, now that her cover has been blown? A curtain of silence has descended. Once again, the American press accepts no accountability for misleading the American people, and it has no intention of correcting the fictitious record that it, alone, created.

You know--you could really get the wrong impression of the press. Even though they're completely non-biased and neutral, it's almost...why, they sort of seem to agree with her viewpoint!

Nahh--I'm sure it's all just an optical illusion.