Another Sad NY Post Rant

The NY Post has an editorial ranting about Cindy Sheehan's "attention-getting stunt"-
ANOTHER SAD SHEEHAN STUNT

This even after the Capitol police apologize and admit, gosh, she had committed no crime.

To President Bush's most loyal and non-stop defenders like Murdoch's Post, exercising one's First Amendment rights is some sort of 'stunt'. The only attention-getting stunt that occurred was the Capitol police arresting an innocent woman, an event that got much coverage after the address. And that's what Bush defenders are really mad about- that the unconstitutional actions of the Capitol police distracted from a State of the Union that even many conservatives agree was lackluster. If Ms. Sheehan had been left alone, her attendance at the event would have been a non-story.

Agree or disagree with her admittedly radical stances, she was an invited Congressional guest to the event (as was Republican Beverly Young, whose ejection the Post glosses over). She had as much right to be there as any other guest. She had no plans to disrupt the event and had violated no laws.

As Andrew Sullivan notes- "Wearing a t-shirt is not a crime. Nor is political speech. There's something deeply creepy about the way in which the president is routinely secluded from hecklers, demonstrators or even hostile t-shirts. He's not a monarch." For the NY Post to make her the villain in this particular story says more about the Post than it does Ms. Sheehan.

Shame on the NY Post for the latest in a continued series of such rants.