Moonbat of the Week Award (And A First-Ever Runner-Up!)

Harry Belafonte is so yesterday's news. He's an Alzheimer's victim gone bad, so placing him in the gunsights of my Moonbat rifle is child's play. Let's go for someone new, shall we?

And the award goes to:

The stunningly gorgeous and sensible Cindy Sheehan!

CARACAS (AFP) - Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, joined more than 10,000 anti-globalization activists in Caracas, where she hailed Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez.

"I admire him for his resolve against my government and its meddling," said Sheehan, who gained notoriety when she camped outside US President George W. Bush's ranch last year to protest the Iraq war. She said she hoped to meet Chavez later in the week.

She said Venezuela's foreign ministry sponsored her visit.

Ah, so the Venezuelan foreign ministry sponsored her visit, eh? What a wondrously ugly little dupe for Hugo Chavez! Likely bringing her biker wallet on a chain and a weeks' supply of Pendletons, Sheehan has lost any sympathy whatsoever for her latest stunt. It's time to say what I'll wager no one else has:

Cindy Sheehan will stoop so low that now her son, her very own flesh and blood, now plays little if any significance in her war against, first, George W. Bush and second, the United States of America. The DEM, even right-wing media, have given Sheehan a bit of a break because, after all, she did in fact lose her son in Iraq. Her son is now nothing more than a tool she is using in her toolbelt of Publicity War against America; read: GWB.

As far as I'm concerned now, the gloves should be off and this traitoress should renounce her citizenship and find another country in which to inhabit.

Runner-Up for Moonbat of the Week:

Yes! My first ever Runner Up! And the RU is:

Los Angeles Times 30-something columnist Joel Stein for his 01-24 piece entitled "Warriors and Wusses." Stein writes in part:

I DON'T SUPPORT our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.

I'm not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War, but we shouldn't be celebrating people for doing something we don't think was a good idea. All I'm asking is that we give our returning soldiers what they need: hospitals, pensions, mental health and a safe, immediate return. But, please, no parades.

Seriously, the traffic is insufferable.

Particularly smarmy and condescending, I'd say. But WEIN?

Last night Hugh Hewitt interviewed Joel Stein on-air. Some of the interview:

HH: "And at the end, I'm not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after Vietnam." That's big of you. "But we shouldn't be celebrating people for doing something we don't think was a good idea." What I'm trying to figure out is what do you think is a good idea for the military to do?

JS: Well, again, that's not what my column was about, and that's something that people talk about constantly, and people give opinions on. There's a lot of Americans who are against this war and still think we should have a military.

HH: Now wait. This is the last...well, let me give you the two last paragraphs of your column. "I'm not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War. But we shouldn't be celebrating people for doing something we don't think was a good idea. All I'm asking is that we give our returning soldiers what they need: hospitals, pensions, mental health, and a safe and immediate return. But please no parades. Seriously, the traffic is insufferable." So you obviously do not honor their service?

JS: I don't honor their service? The people serving in Iraq right now?

HH: Yeah.

JS: I honor them as human beings, and I want them home safe.

HH: But you don't honor their service?

JS: And honestly, I think that all these...for people who don't believe in the war and are putting up these stickers saying they support the troops anyway, my fear is that it's prolonging the war and putting them in further danger they don't need to be in.

HH: But Joel, I'm talking about you. I'm talking about what you honor, and you obviously don't honor military service.

JS: I honor police service. I honor military service. Any...I just think that...

HH: You do honor military service?

JS: Yeah. No, I'm grateful for people that serve in the military.

HH: But you don't support our troops?

JS: I don't...I don't believe in supporting the troops in an action that you don't believe in.

At least Stein is honest insofar as he has the guts to make his stupidity public, whereas many Left Wing people refuse. But simply another reason the DEM and MSM are plummeting like a 1959 Nash Metropolitan pushed out the back of a C-130.

So there it is folks, there's the crux of the biscuit: once again it's about Iraq but, reading carefully between the lines, it's about George W. Bush.