Sheehan’s Sinister Piffle

Sheehan has obviously taken a short course in the Michael Moore/Ramsey Clark school of Iraq analysis and has not succeeded in making it one atom more elegant or persuasive. I dare say that her “moral authority” to do this is indeed absolute, if we agree for a moment on the weird idea that moral authority is required to adopt overtly political positions, but then so is my “moral” right to say that she is spouting sinister piffle. Suppose I had lost a child in this war. Would any of my critics say that this gave me any extra authority? I certainly would not ask or expect them to do so. Why, then, should anyone grant them such a privilege?

Hitchens on Sheehan (and Dowd) (via Clive Davis).

Also via Clive, a fascinating NPR Interview with Steven Vincent’s widow. (For those who don’t know, Steven Vincent was a freelance journalist from New York who was murdered in Basra a couple of weeks ago. He has been mentioned on EiNY before here and here.)