Jonah, you have to wonder about Arianna sentences like “MSM figures regurgitate the GOP attack machine’s most contemptible hits (’she’s a puppet,’ ’she’s anti-Israel,’ ‘her own family is against her’) as if there are always two legitimate sides to every story.”

Does it to matter to her whether or not the “contemptible hits” are true? For example, it’s obvious the rest of her own family opposes her anti-Bush campaign. If the MSM has referred to Sheehan in any way as a puppet, it’s allowing a conservative to call her one in a news story. What Arianna is demanding her is 100-percent cheerleading for Cindy. There isn’t another “legitimate side” to the story.

As for reporters, the idea that they are hard-boiled Sheehan-bashers is comical, when Senor Spruiell can easily show their bias-by-omission tendencies.