Many folks, in an attempt to not directly criticize Cindy Sheehan, have been blaming mainstream media anti-Bush bias for the level of exposure Sheehan's war protest – not to mention that of the Hollywood left – is receiving. It is implied that the media shines a bright light on Sheehan because the MSM is, for the most part, liberal. Well, duh. But there's more to it, and for this, we should be thankful the media is there.

Some readers of my blog disagreed with me for expressing optimism at the level of the mainstream media's coverage of both Sheehan and the Hollywood left's participation in the many "candlelight vigils." My instinct is to just let it happen, because MSM bias is often self-destructive. We need to look no further than Dan Rather's misadventure at CBS News for proof of that.

Why the optimism? With the MSM, "the story" is always the exception to the rule, and Sheehan is a big story. When the positions of the radical left are no longer the exception to the rule – aren't "the big story"-- then it'll be time to worry. For now, we're safe.

Media overexposure is also a tremendous asset in drawing out moronic Hollywood actors who make films for a living, and Three Stooges shorts in their free time.

Take Richard Dreyfuss as an example. Dreyfuss, who is your average limousine liberal – which is as hard to find in Los Angeles as pavement and waiters who are "between films" – attended one of the candlelight vigils in support of Sheehan, and in opposition to the war in Iraq. This story was, of course, devoured by the MSM like Michael Moore on "eat your weight night" at Old Country Buffet.

At the vigil, Dreyfuss said, in his nasally whine, "Cindy Sheehan is making a starting point with the questions she is asking and it's not unpatriotic to ask them. It's actually a higher form of patriotism."

A "higher form"? Of course it is. Everything the enlightened Hollywood leftist believes in is a "higher form" of something or other – usually stupidity. Were people who were against Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Hillary and the rest, practicing a "higher form of patriotism"? Were they practicing patriotism at all? Of course not. They're stupid because they weren't in "Close Encounters."

By the way, Mr. Dreyfuss, "Krippendorf's Tribe" was a "higher form" of crappy movie.

Hollywood liberals like Dreyfuss do nothing but help prove that those ivory towers are so high that there's no oxygen up there. As evidence of this fact, Dreyfuss also made a statement concerning what made it sound as if he thinks there's still a military draft:

"No one should come for my son and tell my son to go and kill someone or put himself in harm's way unless I understand and agree to the need." If anybody should come for his son, it's Child Protective Services, because public displays of idiocy in the presence of your kid is a "higher form" of child abuse.

"Come for my son"? Excuse me, Mr. Dreyfuss, but that's how Saddam Hussein's "draft board," which consisted of two guys throwing "recruits" into the back of a pickup truck at two o'clock in the morning, operated. That is, until he was removed from power, no thanks to the Hollywood left.

The only way Dreyfuss, Reiner, Asner, et. al, will ever agree there is "the need" for military action, will be the day Chinese tanks are rolling up Pacific Coast Highway to set up camp in every foyer in Malibu, or it's discovered that al-Qaida has hatched a plot to hijack planes and fly them into Spago.

Through all this mess that the Sheehan story has become, there's something the MSM and the likes of Dreyfuss can't skirt, and that's the service of Ms. Sheehan's son, Casey, who joined willingly, re-enlisted, and fought and died for something he believed in. To draw attention to their cause means drawing attention to these facts as well.

One can only hope that Ms. Sheehan is able to someday find peace, and the first step in that would be for her to ask herself – and honestly answer – one question: "Why does the media, special-interest groups, and Hollywood left seem to care so much about my son now that he's dead, and were nothing but critical of people like him and his comrades when he was alive?"

Maybe it's just me, but I'd never side with somebody to whom my loved ones are worth more dead than alive.