Remember Cindy Sheehan?

The entire newsday for the past week or two has been inundated with news of Hurricane Katrina. It looks like Cindy Sheehan's fifteen minutes are up.

But appearances are deceiving.

Soon, the public will be satiated with breathless reports from flooded and/or destroyed towns in the Gulf Coast area, and editors will be looking for "new" material. What better than to cover the cause of Sheehan and her incessant incantations?

Perhaps editors don't realize it, but the activism behind Sheehan only superficially appears similar to the antiwar movement. Most of America has learned the lesson of Vietnam, but it is an almost sure bet that the leftists who support Sheehan have not.

But it's a story they won't drop. Why should they? Journalists were never so powerful as in the days of Cronkite and the Tet Offensive.