Cindy Sheehan Claims Photos Falsely Implied Her Book Signing was a Flop

[sabra]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001572310

Cindy Sheehan Claims Photos Falsely Implied Her Book Signing was a Flop


NEW YORK Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and her book publisher are upset about Associated Press and Reuters photos that allegedly presented a misleading impression of her book signing last weekend in Texas.

Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, gained wide fame last summer in an antiwar protest near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and then in a march in Washington, D.C. She returned to Crawford last week for a Thanskgiving protest. Her new book, “Not One More Mother's Child,” had just been published, and her publisher organized a book signing in a large tent in Crawford on Saturday.

Photos of the event, carried widely on the Web, and then picked up by conservative blogs, seemed to imply that the book signing was a bust. The photos showed Sheehan looking dejected, sitting at a table, with no one in the tent except for a couple of photographers. The AP caption simply read: “Anti-war activist CindySheehan waits for people to show up at her book signing near President Bush's ranch on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 in Crawford, Texas.”

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But in a statement today, Sheehan accused “right-wing” sites of “spreading a false story that nobody bought my book at Camp Casey on Saturday. That is not true, I sold all 100 copies and got writer's cramp signing them. Photos were taken of me before the people got in line to have me sign the book. We made $2000 for the peace house.”

from the dark side:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1529567/posts

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan waits for people to show up at her book signing (with the picture)
YahooNews/AP ^ | 11-26-05

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan waits for people to show up at her book signing near President Bush's ranch on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 in Crawford, Texas. Sheehan, whose 24-year-old Casey died in Iraq, called for anti-war activists to return to Crawford this week as Bush celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday.

How low can they go?

[Dora]

1. This could have been easily avoided...

By having the booksigning event in a bookstore. I'm sure that there was many a B&N or Borders that would have been thrilled to host a signing - and she probably would have drawn a crowd.

I'm not saying that the photos or captions aren't misleading, I'm just saying that it was an error in judgment to have the event in Crawford.

[dbackjon]

2. Thanks for the story

While I don't always agree with Mrs. Sheehan, the Reichwing Media's attempt to swiftboat her sickens me. I knew the true story would come out her.

[Ezlivin]

3. Could someone post the pictures showing the crowd?

The best thing to dispel the darkness of the rumors is the light of truth.

Where are the photos showing the 100 people?

Let's fight fire with fire!

[Payne]

4. What hypocrites

Have they forgotten about their $H!++Y counter protest, even if this was true, it's nothing compared to their lack of support.

[Benhurst]

5. I suspected this from the start. Eat your heart out, Joseph

Goebbels. The current press whores make your efforts look like those of an amateur.

[zbdent]

6. Wow . . . look at those stacks of unsigned books . . .

NOT!

Freak Repugnik - a tiny little subsidiary of the offices of the Bureau of Making Shit Up . . .
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2280616

[lebkuchen]

7. Cindy was indirectly mentioned in Stars and Stripes after Thanksgiving

Third letter

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=33244

[blm]

8. GOP controlled media twists every word and every picture to tear down the

left. Few will hear Cindy's honest explanation while many will hear the GOP spin for years to come.

[MADem]

9. The day will come

...when those nitwits feel real shame for the way they treated this GOLD STAR Mother. It cannot come soon enough, IMO.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Hopefully she has learned a lesson

to be careful about how you allow others to see you. From the picture above, it is obvious, she 'posed' for those pictures and it was a mistake. I originally I thought they had just caught her off guard while she was taking a break, but apparently that is not the case.

[aikoaiko]

11. yep, public relations need to be "handled". nt

[Cronus Protagonist]

12. Yeah, she should not have been near the table before the crowd came in

Never mind sitting at it with a tent full of empty chairs in the background. Bad PR move. Still, she's sharp and she'll learn quickly - at least she got her POV in the press right away, which is something I wish the Demo pols would do when they are negatively portrayed.

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[Voltaire99]

13. Ah, but it's not only the right that wants to make Sheehan look bad...

She's showed up the Hillarys and Kerrys with her strong leadership on Iraq.

And recently, she's announced she won't vote for any Democrat who supports the war. That's some powerful medicine for the Democratic Party, which definitely doesn't want to take it. It's hoping to creep back into power on a "we'll fight the war better!" platform.

So as Sheehan has become a threat to established power, she's taking it from both the GOP and the GOP-lite parties.