Cindy Sheehan meant IRAQ, not US. Stupid Repigs.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Smearing Cindy Sheehan: The Evolution of a Lie

One of the popular stories circulating in Wingnut World is that Cindy Sheehan has said that "America is not worth dying for." The only problem is, she didn't say that.

Our dear right-wing friends at DiscoverTheNetwork were kind enough to post a transcript of Cindy's talk at San Francisco State University on April 27, 2005. Amazingly, it appears to be accurate. Here's the relevant portion -

"I take responsibility partly for my son's death, too. I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people, like my sister over here says, since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bullshit to my son and my son enlisted. I'm going all over the country telling moms: "This country is not worth dying for. If we're attacked, we would all go out. We'd all take whatever we had. I'd take my rolling pin and I'd beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq. "

Obviously, "this country" refers to Iraq.

When the story appeared on DiscoverTheNetwork's sister site, FrontpageMag, these words were combined with other parts of the speech and magically transformed into this -

"George Bush and his neo-conservatives killed my son," she said tearing up a bit. "America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for."

Also, in the FrontPageMag article, by failing to begin a new paragraph with the quote, it is made to appear that it was perhaps part of a TV interview conducted before the speech which is referred to earlier in the same paragraph. But from the way it flows into the rest of the story (conveniently interrupted by a picture), it is clear that this is not the case. In addition, the pieces from which the quote is constructed appear verbatim in the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the transcript.

Finally, on Sunday I was accidentally watching Fox News and was surprised to see a video clip from the speech, and then Cindy was quoted as saying, "America is not worth dying for." Tellingly, there was no clip of this. Fortunately, this was caught by News Hounds.

So, apparently, spin is not enough for these people. They need to tweak the truth; in other words, they just lie.
posted by frederic wertham jr. at 6:50 PM

http://www.radionewsamerica.com/index.php?blog=3&p=7827&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#more7827

[opihimoimoi]

1. What else is new?? The Rovian Pigs do this all the time whenever they

think they can get away with it...boom they do it...its all part of a sinister plan...

[bryant69]

2. Front page magazine is one of the worst sites out there

David Horowitz who has consistantly shown that insanity in the name of ideology doesn't bother him in the slightest.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Pirate Smile]

3. Yesterday, on NBC & MSNBC they showed a counter-protester saying Cindy

said that and how much she disagreed.

So the lie rolls on and spreads.

[frictionlessO]

4. Please kick and nom! We need to torpedo this swift boat lie, right now!

Lets get this out there and let the media know, its a provable out and out lie.

Just like we did with the anti semitism BS.

[elehhhhna]

5. Look at this country today.

She's 100% right about Iraq--but is THIS country worth dying for? Not as it is.

[sunnystarr]

6. Hannity used that distortion and insisted that Cindy said those

words on his show yesterday. Begala flatly stated it was a distortion and the accurate quote would make it clear that she said Iraq wasn't worth dying for. Hannity continued to insist that she meant it the way he was distorting it.

What we learn from this is not to believe anything the media states unless we actually see or hear the source saying it within the context it was said.

[BigBearJohn]

7. I nominate Koyaanisqatsi's use of the word REPIG be officially ordained by

DU

[Daphne08]

8. How could anyone believe Cindy Sheehan said

America wasn't worth fighting for? That's ridiculous! (If people are stupid enough to believe that right-wing distortion, then I don't know how we can help them.)

I think Hannity et al., are just desperate.