Cindy Sheehan Claims Photos Falsely Implied Book Signing Was Flop

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

By E&P Staff

Published: November 29, 2005 12:30 PM ET

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.”

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If anyone here still needs proof that this woman is for real, this is it. This is what happens when an ordinary person goes up against the powers-that-be--up against the giant media propagandists, up against the Department of "Defense", up against the worst tyrants of our era. This is what happens. And because humans have a natural urge to want to side with the perceived winners, people find it necessary to BOTHER to criticize this ordinary woman. "How dare she, who is no better than I, seek to be noticed?" She doesn't know her place, does she? Maybe grief over her son's needless death just caused her to lose her sense of decorum. It was rude of David to shoot that slingshot at Goliath, too.

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1. Wow, the Media Industrial Complex starts early. They can't have anyone

who is not bought and sold have any success can they?

They who are successful must be subservient to the ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA.

Such are the rules for the Media Industrial Establishment.