Posted on 08/25/2005 12:03:37 PM PDT by hipaatwo
While news cameras were filming the event, Marine Jeff Key physically grabbed a cameraman from San Francisco local affiliate KGO. Key objected to the cameraman’s shooting position, which was on the same site where the protesters have erected crosses listing the names of fallen soldiers in Iraq. Here's a photo from right before the altercation took place:
I asked Mark Matthews of KGO about the alleged assault, “I’m not happy about it. We’re happy to abide by the rules when we know what the rules are. But there was no message communicated to us to stay out of the crosses. And last night, photographers, supporters of Cindy Sheehan, people praying, clapping and singing were here amongst the crosses. 13 hours later, it’s off limits without any notification to us.”
I asked one of Sheehan’s spokeswoman if she condoned Key’s assault of the cameraman. She would not answer my question directly, instead saying, “I think if we all do our fair share, we’ll work to keep everybody out of the way … That’s all we need is to have people stay out of the crosses … I think that’s all being worked out privately. I think the cameraman and the Iraq veteran was doing his best to honor the fallen will work it out.”
Here's a pic of the spokeswoman who refused to answser my question:
lol!
You would hurt a lot of people. Residents, counter protestors, protestors.
'Course you were being funny, weren't you?
LOL. I assume you are telling the truth. Either way, I found your comment very funny. Don't hold back!
Hey, would it be illegal to do a fly over Camp Casey with insecticide spraying? I mean, its summer, its Texas and there are a lot of bugs out there!
It would be a good deed for someone to do for free..as a service to the community. Of course, we would want to ask all people to leave during the spraying days.
What do y'all think of the idea?
now now that's terrorist talk
I revised my post( see307). I certainly didn't want to hurt anyone. I guess I was thinking about the truck coming through around here in Fla with the mosquito spraying. I realize with your post that serious insecticide spraying from a plane might be dangerous. Obviously, my ignorance about farming,etc is showing.
So they object to a guy using a camera standing in the crosses yet...
A Microphone stand is OK?
You must be kidding....
I think His records are pretty good.
You figure you need witnesses, too?
Have you been a fag lately or was it a long-ago thing?
Have her sponsors paid to have her teeth done? I don't know of anyone outside of Hollyweird and modeling with perfect white teeth like those!
"Look at me! I'm a regular Marine vet with an "oh-so-quaint" John Deere hat and blue jeans! I'm so normal! Look how normal I am."
"Because they are miserable little people trying to make everyone else miserable while going about their miserable little lives. They will never be happy, but they do gain pleasure by ruining the lives of others."
Liberalism encapsulated. Excellent point, so many of them are unable to just leave everyone else alone.
done. The sucker was hard to find though:')
Key was in Iraq two months, injured himself lifting something, and once home, decided to come back out of the closet, thereby ending his service, and any chance he might be sent back Iraq.
Takes all kinds, I guess.
With the President back at his Crawford ranch, the anti-war protest right outside his ranch is getting a lot more media attention. ABC7 looks at who is financing the operation and who's providing on-the-ground support.
The camp at Crawford is full of Cindy Sheehan supporters, people from all walks of life. But off to the side are a small group of professionals, skilled in politics and public relations who are marketing her message.
Cindy Sheehan kneels before a cross with her son's name on it, touches his picture, wipes her tears. It's an outpouring of emotion that is part of a scheduled news event organized daily for the television radio and print reporters who crowd in to capture a mother's grief.
Cindy Sheehan: "And I'm never going to see him again, I'm never going to hold him again, I'm never going to hear his voice again."
Sheehan's message hasn't changed since she got here but the support staff interested in getting that message out to the world has grown considerably.
Organizers are set up in this house trailer. Their meetings are closed to reporters.
Leading the group is Fenton Communications employee Michele Mulkey, based in San Francisco. Fenton specializes in public relations for liberal non profits.
Their bills are being paid by True Majority, a non-profit set up by Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry's ice cream fame.
Ben Cohen: "People are willing to listen to her and we want to do as much as we can to make her voice heard."
Cohen's liberal group has teamed up with Berkeley-based moveon.org, an anti-Bush group co-founded by Joan Blades.
Earlier this month, MoveOn.org helped organize anti-war vigils in support of Cindy Sheehan. Current Democratic National Party chair Howard Dean's organization, Democracy for America, is also involved. As is the more radical anti-war group Code Pink, organized by San Francisco's Medea Benjamin.
Money donated through these groups and others is helping to pay for Gold Star families whose children have been killed in Iraq to attend anti-Bush protests.
This week, Simi Valley, California Gold Star wife Melanie House flew to Idaho for a protest and then flew to Crawford.
Reporter: "Can you tell us if you're getting help in airfare to come down here?"
Melanie House: "What difference does that make?"
There is real reluctance to talk about whose paying. And the PR machine that's promoting Cindy Sheehan. But not everyone here is completely comfortable with it.
Gold Star mother Karen Meredith went to Crawford from Mt. View. Her son Ken Ballard died last year.
Karen Meredith: "Sometimes things don't feel quite right to me. They don't feel wrong but maybe that's how they do it in the marketing business."
ABC7's Mark Matthew: "You feel you're part of a marketing business?"
Karen Meredith: "Possibly. Yeah I think so."
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