Posted on 08/14/2005 1:51:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
....TrueMajority, an antiwar group founded by Ben Cohen -- one of the creators of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream -- hired Fenton Communications, a Washington public relations firm that has worked intermittently with Sheehan over the past year to coordinate media coverage.
With this help, Sheehan has courted coverage from the traveling White House press corps with a news conference. A schedule of when relatives of other military casualties in Iraq are expected to join Sheehan in Crawford was distributed to reporters. Her team coordinated an antiwar rally attended by hundreds in Crawford yesterday.
Sheehan also launched a television ad campaign yesterday, hoping to achieve what her roadside vigil so far has not: a second chance to directly tell Bush about the devastation she has experienced since her son's death.
''Mr. President, I want to tell you face to face how much this hurts," Sheehan says in the ad, which will air in Waco, the nearest broadcast market to Bush's 1,600-acre ranch. ''How many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?"
Bush has been publicly respectful, telling reporters that he has thought ''long and hard about her position," even though he disagrees with her about the war.
''Withdrawing our troops from Iraq prematurely would betray the Iraqi people, and would cause others to question America's commitment to spreading freedom and winning the war on terror," Bush said in his weekly radio address yesterday. ''So we will honor the fallen by completing the mission for which they gave their lives, and by doing so we will ensure that freedom and peace prevail."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Just goes to show you, nothing good ever comes out of Vermont. Ice cream with a Marxist flavor.
Don't worry. This is America. There's lots of ice creams to go around. :) Try Ronnybrook if you can find it.
Sweetly yours,
The Yenta
It's clear her son is the last thing on her mind these days.
Can you imagine in 1951 with Sheehan standing outside Harry Truman's vacation home? He would have come out to "meet" her for sure. He would come out and slap the bitch in the face, and have some memorable salty words for her as well.
http://www.americandaily.com/article/8724
[From the LINK above] ***...The media chose to ignore the objections of James H. Smith. The Freepers at Freerepublic.com have not. The story of James H. Smith reminds us all that media bias is not only real, but is determined to force its way into our lives. This link is a must-read.
(www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462436/posts)....***
She's just dying to be the cause celeb isn't she?
A lot of these ideas are being fed to her, for one thing, and probably don't reflect her real convictions before she lost her son. She's the victim of what Left-wing political psychomanipulators like to call, vomitably, a "teachable moment" seized and used by old peacenik/Mobe apparatchiki. What is being done with this woman is absolutely vile, and so I think it's a moral and judgmental mistake to target her. The users and opportunists feeding on her are the real targets.
A lot of Texas Conservatives, by the way, seem to think that going up to Crawford and counterdemonstrating may be a mistake -- helping feed what the MediaRats and MobeRats/MoveOnRats are trying to do, which is to create a media circus in front of Dubya's front gate, highlighting among other things his ill-advised five-week vacation at the ranch, which even Michael Savage has taken exception to as being poor form during a war.
"Ben & Jerry's was sold to a corporation. It is no longer owned by Ben and Jerry."
Yes, Ben & Jerry closet capitalists. Fraud$ They're no DUmmies. They built up a business then sold it off before they had to do any hard work and maintenance.
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That's it. No more Ben and Jerry's for me. I'll just have to do with the memories of Chocolate Fudge Brownie and Cherry Garcia...
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