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Sheehan "Single-Handedly Bringing Iraq Debate to Bush's Doorstep"
Media Research Center-Cyber Alert ^ | 8/15/05 | Cyber Alert-Tracking Liberal Media Bias

Posted on 08/15/2005 7:26:16 PM PDT by Embraer2004

NBC Nightly News on Sunday devoted its "In Depth" segment to Bush-hater Cindy Sheehan's impact, as anchor David Gregory touted how she "has become both a magnet and a source of controversy in the President's hometown, single-handedly bringing the Iraq debate to Mr. Bush's doorstep." Reporter Kelly O'Donnell began with how "she's tiny Crawford's biggest draw. This woman said she drove 900 miles from Denver, compelled by Cindy's story." Earlier, filling in for Tim Russert on Meet the Press, Andrea Mitchell blamed Bush's communications team for what the news media has really done: "How did they let this one woman become the symbol for the entire anti-war movement?" Mitchell added: "It certainly doesn't help when you see the videotape of the motorcade rushing past the protesters on their way to a Republican fund-raiser at a neighboring ranch." On Saturday's World News Tonight on ABC, anchor Bob Woodruff introduced a story by trumpeting how Sheehan's "vigil for her son, killed in Iraq, has given new life to the anti-war movement and a place in Crawford called the 'Peace House.'"

Full rundowns of the Sunday, August 14 NBC coverage:

# NBC Nightly News. Anchor David Gregory: "NBC News 'In Depth' tonight. Anti-war protesters in this country have witnessed the emergence of a new spokeswoman this week. Cindy Sheehan whose son Casey was killed in Iraq, has become both a magnet and a source of controversy in the President's hometown, single-handedly bringing the Iraq debate to Mr. Bush's doorstep. NBC's White House correspondent Kelly O'Donnell tonight 'In Depth.'"

O'Donnell, over video of people crowding around Sheehan: "This what sudden fame, or some would say sudden notoriety looks like. Her sone killed in war, her cause to speak out against it. Cindy Sheehan has quickly become a lightning rod." Sheehan: "I had no idea it would turn out like this. No idea." O'Donnell: "This weekend, she's tiny Crawford's biggest draw. This woman said she drove 900 miles from Denver, compelled by Cindy's story." Woman: "I have a great deal of empathy for her. If nothing else, Cindy does deserves answers." O'Donnell: "Empathy delivered in food as well. Iraqis living in the U.S. prepared traditional dishes for her today. She had critics who support the President's Iraq policy trek to her camp site too. Gary Coles [name?] calls lost his son, a Marine in Fallujah last November." Coles: "She needs to have more respect for our country, our people and yet alone President Bush." O'Donnell: "Heated moments have been few. But some Crawford residents have had enough of crowds and chaos. One Bush neighbor, who leases access to his ranch to NBC News, fired his shotgun in the air today in what appeared to be frustration. The Secret Service came by to talk to him, but rancher Larry Matlidge [sp?] broke no law." Matlidge, on dirt road: "If you had your brother-in-law in your house for five days, wouldn't it start stinking after a while? You're ready for him to go home, won't you." O'Donnell: "Many demonstrators on both sides have tried to keep calm." Woman: "Blessed are the peace-makers." O'Donnell: "Today, a prayer vigil. Political analysts say the President is stuck: Refusing to meet Sheehan a second time may look bad while giving in to her could open a floodgate of similar demands." Charlie Cook: "This is getting pretty ugly for him and there's really no, politically no way out right now." O'Donnell concluded: "The President has nearly three more weeks in Crawford, but no more scheduled events for several days. That may give Mr. Bush some needed distance. But Cindy Sheehan vows to stay right here. Kelly O'Donnell, NBC News, Crawford."

# Meet the Press. Andrea Mitchell with Washington Post columnist, and former New York Times reporter, E.J. Dionne, as well as Byron York of the National Review: "Well, the President goes on vacation and he goes down to Crawford, and look at what he encounters. Some vacation. He's got anti-war protesters on his doorstep and, of course, this woman, whose son died so tragically, Cindy Sheehan. Let's take a look at this recent ad that she prepared, and the people around her now, the political movement around her, prepared this ad for local television down in Texas."

NBC played the 30-second Gold Star Families for Peace Ad, with Sheehan, in full: "Mr. President, my name is Cindy Sheehan. On April 4th, 2004, my son Casey was killed in Iraq. Mr. President, I want to tell you face-to-face how much this hurts. I love my country. But how many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war? How many more soldiers have to die before we say 'Enough'? I know you can't bring Casey back, but it is time to admit mistakes and bring our troops home now."

Mitchell: "E.J., Mrs. Sheehan, for all of her suffering, has she now become part of a political movement? And is this an unfair approach to the President?" Dionne: "Well, I don't think it's unfair. In fact, I am still surprised that the president, when she first went down there, didn't say, 'Come on in. Talk to me.' He can be a very charming guy. And instead, he's let her sit out there. The fact is, that one mother who lost a loved one is more effective than 200,000 demonstrators or God knows how many politicians or commentators." Mitchell: "Now, he did meet with her once. He met with her during a meeting in Seattle, I believe." Dionne: "Right. But to have her, when she went down there and said, 'I want to talk to you' -- there are a lot of Americans who have doubts about this war, including people who may still want to support it. Things aren't going well over there. The polls show that the country has a lot more doubts now than it did six months ago. It seems to me that it would be a good idea, and perfectly legitimate, for the President to say, 'Come on in, let me talk to you.' He wouldn't persuade her, but I think he would show a lot of Americans that, yes, he understands, a lot of people, including people with kids over there, have doubts about the war." Mitchell: "Byron York, it does seem a little ham-handed, politically. This is the crowd that's supposed to be so smart politically. How did they let this one woman become the symbol for the entire anti-war movement?" York bought up some of Sheehan's extreme views which most of the media have ignored: "Well, the White House points out that the President has met personally with hundreds of family members of servicemen and women killed in the war. But this has become a very political event. The White House has to deal with her very sensitively because she did suffer this terrible loss, and her son did die in service to the United States. So they, she has standing to be doing what she's doing. On the other hand, the White House knows that the only person who can really damage her credibility is Cindy Sheehan herself. She took part in a conference call I think on Wednesday, which I listened to. It was moderated by Joe Trippi, the Democratic strategist, and another Democratic strategist, Bob Fertig, of a Web site called-" Mitchell: "This was a conference call with bloggers. So she was setting off another storm about-" York: "-of a site called Democrats.com. And she said, she thanked her anti-war bloggers for all their support. She said, 'Thank God for the Internet. Without it, we'd already be a fascist state because one party controls everything, and the mainstream media is the propaganda tool of the government.' Now, this is the kind of rhetoric that you normally associate with fringe elements on the left. And if she does more of that, I think she'll diminish her own credibility." Dionne: "But the point is that she has still started this out as a mother of a son who served the country. And I think that any kind of attack against her has the potential of backfiring because she did suffer this loss, regardless of what she says." Mitchell: "And it certainly doesn't help when you see the videotape of the motorcade rushing past the protesters on their way to a Republican fund-raiser at a neighboring ranch. That's not great PR."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
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1 posted on 08/15/2005 7:26:17 PM PDT by Embraer2004
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To: Embraer2004

The Secret Service will single-handedly bring her a restraining order soon.


2 posted on 08/15/2005 7:28:37 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Embraer2004

The liberal MSM is swooning over this non-sense story. That is why America has lost respect for the liberal media and we are seeing the ascent of the "alternative" media...the bloggers, FOX news, talk radio.


3 posted on 08/15/2005 7:28:57 PM PDT by Embraer2004
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To: Embraer2004

4 posted on 08/15/2005 7:29:28 PM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Embraer2004
Well, the President goes on vacation and he goes down to Crawford, and look at what he encounters. Some vacation.

The press LOOOVE tossing around this "he's on vacation" line, when all he's really done is move the White House to Texas for a month. Because he can't get away and recharge, he's doing it in bits each day. Gee, wouldn't want the man in charge of the nuclear missiles to be well-rested, now would we?

BTW, has anyone else noticed that the MSM all got the talking points: It's "Sheehan and THOSE WHO'VE JOINED HER", as opposed to Sheehan and those she's always agreed with, as if she's down there minding her own business and these other groups have latched on to her without her permission? That's their setup for when someone points out all the anti-Israel kooks--they can say "Well, they just came down there, she didn't have any power over that."

6 posted on 08/15/2005 7:33:26 PM PDT by Dr.Hilarious ("And I can KICK!"-Crispin Glover)
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To: Embraer2004

Sheehan single-handedly doubles global methane emissions.


7 posted on 08/15/2005 7:35:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Embraer2004

A goat,slathering from rabies and a terminal case of mange protesting the War on Terror would have gotten the MSMs undying love and devotion.


8 posted on 08/15/2005 7:35:28 PM PDT by carlr
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To: Embraer2004

The Crawford Police allowed all this to happen when they didn't enforce their requirements for protesting which required 7 days advanced notice and certainly didn't allow camping out for days. Perhaps they had orders from up the ladder not to enforce them, but it opened the door to all of these Sheehanigans when it should have been over in less than an hour.


9 posted on 08/15/2005 7:37:36 PM PDT by DrewsDad
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To: Embraer2004
compelled by Cindy's story

She doesn't care about her son. She is a leftist bit(h who doesn't honor her sons' thoughts.

He joined in order to serve his country. This idiot, can't even spell patriot. She is all about her, to hell with her son. If I were president, I would never meet with her.

11 posted on 08/15/2005 7:40:50 PM PDT by ditto h
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To: Embraer2004

of course the lib-MSM refuses to talk on how the grandparents and cousins of Casey say she's wrong, her husbands filing for divorce and she's aligned herself with leftists groups..


12 posted on 08/15/2005 7:45:34 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Nighthaven
Nice ankle tattoo.
13 posted on 08/15/2005 7:45:52 PM PDT by Sthitch
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To: Nighthaven

She'll be old news in about 2 weeks. People will just say, "Shut up and go home."

Can't wait for the IRS to come knocking a her door about those pesky taxes. Be prepared for jail, Cindy.

Final question for Cindy - why did YOU as your son's MOTHER allow him to join the military, knowing full well that he could die? Why didn't you stop him?


14 posted on 08/15/2005 7:47:50 PM PDT by GianniV
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To: All

To All the FReepers who wish they could have been in Crawford
to support President Bush and the Troops.

You do not have to be in Texas to show support for the Troops.

Visit your local military base today and at least once a week.

Or a military or veteran hospital.

Learn to play offense, not defense,
and quit giving free publicity to those who mock our troops.

Spineless US Senate would rather protect Hanoi Kerry
than deal with the anti war crowd.

Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry isn't behind the anti war crowd needs to get a clue.

It's time to support our troops and ignore the jelly fish in the US Senate!

There is no need to impeach Hanoi Kerry from the US Senate

He is there illegally!

WAKEUP AMERICA!

For those who "forgot" what Hanoi Kerry
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Hanoi Kerry was still a USNR officer while he:
gave false hearsay testimony to Congress
negotiated with the enemy
helped the US lose a war
abetted in the deaths of millions
created a hostile environment for all servicemen

Why is Kerry still in the US Senate?
This is in violation of
U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 Sec 3
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html

And the FBI has proof of his treason.

Hanoi Kerry Timeline of a traitor
includes FBI files

May 1970
Kerry and Julia traveled to Paris, France and met with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG), the political wing of the Vietcong, and other Viet Cong and Communist Vietnamese representatives to the Paris peace talks, a trip he now calls a "fact-finding" mission.

(U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power.)

http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html

a) A person charged with absence without leave or missing movement in time of war,
or with any offense punishable by death,
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15 posted on 08/15/2005 7:47:58 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Proud Plank Owner : Department of Homeland Security)
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To: Embraer2004

Singlehandedly, my posterior! She's got a bunch of unwashed geriatric hippies and her buds in the lamestream media egging her on. I would hardly call it singlehanded.


16 posted on 08/15/2005 7:49:17 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: Nighthaven
Oh yes. This is a grieving mother, and not a media darling at all:

You should call it by it's alternative title: "Pictures you will NEVER see published in the MSM".

18 posted on 08/15/2005 7:53:30 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: Baynative
why Casey Sheehan was in Iraq in the first place

Probaby enlisted to get away from his mother!

19 posted on 08/15/2005 7:55:03 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace Begins in the Womb)
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To: Embraer2004
She is being outed as quite the nut case as well.
20 posted on 08/15/2005 7:55:23 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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