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Transcript of Christopher Hitchens on subject of Cindy Sheehan from Wed. night's Hardball
MSNBC's "Hardball" ^

Posted on 08/18/2005 10:18:15 AM PDT by Charlesj

O‘DONNELL: I‘m sure also the president did not anticipate that while he was spending a five-week vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, that he would be witnessing a mom, Cindy Sheehan, who has been camped outside his ranch now, demanding a meeting with the president, saying she won‘t leave until that happens.

Christopher, do you think that this represents—or she represents some sort of tipping point in public opinion in America?

HITCHENS: Certainly not. She has, just today, lied about a statement that she made several times before to the effect that her son was killed in a war run by a secret Jewish cabal within the administration. She now says she didn‘t make that statement. She did make that statement. So as well as being an hysterical paranoid ideologist, or at least being manipulated by people who are, turned this into camp fruitbag and nutbag, she has decided not to have the courage or maybe the cowardice of her conviction. She now says she didn‘t make a statement that she definitely did.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: campfruitbag; cindysheehan; hitchens; transcript
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1 posted on 08/18/2005 10:18:15 AM PDT by Charlesj
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To: Charlesj

I watched that...

Hitchens just ripped into her.


2 posted on 08/18/2005 10:19:18 AM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: Charlesj

POSTED HERE

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1465648/posts?page=35#35


3 posted on 08/18/2005 10:19:29 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: nuffsenuff

Was O‘DONNELL shell shocked when he said it?


4 posted on 08/18/2005 10:20:21 AM PDT by b4its2late (Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.)
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To: Charlesj
Camp Fruitbag!! I have no idea what that means, but I was roaring with laughter.
5 posted on 08/18/2005 10:24:30 AM PDT by BallyBill (Cheney/Rove in 08 ....drive the left to suicide.)
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To: b4its2late

No. Actually. She seemed to think it was kind of amuzing.


6 posted on 08/18/2005 10:26:12 AM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: Charlesj
I've noticed on about each and every occasion The Old Media mentions her 'meeting the President', but never 'meet with again' or 'meet for a second time'
7 posted on 08/18/2005 10:26:15 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Charlesj

It's interesting how the media have given Sheehan a pass from the normal scrutiny directed towards public figures. If Sheehan had been some rabid conservative camped out at Clinton's summer home, the MSM would have been looking into - and publicizing - her past and present political affiliations, her financial connections, her handlers, her inconsistencies, her lying, and her numerous outrageous public comments about the president and about our country. But the MSM is pretty much looking the other way, and it's people like Hitchens and Drudge who have to raise these issues.


8 posted on 08/18/2005 10:31:26 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Charlesj

Hitchens needn't get so emotional. He's the only one on the tube expressing common sense on the subject of Cindy Sheehan.


9 posted on 08/18/2005 10:31:33 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: BallyBill
Camp Fruitbag!! I have no idea what that means, but I was roaring with laughter.

LOL ... me too. I think we should start calling her 'Mother Moonbat".

10 posted on 08/18/2005 10:32:29 AM PDT by GaltMeister (“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
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To: nuffsenuff

Well, that's interesting.


11 posted on 08/18/2005 10:32:52 AM PDT by b4its2late (Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.)
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Her and Fineman seemed to grudgingly agree with Hitchens.

They just tried to laugh it off though.


13 posted on 08/18/2005 10:35:16 AM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: Profane

Hey champ...google is your friend. Not hard to find. He's talking off the cuff...he should come up with a quote then and there? Let's get real.


14 posted on 08/18/2005 10:36:49 AM PDT by sofaman
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To: sofaman

Do you smell ozone? ;^)


15 posted on 08/18/2005 10:40:05 AM PDT by eureka! (Hey Lefties: Only 3 and 1/2 more years of W. Hehehehe....)
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To: Charlesj

Hi... Cindy Sheehan, Rush Chairman,
DAMN GLAD TO MEET YOU!!!

16 posted on 08/18/2005 10:40:38 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Profane

Bu bye ....


18 posted on 08/18/2005 10:43:50 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Does it hurt when they shear your wool off?)
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To: Profane

Here's alive idiot!!!!

The direct quote isn't hard to find if you really are interested in reading it. But DU trolls like yourself will never look because that's how you approach facts. You and your DU comrades ignore facts, but serious people who care about this country and our military takie the time to learn the facts.

To do that you have to leave the moveon.org/DU/michealmoron/Al Jazzeria websites because all they are is propaganda


19 posted on 08/18/2005 10:44:27 AM PDT by federal
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To: Profane

Some Israel references of Sheehan:

"Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel."

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bullyard/msg/7f523b1a73be1a36?hl=en

"[My son] was killed for a neo-con agenda that only benefits a very chosen few in this world. This agenda and their war machine will chew up and spit out as many of our children as they can unless we stop them now.

We should not let Israel/USA invade Syria or Iran."

http://www.mothersagainstthedraft.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-210.html

"The other thing I want him to tell me is 'just what was the noble cause Casey died for?' Was it freedom and democracy? Bull---t! He died for oil. He died to make your friends richer. He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East. We're not freer here, thanks to your PATRIOT Act. Iraq is not free. You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism,"

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/2248072670


20 posted on 08/18/2005 10:45:21 AM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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