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Posted on 08/20/2005 2:49:51 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy
Ben and Jerry's founder pays for PR firm for mother of fallen son by Mark Hand PR Week Worldwire 19 Aug 2005
Bush: vigil outside President's ranch CRAWFORD, TX - The PR firm working for Cindy Sheehan as she protests outside President Bush's ranch in Texas campaigning over the death of her son killed in Iraq has been paid for by Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
The 24-hour media attention being lavished upon Sheehan owes as much to the professionals supporting her as it does to the emotional impact of her story.
Fenton Communications is assisting Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, to earn media coverage for her vigil. TrueMajority, a nonprofit advocacy group created by Cohen is paying Washington, DC-based Fenton from the $70,000 that the group has raised so far to support Sheehan's protest efforts.
"Fenton is helping her with straight-out media relations, such as interviews and juggling different requests," said Jason Salzman, president of Cause Communications, which handles media relations for TrueMajority. "She's tapped into feelings against the war that have yet to [be] widely disseminated in the media."
Soon after Sheehan began her vigil, she quickly realized she needed help handling the barrage of media requests, said Parker Blackman, deputy GM and MD at Fenton Communications. "We're just trying to help her create a little order out of the chaos and streamline the process for getting reporters to be able to ask her questions," he said.
TrueMajority has asked its members for donations twice to support Sheehan's protest. The first appeal in early August brought in $50,000, while the second appeal, which went out August 8, has generated $20,000 so far, Salzman said.
Sheehan, a resident of Vacaville, CA, plans to continue the protest until Bush agrees to meet with her to talk about her opposition to the war in Iraq or until his vacation ends on August 31. She founded Gold Star Families for Peace and first began her campaign against the war more than a year ago after her son was killed April 4, 2004 while serving in Baghdad.
Sheehan's action caught the media's attention because she traveled to Crawford "to confront the President on his front door," Blackman said. "And you have a White House press corps who is there. The president doesn't spend all day with them. And there's this very compelling story unfolding right there."
Fenton also worked with Sheehan to publicize candlelight vigils held on Wednesday in 1,672 US cities in sympathy with her action. When Fenton organized a press briefing on Tuesday to discuss the coming vigils, about 100 journalists participated in the teleconference, an unheard of number for a typical Fenton-managed press briefing.
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"Ice cream is far too important a part of my diet for me to mix up in politics. The sugar and cream balance feeds my brain, politics starves my brain of oxygen.... I choose ice cream."
I agree 100%. Politics will not enter into my enjoyment of ice cream. I don't care if the Chicoms make my favorint ice cream.
When in New England this is the ice cream of choice http://www.giffordsicecream.com/home.htm
Everyone I know around here keeps a gallon of the Homemade Vanilla in their freezer at all times. It's practically a staple. 
I roast my own coffee and make my own Ice-cream. Forget those hippie losers.
Me too. (Further, I think that Cohen et al have a severely overinflated sense of self importance.) Cohen might be a red diaper baby, i.e. his parents might have been Commie.
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
That's good. It is full of fat and sugar - not good for one's body.
Unfortunately, I think Ben and Jerry sold out their interest in the company. They are probably untouched by a boycott.
Hows about a one way ticket on the dog to Vacaville, CA.
True, they did cash out. But Cohen is still just another NYC model Jewist Leftist. Semi-treasonous people like him are why I haven't been in a synagogue for years.
Regretably all to many of my co-religionists have confused the ancient call for social justice with socialism.
There is a difference.
Oh please, oh please, don't tell me I have to stop buying Cherry Garcia ! I'd go into a depression immediately.
They have a plethora of flavors here
OOOOOOOOOH, I have found several that sound GOOD.
I see on their map they sell Kemps in your state! :)
The French Vanilla and Rocky Road are very good too!
Ironic, isn't it? Two Jews paying for to save the reputation of this anti-semite.
I don't see the map, but I am fading fast. What cities in MS?
Peaunut butter cups & fudge.
I am still skinny enough to eat all I want...lol.
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