Crawford: Sheehan Supporter Physically "Attacks" Cameraman

NRO ^ | Eric Pfeiffer

[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:

[lugsoul]

"Wow, you are just like your goddess, Mother Sheehan."

Where did I hold her up as a goddess? Or anything else for that matter? Oh, THAT's RIGHT - I DIDN'T. You are just making it up.

As far as your inane 'authority' comment, you seem to forget that it was you who 'disinvited' me from this site and asked me to go somewhere else. I declined.

Doesn't take much 'debating authority' to respond to that kind of nonsense.

[lugsoul]

You assumption is correct - that was the reason for the preface.

[mudblood]

"Just me. I hate him.
And probably 99.9999% of the USMC."

What's wrong with USMC? Just kidding! Seriously, you should save your hate for Sadaam, pedophiles, rapists, serial killers and thugs like the animals who beat up the vets in Seattle. Most gays or straights wouldn't: rape your wife in front of you while you watched, have sex with children, or kill 38 white women in Alabama and keep a diary of it. Like straights, most gays would let you cut ahead of them in traffic if you couldn't get in, they'd give their own blood to save your life, they'd call the cops if you were getting beat up (if not jump in to help), they'd watch with the rest of America - including most liberals - in shock and horror as human scum slammed our airplanes into buildings full of people. I really think there should be a higher threshold for hate than I'm reading.

[lugsoul]

Yep. Assuming, of course, that some of those who are memorialized are Jewish. I doubt that is a stretch of an assumption.

[lugsoul]

On a thread about this guy assaulting a cameraman, you post that a neighboring rancher should be spraying these folks with chemicals?

Strange how no one seems to recognize that the most effective response to these people is none at all.

[finnman69]

Lugsoul

wanted by the Internet Police for

THREAD HIJACKING

[threeleftsmakearight]

Actually, I did no such thing as "disinvite" you anywhere.
Read my post, I make no requests or demands. I write a hypothetic you over at DU or Daily Kos bragging that you are putting us hillbillies in our place.

Learn to read.

[WillUSMC]

He was a Corporal when he was discharged,

[Cecily]

Bruce Willis wannabe.

[SJSAMPLE]

and he uses the term, "my Marines", as if he were Chesty himself.

[mware]

Fox is running the ad for our group. I have not seen the CS ad.

[lugsoul]

Ah, I did take your post as the typical 'go back to DU' drivel. My apologies for not recognizing that it was more original drivel.

[DesignerChick]

Eww.
Is he aware that the Marine Corp exists to defend the nation; not to solicit sex in foreign nations?
Did he join to be in a shower with alot if hot 18 year olds?
If a straight guy wrote something like that about an Iraqi woman he'd be known as a sexist, charged with disgracing the uniform and the US, and getting full coverage by every news station about the ingrained male aggressive/rapist mentality of the military. Is he aware that we are planting demcracy in nations that routinely execute homosexuals? Like Iran did - I believe a 17 and 18 year old - last month? (After flogging them) Somebody dig up that Ron Silver quote about how liberals decry the injustice in the world but then fight against the actual action needed to fix the problem....

[lugsoul]

It isn't really hijacking when you ask the pilot a simple question and he gets distracted by it and goes mile off course...

But I guess that's what happens when you try a sideways slam on someone's faith, or lack of it, and then needlessly try to defend your poor choice of words.

[Beckwith]

More democratic grab-ass.

[kjam22]

I don't think the "no response at all" is the best method.... because even if we dont' respond, or just ignore them.... the media will still make the ditchwitch's case.

[threeleftsmakearight]

...and clever too.

Anyway, considering that Michael Moore, Code Pink, MoveOn and the rest are neo-Communists and Communism is rooted in God-lessness, is it a stretch to assume these crosses are props?
Is it not obvious that those crosses were also props in that "candid" photo of Mother Sheehan kneeling by the "cross" with her son's name?

[lugsoul]

What "case"? The WH can respond as they have - we met with her, we sympathize with her loss, but it is not our job to provide a theatrical stage for a distraught protestor. Period.

What is the MSM talking about now? Attacks on Cindy Sheehan? The effect of Cindy Sheehan on the 'movement'? Counterprotests to Cindy Sheehan? If no one gives them a follow-up story, the 'grieving mother' story gets old pretty quickly.

Responding to her implicitly states that her 'request' for a meeting is worthy of a serious response. Make it plain that she doesn't want to meet, she wants theater, and she ain't gonna get it. Then ignore her.

[kaehurowing]

That's Cindy's new boyfriend, right?

[kjam22]

Couldn't we spray them with DDT first... then ignore them??? :)