Posted on 08/30/2005 5:20:22 AM PDT by kristinn
Cindy Sheehan and her supporters in the mainstream media failed in their efforts to radicalize the American people against the war in Iraq, according to a poll by The Washington Post and ABC News to be released later today at 5 p.m. EDT.
The telephone survey of 1006 adults conducted August 25-28 showed no movement in either direction for opposition or support to the war. Eighty percent said Sheehan's three-week long protest outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas while he was on a working vacation there had no effect on their position on the war. Ten percent said her protest made them more likely to support the war in Iraq, while an equal number said her protest would make them less likely to support the war.
Mrs. Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq last year, arrived in Crawford on August 6 demanding a meeting with the president. Aided by anti-American groups that have expressed support for the so-called Iraqi resistance, including Code Pink and Veterans for Peace, Mrs. Sheehan was able to dominate the news for the month of August with the help of a sympathetic national media which failed to report the most basic facts about her and her supporters.
Thanks to the research of Freepers, the American people were able to learn about Mrs. Sheehan's extremist politics and her disengenuousness.
Freepers were first to report that Mrs. Sheehan had previously met with the president and that she was telling a wildly different story of that meeting from her initial account told to her local newspaper right after the meeting.
Freepers also discovered photos of that meeting that showed Mrs. Sheehan holding the president's hand and leaning in to receive a kiss on the cheek from him.
Freepers researched and reported Mrs. Sheehan's extremist statements about Israel and her pronouncements that she was refusing to pay her taxes in protest against her son's death.
Freepers found her comments supporting convicted abettor of terrorism, Lynne Stewart and also reported that the groups involved with Mrs. Sheehan in Crawford had explicitly sided with the so-called Iraqi resistance through their endorsement of the World Tribunal on Iraq.
Freeper research also unearthed a video of Mrs. Sheehan calling terrorists who crossed the border in to Iraq to join Al Qaeda "freedom fighters" in an interview with CBS News' Mark Knoller on her first day in Crawford--which CBS and the other media at her press conference failed to report.
That video now serves as exhibit one for how the mainstream media covered up for Mrs. Sheehan from day one in order to prop her up as the latest tool of their campaign to destroy the presidency of George W. Bush.
Thanks to the efforts of Freepers, Mrs. Sheehan and her allies in the media and on the left failed to instigate the prairie fire of rebellion against the war in Iraq they thought would surely follow.
While they will blame Karl Rove and the White House for Mrs. Sheehan's failure, we know it was the patriotic Americans at FreeRepublic.com who fought the good fight in the arena of ideas.
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...When interviewed yesterday at our Rancho Cucamonga CA Support BUSH Freep by KABC-TV News, an interview that did not air BTW, I shared how the Anti-BUSH Demonstrators right across the street from us...
...were trying to make us all forget that the Attacks of 9/11 on American Soil ever happened.
...And that they resort to calling the rest of us liars because they refuse to fufill their duty as American Citizens to help make us safer here at home from future terrorist attacks, like BUSH is by his bringing FREEDOM to the oppressed Peoples of the Middle East.
.."FREEDOM to the World".. was my flag waving Freep chant, picked up on the Viacom owned TV Stations in Los Angeles, all afternoon and evening.
This Freep was even better than our hugely successful 2003 OSCAR Freep in supprt of President BUSH.
But somebody else wasn't there to enjoy it:
9/11 Lifesaving Hero RICK RESCORLA, r.i.p.
http://www.strategyzoneonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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It is amazing what the truth can do.
Great job around the country and thanks to Kristinn for his Yeoman's work here.
Thanks for the ping!
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Support BUSH Freep Follow-up Report:
Disney-owned KABC-TV News also refused to show ANY of us Pro-BUSH Demonstrators yesterday, just the Anti-BUSH Freepers, even though they were heavily outnumbered outside from where BUSH was speaking..!!!
Disney Chairman MICHAEL EISNER =
Friend of HILLARY & BILL CLINTON, who were both on the side of our Terrorist Enemy HO CHI MINH and against Freedom for South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
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DC Chapter pingeroo
She will fade away into total insanity and reclusiveness.
He is on now.
Nice list of accomplishments.....Great job by all!
Over the years you folks have contributed greatly to the good of the nation but this, perhaps, is your greatest triumph!
She'll get A.N.S.W.E.R. or MoveOn.org or The Nation or whoever to pay her 5K a pop plus expenses to give speeches, make appearances, etc.
It's a cottage industry.
I have heard her and others complain about how she is being dragged through the mud.
Thanks for the ping!
Kristinn,
Excellent summary. I needed some talking points for the grieving mothers in my office who "feel Cindy's pain." Thanks for a good report. See you on the 24th!
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(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Hope the Liddy interview went well.
I am getting a proper welcome together for Cindy as she comes thru Cleveland on her little "tour" enroute to DC..
FReepers, USO, Protest Warriors etc.. she'll see and HEAR us.
BTTT
Printed out and taking it over to our local conservative talk host here in South Central PA. Excellent summation of FR accomplishments.
Ping to airborne.
Kudos..FYI..I don;t know if you heard the blow up with Sheehan on NPR today..there's a long thread here somewheres, but I expect Rush will feature it today...
Awesome job -- Think it's time to donate FR again.
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