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CONGRATULATIONS FREEPERS! Sheehan, Media Failed to Win Battle of Crawford (WaPo-ABC Poll)
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 | Kristinn

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abcnewswp; caravan; cindysheehan; poll
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To: Howlin
A good Freeper NEVER loses a bookmark that might be needed later on. :-)

And...

...a good Freeper never misses the chance to ridicule a fellow Freeper who has way to high an opinion of himself.

81 posted on 08/30/2005 10:33:32 AM PDT by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE
Tell ya one thing, you great big bundle of American patriotic fervor combined with a great big dose of activism, or putting your feet to the pavement as it were...

You ROCK!

And Rick is up there in heaven, resting in the knowledge that good men like you, the best this country has to offer, and I MEAN that, 110%, are standing in his stead here on earth, fighting in memory of him and other patriots who have preceded him, every single day!

82 posted on 08/30/2005 10:36:43 AM PDT by Republic (Michael Schiavo comes to mind...ulitimate control is never relinquished with ease)
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To: kristinn

Yahoo! And now the Pres has cut short his "vacation". Cindy, go home, already!!


83 posted on 08/30/2005 10:37:55 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Never forget Terri Schindler)
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To: kristinn
Saw an Ad with her this morning on Fox News Network. I just can't look at that woman !! She is the worst ever.I'm sure her son would be so ashamed of her.

I for one am going to e-mail Fox to tell them that I will not watch as long as they run her ads.

84 posted on 08/30/2005 10:43:12 AM PDT by sam I am
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To: All

Well my faith in america is restored, maybe the majority are not brainwashed afterall.


85 posted on 08/30/2005 10:47:34 AM PDT by Xenophon450
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To: kristinn

Thank you


86 posted on 08/30/2005 10:52:00 AM PDT by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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To: TomB

Could this be the start of the Warchild9 fan club ping list?

87 posted on 08/30/2005 11:00:36 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (I wear a super hero costume while FReeping)
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To: Manic_Episode
Could this be the start of the Warchild9 fan club ping list?

Gosh I hope so.

With his level of unbridled pomposity, it could end up the biggest on FR, and most entertaining.

88 posted on 08/30/2005 11:05:13 AM PDT by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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To: wideawake

If Cindy keeps it up any longer with more important things to worry about like people's lives, she's gonna look very self-absorbed.


89 posted on 08/30/2005 11:06:22 AM PDT by foreign devil
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To: kb2614

Exactly. It's all the "Jooooos" fault. Sarcasm off.


90 posted on 08/30/2005 11:07:52 AM PDT by NYC Republican
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To: kristinn

My oh my..it's a wonderful thing to mess up a lefty's dream. Congrats all!

91 posted on 08/30/2005 11:21:20 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Earth to liberals, we were not in Iraq on 9/11 so how did the war cause terrorism again?)
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To: BufordP
The survey found that 52 percent of the public says Bush should talk to Sheehan, who has repeatedly asked for a meeting with the president, while 46 percent said he should not. Fifty-three percent support what she is doing while 42 percent oppose her actions, according to the poll.

Most of the 52% that say President Bush should talk to it are mostly unaware that they have already met. The 53% who support it are more uninformed sheep. The numbers are hardly indicative of a “galvanized” country following her.
92 posted on 08/30/2005 12:21:32 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks for the ping.


93 posted on 08/30/2005 2:11:07 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: BufordP

Thanks for the ping.


94 posted on 08/30/2005 2:11:41 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: kristinn; ALOHA RONNIE; mhking; Vets_Husband_and_Wife; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; MeekOneGOP; ...
Thanks, kristinn for the post. Great job done on last week's rally to all! From your link: The survey also suggests, however, that Sheehan's anti-war vigil has failed to mobilize large numbers of Americans against the war. If anything, her opposition has done as much to drive up support for the war as it ignite opponents, the survey found.
95 posted on 08/30/2005 3:23:18 PM PDT by JLO
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To: kristinn
"President Bush said my son died in a noble cause,
and I want to ask him what that noble cause is."

Cindy Sheehan

Cindy : Iraq Freedom is the noble cause.
No longer do I fear the butcher Saddam Hussein murdering my children!



Dallas/Fort Worth Star-Telegram 8-28-05 Jack Douglas Jr.
CRAWFORD TX-
President Bush's supporters poured into Crawford by the thousands Saturday,
for the first time outnumbering war protesters led by Cindy Sheehan,
who began a vigil here three weeks ago,
demanding a personal meeting with the vacationing president
to talk about her son's death in Iraq.

Lame Stream Media : News Flash!

President Bush already met with Cindy Sheehan in June 2004 for 10 minutes.

From The Reporter, Vacaville, CA archive: Bush, Sheehans share moments.


Quit lying!!!!







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




96 posted on 08/30/2005 3:25:44 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Never Forget)
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To: JLO; Zacs Mom; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; ...

pat yourself on the back and don't stop - ping


97 posted on 08/30/2005 3:27:23 PM PDT by bitt ('But once the shooting starts, a plan is just a guess in a party dress.' Michael Yon)
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To: Republic

you can bet your boots they have interns or paid aides always trolling the internet, fotr AND against - Karl Rove is a smart guy. Karen Hughes is also a 'smart guy'.


98 posted on 08/30/2005 3:29:03 PM PDT by bitt ('But once the shooting starts, a plan is just a guess in a party dress.' Michael Yon)
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To: Republic

you can bet your boots they have interns or paid aides always trolling the internet, for AND against - Karl Rove is a smart guy. Karen Hughes is also a 'smart guy'.


99 posted on 08/30/2005 3:29:16 PM PDT by bitt ('But once the shooting starts, a plan is just a guess in a party dress.' Michael Yon)
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To: kristinn


'You can put this one in the refrigerator. The door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O is jiggling.''
100 posted on 08/30/2005 3:33:31 PM PDT by John Lenin (Liberalism: Where shame is a virtue)
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