AH HA!! Caught ya!This morning I posted an article "written" by Cindy. I speculated at the time as to who wrote it, Cindy not having the native intelligence to do so.
And now we know. LOL
Posted on 10/20/2005 7:06:52 PM PDT by B4Ranch
KAREN POMER: THE WOMAN BEHIND CINDY SHEEHAN
Longtime publicist and organizer for far left groups Spokesman for anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan Spearheaded smear campaign against Arnold Schwarzenegger
When distraught mother turned anti-war left standard bearer Cindy Sheehan bowed out of a September 2005 speaking engagement at the University of Maryland after a mere 10 minutes, she turned to her spokeswoman, Karen Pomer, to appease her activist fan base. "She's exhausted and she's not feeling well," Pomer dutifully explained, "but she intends to meet her obligations."
The professional-sounding formulation of Pomer's rapid response was not accidental. A committed activist in her own right, Pomer, a part-time documentary filmmaker, is a longtime publicist and organizer for the far left. Based primarily in California, Pomer has been in the employ of a number of local leftist groups, including Pacifica Radio and, more recently, the pro-Castro antiwar group Code Pink, where she has been a publicist since the onset of the Iraq War in 2003.
Where politics is concerned, Pomer has never had much use for notions of fairness or civility. In the summer and fall of 2003, for instance, Pomer emerged at the head of a smear campaign to thwart Arnold Schwarzenegger's quest for the governorship of California. Central to Pomer's efforts was smearing Schwarzenegger with any number of false charges, in the hopes that one would gain traction long enough to derail campaign. In keeping with that strategy, Pomer stated in one interview that "Arnold Schwarzenegger is racist, fascist and sexist, and those are not terms I use lightly."
In fact, Pomer offered no evidence to corroborate the incendiary claims. On another occasion, Pomer smeared: "He's the kind of guy, if you met him at a bar, you'd want to push him off his barstool." Appearing on the anti-Israel, anti-war-on-terror radio show Democracy Now! in late August, Pomer stated that Schwarzenegger was an "adulterer."
That Pomer's anti-Schwarzenegger campaign was grounded more in partisanship than substance did not prevent her from getting a hearing in mainstream media outlets. Newspaper's regularly portrayed her as a politically detached civilian, moved by her experiences as a rape victim to speak out about the allegations of sexual abuse in Schwarzenegger's past. By no means atypical was a September 2003 Washington Post story. Innocently casting Pomer as a "publicist for social cause campaigns who used to work in Hollywood," the Post credulously reported that she organized protests against Schwarzenegger after hearing "stories that have been circulating around Hollywood for years." Pomer expertly played the assigned part of the civic-minded citizen: "No one was coming forward to say anything" about Schwarzenegger, she lamented, "though the stories about him are notorious." Of Pomer's longtime involvement in far left causes, no mention was made.
This lacuna cannot be attributed to an absence of evidence. Pomer has compiled a long record of support for radical causes over the years. Among them is her organizing on behalf of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal. She has also organized rallies and protest marches against everything from the Iraq war to talk radio stations owned by Clear Channel Communications, the U.S. radio giant that leftwing activists like Pomer regard as the embodiment of all things politically evil.
Pomer, who is Jewish, also nurses a strong hostility to Israel and its supporters. In 2004, for instance, Pomer joined a coven of radical feminists in denouncing radio station KPFK in California, an affiliate of Pacifica Radio, for conducting an interview with longtime feminist activist Phyllis Chesler. A thought-policing open letter to KPFK, signed by Pomer, attacked Chesler for her support of Israel, and detailed a list of her intellectual crimes: "She has written publicly that she supports the occupation of Iraq and plans to vote for Bush in November, not to mention that she has been writing frequently for FrontPageMag.com —among her fellow columnists: Ann Coulter," the later stated. Seemingly immune to the contradiction, the signatories noted that while they "welcome and respect diversity in programming," it must be "in keeping with the mission of Pacifica." Chesler's views, they made clear in no uncertain terms, were discordant with that mission, and therefore verboten.
Far more tolerant is Pomer's view of Israel's enemies. In 2005, for instance, she contacted the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles to congratulate the paper for running an article sympathetic to Rachel Corrie, the radical activist accidentally killed while obstructing the Israel's counter-terrorism efforts. Pomer praised Corrie, an implacable foe of Israel and a supporter of Palestinian terrorism, for her "message of peace and justice."
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2052
This group is now using the public access channels to present it's faux news show in the Seattle area.
I'm throwing the bullshit flag on that statement. Those are the keystone words of the left wing. When you don't have an agenda of your own or a factual response to an allegation, just call your opponent a racist.
Media Shenanigans alert!
Karen Pomer: just another "civic-minded" citizen.
10 years ago, we would have never known the difference...
I didnt think Cindy Sheehan had the common sense and expertise to be come an overnight media whore on her own.
Casey Sheehan must be very proud of the company his mother is keeping. I think I need to go vomit.
I predict that the lefties will soon tire of financing a politically inert Cindy and that she will eventually be spotted, wearing three layers of clothing in July, pushing a shopping cart through some downtown street, shouting anti-war and anti-Bush slogans at cars as they pass by and telling anybody that will listen about her affair with Jessie Jackson.
Just consider the source. She's not open minded that's for sure.
Why couldn't it be that blonde, young 'democratic strategist' who pops up from time to time on Hannity & Colmes? What a mental midget!
"So, like, you are trying to say, like...."
Cindy Sheehan was caught at a very tragic and emotional time in her life by the Left wing and they have made good use of her. They got an awful lot of air time with a brand spanking new guinea pig who won't realize for years that she was used to further a political statement.
Pomr, no doubt, is a lesbian femimista. Anyone have info?
Not something I normally look at when I'm looking at a known enemy. I don't care if she eats frogs and drinks toilet water. Anything that comes out of her mouth is automatically suspect.
and a self hating Jew as well. How can she moch her own heritage like that ?
Aw man. Now you did it. You went and said the L word.
Lesssbiannnnss.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
AH HA!! Caught ya!This morning I posted an article "written" by Cindy. I speculated at the time as to who wrote it, Cindy not having the native intelligence to do so.
And now we know. LOL
Look on the bright side. With all due respect, Casey is now in the arms of his Savior. And his future wife just dodged a huge mother-in-law bullet.
I watched that poor woman when she was down at Crawford and thought the same thing.
misguided fool has been slaming Mrs. Clintoon lately for being a war supporter, she hasn't got long for this world.
Cause if you give Mrs. Clinton guff, she has you killed.
B4Ranch - Thanks for the post
DC Chapter FYI
LOL
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