Posted on 11/29/2005 9:47:01 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and her book publisher are upset about Associated Press and Reuters photos that allegedly presented a misleading impression of her book signing last weekend in Texas.
Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, gained wide fame last summer in an antiwar protest near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and then in a march in Washington, D.C. She returned to Crawford last week for a Thanskgiving protest. Her new book, “Not One More Mother's Child,” had just been published, and her publisher organized a book signing in a large tent in Crawford on Saturday.
Photos of the event, carried widely on the Web, and then picked up by conservative blogs, seemed to imply that the book signing was a bust. The photos showed Sheehan looking dejected, sitting at a table, with no one in the tent except for a couple of photographers. The AP caption simply read: “Anti-war activist CindySheehan waits for people to show up at her book signing near President Bush's ranch on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 in Crawford, Texas.”
The Washington Post, which carried Evan Vucci's AP photo, noted that at a protest the same day Sheehan had addressed a crowd of only about 100. “In the morning,” the Post observed, “Sheehan signed copies of her new book, being published this week, for an even smaller crowd,” although it cited bad weather as a possible factor.
But in a statement today, Sheehan accused “right-wing” sites of “spreading a false story that nobody bought my book at Camp Casey on Saturday. That is not true, I sold all 100 copies and got writer's cramp signing them. Photos were taken of me before the people got in line to have me sign the book. We made $2000 for the peace house.”
Her publisher, Arnie Kotler at Koa Books, meanwhile released a letter to her supporters, charging that “AP and Reuters posted photos - I can't imagine why - of Cindy sitting at the book table between signings, rather than while someone was at the table. And now the smear websites are circulating an article, with these photos, that Cindy gave a signing and nobody came. It's simply not true…. the benefit books igning in Crawford, Texas on November 26, 2005 was well attended and a huge success.”
AP has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Thanks. Looks like a big seller!
/Sarcasm
Gee, Amazon has remove almost all of the negative reviews.
They are on my list too.
Thanks for the post WCC!!
Those over sized crayons are extra hard on the hand muscles.
ROTFLOL!!! OMG, this article is hilarious – and I love your graphic. LOL.
Hey Cindy - read THIS!
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LOL, I love this one Phil. Great job!!!
“spreading a false story that nobody bought my book at Camp Casey on Saturday. That is not true, I sold all 100 copies and got writer's cramp signing them. Photos were taken of me before the people got in line to have me sign the book. We made $2000 for the peace house.”
Thanks for the ping, Eaker. I needed a good laugh tonight!
Cindy swallows
"This useless treasonous waste of air ate traditional Iraqi food for Thanksgiving while camped at Crawford.
I don't know whether to laugh or vomit. :)"
As long as she wasn't planting any IEDs on the road to Bush's ranch...
This non event reminds of the decades of non events the left wing lunatics have had in N California in and near Gayfrisco.
If the maggot infested renta mob was discounted, no one came besides the organizers and their gay lover.
Yet the coverage by the local rags and MSM out of Gay Frisco was spun to look like a massive crowd.
Too funny potlatch, LOL
SEE, I'm not a FReep-a-holic, I'm being creative on the web!
Oh man, that's good.
Amazon has it at 5,988 now. Really hot isn't it?
The DUmmies are calling this site Freak Repugnik.
Why those dirty rats, I'll moidur 'em !!
Hey, Cindy. Now you know how conservatives feel when the MSM says "a few hundred" turned out to protest when it was really a few thousand, or say "over a thousand" when it was really closer to ten thousand, neither of which is technically inaccurate but very misleading.
I'll have to assume that since they're on your side, they did what they had to in order to make the turnout appear even better than it was.
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