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.
Where are the pictures??? I didn't see them!
100 copies! Zooming right to #1 on the NYT Best Seller list. LOL.
Didn't she say something bad about Hillary? INSUBORDINATION!
100 copies of what? She has nothing to say.
Cindy and her publisher must be on hallucenogenic drugs.
ALL THOSE PEOPLE! HUGE SUCCESS!
Is there anybody stupid enough to believe them? Not here!
What a joke!
Now those two idiots can go wipe the egg of their faces!
Ahahaha!!!!
She got "writers cramp" from signing 100 books! Well, bless her heart.
I wonder if she has a problem with all those pictures of Cheney sneering or Bush looking confused that they almost always seem to post in the newspapers for no other apparent reason than to undermine the President.
What's she complaining about? She got her photo in the news again. Isn't that all she wants anyway?
She should consider it a "successful flop" (but alas, perhaps the last one).
DA740
She must be as overly verbose with the pen as she is with her mouth.
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More pics on Amazon. Book is already selling new and used for $8.95.
All 100? My, my..........NYT Bestseller material fer shure.......
LoL
My theory is they decided to demolish her because they are fickle, but mostly because she dared to criticize Hilary.
Hey, I resemble that remark.
Thats great!
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