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.
Do they want whine with that?
She wrote a book? For profit?
Wait until the Commies who support her hear this.
Oh no, not the dreaded writer's cramp.
(BTW, they misspelled crap.)
The ditch witch bashed hitlery and now she must pay!
Shhh! We're not supposed to have common sense 'round here! We're just supposed to BELIEVE!!!
There's a simple way to disprove the photo - simply list book sales for the week - something the article noticeably lacks.
"George Soros bought them all."
If $oreA$$ only bought 100 copies, Cindy's new book is a real loser.
She signed 100 books???
In my world, that's a FLOP!
When did she have time to write a book? All I ever saw her do was read books and hog the cameras......
She looks pretty wistful in these pictures.....maybe it's finally dawning on her what she gave up for her 15 minutes of fame....like her family, her self respect, her friends etc. Pretty high price!
If that's her book on the table, next to her, it sure looks might thin!
Of course, you can only write irresponsible and idiotic rants so many time before they become boring.
lol!
They're tossing her because she's served her purpose, but now she may become a liability with further scrutiny. The bloggers have been all over her outrageous comments, and the longer she stays in the limelight, the more likely those will eventually spill over into the larger media.
The books they showed on the photo looked more like a pamphlet and she sold 100 at $20 each while in a ditch. I haven't seen the books stores running out to stock their shelves. Lady is looney
"Sold all 100"
Bruce Campbell's Autobiography sold 216 at a book signing where the book store was so small it would fit into the Starbucks at most Barnes & Noble bookstores, with not even a mention of his appearance.
these were used as bon fires to keep them warm in the ditches
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