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.
I bet no one has even thought this abscense of supporters is because she DARED to attack Queen Hillary.
ROFL
She should be wondering why her friends at AP published the pic... They've cut her loose.
hahaha....
the only people there were three photographers!
Cindy who?
I see the MSM uses her son's death as a tag line everytime they use her NAME. What a disgraceful way to exploit his honorable service.
Amazon has it ranked at #3,795 - it's really flying out the door over there!
Why do the gold star family people hang blue stars from the tent roof?
This story/controversy is all the proof you really need that Cindy has always been about camera-whoring and never about her cause (whatever it may be).
That's the truth!
Repetitive stress, writing the same inscription to "Georgie Soros" over and over again.
"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.”
Yeah, I know, I know, the band was on break and you had writer's cramp, so everyone left.....
LOL! I love your work.
Next time have her sit in a one hole privy and sign them.
Uh uh uh, uh uh uh, uh uh
Take a close look at the picture. It sure looks like she is signing pictures of herself....but she's no publicity hound, no sirree...
"I sold all 100 copies". Nuf said!!
That's not a book. That's a flyer. And I'd bet she didn't even write that!
Have you read any of the reviews? It looks like many of them are written by DU'ers or KOSmunists. A lot of slams at freepers.
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