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.
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LOL!
It was a very successful flop
Yea right, and we have some ocean front property in New Mexico for sale.
Sorry, dup.
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"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.” "
I'm sure that will put her on the NYT bestsellers list. /sarc
Hey Shindy, a picture is worth a thousand words!
Too funny : )
I think it's actually:
"Do you want some cheese to go with that whine?"
Strong indicator of a failed campaign: When you start complaining the media coverage is unfair. It's over Cindy, pack up your memories and just go away.
If you want to snort your coffee out through your nose and all over your keyboard take a look at how the DUmmies are reacting to this story.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1954447
They have FINALLY posted on it. Funny as hell one is asking for photos of people getting books at that event to counter the claims it was a failure. No counter photos yet.
MUCHO BWAAAHAAAHAAAAHAAAHAAAH
Several years ago, my friend and I produced a video, "The Etiquitte of Golf" and sold about 30,000 copies, making a modest profit. When going out to sell it in public, if we sold 100 tapes at a sitting, we knew it was a bust. {But we were actually trying to make money}.
Cindy the martyr!
My question is who Photoshopped all those eager book recipients out of the picture? and why'd they put such a distressed look on already such a weary face?
She needs a much better PR MAN to avoid snafus like that.
Hehe.
DA740
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