Posted on 11/29/2005 11:58:08 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
NEW YORK 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 signing in Crawford, Texas on November 26, 2005 was well attended and a huge success.”
Asked for a response, an AP spokesman commented this afternoon:
"Photographer Evan Vucci, queried about the incident today said that he was present at the book signing from about 10 a.m. to about 11 a.m. During that time, he said, people were coming in to have their books signed in small groups of a few at a time.
"At the time the photos were taken 'maybe 5 people had come in,' Vucci says, and Sheehan was waiting for more to stop by, which they did individually as well as in very small groups. Therefore the wording of the caption is accurate in that Sheehan was waiting for people to show up at her signing."
We have it all wrong. The camera man showed up so it was a huge succkercess.
They can't do that...there's all those anxious fans all over the country waiting to see her and touch her (yuk!)
"We made $2000 for the peace house.”
So that's what they're calling whore houses these days...I thought it was piece though.
If KOA Publishing is the same company that owns KOA Campgrounds, they could always get rid of the other 1,900 in the bathrooms.
You got the spelling wrong, it's a Dimoleftist
desperate 'Piece House'.
Book??? -- LOL
THAT'S the BOOK!!??
It didnt occur to me, I thought it was the book cover or something!
Cliff Note Summary: She Hates Bush
Doing my duty as my tagline demands I have made frequent forays to the Dark Side to see if and what the DUmmies have to say about this story. Its a hoot! They are implying that indeed a crowd was there to get books signed....but they were lined up outside. A DUmmie requested that someone provide photos of people massing to get signed copies be posted so they could prove how the media is screwing over Cindy S by lying about the event. return visits to DUmmieland have revealed no photos posted yet. Some postings there have shrugged off the declining support numbers as unimportant as it is the "Symbolism" that is important. Hey you could say that as well about any undermedicated nutcase who is standing on a corner alone and handing at smudgy conspiracy tracts anywhere in the country. "It's the symbolism that matters" Bwaaaaahaaaaahaaaaahaaaaa
Cindy who?
It took place inside...
Yeah, we know there were at least two photographers there. Produce the pictures or shut up!
Douhle D-IMMPs, don't even have a passing aquaintance
with reality, much less any integral adherence to the
truth.
"Speaking Truth to Power!" HAH! What a threadbare
cynically trite cliche of the Lying Left.
You have too wonder how many of the crowd of 100 were camp followers and ringers. The left routinely busses in union thugs, welfare frauds, etc. to boost attendance to their events.
Want a good book?
I highly reccommend. "Unhinged Exposing Liberals Gone Wild" by Michelle Malkin. I'm on my second read.
Who are you gonna believe, Cindy or your lying eyes?
Way too expensive to replace the Sears catalog in the back house.
Thank you for your forays into the Dark Side, and the info you learn there. I'm too afraid I would recognize my ex over there ... and ruin a year's worth of therapy. :-)
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.”
----Whatever, Cindy. You are still a disgrace to the memory of Casey Sheehan and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for dragging his name and memory down in order to get attention.
Welcome to FR (belatedly)
Now that song will be going through my head all day! ("They call me Baby Driver, and once upon a set of wheels...")
Cindy... I don't care what you say and don't care what you've said. You're wrong, you're lying and you're in a crowd that hates this country.
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