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."
My daddy got a big promotion
My mamma got a raise in pay
There’s no-one home, we’re all alone
Oh come int my room and play
Yes we can play.
I’m not talking about your pigtails
But I’m talking ’bout your sex appeal
Hit the road and I’m gone ah
What’s my number
I wonder how your engine feels...
VRRRRrrrrrrrooooom!
:o)
aaahhhhh!
Now it is embedded permanently!!!
;) :)
100 books in 13 hours= .13 books per hour
What a LOSER!!!
MUWAHHahahahahahah!
My machavellian plot Du Jour!, has been accomplished
before most people have gotten up for the dat! >B-)
Try *not* to think of my theme music when you go
through your day today! It'll be there with you
going to your car...on the elevator..on your
bathroom break!...Enjoy your inner "Baby Driver"
For tommorrow Pinky, we shall conquer the *world*!
LOL
Reminds me of that shot a few years back of the Pali kid throwing the rock. AP, Reuters, AFP, et al showed a kid flinging a rock while holding a Pali flag against a background of a rubble strewn street. One reporter went to the other side and showed the same scene against a background of twenty photographers, making it obvious that the shot was staged from the git-go.
Demislammunists!
Yeah, she looks like she got writer's cramp alright! I guess the 100 that came out and heard her speak, bought her book and she signed them. I'm sure that included the 2 cameramen and the other 98 were MSM.
They were all bought by her girl friend.
100 books in 13 hours= .13 books per hour
What a LOSER!!!
No, that would be just over 7.69 books per hour. One book per 0.13 hours (7 minutes, 48 seconds).
Were they all bought by George Soros?
True plus if she sold "all 100 books" and they were $15 each that would only be $1500 dollars.
No doubt Cindy's opus was ghostwritten and the publisher bought back the entire print run.
Thanks for your thankless job. I once went to that site but could not stomach it. I appreciate the reports.
Cindy is a hoot. I hope they keep her in the news.
Her son was a hero. She is a disgrace.
HAHAHAHAHA....:)
Bob has been busy in the last few days. He's in moonbat heaven.
That 2nd pic is something out of a Sgt Pepper cover wannabe lol
Good thing I looked. I was ready to post Scott Stantis's great cartoon. Thanks for getting it on this thread.
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