ABC Confirms: Sheehan Wrote the Letter

Rich Lowry is reporting on the Corner that Sheehan wrote the letter. You know, the one in which she said her son was killed for lies, the neocon agenda, and Israel — things she denied on CNN ever having said:

In a nut shell indeed. So let me get this straight: Cindy Sheehan fires off a letter to ABC after an appearance on Nightline in which she felt Ted Koppel wronged her by "dismissing" her as "emotional." Then, at least according to what Sheehan told ABC, someone tampered with the version of her letter online, specifically this paragraph:

Does this explanation even make sense? First, that paragraph follows from the main thrust of her letter, which is a rebuke to Ted Koppel for dismissing her as emotional. Second, the sentiments expressed in that paragraph echo sentiments Sheehan has expressed many times before and since she wrote that letter. It's becoming more and more clear that Cindy Sheehan lied to Anderson Cooper in order to make herself seem more mainstream to CNN's audience. (But with her record of anti-American vitriol, that's not likely to happen anytime soon.)

ABC News also said they spoke to CNN to see if they are going to run a correction about the statement Anderson Cooper made that "ABC News does not seem to be confirming this is what Cindy Sheehan wrote to them." In fairness to CNN, that conclusion seemed reasonable yesterday. Today, the most likely conclusion is that Cindy Sheehan is making up totally implausible excuses for lying on TV.

Cindy seems to diss Ted Koppel and now has put CNN in the position of calling ABC liars. Cindy also has been blaming the press for the circus atmosphere at Crawford. The media will play for awhile but again, if it turns to make them look bad they will abandon her in a New York minute.

Don't forget the Trippi phone conference where Cindy goes after NBC and says "We all know who owns them"

Translation .. General Electric .. aka The Evil Government

"I wonder what Anderson Cooper is going to do now? I wonder what the rest of the main stream whores are going to do about Cindy?"

Probably nothing. They will try to let Camp Cindy get away with what she has said unchallenged. Remember Cindy Sheehan is just the latest in a string of Lib MSM attempts at smearing Bush. She isn't the first and won't be the last. Don't forget the Wellstone memorial, Bill Burkett/Rather/Mapes, Joe Wilson, Jersey Girls, Richard Clarke, the anti- iraq war vets Chris Matthews puts on his show on a nightly basis as if there are no iraq war vets supporting the war... The Lib media tries to create folk heroes of them.

http://media.nationalreview.com/073220.asp

The Markup
Even if She Didn't Write the Letter...

as Rich points out, "it is certainly the kind of thing Sheehan would write or say."

Let's review some of Cindy Sheehan's greatest hits (that we can definitely attribute to her):

You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism.

That lying bastard, George Bush, is taking a five-week vacation in time of war. You get that maniac out here to talk with me in person.

The other thing I want him to tell me is 'just what was the noble cause Casey died for?' Was it freedom and democracy? Bull***t! He died for oil. He died to make your friends richer. He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East.

It’s okay for Israel to occupy Palestine, but it’s – yeah – and it’s okay for Iraq to occupy – I mean, for the United States to occupy Iraq, but it’s not okay for Syria to be in Lebanon. They’re a bunch of f***ing hypocrites!

I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people, like my sister over here says, since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bull***t to my son and my son enlisted. I’m going all over the country telling moms: This country is not worth dying for.

9/11 was their Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through and, if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go and try and defend this morally repugnant system we have.

Protesting is not enough! We must take radical action against the fascists in our own country! Bring it down! Bring it all down! [begins dancing furiously]
All of those quotes (see here and here) are attributable to Cindy Sheehan (except the last one, which is attributable to the Michael Moore puppet in Team America). Next to those, does it matter if she did or didn't say her son died for Israel?

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