Posted on 08/17/2005 8:56:44 AM PDT by hipaatwo
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, ABC now says it talked to Sheehan and she said she did in fact write the letter in question after all and she did receive an e-mail from ABC confirming that ABC had received it. But she thinks the version on the web has been tampered with. Very, very strange...
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:
Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel.
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.
I just went over to CNN's website. I still don't see a correction.
And Congressional run, of course pissy chrissy matthews will leave out her david duke endorsement(ala robert byrd).
And lying. Typical Hysteric Leftist ploy. The letter hurts the propaganda line of "Grieving Mother" they are spending so much time and money creating. So her handlers told her to just go out and lie. They were relying on their tame stooges in the Dinosaur Media to bury it under all the gushing coverage. Probably would of worked a decade ago when the Left still had most of a lock on the information flow.
The letter totally undercuts the bambi image of Cindy Sheehan as a grieving mother with NO political agenda.
How many jigs have to be up before the MSM realizes they've hung their coats on a total flake?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464596/posts?page=114#114
Get a load of this BS
Her husband didn't want her to find out ???
And now she is claiming someone else (Ted Bettag) changed the words of her orginal email
Oh and I like how she is calling us Right Wingers
The true Cindy is starting to come out of that shell
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 11); Putting out fires
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
The right wingers are really having a field day with me. It hurts me really badly, but I am willing to put up with the crap, if it ends the war a minute sooner than it would have. I would like to address some specific concerns that have been raised against me.
The first one is about my divorce. I addressed this on my blog the other night. My divorce was in the works way before I came out to Crawford. My husband filed the papers before this all started. It just recorded last Friday. My husband didn’t know that it would become public record, and public knowledge. He had told his lawyer not to serve me with the paperwork or even bother me while I was at Camp Casey. He was trying to do the right thing. He didn’t want me to find out. Enough about that.
Another “big deal” today was the lie that I had said that Casey died for Israel. I never said that, I never wrote that. I had supposedly said it in a letter that I wrote to Ted Koppel’s producer in March. I wrote the letter because I was upset at the way Ted treated me when I appeared at a Nightline Town Hall meeting in January right after the inauguration. I felt that Ted had totally disrespected me. I wrote the letter to Ted Bettag and cc’d a copy to the person who gave me Ted’s address. I believe he changed the email and sent it out to capitalize on my new found notoriety by promoting his own agenda. Enough about that.
I didn’t blog about the cross incident last night. I was at the Peace House when there was a big commotion and people started saying that someone had run over our Arlington Crawford display. I know this is old news because I have seen great posts about it today. This is how I feel. The right wingers are emailing me and spewing filth about me on the radio and on the television saying that I am dishonoring my son’s memory. This man who ran over the crosses thinks he is a better American than we are. He thinks he is more patriotic than we are. Does he really believe that he is honoring the memories of the fallen and his country by running down 500 crosses and about 60 American flags? The Iraq Veterans Against the War who were here were also very offended. Those crosses represented their buddies who didn’t make it home. And they are so aware of the fact that one of those crosses could have their name on it.
Yesterday, we had a counter protestor who played his guitar across the way from us and sang (very terribly!!!) a song that loosely went like this:
Aiding and abetting the enemy.
How many ghosts did you make today?
Google me this, Google me that,
How many ghosts did you make today?
I find it so ironic that he was singing it to me, and not to George Bush. We named the song: The Ballad of George Bush. He came back out today, but blessed be to God, he didn’t bring his guitar, and he didn’t sing.
We are moving to a place that doesn’t have much shade and I put out an appeal for tarps and a soldier from Ft. Hood brought some to us that he “borrowed” from Ft. Hood for us to use. I have had a lot of soldiers from Ft. Hood come out and tell me to keep it up and that I am doing a good thing. We are doing this to honor Casey and the other fallen heroes in their memories. But we are doing it FOR the people of Iraq and the other soldiers who are in harm’s way right now. Right after we heard about the crosses last night, a Camp Casey volunteer found out that a pen pal she had in Iraq was KIA on August 12th. This has to stop, now. We will stop it.
114 posted on 08/17/2005 5:04:38 AM EDT by Mo1
How long until the next Jersey Girl/ Cindy Sheehan template pops up again on Hardball?
Seems they never will. When hate drives you, it's hopeless.
In addition, Cindy has been coached for the last several months by a far left PR firm to get her ready for these antics. It is a coreiographed and contrived protest that seeks to use her "grieving mom" image in order to push the most hateful and virulent anti-American themse that did not take hold in the general population when the likes of Michael Moore pushed them.
Cindy's messages are full of hate and very bad language. She calls the president a liar (using all types of adjectives), she calls him a murderer, she calls him the worst of all terrorists. She has likened Rumsfeld and Condi to Hitler and Stalin. Hitler and Stalin brutally subjected and killed millions of their own...Cindy is free to spew her vitriol outside of the President's ranch...how can anyone take someone who makes such comparisons seriously? Yet the complicit MSM, who knows all of these things, gives her air time and serves up softball interviews to help her spread this absolute disgusting spectacle.
She has said that this nation is not worth dieing for and has blatanly given out flyers at her speaking engagements asking if we should in fact support the Iraqi insurgents, the very people who killed her son.
This is an absolute wresting and perversion of a mother's grief...and has nothing to do with grief. It is hate, hate of everything her son committed himself to and died defending. That is what really is eating at Cindy.
Her handlers hope to use her status as a grieving mother to shield her from scrutiny and dispute...but it is not going to work.
Here's my open letter to Cindy Sheehan
That sentiment is being shared and arrived at by more and more people as the true nature of her "protest" and the motivations for it are revealed. Cindy Sheehan herself is a willing member of the extreme far left and has desecrated her loayal American son's memory and last full measure of devotion and has abandoned her husband of 28 years and family for this hateful, anti-American cause. May God have mercy on her soul.
The demented Mr. Dan Rather and the "braindead" Ms. Cindy Sheehan would make a perfect married couple!!!
Google cached her e-mail. How long before google erases the proof that Sheehan is misrepresenting the facts?
Very true, I don't like most of the Democrat pundits, but a few aren't so bad, at least I can laugh at them!
Well, Cindy if it's sooooo bad here, don't let the door hit you.
Project for the New American Century, founded by several key players in the Bush Administration. See their website:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
THANK YOU FREEPERS
I imagine it will be on after another until the public has the good sense to elect a 'Crap President? I know that's how it worked with the "homeless".
< Notice how Karl Rove is no longer on the front page at the moment because that was going nowhere, so they latch on to this Cindy Sheehan... >
...and before that was Tom Delay...and before that was Abu Grabe (sp) and the list goes on.
They're testing spaghetti. They don't care what the issue is. They just want "something" to stick.
Amazing find. The hits just keep coming and yet the media continues on continuing on with their love affair with this traitor.
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