Cindy Sheehan Cuts & Runs, Leaves NPR Host Dumbfounded

NPR Talk of the Nation ^ | August 30, 2005 | NPR

[jocon307]

"I love how Crazy Cindy continues to refer to HERSELF as a grieving mother in interviews."

Yes, that's very weird and dissociative. This woman needs psychiatric care, it's quite obvious. She's completely abandoned her three other children in this bizarre quest. It's almost like she only loved Casey, and now that he's gone her life is ruined. Very sick stuff, but people have gone insane before over smaller things.

I was very angry with her at first, and in a way, of course, I still am. But I feel sorry for her too now, and very sorry for the rest of her family.

[TaxRelief]

The next part of the interview is the real clincher:

Joining us now is Gary Qualls. He's the father of Marine Reservist Louis Qualls who died in Fallujah, Iraq, in November of 2004. He lives in Temple, Texas, and he's set up a counterencampment.

And, Mr. Qualls, nice of you to join us today.

Mr. GARY QUALLS (Louis Qualls' Father): How are you doing today, sir?

CONAN: I'm very well. Tell us a little bit about your son.

Mr. QUALLS: Louis was raised in a Christian environment. I've been--most of my time I've been a single parent raising two boys what best I can, and I lost my son in the battle for! Fallujah, and he's followed through a military background. That's al l I've ever done is worked with the federal government and the military. I did 28 years. And he, too, wanted to serve, and he looked at me as his hero, and this man and all the other who serve, they're my heroes. They've stood forth and they've gone to fight terrorism, which was brought to this country, and we can't afford to sit around and wait to have another 3,000 or another 3,000. We have to fight this and follow this course through.

CONAN: When you say another 3,000, you're referring to the deaths on September the 11th?

Mr. QUALLS: Yes, sir. And even one of the 9/11 survivors are out here supporting the movement that's here--and not on Cindy Sheehan's side.

CONAN: No, I understand. What prompted you to speak out like this?

Mr. QUALLS: Say again?

CONAN: What prompted you to decide to speak out like this?

Mr. QUALLS: Well, my first phone call on--you know, I had listened to the news and I had heard about Cindy Sheehan being out here protesting which, you know, she had all that right--and then I found out that she represented a site that was called Gold Star Families for Peace. Well, I had went on her Web site and I had found her cell phone number and I had called her up, and through--you know, I had introduced myself and through a casual conversation I then asked her if she could--you know, if I could ask her a question, and she said, " yes". I asked her to explain her motives and what she was trying to gain by protesting at President Bush's ranch, and all of a sudden there was a hostile voice that came back on and she started tapping on the phone voice emitter and she started saying, "Hello, hello. We have a communication problem here. Hello, hello?" And then she hung up on me. And immediately right afterward I called back up, she never would answer her phone. So I left her a voicemail message, and I gave her...you know, told her how rude she was and inconsiderate. That was impolite and very un-American.

CONAN: I can testify; We just had an experience a few minutes ago. Cell phone service in Crawford is not terrific.

Mr. QUALLS: Right. Well, when you're way out there in the middle, there's one thing about it--and she did try to say that she lost a signal with me, which I know that wasn't true because she said she was en route to Dallas.

[bannie]

I think the expiration date on this idiot's usefulness is coming up real soon.

What do you suppose she'll do when she's been dumped by her new-best-friends?

[bannie]

It's almost like she only loved Casey

I think the limelight has blinded her.

[armymarinemom]

CS: Um, he, he, when we’d ask him about all these things that your recruiter promised you, he’s just say, “Well, Mom, you know, it’s the Army. They didn’t tell us they didn’t have to fulfill their promises. We were the only ones who had to fulfill our promises.”

Moot point since he also reenlisted. This lady really stutters unless she reads statements.

[pepsionice]

Here she had the king of the softball league...tossing mostly easy questions. NPR was prepared to help really show more of her case. But the commentator started to shift gears on her...and she wasn't capable enough to grasp that. What you saw was someone who probably has smoked a bit of weed in her life...I've seen educated people like this...not able to fully use verbage or grasp conversational changes. She couldn't move onto to sub-topics. There were things that she simply wasn't going to talk about and had no real verbage to avoid that. Even the NPR host grasped the limited abilities of Cindy. I think the obvious question to pose to Cindy next time is "just how much weed have you smoked in your life", and watch for a quick topic change.

[Oztrich Boy]

CS:Well, he got lied to by his recruiter. His recruiter made him five promises that he broke all the promises to Casey.

CINDY SHEEHAN: "My son told me not to worry. He signed up for the other army, the one with the condos and the weekend excursions to exotic places.”

[jocon307]

"He signed up for the other army, the one with the condos and the weekend excursions to exotic places.”

Isn't that the Navy?

[jocon307]

PS: maybe there are just a lot of unresolved issues between Cindy and her son. I read his answers to her as rather evasive. Maybe this is why she's so nutzo about his death. Because, you know, I can see how that would be a killer. Her neediness and rage are truly frightening to see.

[I still care]

I don't know how to ping this to everyone who posted here, but they should listen to the part of the interview just before Cindy says, "I have two minutes" with their speakers loud.

She says very clearly, "This guy's a dick". Another freeper found it, and if you listen for it, it's quite clear.

[BushisTheMan]

How can you stretch the truth when everything is written down. My son READ and then signed his papers. He also negotiated certain things into the contract.

[BushisTheMan]

Cindy Sheehan has chosen to lie to promote the anti-war agenda that she was involved in long before Casey’s death. Sheehan excuses, but never produce documentation, that Casey was tricked into joining the Army by a recruiter who allegedly claimed that he would serve as a Chaplin’s assistant. Instead, Casey ended up as a machinist and he must have enjoyed his vocation, because in 2003 he reenlisted with full knowledge that his unit would likely be sent Iraq. If he had requested a Chaplin’s assistant job, as a condition of reenlistment, it would have been guaranteed, in writing, as part of the Army’s Bonus Extension and Retaining Program. Mother Sheehan can’t produce these DD4 documents because Casey Sheehan likely never made such an agreement. More importantly, a Chaplin’s assistant is a combat position but his job assignment of machinist was not. When Casey died he had volunteered to go into combat to rescue his comrades.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I just heard this. Amazing.

[I still care]

I sent it on to Rush, but it might be too blue to play on air.

[higgmeister]

Well, he got lied to by his recruiter.

Oh my word no! A recruiter wouldn't lie!

Let me guess, his commander lied when he re-upped too, right Cindy?