Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan waits for people to show up at her book signing near President Bush's ranch on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 in Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Posted on 11/29/2005 12:18:09 PM PST by Pikamax
Cindy Sheehan Claims Photos Falsely Implied Her Book Signing was a Flop AP The widely-used book signing picture.
By E&P Staff
Published: November 29, 2005 12:30 PM ET
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 igning in Crawford, Texas on November 26, 2005 was well attended and a huge success.”
AP has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Cindy is about to be eaten by the leftist media.
LOL
Morons deserve to be treated like morons.
Yeah, sure it was Cindy.
Oh my! It seems that we didn't see her invisible friends and fans.
Sounds like the million-mom march counters were there.
She's always got something to whine about...
This is what happens when you attack Hillary Clinton. Be thankful you still have your life, Cindy, many people before you have "committed suicide" after attacking a Clinton.
I noticed that the tent was empty too - wasn't like folks were lining up to be there.
She is getting the attention she deserves....
Picked up, eaten, spat out, and ground into the dirt.
The media uses people up and spits them out. They are not in business to admire and deify anyone longer than it proves convenient for their own purposes.
Hahahahah...everythings reletive
Why do you think that? The only reason I can conjure up would be that she's no longer useful. But instead of being "eaten" I would think the media would simply ignore her.
Awww...boohoo...dirty rotten witch!
I can't either. The MSM has hyped everything else about her, why would they throw cold water on her book signing charade . . . er . . . parade.
Well, Cindy, you've already exposed the hypocrisy of the right wingers, so nobody really pays attention to what they say. Right? So, what's the big deal?
Gee. Wonder if any of those 'right wing' sites have actual names or anything.
I am astonished that this twit is still getting any "ink" at all in any news forum. Good Lord, she should go home and zip her lips.
The spark's gone out, Ms. Cindy. Bub-bye.
Now don't that beat all. The mainstream media manipulating photos in an unflattering way for.....THE LEFT! To date that's the craziest utterance of hers.
I believe the term is "Arkancide".
Oh, the sheer inhumanity of it all!!!!!!
WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
She cant get it through her America hating head that she is old news, dead meat, a has been.
The bear is done licking the honey off her face and has turned to walk away. Cindy thinks she can get attention by smacking it on the rump.
I love watching this witch twist in the wind.
Why have they not done so?
Writer's cramp from 100 signatures? What a wimp. Or liar.
I know it's too much to ask for this person, but couldn't she at least have had the decency to place the flag in its proper place for the "signing" (which would be to her right), since she's trying to be so "patriotic"?
< sigh >
All 100 COPIES.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
That is worse than the picture...tells the expectations were nothing too...
I have been to book signings in small towns, if several hundred were not pre-sold they would cancel!
$20 a copy? That's expensive toilet paper.
"We made $2000 for the peace house.”
Care to bet on whether I'd make twice that amount if I'd written a book about you and sent all it's sales proceeds to POS (See your) House, Mizz Sheehan?
Check the reviews of this book over on Amazon. The lefties are packing it in with 5 star reviews and admitting in the review that they haven't even read the book! Then to make things even wierder, they claim that Freepers are bringing the score down with negative reviews. It is currently 4.5 stars out of 5--but at guess it has to be PERFECT for them to be happy.
Those 'thousands' of people she-nag was talking about must have been moved out of the way so Bush could show there was no one there, after all, according to she-nag, "It's All Bush's Fault"
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
HA HA HA HO HO HO
Cindy's protesting Big Media now.
So let me see, were the photos "accurate, but fake" or the photos "inaccurate, and fake", or "not-fake, but taken out of context", or . . . . . . . . . .
Sure Cin we know just how deceptive the Treason Media can be. I am sure they just want to undermine your glorious attempts to destroy the President.
LOL damn.
I have it on my home page, and I will be using it every chance I get!
Thanks Pookie18!!!
This is another one of those topics that I wonder why I am even reading it. I can only surmise that I am really bored, I think there must have been a lot of bored people for Sheehan to be a so called hot news topic ha ha ha
Though I heartily agree that Cindy Sheehani is an insufferable twit, a shameless presstitute and a disgrace to her sons memory ... she is no where near the traitor that Ramsey Clark is
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