Posted on 03/02/2006 6:16:17 PM PST by armymarinemom
CNSNews.com) - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Thursday denied that she participated in a protest organized by the group Code Pink and conducted in front of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center last October.
Cybercast News Service reported Wednesday that Sheehan did take part in the Oct. 28, protest, but has since changed her mind about demonstrating at hospital venues. She has labeled a planned anti-war demonstration for March 11 in front of the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany inappropriate.
On Thursday, Sheehan was urging Cybercast News Service to "correct our article."
"I did not participate in the vigil outside of Walter Reed. I delivered flowers and get well card...and then left," Sheehan wrote in an e-mail.
"I have always been opposed to the vigil that my dear friends do outside of Walter Reed...they know it. I have encouraged them to move it to the Pentagon," Sheehan wrote.
Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in the Iraq war in 2004, is the author of "Not One More Mother's Child" and the founder and president of Gold Star Families for Peace.
"I love Code Pink and everything they do, but have been philosophically opposed to their vigil in front of WR (Walter Reed) ever since they started it," she added.
"I never would go there and hold a sign or stand out in the vigil. I just drove up, went into Walter Reed, gave them a get well card and then left," Sheehan later said in a telephone interview.
However, Code Pink's own website features an article from Oct. 28, 2005, -- the date of the protest in question -- describing Sheehan's involvement.
The Code Pink article, entitled "Walter Reed Vigil Report No. 11," stated that "twenty to thirty people participated in tonight's vigil, including Cindy Sheehan who took flowers and a large 'get well' card signed by many fellow Americans into Walter Reed, where she was greeted warmly."
As Cybercast News Service previously reported, the protesters outside the Walter Reed Army Medical Center sparked controversy, not only for their choice of location, but for their signs, which read "Maimed for a Lie" and "Enlist here to die for Halliburton." The protesters stood in front of the same entrance to the hospital that some wounded soldiers and their family members were using.
Kristinn Taylor, the co-leader of the District of Columbia chapter of FreeRepublic.com and an eyewitness to Sheehan's Oct. 28 visit to Walter Reed, dismissed Sheehan's attempt to distance herself from the Code Pink sponsored anti-war protest at the hospital.
"Scheduling her media stunt to coincide precisely with the Code Pink demonstration and standing with them for about five minutes definitely puts her seal of approval on Code Pink's vile demonstration outside the gates of the hospital," Taylor told Cybercast News Service.
Sheehan's current view of the protests outside hospitals reflects her concern "about getting yet another black eye in the media."
"She has come under intense criticism from some on her side about her antics," Taylor added.
On Thursday, Sheehan reiterated her bitterness about the war in Iraq and the pain of her personal loss. "I feel my son died for a lie. I feel that Casey did die for a lie," Sheehan said.
Who is Cindy Sheehan? Was she someone important?
Wow, Cindy Sheehan was just proven to be a blatantly lying, evil b*tch. Who would have imagined this possible?
Photos?
No. Just someone who wants to be.
A legend in her own mind.
Wasn't she one of them Dixie Chicks thingys?
Bump
Ping. I figure you might have some comments on this one.
I didn't participate before I did bump.
Go, Kristinn!
Did anyone ever think that this piss-ant, traitor, grave-stomping woman would ever need to do her own "media spin" ala Hillary to try to come back to center, covering up who she really is?
Every day is an Adventure in Media, isn't it? Yeesh.
She has earned her PINK FLIP FLOPS.
It was merely a coincidence that she just happened to be entering Walter Reed with flowers and Candy at the same Friday night Code Pink was tyhere demonstrating.
Does anyone believe that?? If you do I have a bridge in can sell you--cheap.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Lots of pics always taken at those counter protest's aka freeps I suspect that someone has one of of this trash doing just what she denies......
"If you do I have a bridge in can sell you--cheap."
And I have Arizona Lakefront Property for sale if you're interested, LOL! ;)
So? In my humble experience, every staffer at Walter Reed is as nice as can be. They smile and greet everyone warmly.
She did not participate before she did participate.
Anyone else see a contridiction there?
More Lies From The Left
ping
She's been back-tracking on a lot of the anti-American anti-Semitic stuff lately trying to get 15 more minutes.
Thanks for staying ontop of these jerks Kristinn
Pinging you, in case you have any photos of Sheehan at WRAMC on Oct 28th.
If I recall correctly, Cindy was greeted warmly by all the Code Pinkos -- with adulation and lots of hugs. The reports we received on her visit to WRAMC made note of the fact that Cindy stayed about five minutes, asked to use the restroom and then returned to more hugs from her fans and colleagues and a fairly quick get-a-way from the scene. Of course, she had been demonstrating earlier at the White House and was probably a bit fatigued from all the attention.
Any photographic evidence Cindy was there????
She wasn't there long enough! Sneeky B hid in the shadows behind the commies.
She left more than flowers and a card, too; she made a "pit stop".
Thanks for the ping, tiggles.
Nice smack-down, kristinn.
A: About 50 years and a Code Pink t-shirt.
LOL!
He certainly has no trouble remembering to trash his fellow vets as killers and rapists?
Veterans For Peace always seem to be the Veterans With Lies.
She didn't deliver the items to any soldiers inside there, either.
Andi, of Andi's World blog also reports on that evening.
The Gunn Nutt's blog also has a report.
Landry's Life blog also has a report.
Code Pink's pet rodent, Weasel's blog also reports about Sheehan's visit (though he missed seeing her, too).
And of course, Code Pink's own "vigil" report #11, written by OPEIU Local 2's own Bruce Wolf (or maybe by his "Master Storyteller" wife, Candace - who really knows for sure?) tells of Cindy Sheehan's participation in the protest. Well, it's there now... until Code Pink yanks that particular report from their website.
I didn't get any photos of Mother Sheehan that night; I just checked my files.
But W04Man was there with his video camera. I'm hoping he may have some shots of the grieving mother standing with the hospital protesters.
The Cindy Sheehan appearance was underwhelming. She stood with the Pinkos a short time on the "bad side of the street" (as soldiers call the Code Pink side) and walked through the Walter Reed gate by herself. Several of our patriots, who have access to military facilities, discreetly walked a distance behind her. She may have deposited a thank you card and a small bouquet of flowers at the information desk, but then she promptly left the base after briefly being inside a building. She did not meet with any soldiers.
After Sheehan left the base, she simply stood with the Pinkos very briefly before she and her handler, left the event. She was on base no more than 5 minutes and was at the Code Pink event less than 30 minutes. With no press around, she sure wasn't going to stay there.
She should go into law.
"Scheduling her media stunt to coincide precisely with the Code Pink demonstration and standing with them for about five minutes definitely puts her seal of approval on Code Pink's vile demonstration outside the gates of the hospital," Taylor told Cybercast News Service.
Oh my God, that is hillarious!
Actually it was the lack of attention from the MSM that led to her hasty departure. The press didn't show up to record her visit to the hospital after she announced where she would be. She just can't seem to do anything without a lot of cameras to record the whole event!
Not that I know of.
LOL! That kills me every time I see it.
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