Posted on 05/28/2007 11:24:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sheehan's Democrat Party Exit Ignored: Are Media Antiwar or Just Anti-Bush? Posted by Noel Sheppard on May 28, 2007 - 13:44.
It’s been a full 48 hours since antiwar icon Cindy Sheehan publicly announced that she was leaving the Democrat Party due to Thursday’s bipartisan agreement on an Iraq war funding bill.
Yet, Google News and LexisNexis searches have identified that not one major media outlet has covered her announcement.
Not one.
Given the media’s fascination with this woman since she traveled to Crawford, Texas, in August 2005 to picket near President Bush’s ranch, one must wonder why they have abandoned her now?
Does this suggest that the media’s antiwar proclivities are only important when they shed a negative light on the Administration and Republicans, but not when events such as this speak poorly about Democrats?
Before you answer, consider the following data. Since August 1, 2005:
* CNN has aired 511 segments which included Sheehan’s name * ABC has aired 92 * NBC has aired 75 * CBS has aired 63 * The Associated Press has published 280 articles which included Sheehan’s name * The New York Times has published 147 * The Washington Post quite coincidentally has also published 147 * The Los Angeles Times has published 122 * USA today has published 40.
Please be advised that this data is un-audited, and unchecked for duplications. However, it is quite clear that Sheehan, when she served a function of embarrassing the Bush administration, got a lot of attention.
In fact, as you might imagine, many of the 1,447 reports referenced above included actual interviews with Sheehan. And, if we broaden our search to include all major American press outlets, we find a total of 2,272 articles or transcripts referring to Sheehan since August 1, 2005.
Yet, when she made a major announcement concerning her departure from the Democrat Party for antiwar reasons, not one media organization thought it was newsworthy.
What’s the only logical conclusion?
Cindy Sheehan only had value to the press when her antiwar sentiments embarrassed the President. But, when she attacked Democrats for betraying their antiwar campaign promises, she became persona non grata.
How disgraceful.
In fairness, as the following links attest, we here at NewsBusters have also paid a lot of attention to Sheehan since August 1, 2005. Yet, unlike those we analyze, and, often, critcize, we haven't forsaken Cindy when she attacked Democrats:
* Nets, AP Tout Sheehan’s Achievements, Yearn for Revived Anti-War Effort * Networks Trumpet Cause of Bush-Hater Sheehan's Anti-War Vigil * NBC Showcases Sheehan, MSNBC Touts Her as Symbol of “Dissent” * Nets Trump Bush Driving by Sheehan on Way to Fund-Raiser * Washington Post Soft-Sells Sheehan, Yet Hardlines "Pro-War" Supporters * Sheehan “Single-Handedly Bringing Iraq Debate to Bush's Doorstep” * Jonathan Alter Calls on "Stubborn" Bush to be "Mourner-in-Chief" * CBS misleads viewers on Sheehan connection to radical left-wing groups * Letterman Denounces Iraq War, Sheehan Critics * CNN Promotes Cindy Sheehan's Anti-War Trip to Britain
Maybe even the media just doesn’t give a sh$t about her anymore. We could hope...
Perhaps she is the equivalent to a media one night stand. Use her, then kick her to the corner.
Moonbat momma got used like a rented Yugo by the MSM.
Are Media Antiwar or Just Anti-Bush?
They are Anti-American!
What a tragedy. Cindy has been used and abused. Everybody on the right knew this day would come. Cindy’s delusions included thinking she mattered to the left. Maybe Hugo Chavez will take her in.
The media are a joke. They do nothing but bash Bush 24/7. For a while they did it with Cindy; but after she began calling the war in Iraq a war for Israel the media could not drop her fast enough.
Now, it’s like she has never existed.
She’s even too crazy for the lefties...now THAT’S craayzeeeeee.
Sheehan’s exit from the dimocRAT party does not fit the msm news template. So it is not fit to print or go on the air.
Remember what the dems did with Ron Brown and Vince Foster and God only knows how many others we don’t know about. She could still wind up in that pile if she keeps on.
Perhaps a lonely stretch of highway and a half-full bottle of whiskey on the front seat is in Cindy’s future if she keeps rocking the boat for the Dems.
Sindy who?
Yep.
Originally the MSM would report of Sheehan minute by minute passing gas such was their obsession with the Bush bashing.
Now that it is democrats taking heat. Crickets.
But we knew this of course would happen.
Good. Lets hope she takes LOTS of Dems to the Green Party
“Cindy’s delusions included thinking she mattered to the left.”
Political tool. Nothing more.
Obviously anti-Bush. If Hillary gets in, she will out-war Bush to become the’war-time President’. Wars have had Democrat Presidents. Hey that might even bring the neocons back to their roots. Then the media will live happy ever after, or at least as long as it will take the Conservative Republicans to come up with an Eisenhower.
History will show that the MSM got the end wrong, not the beginning — regardless of what Bill Moyers and others say.
Isn’t this what Rush said? He felt sorry for her, because she unstable and was being used- and they would abandon her the moment she became an embarrassment to the dems.
What am I saying??? These people can ignore anything.
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