In the geriatric ward.....

The MSM and Hollywood create a little fantasy,and I don't think that the American people are buying into it.

Yeah, but you think the MSM is going to let this be known?

Heck no.

This "mass movement" exists only on the Tv news and the newspapers.

They just take a picture of the five or six protestors that show up, and then crop it so the "crowd" looks much bigger.

The funniest part of this whole facade is that not only is it staged, the Sheehan crowd is dumb enough to allow their staging the saga to be filmed by those on the other side.

There is Dummy Sheehan kneeling at a cross with a pair of boots in her hand with a set of lights above her head by some doper stagehand.

This is supposed to be touching?

I laughed outloud...man, this is Bernie's weekend vacation!

I'm surprised one of the networks hasn't picked this up and turned it into a reality series....

The other night, folk singer and legendary anti-war activist Joan Baez drew around 200 people to a free concert near the camp site. Also, this blogger took the trouble to add up names from three Guest Books which had been placed around Camp Casey and discovered 750 signatures – not from one day but from more than 2 weeks of protests.

The truth shall set us free...

Yeah, and they only grudgingly mentioned that the Move America Forward crowd had organized something like 3,000 counter-protesters (or so I heard). This story is going to backfire big time, if it hasn't already. The Appeasement Mom has done nothing but galvanize the Silent Majority.

More smoke and mirrors coming to us, thanks to the bias in the MSM.

We get Casey Sheehan's mother, but not Sally Goodrich

We get Eleanor Clift calling the US Armed Forces 'mercenaries' and nothing on the bravery and dedication captured by Michael Yon

Given the fact that the MSM is 90% against the President and the War on Terror, one would never know the facts presented here - that those who are advocating and marching in support of the terrorists, calling for the defeat of America, and abandoning 50 million in the same manner that millions in South Vietnam and Cambodia were abandoned in 1975, are in such a minority of hated, frustration, and bigotry, that except for their PR flacks, we would accept and know them for the irrelevant extremists that they are.

So how long do we have to wait for this whole thing to not only blow up, but for the MSM to admit that there's not much to it? 10 minutes? Forever?

don't worry the hurricane has pretty much sucked the air out of this whole thing and in its wake will come the john roberts nomination. Plus if you haven't noticed the MSM has been pretty quite latley about the whole thing cuz of the counter protest. I give this "story" about a week more tops.

A catalyst? The "newly energized" anti-war movement needs a Flux Capacitor...

The Negative MSM has created Cindy SheeScam.

I wish we had some kind of instant proof - like Charle's Rathergate flashing memo. Though even with proof so tangible, the MSM would have a hard time swallowing..because they care not for TRUTH, only outcome. Sadly the ends they seek are not in any way, AMERICAN.

Those who post here already & have seen through the deception from way back. That's why the blogs are taking off.

If this is the best the LLLs can do, then it can't be too long before the LLL splodeydopes start coming.

It has to be killing them that they just can't bring people over to their side.

Hey! Leave Carrie Underwood alone! She doesn't deserve to be compared to Sheehan.

12 Bubble Girl

Tesla coil......

#11 blackbeard

That's a good observation about the slowing down of the coverage from the MSM as the counter-protest picked up steam. For the 'appearance' of 'balance' - the MSM would be obligated to provide some coverage of the counter-protests - and if there are more people there than in the Camp Dance on Casey Sheehan's Coffin, it would sure work against the calls of the size / popularity of the protests.

When I was at the pro-Bush rally in Crawford yesterday, I asked a news cameraman how the crowd compared to the ant-war crowd. He refused to answer. That told me all I needed to know. 1. He was a moonbat and 2, we had a bigger crowd.

I think there's more MSM in Crawford than her supporters.

The media is pretty scary. They have had all the 'power' to sway public opinion for a good while. (see the Clinton years)Since the advent of the blog, I guess, the empire is crumbling, and they are grasping and clawing to anything, using their most creative abilities and mountains of money to maintain the ability to form public opinion to their satisfaction. Too bad they just don't stick to the truth. They apparently think the masses are too stupid to make the right decisions...How arrogant. Or, maybe that's the fear...if the informed masses made the right decision, then their agenda doesn't get advanced.

/stating the obvious

Please forgive my ignorance, but are there no federal regulations to prohibit the innaccurate reporting of information? I understand the editorial or opinion pages, but what right does the MSM have to decide what our country's agenda should be? If their main focus is dissemination of propoganda to further their anti-american agenda...how are they any different than say Pravda?

#20 Minnesocold

I think there's more MSM in Crawford than her supporters.

I believe that has been the Crawford residents' biggest complaint.

The MSM, as usual, is fabricating massive support for a left-wing cause -- support that isn't there -- but the whole point is: for what purpose? Pretending you're rich doesn't make you rich. It just makes you a poor person who's pathetically pretending to be rich. The media does this endlessly with polls, where they cook the numbers and polling techniques to make it appear the country is far more left-wing than it actually is.

But why?

Well, it all came clear during the 2004 election. The media believes, first of all, that the average American is incredibly stupid. Second of all, that people are like sheep. And thirdly, the media were taught by their Marxist professors in J-school that a journalist's task is to mold public sentiment, not report on it accurately. Put these three factors together and you have the explanation.

The media is trying to sway the public mood by making it appear that "everyone" is jumping on the Cindy bandwagon. The theory goes that if the average knuckle-dragging American comes to believe that the Sheehanistas are mainstream, then we'll all say, "Gee, Martha, I don't want to be seen as a loser; better go with the winning team, and the most popular position now is to hate Bush. So, in order not to be left out if the 'in crowd,' I now hate Bush too."

The MSM tried this incessantly during the 2004 election: they kept reporting that Kerry was ahead, that it was neck-and-neck, that Bush was in a continuous slow-motion freefall into oblivion. They reported this not because they thought it was true, but because they thought it would become true if they reported it.

Of course, it didn't work. Kerry never was close, and he lost handily. So the MSM's theory about leading the public by the nose has been proven ineffective.

Yet, for reasons that defy analysis, they persist in their incessant attempts to sway public opinion with false reporting. Because, most likely, at this point they have no other recourse, since standard mechanisms for developing popular support (like having reasonable beliefs and political positions) have been abandoned.

And, to be frank, a certain percentage of younger journalists actually believe their own propaganda. They create lies, and in some magical self-imposed blindness, as they type a lie -- that they know is a lie deep inside -- they begin to believe it themselves as soon as they reach the end of the sentence.

Their futile attempts to drum up a non-existent mass movement are actually a bit amusing.

#6 Macker

That would be so cool!

We could have a show like, "The next Real Super Martyr". With 10 martyrs from different causes all living in a house, and they have to get along while the crew films their zany adventures. The network could set up symbollic contests for each of the potential martyrs that have nothing to do with real life but are fun to watch.

Each week one marty gets voted out of the house until only one Super Martyr is left!

I would seriously watch that show every day if someone would make it.

-ron

Between the possibility of the French Quarter being lost, New Orleans under water for days/weeks/who knows, the oil rigs, refineries, gas prices sky-rocketing because of the hurricane and the devastation Katrina will do along the inland path including floods into the Ohio Valley, Mother Sheehan has seen her 15.5 minutes of fame. She's a one-hit wonder and each time she's trotted out now, she will simply be perceived as a pathetic has-been whatever she was. Once that false adolation she's receiving now is removed, she will probably have a genuine breakdown as it's the only prop to her frail psychological health she has left.

Next sucker, I mean sincere protester without a clue, center stage please, the clock is ticking.

The storm has pretty much knocked Cindy off the news (it took a hurricane to do it though) but if that doesn't move her out of Crawford and she's still there tomorrow whining on about wanting her rights when people are fighting for their lives in Louisiana and thereabouts, she's gonna look pretty self-centered (which she is but the rest of the world and the MSM don't seem to notice or care). Anyway, Cindy's pretty much done like dinner by now. I'd think. Anyone?

#24 zombie

Their futile attempts to drum up a non-existent mass movement are actually a bit amusing.

If it wasn't so dangerous....or pathetic.

Hey maybe THAT is Kos' "secret plan" he is planning a version of the Sheehan manuever called "American moonbat" where the most Vapid off-putting 'activist' is rewarded with a lifetime(as long as they live precisely for their 15 minutes of fame)MSM entourage....

What about Reverend Al? This hurricane crap, serious as it is, is sucking up all the Sister Cindy TV coverage.

/priorities, I guess, but dissapointing nonetheless

I'm trying to figure what happens when you genetically mix Joan Baez and Cindy Sheehan without a sperm donor like Michael Moore. Looks like the entire thing is going sterile.

cindys' whole show is run on left-over dem spin. if the iraq war could be vindicated what would be left of her argument. that's supposedly why they're camped out in crawford. the only thing left would be to argue the best way to handle a force that has desires of controling the world in their fashion and putting anyone who disagree to the sword. do you negotiate/talk a good game - you can fool some of the people some of the ime - part of the people part of the time - but never all the people all the time. or do you exercise your right to protect yourself. only a fool wants a war, but it's a bigger fool that refuses to accept the need for one. using scott ritter as proof while choosing to ignore the findings of david kaye [saddam was more dangerous than...] or charles dulfer [couldn't say that there were never wmd in iraq]. cherry picking points.

#31 Leper

Well, you made me lose my lunch as one result.

#18 Athos:

As long as there was nobody in Crawford except the 700 locals and Cindy the MSM could spin it any way they wanted. But now 3,000 or more people have arrived and seen exactly what was there for themselves, some of them media on the "You don't speak for me" tour, the MSM can't spin it anymore because the word is out she only had 200 supporters at any given time with a total in Crawford of possibly 1500 all told. But since our crowd on one day alone topped that by double, well the MSM is only to happy to turn to other things like the storm and what the POTUS is doing about that. Ba$tards!

Well Katrina will replace Cindy as 'bitch du jour' and the Weather Channel will outdraw CNN.

I'm staying with LGF and realtime links:

Link

#24 zombie

There you go again with those multi-paragraph posts

/you're pissing off people who can't read

DNC/MSM wag the dog.

I'm so glad ABC news radio gave we talk radio liseners updates on Sacred Cow Sheehan - on the tens.

I'm sure ABC, NBC & CBS will tell-all about the Nazi-Sheehan connection.

not.

Heard an ABC "news" radio report yesterday ... said that "counter" protesters had arrived in Crawford ... "Their numbers almost equalled the number of supporters of Cindy Sheahan.
I heard today on Fox that the number was more like 3,000 "You don't speak for me Cindy" protesters almost 5 times as many as the moonbats! (at least as near as I can tell)
The MSM is blowing up this ballon and is running out of breath ... Lots of air is what airheads need to exist!

#36 Killian Bundy

There you go again with those multi-paragraph posts

Sorry about that: I'm in a blabbermouth mood today. Diarrhea of the fingertips.

Shouldnt Cindy be off to the Phillipines to 'get answers', and to support the mothers who lost children?

#5 goodbye_natalie 8/28/2005 03:13PM PDT

I laughed outloud...man, this is Bernie's weekend vacation!

Wow! That was cold! (And terribly funny!)

Good one!

Flash weather update:

Cindy Sheehan storm is a washout!

I wonder if she will be pissed off a humongous huuricane has filled the airwaves with endless nattering, not about her but the hundreds of thousands of citizens about to be assaulted by MOTHER nature. I will not insinuate in any way that CommieCindy is worse, only that she is worthless.
Take care you-all down south!

Where have all the moonbats gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the Neo-Nazis gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the Liberals gone?
Fate have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

#24 Zombie

You nailed it down pretty good with your post! Too bad Airheads only have a 10 second attention span. I'm damn sick of the "are too" and "are not" arguments .. the devil is in the details.

#26 jemima 8/28/2005 03:41PM PDT

Once that false adolation she's receiving now is removed, she will probably have a genuine breakdown as it's the only prop to her frail psychological health she has left.

Spot on! I guess that means Cindy is simply an MSM tool -- someone they used for their political gratification and who will now be cast aside.

I was in high school during the Viet Nam war, so I don't remember the events fully, but wasn't there already a protest of sorts just ahead of the anti-war protests? Everyone going to California, hippies, drugs, sex, etc...a protest against the 'establishment' that sort of fed into the anti-war movement? The anti-establishment group became focused on the anti-war movement...they were sort of ready to be 'led' somewhere, to protest something...I lived in Columbus, Ohio and remember well the riots at OSU. I believe that much of the anti-war movement was filled with kids who were more interested in the way of life they were living than their cause. The cause just gave them an excuse to continue on with their carefree life, living off each other and having 'no responsibilities.'
That ramble was to say there were people available in the '60s for protest, not so many are willing to live that life now. Just my little opinion...

I'll answer the question because I think we all can handle the truth:

All the protesters are in the newsrooms of CNN/MSNBC/ABC/FOX that's where there at. Atleast there they are safe behind their pen and keyboard and not on the frontline whether it's here or "over there".

Sorry for the rant but just read this from Wizbang and Sayanthing:
5-4 Vote by Dallas,TX school board making it a requirement to know Spanish or loose your job.

While we were busy wasting cycles on dang Mother Cindy they managed to sneak this by.

24 zombie

And, to be frank, a certain percentage of younger journalists actually believe their own propaganda. They create lies, and in some magical self-imposed blindness, as they type a lie -- that they know is a lie deep inside -- they begin to believe it themselves as soon as they reach the end of the sentence.

Uhh......I don't think that's a few of the younger ones. Look at Ra^ther and minions. They believe that fake is irrelivent because it's accurate. They are a seriously delusional bunch, the whole lot of them. It's the ones who aren't who are the rare exception.

Where are all the vaunted weatherhawks from the MSM and why are they not rushing to SE Louisiana to help in this impending human tragedy?

Where are the sons and daughters of the MSM, and why are they not manning the levees, ready to protect the innocent?

Of course, Rosa Parks was manufactured too...yet now she is such a legend that a weblog called Rightwing Nuthouse refers to her as...a legend.

You can count on Daily Kos to be linking every single anti-Sheehan LGF post as "proof" that LGF is evil incarnate. Since, in the Daily Kos universe, she is "Mother Sheehan" and you are not allowed to say anything negative, otherwise, you're an evil neocon who deserves the death sentence.

#41 Omega

Shouldnt Cindy be off to the Phillipines to 'get answers', and to support the mothers who lost children?

/why yes, yes she should, how can we make this happen?

Is it too much to ask just one of the moonbats holding microphones and who have post graduate degrees in journalism to ask Cindy just a few simple questions. I'll help them get started:

1. Cindy, do you believe that John Kerry, who had access to the same information as President Bush, lied about WMD?

2. Has Senator Clinto called you with messages of support?

3. If we could arrange it, and so we can better understand your foreign-policy expertise, would you be willing to debate Christopher Hitchens, or Greyhawk, or Austin Bay, or hell, my next door neighbor's parrot

We in the NY area call it Sharpton fatigue.

For many years, the slob will announce he's passing wind, and 30 TV cameras and a rent-a-mob are the only attendees.

It's well known at many of his "protests", the media outnumber protestors about 10 to 1.

And Sharpton is a media creation.

Sound familiar?

No wonder he's headed to Crawford. That woman is stealing facetime.

52 EIDE_Interface

You can count on Daily Kos to be linking every single anti-Sheehan LGF post as "proof" that LGF is evil incarnate. Since, in the Daily Kos universe, she is "Mother Sheehan" and you are not allowed to say anything negative, otherwise, you're an evil neocon who deserves the death sentence.

So what? I will not conform to Daily Kos sensibilities.

/if the truth hurts, so be it

Regarding the media and their incredible ability to present "facts" to support their agenda...

I was watching BBC World in Germany a couple of weeks ago, and on the crawl line at the bottom of the screen there was a an item that went something like "Oil reaches record $66 per barrel due to unprecedented US demand".

I was like WTF? The unprecedented demand for oil in China, India and western Europe has no effect on the supply and demand equation?

But, no, according to BBC, it's all America's fault.

Cindy Sheehan, MSM are all lefties, blah, blah, blah.........

yawn

She helps us and hurts them, period. I pity her.

Puff the Magic Moonbat
Lived by the ranch
With TV cam'ras from CBS
In a land called naivete.

Little Mama Sheehan
Loved that moonbat Puff
and brought him neo-nazis
and other hateful stuff.

Moonbats live forever
but not so over-aged hippies
Neo-nazis and high-priced oil
make way for other protests.

One grey night it happened,
Mama Sheehan walked the line
And Puff that naive moonbat,
he ceased his plaintiff whine.

50 JammieWearingFool

Where are all the vaunted weatherhawks from the MSM

The MSM, doesn't care...they didn't care about Iraqi's, Afghani's, Rwandan's, South Vietnamese, South Koreans, Jews, Christian's, Buddisht's...and on and on.

Why on earth would they care for people in New Orleans, or the Gulf Coast of our country!

They just don't care.

Now ask them about the President...they would go through hell, to bring him down...cindy sheehan, is their ride for that just now. If they don't have the protestor numbers, they will make them up.

Big storm brewing. Where's Ed?

I wonder if the world will come to our aid after Katrina hits NO like we helped out after the tsunami.

and more specifically, I wonder if the people at Camp Casey will even care.

I have no sympathy for this bitch, never have, never will. I'd as soon see someone beat her with a lead pipe than look at her cock-sucking face crying into the tv cameras. I am at the end of my patience with this whore (should say "slut", no one would pay her for sex).

#60 El Cid

Of course the MSM does not care for the people in the states threatened by Katrina...they are all red states that gave them the evil George Bush for four more years.

This sort of reminds me of what the late, great writer Mike Royko wrote about in regards to the youth who protested the Vietnam War. Royko observed that after Nixon ended the draft, the youth protestors stopped. They really had the self interested motive of not being drafted. So much for their "idealism."

#63 taxman

don't hold back. tell us how you REALLY feel.

This "peace" stuff appears really big if you listen to NPR and "Pacifica" radio.

Peace thru Victory, I say. Someone make a sign saying that!

#54 UncleB

Hey Cindy,

If we could arrange it, and so we can better understand your foreign-policy expertise, would you be willing to debate Christopher Hitchens, or Greyhawk, or Austin Bay, or hell, my next door neighbor's parrot

Thanks for the comic relief. I love parrots (the ones with feathers, that is)

62,

We'd be in big trouble waiting for help.

Folks, we need to be sure the victims of this storm are taken care of and helped any way we can.

We're on our own. Not wasting a breath for help, though I'm sure some of our true friends will offer.

And it will be frustrating to see the media lay blame at the President's feet, using a natural disaster to score cheap, political points. And they will do it.

But the good Americans people and our President will do anything they can, not looking for some worthless camera time in a vainglorious bid for attention.

As soon as this storm hits land, Mother Sheehan will be rightfully relegated to the dustbin of history.

Sadly, it's taken an act of God.

Many have commented, not without reason, on the PR sophistication of 'Mother Cindy's' effort. But I realize that the effort did commit one cardinal sin.... that of cannibalism.

To quote Bill Quick -- "Karl who? Valerie who?"

Here we were, all ready to electric chair Karl Rove for TREASON... booga booga booga!... on behalf of poor innocent 'Sister Valerie', that defender of us all (between Vanity Fair shoots), valiant soldier of that deeply humanistic and important organization, the CIA (well, humanistic and important as long as we can use it against Rove, then it will conveniently go back to being blood-smeared imperialist butchers)... all the pieces are in place, the MSM machine is humming nicely... and then Mama Cindy comes along and steps all over it.

Haven't heard a peep on that important, life-or-death-of -the-nation issue since.

Karl who? Valerie whosat again?

Heh.

Prepare for more lunacy from the left - new Downing Street memo BS is coming down the pipe -

he Foreign Office's top official warned Downing Street that the Iraq war was fuelling Muslim extremism in Britain a year before the 7 July bombings, The Observer can reveal.

Despite repeated denials by Number 10 that the war made Britain a target for terrorists, a letter from Michael Jay, the Foreign Office permanent under-secretary, to the cabinet secretary, Sir Andrew Turnbull - obtained by this newspaper - makes the connection clear.

The letter, dated 18 May 2004, says British foreign policy was a 'recurring theme' in the Muslim community, 'especially in the context of the Middle East peace process and Iraq'.

So now we will hear crap how Blair was warned and should have quit Iraq because the Islamists in his country didn't like the policy.

Also, this blogger took the trouble to add up names from three Guest Books which had been placed around Camp Casey and discovered 750 signatures – not from one day but from more than 2 weeks of protests.

Very telling and just like the protest over the Viet Nam War, the minority had the biggest mouths, well then again not this time. Lizards, how does it feel to be the modern day equivalent of Teddy Roosevelt? The difference is our STICK is Charles and everyone here working together as one powerful voice.

/ THE NOT SO SILENT MAJORITY

#62 lance

As I posted at the time, if we were the victims of a crippling tsunami and on our knees, they wouldn't send help, they'd send hordes over to finish the infidels (us) off...

#70 Andrew X

Enter stage left: Katrina, the one-eyed devil.

You are correct, the media whores care about only one thing, and it ain't you or me.

I just got back to my desk.

Am I hearing this correctly...did Hurricane Cindy just fizzle out?
Did the MSM over-reach in their predictions?

/How can this be?

Exclusive footage of protest planning session!

Something that I've found puzzling is the absence of all the big name Democratic pols from Crawford. No Kerry, Hillary, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, etc., etc.. Not even the whack jobs like Boxer. Even Jesse Jackson was a 'no show' which I find amazing.

#62

I wonder if the world will come to our aid after Katrina hits NO like we helped out after the tsunami.

Please don't also inflict the UN on NO;)

Funny thing. The night of the nationwide "vigils," we saw about 100 people in Lafayette, CA, doing the candle thing. But before the main group arrived, there were about six flashing signs at passing traffic -- signs that said "Contra Costa County Democrats." The Democrats are fully vested in Cindy Sheehan, and should be held fully accountable for her insane rantings. We need to ask local Democratic officials if they also believe that we're at war to defend Israel, and that our soldiers are all murderers.

#70 karmic:

Good lord, you mean that the invasion of Iraq was going to going to get hook-handed mullahs in London screaming about killing infidels?! Who knew?!

"Mother Sheahan" is an idiot airhead being used by the moonbats ... if it were not for the MSM she would be standing on some corner somewhere holding a poster board sign ... no wait, she would be washing dishes and clothes wishing that Casey had not lived his own life. poor woman ... she is just a simple fool.

Mama Sheehan's Ballad (to the "Boxer")

I am just a moonbat but my story’s often told
I’ve squandered my resistance for a pocketful of slogans, such are liberals
All propaganda, still the MSM hears what it wants to hear
And disregards the rest, hmmmm

When I left my home and my family, I was just a greiving mom
In the company of strangers
In the bright light of the TV cameras, shoutin' loud,
protestin' my best, seeking out the rich, where the famous people go
Looking for the places only they would know

Li la li...

Asking only for attention, I come protestin' a war, and I get some offers
Lots of comeons from the pimps in the MSM
I do declare, there were times when I was so angry
I took some comfort there

Now the years are rolling by me, they are rockin’ even me
I am older than I once was, and younger than I’ll be, that’s not unusual
No it isn’t strange, after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same
After changes we are more or less the same

Li la li...

And I’m laying out my protest sign, wishing I was gone, goin’ home
Where the Crawford, Texas heat isn't bleedin’ me, leadin’ me to go home

In the clearing stands a protester, and a shouter by her trade
And she carries the reminders of every reporter that puffed her up or pampered her
’til she cried out in her anger and her pain
I am angry, I want popularity, but the grieving still remains
Yes it still remains

Li la li...

#82 Tanker J.D.

WOW, how long did it take you to come up with that one?

Desert Sage:

It's easier when you cut-n-paste from the real lyrics, and then just edit as needed...

This "Mass Movement" requires a plunger.

Special prize for the first person who can get a quote from the Muslim world saying that Katrina is punishment from Allah upon a crusader and/or immoral nation, blah blah blah.

Maybe a second contest prdicting the exact time and date such a post is discovered and posted here.

On the second, I go with.... hmmmm.. Tuesday, say, 2pm.

Then, look for the same condemnation from the Muslim world, Europe, or the American Left, of such a statement as we saw of Jerry Falwell when he said the exact same thing about 9/11.

Look for such condemnation about... oh... Thursday, say 10am.

Thursday, 10am, October 22..... of the year 2087.

83 DesertSage

WOW, how long did it take you to come up with that one?

Shhhhh, don't tell anybody, but Tanker J.D. is really Billy Joel, or is it Neil Diamond?

WOOPS
Bitch slap again!

http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/correction _due_tonight/

#85 Max Darkside

This "Mass Movement" requires a plunger.

*flooossshhhh*

Ah, much better.

;^)

#87 Elcid

I think it's John Denver.

Tanker.....JD

/aw schucks

From the Waco Tribune-Herald
Arrests, rhetoric highlight protests

By Thaddeus DeJesus and J.B. Smith Tribune-Herald staff writers

Sunday, August 28, 2005

CRAWFORD -– With five days left until the end of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's vigil near President Bush's ranch, Crawford became protest central Saturday as supporters and opponents of the Iraq war rallied, marched and simmered in 101-degree heat.

Much of the media focus Saturday was on Sheehan's two peace camps just beyond Crawford -– one on the side of Prairie Chapel Road, the other in a field temporarily donated by a local landowner – and yet other anti-war protesters at the Crawford Peace House in town.

In addition, however, there was a pro-Bush camp that sprouted alongside a souvenir shop specializing in President Bush dolls, T-shirts and coffee cups; a West Coast caravan dubbed “You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy!” that took over the football stadium Saturday afternoon to rally on behalf of U.S. troops; and Operation Iraqi Hope, made up of family members who have lost loved ones in Iraq but still support the war.

Altogether, pro-war events in Crawford attracted about 3,000 people. Attendance at Camp Casey I and II together appeared to reach about 1,500.

#91 Tanker J.D.

Well, we could have said.......Joan Baez :-)

The whole "Mother Sheehan" thing just makes my blood run cold. She's not MY mother, and she's not the living spirit of Gaia risen up to topple our depraved Western capitalist dystopia. The "mother" angle's just a cynical and contrived attempt to graft a certain insipid spiritual dimension to a cheap partisan circus. It's a cheap play on new age sentimentality that's aimed squarely and very deliberately at the whole vegan/hemp/yoga-nazi demographic. Crass. Almost nothing of this whole business smells the slightest bit sincere.

Has anybody gotten aerial photographs to compare Camp Cindy to the counter-protest site? That would be interesting....

Krusty (#77),

Something that I've found puzzling is the absence of all the big name Democratic pols from Crawford. No Kerry, Hillary, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, etc., etc.. Not even the whack jobs like Boxer. Even Jesse Jackson was a 'no show' which I find amazing.

I'm absolutely certain that they were all very close to showing up at one of these events until they heard what Sheehan had said about "The Jews," "America isn't worth fighting for," and her precious "Freedom fighters."

Where did they learn about her comments? Since it couldn't have been from the MSM, the only logical conclusion is that they (or their advisors) listen to talk radio and read LGF (actually, this is already known to be true). The democrats should all make a hefty donation to Charles for sparing them from political suicide.

And if Mother Moonbat is going after Tom DeLay next, will she go after any of the dems (like Hillary) who voted in favor of the war? No way. It will never happen (unless Dean decides to undermine any potential rivals for 2008).

#79 stuiec

Funny thing. The night of the nationwide "vigils," we saw about 100 people in Lafayette, CA, doing the candle thing.

Let the LLL have their freakin' vigils, they love playing victim to anything and everything be it war, natural disasters and the like, to which of course, they blame the Right for ignoring U.N. protocol to the Right causing global warming. Hell, Sheehan son's death was actually caused by W not signing on with Kyoto which caused the world to use more oil which spawned the Attacks on the U.S. which sent a patriotic mind control beam to young minds to convince them to join and get murdered by W because he ordered the attacks on Iraq to steal their oil to make Haliburton and Dick Cheney wealthy.

Let the LLL believe what they want. Eventually they'll fade away into the woodwork as more and more Americans come to the realization that the LLL can't change the world, only the individual can make their choice to make a difference in their own lives and by the way, that's called "Liberty", something the LLL and the ACLU have confused with "Communism".

What this guy says is absolutely correct. It is a well oiled, smoothly run subsidised political pr campaign that presents itself as being larger than it is.

When I was there yesterday, Cindy talked about how thousands were here waiting for Bush to see them. When I looked around there were only a couple hundred.

I personally saw the wizard behind the curtain and he had no clothes (to mix metaphors).

I have seen bigger crowds for High School football games.

#71 k_i

Appeasement is their only option. They will try to run it by us in every way and all the time. Terrorists are, by definition, blameless for their actions. Homegrown jihadis killing innocent commuters must be analyzed and studied to determine the best way to make them happy. Screw the victims.

The Left is sociopathy with a twist.