Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain: Is Sheehan Being Played Like a Puppet?
I've intentionally stayed away from the story of Cindy Sheehan camping out at the Bush ranch over the death of her son in Iraq. However, it has gotten so ridiculous, I have to point out the transcript of Bill O'Reilly's investigation regarding the subject. Apparently, Mrs. Sheehan was satisfied after her meeting with Mr. Bush until she hooked up with Michael Moore. Well, I won't comment on it any more but here's the transcript...decide for yourself:
TRANSCRIPT FROM O'REILLY FACTOR, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9
Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. The fascinating saga of Cindy Sheehan. That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo".
Mrs. Sheehan is protesting in Crawford, Texas, trying to convince Americans the Iraq War is wrong and the president should be impeached. She is doing so because her son Casey, an Army specialist, was killed last year in Iraq.
No one has the right to intrude on Mrs. Sheehan's grief. That's number one. She's entitled to her opinion on a situation that has deeply affected her. And she's angry at the White House.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CINDY SHEEHAN, SON DIED IN IRAQ: Because Joe Hagen, the deputy chief of staff said that I can tell you the president really cares. And I said you can't tell me that because I met with him and I know that he doesn't care. And I told them that I feel that my son didn't die for a noble cause.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: Well, here's something very strange. Two months after her son died, Cindy and her husband Patrick did meet with President Bush, as she said. After that meeting, Cindy was quoted by a California newspaper as saying, "I now know [President Bush] is sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis. I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss."
So Mrs. Sheehan has apparently changed her mind about the president. How did that happen? Well, for some reason she's teamed up with Michael Moore and a man named Sam Husseini, both anti-war radicals. Husseini said this on "The Factor" just two days after 9/11.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SAM HUSSEINI, INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY: What sickened me was the act of what happened and that people would kill so many innocent people. But now I hear a drumbeat of having our soldiers kill women and children.
Colin Powell advocated, apparently, during the build-up of the Gulf War of flooding Baghdad and killing possibly four million people.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: Now that kind of lunacy is what Mrs. Sheehan is associating with. You would think the media would be cautious here with obvious inconsistencies and radicalism in play, but no.
In an editorial today in The New York Times, it says, "Mr. Bush obviously failed to comfort Ms. Sheehan when he met with her and her family. More important, he has not helped the nation give fallen soldiers like Casey Sheehan the honor they deserve."
Well, let's go back to the California article. Cindy Sheehan quoted as saying, "that was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together." It sounds like comfort to me. What say you, New York Times?
Finally, honest people could disagree about the Iraq War. Most Americans now oppose it. That could turn around with some progress. And "Talking Points" hopes it does.
But remember this. For every Cindy Sheehan, there's a Sergeant Leroy Scott who's recovering from the terrible wounds he received, attempting to go save a soldier's life while serving as a medic in Iraq. Sergeant Scott is proud of his service, proud of his country. I talked with him today. I sense no bitterness at all.
I don't know what is driving Mrs. Sheehan, but I do know she's being used. And maybe she knows it as well. And that's the Memo.
HT: Michelle Malkin
Labels: David C. Price
posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 8/13/2005 08:09:00 AM
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7 Comments:
you are not going to be surprised at all (the contrarian that I am) but I think of Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore as 2 peas in a pod.
Both spin a little bit of truth into mixture of innuendo, edited video, ego and lies to further an agenda. And both fo their agendas seem to be more about making themselves into media gods than anything else.
Bill is a more talented commentator/ speaker, while Michael is a more talented film editor (the best in the biz) and a little bit funnier.
What is funny to me is that I actually agree with both of them every once in while, but so question the motives and ego, that I find myself fighting myself at that time.
Goofy huh.
Your blog is the first thing I have even heard of the story. It has not made the papers I read and I have been so busy at work that I have not seen the news (and, I will admit, when I watch the news, it is usually Bill Shieffer or Brian Williams- they have not mentioned it).
I'm very proud of this woman. Bush either lied or was terribly mistaken about all the reasons for going to war. Where is the connection with 9-11? Where are the WMD? I think this is just the beginning in an effort to get Bush to open his mind and heart.
In my congregation there are a number of military. The mood among them has changed dramatically in recent months. One came home this week and said there is not a single person in his unit who favors this war. They fight for their own lives and for the lives of their buddies, but not for the Iraqi people.
I'm hearing more and more, "why are we fighting?" It is sounding more and more like Vietnam.
M. Moore is the biggest liar there is in the lying biz. I caught the first part of his famous movie when he showed footage of Gore "celebrating" victory in Florida until, as he put it, "something called FOXNEWS came along" and changed the outcome. First of all, the "celebration" footage was an early election morning campaign rally (nobody had voted yet). Next, ABC and NBC were the first to pull Florida from Gore, FOXNEWS didn't do it until the early morning hours of the next day. These kinds of blatant lies are why I investigate every comment he makes to find out the real truth.
OK, I'm off my soapbox now.
:o)
Michelle Malkin points to the story in the Washington Post where Cindy Sheehan did, in fact, change her story.
Malkin's post with the story is here:
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003245.htm
BTW...wow, Staggs...quite a soapbox. Feel better? ;-)
Staggs would do well to investigate Fox News and their commentators as well as he "investigates" Moore. To me it sounds as if the investigation was to read what conservative commentators from Fox (and their allies) said about Moore and his movie.
He is no more (or less) of a liar than O'Reilly, Limbaugh,Hannity, Franken and the rest of the ego-driven circus performers.
By the way, the facts Staggs states as true regarding Fox and the rest of the reporting on election night are disputed, or (in my eyes- from watching the coverage- and reading accounts from each side, as well as non-partisan coverage of the media) wrong.
Fox News did not give the state to Gore and gave it to Bush definitively earlier than MSM (or the real news, as I call it).
Not to beat a dead horse, but ABC changed it first because that's what I was watching and I began to flip channels to see who would follow; everyone else still had Florida for Gore. You can call it disputed if you want, but I watched it. There was not a victory in Florida speech from Gore on election night as Moore describes in his film.
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