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Cindy Sheehan, Paid By Kerry Campaign? Authors Say Yes on Fox News
Posted by Tim Graham on October 20, 2006 - 07:29.
Cindy Sheehan became an instant liberal-media celebrity when she held a vigil outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas and demanded to meet with him (a second time) over the death of her son Casey in Iraq. But is the liberal media only about creating the legend and leaving the negative details out? MRC’s Justin McCarthy reported that on Wednesday’s “Fox and Friends,” Melanie Morgan and Catherine Moy, authors of the book American Mourning, said they found Sheehan was paid by John Kerry’s campaign in 2004 to speak out against President Bush. Said Morgan:

“We have Federal Election Commission documents. I mean we went to an extensive research, we followed the money, that’s how you always figure out what’s going on…We found that John Kerry and Michael Moore personally recruited Gold Star family members just within days and sometimes even at the funerals of their sons to come and work for the campaign in order to undermine the candidacy of George W. Bush at the time. It was shocking and, and really offensive behavior and that’s exactly what happened to Cindy Sheehan who we tracked down. She went on the payroll of John Kerry’s campaign within days after her son’s death as well as her daughter Carly. Ultimately, there was a split between the two because she felt that John Kerry wasn’t radical enough and didn’t have an anti-war agenda that matched hers.”

The authors also appeared on Tuesday’s “Hannity & Colmes” to make their charge:

“It was John Kerry’s political campaign, John Kerry personally, along with Michael Moore, went to Cindy Sheehan just days and a couple of weeks after the death of her son and asked her to make a commercial for him.And they did the same thing, political operatives, they asked the other families.”

This is a pretty explosive charge for the rest of the Sheehan-promoting media to ignore.

So, this purging concept (let the dems win so we can reform the GOP) from a conservative viewpoint is a terrible idea.

Might as well prescribe amputation for athlete’s foot!

I’m not interested in pre mortems. It aint over til its over.

What I am interested in is the mind-boggling fact that mediocrities like Casey in PA may beat an articulate and excellent Senator like Rick Santorum. Casey’s debate performances have been pathetic. I am also worried that economic illiterates who think Bush is responsible for gas prices going up and now down are going to be elected.

I am interested in why the economic boom is being so under-reported.

I am interested in Pelosi’s votes, and doubly interested in why the media feels no need to tell us what the leftwing Democrats really represent.

“I see Glenn as the msm see Obama, for some reason he gets way to much credit for doing way too little.”
ROFL. Good one! (yeah, a sycophantic NPR interview of the Obama twerp, an idiot who takes huge sums of campaign $$ and then says he’s for us taxpaypers paying for political campaigns - no thanks! .. rant off)

Glenn Reynolds certainly managed to stir up quite a fuss with his “pre-mortem” from a few days ago.  While I don’t agree 100% with every part of his analysis, I do think he makes a lot of good points…  though…

If you’re quite the independent-minded person, that unspoken phrase should make you feel contempt for anyone who hints it.

Don’t feel that way, Brad. I have needed a lesson or two about humility, and it had to do with my behavior and nothing else.

Thanks for the expansion on your comments. Your examples of our staying in serious shooting wars were a little strained for the point I was making, but your point is valid and taken.

I agree that the media wants power and relevance, as that translates into dollars. The MSM is used for a whipping boy, and is subject to being used as a strawman in conservative arguments. By the same token, liberals use fundamentalist religions (to name just one group) in a similar manner. My main point is that the majority of Americans know they are being whipsawed by the rhetoric of the left and the right and more honestly from both would be appreciated. And by the way, I agree that the media loves to use Bush and other politicians as gotcha trophies.

If you’re quite the independent-minded person, that unspoken phrase should make you feel contempt for anyone who hints it.

WRT active military presence in hot zones, one could very credibly state that Kosovo, where we have troops, is an active shooting war. Albeit with far fewer casualties. And our 19-year military presence in Haiti (!) in the early 1910s-1920s was the target of numerous guerilla skirmishes.

Please keep in mind, ed, that I don’t believe that MSM has a political bias against Republicans. I DO believe that MSM’s main purpose is to engage in as much political game theory as possible, to show the world how relevant they are to power. You see, what MSM really wants is to trap politicans in some sort of Gotcha, followed by some sort of “apology” or tribute-paying to MSM. I am confident we can all agree that the Bush Administration has stubbornly refused to do this.

What’s the best way to deal with the stubborn mule? The 2×4 treatment between the eyes, of course. In this case, the MSM wants to ensure he faces defeat of some sort. It does not matter what MSM’s past behavior was; all they want is some piece of Bush hide to nail on a wall. Once they got that, they tend to slink away or ignore Bush.