Sheehan book signing
by The Panda Man · 12/01/2005 10:23 amIn case you missed it, LST reader Kenyon Schmidt reminds us that everyone’s favorite war protester, Cindy Sheehan, held a Thanksgiving weekend book signing in a Crawford tent. Apparently the ditch was too small to hold the throngs brought out by the woman who declaimed “Get our troops out of occupied New Orleans!” Observe the crush:
Lest you think these were snapped by some Right-leaning maniac bent on damaging Miss Sheehan’s hard-earned reputation, these were newswire photos. I must admit to feeling sorry for the poor woman. On previous occasions the “protest mom” drew hordes of reporters, but these photos reveal only a few photographers and no book signers. Perhaps it was early in the day. In case you were wondering, the book is a 175-page paperback available at Amazon for about $10. Current sales rank is 4,880.
UPDATE:
Amazon now shows the book at #5,263. Also, Editor and Publisher carries Cindy’s rebuttal of the "lonely book signing" photos. Apparently some people actually did show up.
But in a statement today, Sheehan accused “right-wing” sites of “spreading a false story that nobody bought my book at Camp Casey on Saturday. That is not true, I sold all 100 copies and got writer’s cramp signing them. Photos were taken of me before the people got in line to have me sign the book. We made $2000 for the peace house.”
Words fail me.
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Jeremy Congratulations, YOU, yes YOU, have won Uncle Squawk’s "ROTFLMAO" award for the day. You don’t get anything but the admiration of my peers who are glad to see something besides a scowl on my face. This is too funny.
(#1)
I’ll put the trophy on the mantle, Squawk.
Well, at least it gave her a chance to rest. We should congratalute ourselves for passing up her book signing. I prefer one of the 10 best sellers of the week, fiction too.
I guess Cindy’s 15 Minutes of Fame has turned into a Lifetime of Shame. Kick her while she’s down boys.
Did she REALLY think she needed all those sharpies? How the heck many copies of her book did she have there? And why did she just sit there? Why not at least roam around until some “fans” show up? LOL! It’s really pathetically funny.
~anticipation~ it’s making me wait~
I’ll bet Cindy could have drawn a bigger crowd if she had some better captions for these pictures. Lucky (or maybe unlucky) for Cindy, I can help her out. Here, is my list of “Top Ten” captions to help Cindy out of her predicament:
1) I sure hope Hillary shows up soon!!!!
2) Maybe I shouldn’t have called Hillary to the carpet about this war thing.
3) If I was black, I could have played the “race card.”
4) There would have been more people, but the police arrested him.
5) I told you we should have had food and drink.
6) Maybe we can pay someone to want my autograph.
7) Can’t we call “Rent-a-Crowd” to save me from this humilating debacle.
9) Well, it’s nice of the liberal media to show up after the crowd has already left.
10) Why didn’t you tell me the war was over.
Cindy, I hope these captions help your cause. Your handlers and publisher obviously didn’t help any. If these were not good enough, let me know and I will write ten more.
She looks kinda like the Maytag repairman sitting there. I can just hear the crickets chirping in the background. She should have brought some beer to keep herself entertained.
NOTE TO CINDY:
Welcome to reality my dear.
I kinda feel sorry for her.
This is the first review from the Amazon site:
I don’t know if it says more about Cindy or Amazon.
I never did understand book signings or autographs for that matter. Wonder if anyone ever showed up…
Lest we forget, Ms. Sheehan did lose her son.
Her 15 minutes have passed. Hopefully, her grief will pass as quickly.
RE: UPDATE Jeremy, Is she going to name the peace house the "Cindy Sheehan Carpal Tunnel Vision Memorial"?
OOPS I just ran across "Sheehan’s Stand".
Hmmm I wonder if I can get a cup of watered down lemon aide?
Oh yeah and what I said about feeling sorry for her……forget it.
Willie
#11
“Hopefully, her grief will pass as quickly.”
Her “grief” has become her identity. If she shows even a hint of learning to live with the loss of her loved one she will lose her identity.
Git along home, Cindy, Cindy; Git along home, Cindy, Cindy, We’ll bury your some day.
A very common thread among cancer survivors is that they do not allow their disease to define who they are as people (consider Lance Armstrong). Cindy Sheehan has allowed her grief to define who she is. It is indeed a sad spectacle.
Tee-Hee !
#15
Good point Mike. As a cancer survivor myself I can attest that it becomes part of you, but you can’t let it take over. It’s not healthy. Miss Sheehan seems to have been consumed by the loss of her son coupled with hatred for the President.
#13 … not to metion becoming a poster child for the depths of mental illness one reaches when you are not willing to deal with your grief.
#17 Jeremy hits the nailhead as well, the hatred that many amongst the modern day left are guilty of is another symptom of grief based depression.
#17 Jeremy,
You too, huh? A great Oncologist and healthy attitude made all the difference for me. In hindsight it seemed all consuming, but I’ve come to the point in time where I really don’t think much about it anymore. Whatever the problem in life, you can’t spend more time dwelling on the negative than overcoming. I pray for Cindy Sheehan that she can overcome her “demons” before they consume her.
100 COPIES
WOW high hopes huh?
ROFL
AHhhhhhh yes, the Sheehan book signing event !
Quite a crowd and conveniently there were two photographers on hand to document the grim looking event for the ultra-liberals. [Probably imports from The New York Times]
Yes, her volunteer soldier son died in Iraq,that is a sad thing and the grief is understood, but so many other troops died and their parents back home have not “Dissed” the ones who have died, and the ones who are still there!
Her son joined the MILITARY and that is not for ice cream socials, and touchy-feely political correctness, America was attacked on 9-11, America and her son responded, and the war on terror continues, dispite the onse who complain but NEVER serve their country!
If Sheehan, who takes her marching orders from MoveOn.Org and todays DNC of 2005, were in charge of WWll, the Nazi’s would rule the world today ” Hands Up”, no contest !
When you go public with treasonous crap during war, with our troops still in the field and you lower the morale of the troops and give the enemy resolve, some call that treason !
#20
That’s right, Mike. The good folks at M.D. Anderson get most of the credit for my still being here to entertain (and annoy Libs) with my scribblings at LST. Cancer is all-consuming at the time, but if you make it through, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get on living. That applies to the tragedies of life in general as well. If you dwell on it you can become obsessed. I too hope Miss Sheehan eventually can get past the hurt, anger, and rage before it ruins her health or sanity.
This has nothing at all whatsoever to do with Cindy Sheehan’s “grief”. She was rabidly anti-war, anti-military, and anti-republican before her son ever joined the military. She has admitted IN PUBLIC AND ON THE RECORD to begging her son not to go to Iraq and offering to run him over with her car so that he could get an injury deferrment. Those are not my words, those are hers. So, given that he not only went to Iraq, but re-enlisted while there despite “being tricked and lied to by his recruiter” (according to Cindy), and died there performing a heroic action according to those who served with him, is it any surprise that she would use his death to further her own agenda? Would a mother who offered to voluntarily INJURE HER SON hesitate for a moment to heap shame on his sacrifice by using his name to fight against the war he believed in enough to re-enlist? I don’t buy her supposed “grief’ for a second and think the entire trumped up story of the sad little mother weeping in the ditch in Crawford is an absolutely shameful charade put on by the left with the full cooperation of the media. With even a LITLLE investigation into the events surrounding her story, the story falls apart and it becomes readily apparent that she is functioning as a willing tool of groups like Move-on.org and code pink who would otherwise have spit on her son had they seen him in uniform, yet now they want to use his sacrifice as a rallying cry to bring down the things he believed in.
Sick sick sick…and shame on you Cindy for defiling your son’s memory that way. He should be remembered as a hero for his sacrifice, not as a footnote to the larger story of his mother’s prostitution to the radical left.
Doc #20, you are so right on what you said.
It is mind-boggling the out-right treason that is allowed to go on when our Nation and very brave guys and gals are at war.
I guess it’s Cindy’s right to trample the sacrifice that her son made and to go against what his wishes were. But the democrat leaders, Hollywood and the media need to be brought up on charges of treason. They are aiding the enemy and getting more of ours killed. They should be completely ashamed, but they could care less about our people’s lives. They are horrendous hypocrites.
The fact is we are at war now, with a ruthless enemy. If everyone would do what is proper in time of war as in pre-1960. I’m sure our number killed would be half or less what it is now. I totally believe that and I hold those that I mentioned responsible for the majority of the deaths that all we AMERICANS have suffered.
It is a pathetic thing to see Ms. Sheehan. You need to let your son rest in peace and stop embarrassing yourself.
If President had spend 5 lousy minutes with Cindy instead of clearing brush on his ranch, today we would not be talking about this woman.
On a positive note, democracy is at work. I am proud of it, you should too!!!!!!!!!
HE DID SPEND TIME WITH HER! When she left that meeting, she told a newspaper who kind and comforting he had been! Then almost a year later, her story changed, her old anti-war views came back, and after joining up with a bunch of her anti-war buddies, she decided to make a spectacle out of demanding a SECOND meeting with the president. The president would have been a fool to go out there and kowtow to a radical anti-war protester trampling on the grave of her heroic dead son. She got her 15 minutes and now the world will get to see her clawing and begging for another minute or two in the limelight.
#26
Bush DID spend 5 minutes with her…and traveled to her home state to do it.
Maybe she is using the wrong medium. Perhaps she should do what the Pentagon has been doing lately, buy space in Iraqi newspapers. Instead of pimping for the military she could tell her story and let the people of Iraq know that most in the U.S. wish we had never tried to engage in nation destruction then nation building.
#26 “If President had spend 5 lousy minutes with Cindy”
Get the facts, He spent more than 5 min. with her.
And Democracy at work does not allow for committing Treason…
If I recall, GW spent an hour with her and several other grieving parents who lost their heroic children. The 5 lousy minutes you speak of would accomplish nothing except give this poor, deranged, American idiot another 15 minutes of air-time to spew her anti-Amercian garbage. In her case, I don’t see democracy at work, I see treasonous behavior and blind hatred for a President.
Treason: : the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign’s family.
Yet by a vote of 403-3 our elected representatives voted to stay and finish that job. Hmmmmm.
Everyone pause and have a quiet moment — we have been graced by a liberal’s words of wisdom!! #29 has used sarcasm to alert us all that the world is not as pure as he deems it should be — the military has been using the Iraqi newspapers to help defeat the terrorists? No! Say it isn’t so!
I say great! I’m all for propaganda in time of war. I wonder if sarcastic liberal ever thought that positive propoganda might help end this war a little sooner?
The enemy is using our media as their propoganda machine, why can’t we use theirs?
Whatever it takes to WIN!
Dhuhhh!
“Treason” is subject to debate, this is not:
se·di·tion (sĭ-dĭsh’ən)
n.
1. Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state.
2. Insurrection; rebellion.
I guess some of you think that if the troops come home Bush will be overthrown. From my standpoint that would be yet another reason to end this debacle.
#33 “stay and finish the job”. The job is finished. Sadaam is out, no WMD were found, and we have destablized the Middle East (a Bush objective all along).
You can’t “destabilize” a place that had no stability to begin with. To claim that destabilization of the Middle East is or was a goal of President Bush is ridiculous.
Saddam was part of the stability in the Middle East. His secular regime onerous as it was, was keeping the Islamic fundamentalist at bay.
The Bush Crime Family and their cronies benefit from an unstable Middle East and oil is only part of it. I have referenced this book by genuine conservative (not neo-con) Kevin Phillips. http://www.americandynasty.net Read it and get back to me.
Yep, most of the Democrat leaders, Hollywood and the MS Media are guilty of all three Treason, Sedition and Insurrection…
#38,
Yes Wil, and Joe Lieberman is a genuine liberal who thinks we are pursuing the correct course of action in the war in Iraq. Listen to him and get back to me.
Your conspiracy theory is supported by……???????
I’m sure the paranoia will subside with time.
#26, do you really believe that?
#38
and
Do you really believe those things?
Wow. You two amaze me.
#40 You read Phillips’ book that fast. You need to go back and read it slower and absorb more. And stop using that GOP léger de la main as if it proves your point. It proved nothing.
On second thought, maybe it won’t. Goodnight and have a Merry Christmas.
Sad that neo-conservatives refuse to read or pay attention to what traditional conservatives have to say about Bush & Co. Little wonder that the right wing is coming apart.
Good night and good luck.
#44 - I don’t know that I would identify myself as a neocon, but on the surface, Phillips seems to be a consipracy theorist nutjob. Conservative or not, I think I will take what he says with a grain of salt.
C’mon Wil
Did you read the introduction to your source?
http://www.americandynasty.net
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The killer for me was the disclaimer of conspiracy theory.
That is the oldest trick in the book to garner respectability, discount any possibility of absurdity from the start.
Wil
Phillips is very good about using reule #34 of the woo-woo credo which says
“When debating, remember that the best technique to “proving” your hypothesis is to start with a supposition, and when you get to the third point, refer to the supposition as a “fact”. This may cause just enough initial confusion to let you escape with a momentary triumph.”
Take care Wil
I gotta get back to work. Dangit. Seriously you and I gotta meet sometime at one of the functions.
#36:
Wil, did you read what you wrote before slamming the “submit comment” button? Are you honestly expressing support for the overthrow of a democratically elected president? That’s pretty serious stuff, and I hope you didn’t mean that. That’s not how we do things in the U.S., and that’s not how we do things at LST.
#50 Isn’t it fascinating that Wil was the one who threw out the definition for Treason earlier in this comments section? Maybe he was trying to drive home that definition…
Wow, talk about some overreaction.
Ms. Sheehan will be limping off into that nether-world where once famous people huddle before their date with oblivion. Whether you call her actions “griefing” or “treasonous”, please recognize that she lost her child. Who knows what any of us would do given such a loss? You think you might know, but you cannot until faced with such an ordeal.
It’s quite a leap from protesting in a ditch in the miserable Texas summer heat to committing treason or being seditious. Ms. Sheehan has been neither. Misguided, perhaps…but neither fostering rebellion nor aiding the enemy. If we place such labels on her, then we are closer to becoming the tyrannical state that we all claim to abhore. It’s ok, and neither treasonous nor seditious, to remark that the “king” has no clothes.
I’m afraid Cindy is going to have alot of lonely days to reflect on her loss and subsequent actions.
Perhaps Dr. Dean will ask her to speak at Hillery’s inaguration in 2008.
#50 Fear not Mr. B, I wish to see no armed revolt against the government. At best I hope that many soldiers and Marines of this era, as with Murtha in his time, will return home and make sure that there are plenty of combat veterans serving in the halls of Congress. Those who have seen war up close tend to give thought to comitting troops to battle.
At worse I wouldn’t object to a political coup against this current gang as was accomplished against Nixon and almost done to Clinton.
WOW! I should have stayed awake for all of this! These are only conversations between differing sides, not a ‘rip your heart out’ event. Just proves that we are a diverse group.
#54 - Nixon resigned - Clinton was impeached and I am ashamed of both of them.
Sheehan is our modern day Jane Fonda. I wonder when she will go to Iraq and aid the terrorists ala Fonda did during the Vietnam war.
#56 You should be ashamed of what Bush has done to this country. He should be driven from office as Nixon was.
Just exactly what has Bush done to this country? In factual terms, not opinions…