Decision ‘08

Camp Cindy Is Brought To You By…

…(drum roll, followed by anticipatory silence): MoveOn.org…surprised? No, me neither…Other financial support is provided by the co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s, Code Pink, and (gasp!) Howard Dean’s Democracy for America…in other words, the usual suspects:

Money donated through these groups and others is helping to pay for Gold Star families whose children have been killed in Iraq to attend anti-Bush protests.

This week, Simi Valley, California Gold Star wife Melanie House flew to Idaho for a protest and then flew to Crawford.

Reporter: “Can you tell us if you’re getting help in airfare to come down here?”

Melanie House: “What difference does that make?”

There is real reluctance to talk about whose paying. And the PR machine that’s promoting Cindy Sheehan. But not everyone here is completely comfortable with it.

Gold Star mother Karen Meredith went to Crawford from Mountain View. Her son Ken Ballard died last year.

Karen Meredith: “Sometimes things don’t feel quite right to me. They don’t feel wrong but maybe that’s how they do it in the marketing business.”

ABC7’s Mark Matthews: “You feel you’re part of a marketing business?”

Karen Meredith: “Possibly. Yeah I think so.”

Note to Mrs. Meredith: if you’re conscience is bothering you, that’s probably a good sign you’re being used…

6 Responses to “Camp Cindy Is Brought To You By…”

1 utron Says:
August 26th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
In addition to the groups you mentioned, apparently Camp Casey is getting PR support from Fenton Communications, a firm that specializes in advertising and public relations for non-profit groups. According to their homepage, Fenton has been working with MoveOn.org for about two years now.

It’s absolutely breathtaking how completely Cindy Sheehan’s story is misrepresented by the MSM. I have liberal friends who regard her as a saint, and if I suggest that she might be otherwise, they look at me as if I’d just told them that I enjoy stomping puppies to death. There are days when I think we’ll never be able to keep the idiots in the broadcast and print media from defining the national agenda.
2 BushisworsethanHitlerSatan&KennyG Says:
August 26th, 2005 at 8:51 pm
The bias is pretty unbelievable. A local news affiliate here in So Cal recently ran a story uncritically described Cindy’s little gathering as “Camp Casey” (notwithstanding Casey’s actual views on the war) while — in the exact same breath — referring to the counter-protesters as the “so-called You Don’t Speak For Me, Cindy” organization.
3 Mark Says:
August 26th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
The “so-called”…the last resort of the scoundrel…
4 louielouie Says:
August 26th, 2005 at 9:27 pm
There are days when I think we’ll never be able to keep the idiots in the broadcast and print media from defining the national agenda.

i really don’t want to admit this………
but…………
the last two nights i watched nightline.
ok, ok, cool it!!!
anyway, they were interviewing some guy who was apparently detained while riding in a taxi, the driver of which was supposedly in possession of the type of timers used in IEDs(?).
he was interviewed over the course of two(2) nights.
he was the only guest.
can you just imagine the tone/content of that interview?
i didn’t watch it all. just snippets. kind of like a train wreck.
all ted wants to report on is what is bad news. he NEVER reports that anything positive has happened. and even if he did, it would only be in passing. on the one year anniversary of the iraqi war they did a supposed roll-call of the KIA. after considerable criticism they included the KIA from afghanistan also. they have not repeated the event since. wonder why?
well i got my boots on.
where’s ‘em puppies………..
5 Greg Bullock Says:
August 26th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
LouieLouie–They call that style of relentlessly negative reporting “checks and balances” these days. Make a note of that.

The LA Times covered this story extensively when it was happening, back in early July.

The LAT article (sorry, no link) described the film maker, Cyrus Kar, as a 44-year-old Iranian American working on a documentary film about the 5th Century BC Persian emperor Cyrus the Great.

To quote the article: “After the arrest, Kar was quickly sent to Camp Cropper, where he said he believes that he was held in solitary confinement only for his own protection. He was allowed out of his cell for one hour a day but was not permitted to speak with the other detainees.

“‘All I can say is I have the highest regard for our men in uniform. I have no grudge against them,’ he said.”

End of story, right? So what gives?

Well, he is a filmmaker and the article mentions that he was looking for funding to finish his film. Evidently he has now found that funding, and a publicist too. Gee, I wonder who his backer might be? Obviously someone with enough pull to get him on Nightline two nights running. Hmmm. Who could that possibly be?

Something rotten in Denmark? Mayhaps.
6 Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » Cindy Sheehan: Our Purpose in Iraq is to Kill Americans Says:
August 27th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
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