The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

[CrackpotAmerica]

Latest word from the networks (by homepage) on Cindy Sheehan's Story:

CNN: NADA
MSNBC: NADA
FOX NEWS NADA (but expected that!)
CBS NEWS: NADA
ABC NEWS: NADA

Political Websites:

GOP.COM: NADA
DNC.ORG: NADA
DLC.ORG: NADA
WHITEHOUSE.GOV NADA

In the mean time, BLOGS and radio talk shows are busteling with activity.
This is why we must push this boulder of a story over the hill and make it land right in the lap of the American Mainstream Media.

Just thought you should know.

[phantom power]

1. That says it all...

As far as most people are concerned, if it didn't appear on TV, it didn't happen.

[henslee]

2. Actually CNN (basic cable) just had a piece on her... but it was

not particularly favorable in that it expressed obsucre RW blog references basically saying she is a flip flopper (without using the word), in that she was a pro bush supporter when she met with Prez a year ago. But hey, as our own Walt Starr, points out on another thread... it is perfectly reasonable for her to change her POV as so many have in a year, especially after revelations such as the DSM.

But hey, Cindy is making the news.

[Eric J in MN]

6. We also know more about how Bush is mismanaging the war

today than we did a year ago.

Halliburton keeps overcharging, and keeps getting more contracts.

Companies involved in torture at Abu Ghraib keep getting contracts.

[henslee]

7. Someone posted an awesome quote from HS Truman quote re:

War Profiteering. Someone else posted a stock market site that had Homeland Security oriented stocks.

[SouthernDem2004]

3. The story was just the flavor of the day. It will be completely gone

by the weekend.

[Eric J in MN]

4. Lead editorial in today's NY Times

One Mother in Crawford

Published: August 9, 2005

Summertime often produces unexpected media figures, and this is Cindy Sheehan's season. Ms. Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq last year, is camping out near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., and says she won't leave until Mr. Bush agrees to meet with her to discuss the war. There are many reasons for the flood of media attention she is attracting: she has a poignant personal story and she is articulate - and, let's face it, August is a slow news month. But most of all, she is tapping into a growing popular feeling that the Bush administration is out of touch with the realities, and the costs, of the Iraq war.
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Ms. Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Baghdad. She says she and her family met privately with Mr. Bush two months later, and she is sharply critical of how the president acted. He did not know her son's name, she says, acted as if the meeting was a party and called her "Mom" throughout, which she considered disrespectful.

Ms. Sheehan has traveled from her California home to Crawford, where Mr. Bush will be spending much of the month, in the hope of having a more substantive discussion. On Saturday, Mr. Bush's national security adviser and the White House deputy chief of staff met with her beside a road a few miles from the ranch, but she is still insisting on a meeting with the president.

Even many Americans who do not share her views about the president - she arrived in a bus bearing the slogan "Impeachment Tour" - share her concerns about his war leadership. President Bush has refused to ask the nation to sacrifice in any way, so the sacrifice gap has never been greater. A few families, like Ms. Sheehan's, have paid the ultimate price. Many more, including National Guard families, are bearing enormous burdens, struggling to get by while a parent, a child or a spouse serves in Iraq. But the rest of the nation is spending its tax cuts and guzzling gas as if there were no war.

More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/opinion/09tue1.html?

[leveymg]

5. It was on stodgy old AOL news frontpage this morning

I'm sure it was seen by a lot of people.

[CrackpotAmerica]

8. So, Are We to Assume:

That the larger television outlets are making an attempt to stagnate this story, hoping the fickle viewer will move on to other interests?

The problem with that to me is that, like it or not, Thursday is coming. And with Thursday comes the Sec. of State and the Sec. of Defense. Two big excuses for this horrid administration to arrest Cindy Sheehan and her supporters.

I feel that this woman and her story is one of a pinnacle turning point for America. It is a showdown between power and justice. One that will effect every last one of us. It will expose the police state that is being constructed all around us and further reveal this administration's disdain for and crusade to remove all of our rights to express dissent.

[In_The_Wind]

9. correct ... The Revolution Will Not Be Televised !

DUers know that!

[rodeodance]

10. is this a taboo subject for the networks and cable? except some on cnn

[rodeodance]

11. c-span had a call in section today on her.

[In_The_Wind]

12. probably

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