Anderson Cooper from Crawford Now

[Synnical]

For the hour

[Bluebear]

1. "Should Bush give her ANOTHER meeting??" the announcer asks

As if the first meet and greet was a private audience with His highness.

[Generic Other]

2. Called us an army of "seasoned radicals"

Saying Cindy and her PR people "have launched a sophisticated effort to get attention!"

CPH mentioned. Following her on her typical day...Lots of coverage. Wonderful. Tape this if you can! Watch the re-run later.

[SteppingRazor]

8. What do you expect Gloria Vanderbilt's son to do?

Side with the poor people? :eyes:

[jsamuel]

9. Yeah, this 23 year old sure is "seasoned"

[Cleita]

10. Wow if they think a group of like-minded activists who

happen to be on the same page about abuse being handed to the mother of a dead soldier are sophisticated, it doesn't say much for their efforts. BTW. What PR people? How does a housewife from an agricultural area of California get PR people? The CNN propaganda machines disgusts me.

[Hubert Flottz]

30. Abuse and torture are the norm for the neocon enablers

Ask the POWs in Iraq...

[FreedomAngel82]

67. I guess she got it from

Michael Moore? :eyes:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

24. They don't want to see the "seasoned radicals"....

...things will have gotten very ugly at that point in time.

[Synnical]

3. True Majority has written a blank check

to pay the P/R firm? Wow!

[Generic Other]

4. They say there's 30 in the crowd. I see 100 and a stream of cars going b

True Majority hired a PR person for Cindy.

NOW, he's going to spend the rest of the hour finding people to trash Cindy. Looking for moms to smear her.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. "sophisticated effort to get attention"

What? Cindy's effort was the simplest no-nonsense unsophisticated effort I have ever seen.

[whosinpower]

7. That is too funny!

Sophisticated? Sleeping in a tent by the side of a road and standing in a ditch.....that is sophisticated??????? Bwahahahahahahaha

[KarenS]

6. I am turning this Jerk-Off Off!!

AND sending him a nasty email,,,,,

sheesh,,,, I haven't watched CNN since November, NOW it is clear to me why I stopped !!!

:puke:

[CatWoman]

11. stay the course

Cindy Sheehan denies Israel remarks

On Anderson Cooper 8/16:

COOPER: You were also quoted as saying, "My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. If you get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine, and you'll stop the terrorism." How responsible do you believe Israel is for the amount of terrorism in the world?

SHEEHAN: I didn't say that.

COOPER: You didn't say that? OK.

SHEEHAN: I didn't say that my son died for Israel. I've never said that. I saw somebody wrote that, and it wasn't my words. Those aren't even words that I would say.

I do believe that the Palestinian issue is a hot issue that needs to be solved, and it needs to be more fair and equitable, but I never said my son died for Israel.

COOPER: OK, I'm glad I asked you that. Because, as you know, there's tons of stuff floating around on the Internet on sites of all political persuasions, so I'm glad we had the opportunity to clear that up.

SHEEHAN: And thank you, because those are not my words. It doesn't even sound like me saying that.

COOPER: Well, today, we've received numerous e-mails from viewers who saw that, and said, "Well, she lied. We read online that ABC News confirmed she sent them a letter saying exactly that."

So we contacted ABC News today about it. They said they had received a letter on behalf of Cindy back in March. They said took it seriously enough that they responded to it, but so far they cannot find the actual e-mail, they say. They say they're trying to find it, they're investigating.

Bottom line, ABC News right now does not seem to be confirming this is what Cindy Sheehan wrote to them, so stay tuned. We'll continue to follow.

Cindy also just posted on the Huffington Post about this issue and several otheres regardding the right wing attacks on her. Camp Casey, Day 11

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/08/17.html#a4504

[BeTheChange]

21. Great rebuttal..

The woman's golden.. Im so glad she diffused that one :)

[jsamuel]

25. Does that mean that ABC actively made up what she said????!!!!

[Hubert Flottz]

53. Cindy should file suit today if they don't find an email like that.

I don't watch CNN at all anymore.

[FreedomAngel82]

69. So they claim

she sent them an Email and they can't "Find it"? :eyes: Oh brother. It is true about Israel though. If you haven't visit http://www.informationclearinghouse.info and watch the film "The War Party" (it's about the neocons).

[samsingh]

88. bush called people from Pakiston Pakies. what about that?

[Gin]

16. IMHO- she is getting a full hour of coverage....thats a good thing

Will he do and say everything we may want him to?...no...but it is a full hour, and she is the topic....I think it's a welcome TV hour and I don't mind hearing the disent from others.

Cindy stays her course and is doing just fine.

G

[Synnical]

12. Anyone catch that number?

800-NYAC360? Was that it? For calling in comments?

[Synnical]

14. 866-NYCA360

To leave recorded message - they will play some comments during the show.

[CatWoman]

13. Notice how the pro-Bush parent

didn't speak on camera (when talking about Bush's behavior when meeting with the parents of slain soldiers)?

[theHandpuppet]

15. This is the most biased piece of crap!

I don't know why I was hoping for better from CNN -- I should have known.

[CatWoman]

17. see my response above

he will be interviewing Cindy one-on-one.

[PA Democrat]

19. Yeah, I am turning it off

Interesting how they did not interview a SINGLE parent who shared Cindy's point of view, but rather only parents who fully support Bush and his lies.

[FreedomAngel82]

73. Of course

There are war soliders mother's there at the camp. Why can't they interview one of them?! Remember that one woman who had her son's baby with her? This is nonsense!

[Generic Other]

18. Just sent him an email:

I suppose it does come as a surprise to the media that a grassroots movement could develop in spite of your best efforts to suppress news of us. Millions of Americans protested and marched against this war. You ignored us. Now one woman has mangaed to get your attention. Bless her. And damn you.

[Generic Other]

20. Autobot response

Jeez, everyone is ignoring me today! :)

[Booster]

75. Very well said. I couldn't believe it when they ignored 5 million

people in the entire world who marched against the dimson, but they sure did. Oh, yeah - it was just a "focus" group.

[samsingh]

89. how many people watch Anderson?

i think its less than 500,000 and dropping. these cable news idiots are making themselves irrelevant.

[Synnical]

22. Cindy on now

Staying on message. Jeez, that silent and still crowd sure looks like they're disturbing the peace, huh? :eyes:

[Generic Other]

23. Cindy on now

AC: Worry about tainting your message?

CC: They are not funding me. People all over the country coming to me. Sending money for water, food...

AC: Are you a radical?

CC: I think I am pretty radical on this issue. I want the killing to stop...we are fueling insurgency...need to pull out...liberators leave, occupiers stay...I believe military presence fueling the insurgency...going on until he meets with me or Aug. 31...miracles are happening all the time at Camp Casey...movement bigger than me...it will keep going ...Peace.

[City Lights]

45. I'm sick of the scrutiny placed on liberals.

We're always accused of having an agenda or grilled on who's behind us. Anyone left of center is a radical leftist.

Who remembers seeing the SwiftBoat Assholes held to the same standard?

:crickets:

I'm sorry I tuned in to this. All it's done is pissed me off.

The media is part of the problem. Screw them.

[FreedomAngel82]

74. It really gets on my nerves too

It's like we're all wacky consperiacy theorist or something even if we are telling the truth. I get so sick of it myself I want to pull out all of my hair! And of course the republicans do all kinds of nonsense but does any of that ever get on the news? Of course not! Not what Katherine Harris did, not Rush Limbaughs druggy crap, not what Ken Blackwell did. NOTHING! I HATE IT!

[FreedomAngel82]

76. Something else that gets me

is they accuse anybody of speaking out of being "associated" with Moore and that he is controlling what the person is saying, or they blame Clinton or some other nonsense like that. Oh and has any of them told how John Kerry was right about Tora Bora and BinLaden? And has any of them reminded who was in charge of 9/11 and that he ignored the memo? And has any of them shown that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or BinLaden and Al-Quida before we went in? I wonder how many people still believe that nonsense.

[City Lights]

82. You know it's bad when the most reliable news show out there is

on the Comedy Channel.

[samsingh]

90. the true conspiracy is from the right

they are trying to subvert truth, justice and fairplay.

since the right controls the MSM media for now, we have to fight back hard. Wonder what would happen if those on the left started to buy stocks in the media companies and then fired the existing people there - maybe this could even be done with Fox News Corp. Wouldn't that be great?

[theHandpuppet]

80. War is "normal", peace is "radical"

At least that's the twisted truth they keep trying to cram down everyone's throats. Was the guy shooting off a gun described as a "conservative radical"? Or was the hateful loon who mowed down the crosses described as a RW "radical"? Why is it that only people who oppose war are considered "radical"?

I guess this explains how Jesus ended up nailed to a cross.

[Vinca]

26. I tuned in a little late and it immediately seemed like the

"bash Cindy" hour. Then I switched to Hardball and there's what's-her-face making snide remarks and the Democratic Senator from Louisiana (Breaux sp?) just about saying Cindy's a nutjob, we're nutjobs and no one in Congress is going to pay any attention to what's going on. Pat Buchanan is the only sane one in the bunch and hell has officially frozen over.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

40. Pat Buchanan, much as it pains me to say this, makes sense sometimes

He doesn't seem to have the lemming thing going on, and even though I don't agree with most of what he says, I give him credit for voicing unpopular opinions when he holds them.

[Generic Other]

27. Oh my god only 3 Counter protesters?

Anderson so upset.

[Al-CIAda]

46. Giving voice to the dumbasses who connect 9-11 and Iraq.

Damn, why won't Cooper point out the LIE and redirect the question?

Making excuses why there aren't many 'counter-protestors'.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

28. So CNN brought in Bush supporters to interview at Camp Casey???

The same after 9/11 shit. And of course Anderson doesn't say 9/11 has anything to do with Iraq.....

[leftchick]

35. and has he interviewed any of the DOZENS with Cindy

that have lost children in Iraq? I have not seen it. CNN only hires real media whores.

:grr:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

93. I agree wholeheartedly and I think the problem is that the media

is focusing that this just has to do with her. Others at the Camp Casey have to get themselves interviewed to show the world what has been taken away from them, and us.

[theHandpuppet]

49. Yes, all the pressure was put on Cindy

Cooper tried to corner Cindy and pout her on the defensive, but you'll notice he expressed nothing but sympathy for the Bush supporters.

I'll say it again -- this is/was a totally biased piece of shit reporting!

[dogday]

29. Where do they get these Bubbas?

They don't know a thing.....

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

31. The guy who is talking now is not a Bubba, he's a Bush operative.

[JohnnyBoots]

32. which one?

[CatWoman]

34. the one speaking coherently

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

37. lol! n/t

[JohnnyBoots]

39. I realized as soon as he spoke, is his son actually there?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

44. He said his son is supposed to go back, but I wouldn't trust a word

from this man's mouth.

[Generic Other]

41. Remember how Bush had CEOs pretend to be workers by dressing up?

This guy is not a military dad. BS. He's probably in that infamous Dade County photo. Anyone checked?

[JohnnyBoots]

48. Hahahahaa, Fuckin A, check it out!!!

[Generic Other]

64. Rent-a-riot

[JohnnyBoots]

71. This whole administration is like GOP community theater.

[librechik]

79. LOL! complete with the bad acting and ridiculous props.

[FreedomAngel82]

77. I didn't know that

Interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if these "counter protestors" that are down there now are from him.

[fiveleafclover]

51. Are you talking about the one who thinks

spiking his hair will distract us from the fact that he's going bald? Vanity drives men to do the dorkiest things.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

36. The well spoken one. He is no bubba. Can't you tell?

[dogday]

38. Do you have a message for Cindy sheehan

this guy is a piece of shit.... He is the operative

[jsamuel]

43. he is a PR guy

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

50. and that is why he was trying to say there was PR behind Cindy. Mirror,

mirror.......

[JohnnyBoots]

52. And cooper ios talking to the Communications Director, which is a

Spin Doctor

[dogday]

55. They seem to be giving the other side

their say.... And just forget about Cindy...

[Bumblebee]

33. His Reporter's Notebook was the best part of it all --plus, of course

Cindy's interview. But they are trying so hard to be "fair and balanced"! Did they do that for anti-war people when this war was in the making? Of course not!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

42. Cooper is trying to crucify her. n/t

[TexasLady]

47. disgusting

:puke:
Ankarlo is a turd.

This has to be the MOST biased piece of crap I have ever seen. They have given WAY more than half of the time to the bushots.

You can feel the hate from them through the screen.

[jsamuel]

54. CNN is now FOX 2

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

56. They love to put pretty GOP whores on tv to lie for the shrub. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

57. After 9/11, again, and Anderson finally said no link between Iraq and

9/11..but he's going to let her get away with this. Yes, he did.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

60. Anderson..we don't take sides...roflmao!!!!

[wishlist]

58. Not much balance, Cindy against a whole lot of RWingers speaking

Not much balance but a barrage of attacks from RWingers. This show has turned into a forum focusing on showing viewpoints of those who do not approve of Cindy and who are making statements about how we are protecting Americans by killing the terrorists in Iraq and that she is causing deaths of soldiers in Iraq. Appalling coverage. Bush speaking, Bush's White House communications director speaking, several anti-Cindy protestors. Lots of RW propaganda ad nauseaum. They are all strongly linking 9/11 with the war in Iraq and promoting justifying the war because of 9/11.

[FreedomAngel82]

78. Cindy is causing the death of soliders?

Nahh. I think it might be dear leader who sent them in WITHOUT PROTECTRIVE ARMOR!

[CatWoman]

59. Joe Trippi coming up next

[Synnical]

63. Joe didn't suck n/t

[Hell Hath No Fury]

61. I am ready to blow a fucking fuse here!

Fuck Anderson Cooper without lube for the hachet job he is doing on Cindy Sheehan and those that support her. His deliberate mischaracterization of just what is going on there is nauseating.

And those jackasses he had on as balance to Cindy -- give me a fucking break.

May I say this: CIndy and those who are down there right now, I am damn proud of you! You are handling yourselves with grace and compassion.

[PowerToThePeople]

91. Anderson Cooper

Added to "the list"






Note- I do not condone violence. Just venting my hatred towards bastards.

[jsamuel]

62. This is looking like someone had a hand in the people that got exposure on

this show...

[librechik]

81. duh

remember how they will change the news with just a phone call from the WH?

Glad I missed this! 5 oclock traffic was time better spent!

[Generic Other]

65. "extreme left fringe groups..."

[dogday]

66. Sounds like a republican more than

a soldier....

[Hell Hath No Fury]

68. And Bruce Morton...

can KISS MY FUCKING ASS!

His whole speil about how there are only a handful of folks protesting, that the anti-war movement is small --

Hey Bruce, you asshat! I guess I was just imagining the 20-30 thousand people I have been marching with regularly here in San Francisco! And the hundreds of thousands more who have been marching in LA, New York, and across the damn country since before this damn invasion!

:mad:

Obviously, they never covered it, so it never happened....

[Generic Other]

70. he sees the antiwar protests 24/7???

WTF? I know they have been happening, but only because we cover them on DU. The MSM NEVER covers them!

[Generic Other]

72. Ankarlo? Is that the bubba?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4382623#4382642

[anarchy1999]

92. Yes siree, that was him! Made a special trip down to Crawford just to

appear with Anderson. I'm not going to tune in, but I'll guarantee it will be a large part of his spiel on the radio tomorrow.

He is not a nice person. Professional a-hat and agitator of the Right Wing Wack Jobs, dangerous to your mental health and well-being.

[Generator]

83. Okay now does everyone believe me?

CNN is propaganda central. It would make Goebels proud. Some accuse us with this view as hyperbolic but my vitrol for CNN is such that I could not be swayed to even watch this show.
CNN isn't worth my cat's spit. And I cannot imagine the day I will ever allow it on my screen again. FOX is at least an open secret in the propaganda department. But CNN-they are scum of the planet pretending to be news.

[City Lights]

84. CNN is dangerous for the very reasons you stated.

Everyone knows that Fux and ** are one and the same. Most people think that CNN really is fair and balanced though. I wonder how many of their viewers by into the crap they spew.

[Synnical]

85. Quickie Transcript of Cindy's interview with Cooper

COOPER: Cindy, thanks for being with us. First of all, you had talked about moving this camp. Is that going to happen and when?

CINDY: It’s going to happen tomorrow. We’re going to move it up the road a little bit closer to George Bush’s ranch.

COOPER: There’s been a lot of criticism for you, there’s been a lot of support for you as I’m sure you know. On the internet, all around, on radios, on television. Ah, you’ve associated yourself with groups Moveon.org, uh, other, other protesters. Ben Cohen has funded some of the efforts here. Do you worry about tainting your message? By linking yourself with far left groups, or very liberal groups?

CINDY: Well, actually I think that became a little bit of a problem last week, towards the end of the week. But, I have re-focused on the message, and I’m trying to keep the media on point with the message. They’re not funding me, you know. I came here on my own dime and, um, people from all over the country – the donations are pouring in. And this is really a grassroots thing.

COOPER: And where is that going? That’s going to what, public relations groups to help you organize?

CINDY: The funding from the people in the country is going for water, food, um, the only thing I’m aware of that MoveOn is paying for is the PR firm.

COOPER: Do you, do you consider yourself a radical? I mean, some have been calling you a radical. And clearly some of the essays you’ve written. I mean, you’ve called President Bush a terrorist, the worst terrorist in the world. Called the war in Iraq blatant genocide

CINDY: Right, right.

COOPER: That’s pretty radical.

CINDY: I think I am pretty radical. But, only on this issue. You know, this is my issue. I just want the killing to stop. I don’t want any other mother to go through what I’m going through, Anderson. Whether she be Iraqi or American. And that’s what keeps me going is knowing that people are in harms way for no reason. I can’t stand that.

COOPER: And what happens to Iraq – I mean, you want US troops to pull out, what happens to Iraq?

CINDY: Um, there actually has been some studies that our presence there is fueling the insurgency. We need to pull back our military presence, we don’t need a military presence in the country. You know, if we were truly there to liberate them, you know, liberators leave when the job is done. Occupiers stay. And it looks like we’re occupying because there’s bases the size of Sacramento California there.

COOPER: Senator Joe Biden, who has been critical of President Bush for quite some time, he doesn’t say we should pull out, in fact, he says it would be a mistake to pull out. John Kerry says it would be a mistake as well. Um, basically their argument is basically handing Iraq over, whether we like it or not, Iraq is now the frontline on the war on terror. Whether is was supposed to be, whether it was initially, they say it is now. Do you believe it now the frontline on the war on terror?

CINDY: Uh, no I don’t. You know, I believe, like I said, our military presence there is fueling the insurgency, and there are studies. A study from Saudi Arabia and a study from Israel that said most of these people who have become suicide bombers, or have become, um, terrorists are actually just rising up because of the occupation and they never even thought of doing that before America invaded. So I believe a lot of the violence would stop.

COOPER: It’s day eleven, ah, I mean how long does this go on? How long can you stay here?

CINDY: It’s going on like I’ve always said until he meets with me or until August 31st.

COOPER: But, you know, it it, seems very unlikely at this point that he’s going to meet with you.

CINDY: Well, um, you know what, Anderson, miracle are happening everyday at Camp Casey.

COOPER: Has it gone beyond that for you? I mean, does it matter to you really whether you meet with him or not?

CINDY: Well, what I know is that if he meets with me today we go home tomorrow or if we leave August 31st a movement has started and it’s bigger than me. Bigger than all of us. And it’s just going to continue and that is going to be the peace movement until our troops are brought home.

COOPER: Cindy Sheehan, I appreciate you joining us tonight.

CINDY: Thank you.

COOPER: Thanks very much for being with us.


Edit to correct a few typos, like I wrote, it's a quickie transcript.

[Cleita]

86. She told him. She's getting very good with practice.

Also, she's right, when she goes home the movement is bigger than her and it will grow until Bush is out of office.

[Synnical]

87. Yeah, but the Wingnuts will use this sound bite

"CINDY: I think I am pretty radical."

Can't you hear, or imagine hearing, Rush screaming, "See, even she admits it - she's on the fringe!!!"

As the magnet on my fridge reminds me daily, "Well behaved women rarely make history."

Keep on, Cindy! We've got your back. :loveya:

[jsamuel]

94. I think that is good for us. for example: "I am a liberal" Ya Know?

[dogday]

95. They say it like it is a dirty word.

That is one of the things we need to do is reframe our party. The republicans have framed us as "liberals" oh the shame. But it scares the conservatives and centrist big time.