Cindy Sheehan Arrested at WH......... Yahoo News

[OhioChick]

WASHINGTON - Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who has used her son's death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House.

Sheehan and several dozen other protesters sat down on the sidewalk after marching along the pedestrian walkway on Pennsylvania Avenue. Police warned them three times that they were breaking the law by failing to move along, then began making arrests.

Sheehan was the first taken into custody. She stood up and was led to a police vehicle while protesters chanted, "The whole world is watching."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050926/ap_on_re_us/war_demonstrations

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[goclark]

1. Kick ~ how do you rate it up?

[OhioChick]

7. Recommend the story.

[Califooyah Operative]

36. go to the story link on yahoo, at the bottom there's star's give it 5. nt

[butchcjg]

2. on cnn now, 2pm

[hardrainfallin]

3. thank you cindy for having the balls...we're with you. n/t

[nofurylike]

22. it is HER *NOT* having balls that is the difference. why is the word

"courage" so challenging to so many?

too emotional?


peace

[hardrainfallin]

24. well, I too am anatomically incorrect for being described as

"having balls"

which is precisely one reason I find the idiom so amusing, and apply it liberally. ;)

in my view, it has since become a "dead metaphor" which means it has nothing to do with the anatomical organ to which it refers.

No offense intended.

whimsically tongue-in-cheek all the way up and down to my sagging tits,

sorry if you find it disturbing.

HRF

[DIKB]

25. You could look at it another way

"having balls" - as in taking the power AWAY from Bushco.

[hardrainfallin]

28. Indeed. Lol.

[nofurylike]

37. balls is courage balls is power want power go take some balls

all because they can't endure that womyn already have so much power

all because so many can't handle something so profoundly emotional as the concept of courage.

not meaty manly enough

thank you for replying


peace!

[butchcjg]

4. oops - msnbc

but it's off now.

[KyndCulture]

5. No way, that's a horrible article filled with many things

that are not true.

[bryant69]

6. Yeah

That's a pretty biased article.

Cindy Sheehan using her son's death? What sort of emotion does that engender in a reader?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[SteppingRazor]

8. I don't know about untruths...

But it is pretty sad that the only person quoted is a person from the miniscule pro-war rally.

[mandyky]

9. "who has used her son's death " - for one

Man, the media needs to be strung up!

[SteppingRazor]

12. I agree that's bad wording...

But not, you have to admit, untrue.

Her son has died, and because of that she has become very active in the antiwar movement. And her activity has spurred the movement along.
So, it's not untrue to say that her son's death has energized the antiwar movement.
But I do agree the wording is pretty bad. It carries a negative connotation.

[bryant69]

13. That's not exactly true

She was active in leftist causes before her son died, as I understand it. She was already political aware when her son died - granted that probably did propell her forward.

[KyndCulture]

16. How about the 100,000 number? that's not true either...

it's as slanted as all of AP's articles are.

My media reform groups have been watching this trend closely with AP lately.

[SteppingRazor]

18. Exactly. It's true, from a purely technical standpoint...

Her son's death did invigorate the antiwar movement. But the presentation is obviously biased.

[Tsiyu]

27. A decent journalist might say

she was "motivated by her son's death." Used has a pejorative quality to it these days.

And kudos to Cindy for being motivated to speak out as she has done. She shows more courage than the entire ** administration rolled up together.

[OhioChick]

15. I agree with you

I don't like the wording "used" either. However, this isn't the first time that I've heard the media use that word concerning Cindy. :(

[renate]

10. I object to the phrase "has used her son's death"

However, I like the way the article gets in the numbers for the two rallies: 100,000 vs. 500.
(Whether those are accurate or not, the implication is Big vs. Small.)

[KyndCulture]

11. I object the the AP - they can't write a nonbiased article

to save their smarmy skins.

[kaneko]

14. I strongly object

to the wording of this report: " Cindy Sheehan who has used the death of her son in Iraq.....

[ohio_liberal]

17. "breaking the law by failing to move along"

:wtf:

How is that breaking the law?

[SteppingRazor]

20. Well, Sheehan and others planned on being arrested today...

So they just did what they had to to get arrested. Mass arrests and civil disobedience were planned for today in D.C. Here's a link --

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3087

[cassiepriam]

23. Is sitting on the sidewalk against the law?

[DemonFighterLives]

19. It won't take my rating Seems stuck at 3.4

I agree the wording leans to the war lovers.

[cassiepriam]

21. Rove, you think she is still a clown??

I bet you are no longer laughing. Looks like Cindy might
be a bit of a PR problem for you.

[cassiepriam]

26. What happens to her now?

Will they send her off to some gulag?
I am sure they will find something in the Patriot Act
that she has violated.

[robbedvoter]

29. Were there 500 freepers? And they get a final paragraph quote?

But none from the 100,000 "unthinking lemmings"?

I'm not rating up this piece of swil.

[Im with Rosey]

30. Excellent article at DKos

It includes pics, and diary. Sorry I can't link... but worth the trip to DKos, writer is Davd Swanson.

[OhioChick]

31. It looks like this has been re-worded

"WASHINGTON - Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who became a leader of the anti-war movement following her son's death in Iraq, was arrested Monday along with dozens of others protesting outside the White House."

[derby378]

32. It's about damn time. HOWEVER...

...this smacks of revisionism and censorship.

They should have let the original quote stand and the issue an apology.

[brettdale]

33. Cindy has been arrested!

Oh my, this is not the way to treat mothers of Troops that have been killed in Iraq.

[brettdale]

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[brettdale]

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