freeRepublic's kristinn: We saved America from Cindy!

[Zuni]

CONGRATULATIONS FREEPERS! Sheehan, Media Failed to Win Battle of Crawford (WaPo-ABC Poll)
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 | Kristinn


Posted on 08/30/2005 5:20:22 AM PDT by kristinn


Cindy Sheehan and her supporters in the mainstream media failed in their efforts to radicalize the American people against the war in Iraq, according to a poll by The Washington Post and ABC News to be released later today at 5 p.m. EDT.

The telephone survey of 1006 adults conducted August 25-28 showed no movement in either direction for opposition or support to the war. Eighty percent said Sheehan's three-week long protest outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas while he was on a working vacation there had no effect on their position on the war. Ten percent said her protest made them more likely to support the war in Iraq, while an equal number said her protest would make them less likely to support the war.

Mrs. Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq last year, arrived in Crawford on August 6 demanding a meeting with the president. Aided by anti-American groups that have expressed support for the so-called Iraqi resistance, including Code Pink and Veterans for Peace, Mrs. Sheehan was able to dominate the news for the month of August with the help of a sympathetic national media which failed to report the most basic facts about her and her supporters.

Thanks to the research of Freepers, the American people were able to learn about Mrs. Sheehan's extremist politics and her disengenuousness.

Freepers were first to report that Mrs. Sheehan had previously met with the president and that she was telling a wildly different story of that meeting from her initial account told to her local newspaper right after the meeting.

Freepers also discovered photos of that meeting that showed Mrs. Sheehan holding the president's hand and leaning in to receive a kiss on the cheek from him.

Freepers researched and reported Mrs. Sheehan's extremist statements about Israel and her pronouncements that she was refusing to pay her taxes in protest against her son's death.

Freepers found her comments supporting convicted abettor of terrorism, Lynne Stewart and also reported that the groups involved with Mrs. Sheehan in Crawford had explicitly sided with the so-called Iraqi resistance through their endorsement of the World Tribunal on Iraq.

Freeper research also unearthed a video of Mrs. Sheehan calling terrorists who crossed the border in to Iraq to join Al Qaeda "freedom fighters" in an interview with CBS News' Mark Knoller on her first day in Crawford--which CBS and the other media at her press conference failed to report.

That video now serves as exhibit one for how the mainstream media covered up for Mrs. Sheehan from day one in order to prop her up as the latest tool of their campaign to destroy the presidency of George W. Bush.

Thanks to the efforts of Freepers, Mrs. Sheehan and her allies in the media and on the left failed to instigate the prairie fire of rebellion against the war in Iraq they thought would surely follow.

While they will blame Karl Rove and the White House for Mrs. Sheehan's failure, we know it was the patriotic Americans at FreeRepublic.com who fought the good fight in the arena of ideas.



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EAGLES UP !!!

1 posted on 08/30/2005 5:20:22 AM PDT by kristinn
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[davidinalameda]

1. Thank goodness for the freepers

:puke:

[Lerkfish]

2. delusion is a dish best served to nuts.

[bluestateguy]

3. I guess we're all part of that 80% too

I mean, Cindy Sheehan, as much as I support her, had no effect on my opposition to this war, which has been resolute for 3 years.

[deadparrot]

4. Um. I don't think Cindy was trying to change opinions.

I think she was trying to meet with the president. :shrug:

And anyway...with 2/3 of the country believing the war was a mistake, I don't know how the freepers can claim any sort of victory.

[peekaloo]

5. Still awaiting those test results on the correlation between

sharing porta-potties and the deterioration on users mental health.

[Fenris]

6. ...

That video now serves as exhibit one for how the mainstream media covered up for Mrs. Sheehan from day one in order to prop her up as the latest tool of their campaign to destroy the presidency of George W. Bush.

You know, kristinn is right. Bush really doesn't need any help destroying his presidency. He's doing a damn good job of it all by his lonesome.

[xxqqqzme]

7. oh lord, what would have

happened if there had been no freepers 2 protect us!!!!!!! We ALL would have been duped by that mother whose son was murdered during the US occupation of a country who never threatened ANY of us. Just IMAGINE! She probably would have destroyed the entire country by camping out there in crawford!!!

[prolesunited]

8. "BATTLE"

:wtf:


They want war?!?!? Why don't they enlist, put on a real military uniform and go fight an actual battle in Iraq?

[Zuni]

9. EAGLES UP!!!

:rofl:

[underpants]

11. EAGLES UP!!

That is too funny

[Zuni]

13. I know

it sooooo corny, but they keep saying it. i wonder if they realize how immature and stupid they act. I mean, these are adults. Hopping around the country on pro-war rallies and acting like a bunch of children

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

16. TURKEYS HO!!!

[eek]

10. Can anyone send kristinn the beautiful essay by Cindy?

Maybe she or someone will have their heart open up a bit after reading it.


Particularly the part about the candlight vigil for the soldiers attended by BOTH sides at Camp Casey!
Only the bitterest, hate-filled churl could find fault in that.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4507099

[Richardo]

14. as info: kristinn is a man

Well, he's a male anyway. :eyes:

[madrchsod]

12. pat yourself on the back freeperboy

one of these days someone is going to wake up and wonder where all the money is going to run your crappy site...when was the last time you updated your unreadable website? if any of you freepers are reading this cindy got alot of newspaper coverage in the hometown of your hero ronny reagan. you didn`t change shit

[Webster Green]

15. What a laugh!....The majority were already against the bush wars

Cindy just helped them find their voice.

[Redneck Socialist]

17. How much crack can one...

man/woman/being of unidentifiable gender smoke anyway?

Delusional much?

[fleabert]

18. they live a deluded life.

I knew she met with the president almost three months ago, it wasn't a secret. and that other shit? it's all bullshit.

[jackster]

19. GAAAACK!

:puke:

[BiggJawn]

20. Well, she DIDN'T have any effect on my opinion of the WAHR...

I STILL think it's an illegal waste of our resources and young people, fought for the financial gain of the prezteldunce's contributors AND the Creepy VeePee (who, if I recall, never divested hisself of all that Halliburton stock, because 9-11 happened and everyone forgot about it)and has done NOTHING but increase the danger to America from terrorist groups the world over...

And the longer it goes on, the more it seems to me that the closest to a real reason that has dribbled out of Dumbya's cakehole is "He tried t'kill mah Daddy!"

So when the pollsters ask "Has your opinion of the war changed any, you could suppose that 50% of the "No" respondents were against the damn thing from the git-go.