"Swiftboating" Cindy Sheehan

[paineinthearse]

Thanks to my buddies at www.mediachannel.org

'SWIFTBOATING' CINDY SHEEHAN

Daily Kos reports:

I saw a few passing references to 'May Hasan Lamotte' yesterday in the print media. She was portrayed as 'an Iraqi woman who just had to drive to Crawford to tell Cindy Sheehan that her son died for a noble cause. ' One news report yesterday said: 'An Iraqi woman who moved recently to the United States, drove with her husband from Washington, D.C., to thank Sheehan for her sacrifice. But the woman, May Hasan Lamotte, 37, did not agree with Sheehan's call to pull the troops out of Iraq. "I came after reading about Miss Cindy. They think their children are dead for nothing, and I am one who got freedom. I am grateful for her son and American soldiers. Everybody thinks (Casey) died for nothing. He gave his life as many other brave soldiers have to give me and my country freedom," she said.'

This 'Iraqi woman' then showed up on Hardball to swiftboat Cindy. Something about her didn't strike me as being right. There was a passing reference to her being married to an American journalist.

'Military intelligence skills and Google, don't fail me now, I thought. More on what I found on the flip...

http://sharon-jumper.dailykos.com/
Sharon Jumper's diary

The faux Iraqi woman on Hardball is married to Greg Lamotte with Voice of America (VOA). I know stuff about them, but decided to find their public website, lest I inadvertently disclose classified info.

Here you go, from
http://www.voanews.com/english/About/fastfacts.cfm

Draw your own conclusions about what this agency is... and why a wife of one of their 'reporters' was put on national tv to attack a grieving mother.

[KoKo]

1. Shouldn't Matthews be forced to aknowledge that connection?

Maybe DU'ers who viewed the segment on his show should send him some e-mails. I've given up long ago sending complaints to his show. Don't watch it anymore. But, it would seem a breach of ethics for him to not have told his viewers about the connection. Everything is a breach of ethics these days, though. There are no ethics amongst the Media Pundit Whores. Matthews lost his when he signed up on MSNBC, if he ever had any to begin with. :-(

[paineinthearse]

2. Everything is a breach of ethics these days

I could not have said it better myself!

[caligirl]

3. Lots of us did send Tweety emails about this earlier this week. right

after that info was posted. I sent three and I know plenty of DU'ers and Kossacks sent him emails just after we got that info. The next show he had a right wing mouth peice on and let her mouth fly. He also seemed very nervous but has yet to deal with the ringer LaMotte looks to be.

[emulatorloo]

4. what email address are you using?

because I feel like all the emails I send to Tweety are going into the void -- [e-mail]

[caligirl]

5. I used the one posted halfway down in this thread. Its just above

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2012171&mesg_id=2012171


one of my posts. Yeah its the same one.

[caligirl]

6. Here are three more email addy's to use from another posting

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[emulatorloo]

8. thnx -- n/t

[Imagevision]

7. her son died for a noble cause? that's her opinion, I'll go with Cindy!

[iconoclastNYC]

9. video at crooks and liars

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Hardball-Lamonte.wmv

[Eloriel]

10. LINK!!!! Kos Link, please. n/t