Snopes urban legends debunks latest lie about Cindy Sheehan

[guruoo]

Cindy Sheehan

Claim: Cindy Sheehan's son, Casey, was raised by her ex-husband after the couple divorced and both remarried.

Status: False.

Example:

What is most interesting is that the press gives this little bunch of people who are protesting with Cindy so much air time without discussing Cindy's background. This is a case of more press bias.

It has been pointed out on just a couple of media outlets that Cindy divorced her first husband and left her son with him to be raised while she became a political activist for the Democrat Party. She had very little to do with her son in his growing years.

She remarried. The 1st husband remarried. The original father raised the son with his new wife. They miss their son and mourn the loss of his life. They have stated that they are very proud of their son and that they agree with the stance of America in Iraq and on terror. They said that their son was eager to serve and to go fight the terrorists in Iraq. He volunteered. How many news stations carried their interview? Not many.

So the son dies in Iraq and then Cindy shows up to make a stink. She gets an audience with Bush. That was not enough. She goes to Crawford and demands another audience. How many news stations carry the ongoing saga of Cindy? Practically all of them. Cindy didn't care about her son. She let another woman raise him. Cindy doesn't care about the other soldiers in Iraq. Cindy cares about her liberal, feminist agenda and about using the death of her son to lobby against Republicans and Bush. And the press is helping her. Why?

Then a few days ago, Cindy's 2nd husband filed for a divorce from Cindy. Cindy sounds like a feminist opportunist who did not have the sense of responsibility to even raise her own son. It looks like her 2nd husband is fed up with Cindy. We Middle Americans should be fed up with Cindy also. We should be fed up with the press. They manipulate us into their "group think" and into the responses that they want on their polls.

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The piece quoted above, criticizing Ms. Sheehan's alleged lack of involvement in her son's upbringing after divorcing his father, is something fabricated out of whole cloth.

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Last updated: 6 September 2005

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(thanks to Ernie H. for the tip)

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[FredScuttle]

2. WHO called you a "baby killer"?

I want specifics - date, location, everything.

Since you're so cavalier about smearing a mother who lost her son, I'll expect some accounting for your claim. I'll wait.

[Scout1071]

3. Ummm....yea. I'm going to need specifics on who called you a "baby killer

as well.

[Debs]

4. Because of course

YOU know better than the mother who RAISED him what Casey would think. I am sure what he REALLY would consider a good way to honor his memory is to SLANDER his mother.

[ReadTomPaine]

5. Already tomestoned and not a DAV, obviously.

Go back to your playstation politics, kid.