When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Cindy Sheehan did not change her story
The Media Matters website tracks the permutation of one unsubstantiated assertion into a full-fledge "news" item on Fox News (aka Faux News).
The facts are these:
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Tracking the rightwing lie about a Bush critic
Cindy Sheehan did not change her story
Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier killed in Iraq last April, has drawn significant media attention for staging an anti-war protest outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where she is demanding to meet with the president. On August 8, Internet gossip Matt Drudge posted an item on his website, the Drudge Report, in which he falsely claimed that Sheehan 'dramatically changed her account' of a meeting she had with Bush in June 2004
The Media Matters website tracks the permutation of one unsubstantiated assertion into a full-fledge "news" item on Fox News (aka Faux News).
The facts are these:
- Cindy Sheehan's son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, died in Iraq: true.
- Cindy Sheehan and other "GoldStar" parents met with Pres. Bush in April, 2004 and an account was published in Sheehan's hometown newspaper, The Reporter of Vacaville, CA : true.
- Sheehan was not satisfied with Bush's performance at that meeting, but was gratified to meet with other parents who lost sons and daughters in Iraq: true.
- Matt Drudge lifted a quote out of context, taking a remark made about thetrip itself and appalying it to themeeting with Bush specifically and then accused her of changing her position: apparently true.
Palema
11:33 AM
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