Re: Cindy Sheehan. Am I being paranoid?

[Meeker Morgan]

I'm thinking this story will be gone from the MSM by Labor day. :mad:

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Heavens, I thought you were gonna say she would get the Jack Ruby

treatment.

No, the story won't die out if we don't let it. Keep her name tied to Plame, the DSM, Abu Ghraib, and the war in general.

[asjr]

2. That is what usually happens but I feel this has a life

of its own and may just hang on until Shrub comes off "vacation."

[whistle]

3. Not at all, stories on Rove and the Plame outing have all but ....

....disappeared from MSM. The only thing that can keep Cindy Sheehan story alive is for the demonstrations and support for her cause to keep growing to a critical mass of such proportions that Bush can no longer ignore her.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Rove/Plame/Wilson stuff has faded from the front page because

nothing much is happening on the surface. Whenever there's a significant new development, the story comes back. This pacing is OK, and is in fact a mark of Fitzgerald's professionalism. He's running a very tight (as in leakproof) ship. The Big Lebowski is gonna happen when Fitzgerald lands with the indictments.

Actually, the alternation between occasional R/P/W stories and their dying away is probably a VERY good thing. With a sudden splash and no follow-through, the story bounces off the public awareness and the casual observer has no chance to make deep structural changes in their perceptions of the political universe. In effect, nobody makes big cognitive strucural changes to accommodate one-time events. The hit-fade, hit-fade pattern is probably more effective in causing people to make the big changes because the repeated pattern shows that the structural change is going to continue to be needed.

[tulsakatz]

9. no new info

the reason why we don't hear much anymore about Rove/Novak/Plame is because there is no new info to report. There a few tidbits I've seen but not really much of any significance.

This case has been developing for over 2 yrs, just because we're not hearing about it now, doesn't mean it's going away. I expect we will hear a lot more about it near late September or October because that's when Fitzgerald is supposed to be finishing his case.

[SouthernDem2004]

4. I was betting by Monday. /nt

[chaumont58]

5. I don't think it will last until Labor Day and you aren't paranoid

If she were missing and a blond teenager, the story would last for years. Since she isn't missing and she isn't a teenager, don't count on the story being center stage much longer.

[HootieMcBoob]

7. If we're lucky it'll last that long

that's not to say that if it ends before that that it's a failure - far from it.

It's already a success.

[guruoo]

8. We need to think ahead....

and encourage Cindy to begin making plans for
what she wants to do next.
In other words, what should her next step be
after Crawford?

[tulsakatz]

11. I heard........

I don't remember where I heard this but I heard after Bush ends his vacation, Cindy expects to follow him to DC and continue the protest there.

[ClassWarrior]

10. If it is, there will be something else. Remember, when the Radical RW...

...were attempting their coup against the legitimately-elected Bill Clinton, they kept saying, "Establish a pattern... establish a pattern..."

Every one of our victories, large or small, contributes to that pattern, and in Bush** and Cheney**'s case, the pattern adds up to hard time in the federal pen.

NGU.

[sarahlee]

12. Well . . .

Until * leaves, you have a lot of journalists sitting down there, checking in at the gym and not a lot else to do but cover Camp Casey...