Me, Hugo and George by Cindy Sheehan

[proud2BlibKansan]

Me, Hugo and George

by Cindy Sheehan
July 15th, 2006


Cindy Sheehan


When I was growing up in Bellflower, Ca., I never, as a child with a good imagination, could have ever imagined that my life would take the peculiar turn that it has. I could not have foreseen giving birth to a child that would eventually be wrongfully and devastatingly killed in war or that I would be meeting with world leaders or be nominated for the Noble Peace Prize.

Along with the Vice President of Spain, Foreign Minister of Ireland, Attorney General of Australia and countless parliamentarians from all over the globe, one of the world leaders that I have met and spent a good amount of time with on my journey is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Due to the propaganda media and the ignorance of many of my fellow Americans, I have been heavily criticized for my visit. I would like to remind my neighbors all over the country that we do have diplomatic relations with Venezuela and we are not at war with that country.

On a recent appearance that I made on MSNBC's Hardball which was being guest hosted by Norah O' Donnell, she introduced me as someone who has been photographed with "dictator" Hugo Chavez. After the introduction and in a very short subsequent break, I looked at her and said: "You know President Chavez is not a dictator. He has been democratically elected to his office 8 times."

To which she replied: "We had a big discussion about that and we decided that he ruled like a dictator." That statement really shocked, yet irritated me, because I can't believe that MSNBC and Norah O'Donnell would perpetuate the myth that President Chavez is a dictator and mislead and misinform their viewers, because contrary to facts, they "decided that he ruled like a dictator."

"Then you should call George Bush a dictator." I said right before we were given the signal that the interview was beginning.

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George should never have been President in the first place and he has been president of my country for far too long already.

Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan who was KIA in Iraq on 04/04/04. She is a co-founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace and the author of two books: Not One More Mother's Child and Dear President Bush. She is currently on Day 12 of the Troops Home Fast.

Come to Camp Casey in August to hold George accountable and stand up for peace!

http://www.gsfp.org/article.php?id=232

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Nora

is a fucking bitch.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. That

she is indeed.

[Cha]

22. Not very

brilliant, either.

[Kire]

2. Go Cindy

Go Cindy

[Vidar]

4. Oh look, Nora is a "decider" just like Georgie. Facts be damned!

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Nora be damned

:)

[Vidar]

26. That too!

[Neecy]

6. Oh, my.....

"We had a big discussion about that and we decided that he ruled like a dictator."

What happened to just reporting the news, and not propping up the ruling party? "We" decided? Good God!

This is the money quote. This tells us the entire sad, tawdry tale of our corpo media.

[Hugin]

9. Who discussed it?

Is that the Royal "We"?

[tbyg52]

16. As in the "we"....

...who decide what's best for "you," yep.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Yeah good catch

whatever you say, Nora

[Wonk]

7. "Noble Peace Prize"? Nobel, not Noble. nt

[druidity33]

10. never had a typo?

c'mon, she inverted 2 letters... and the spell check didn't catch it because noble is also a word. Plus, some people are just poor spellers. Are you picking on her for that?

:(

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Wouldn't surprise me

Cindy is getting a lot of criticism here these days.

[druidity33]

17. yeah...

and for the most ridiculous things sometimes!

:(

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. I wonder if Gandhi was criticized for his fasts

:eyes:

[pecwae]

21. Cindy has lost

'flavor of the month' title for many here apparently. One month a hero, next month a nutcase. Go figure.

Cindy has and still speaks for me as does COL Ann Wright.

[boolean]

24. That's nothing new

I've noticed that she's not a very good writer and does sometimes spell things wrong. She also has poor grammar some of the time and doesn't really connect her thoughts all that well in natural, flowing sentences.

Sort of like how bush can't even speak properly or articulate any coherent though without a script. Except he's the president of the United States.

[lonestarnot]

8. bushitler the dictator, and norslutla another decider.

[Buxtehude]

11. Bless you Cindy! k/r

[Helga Scow Stern]

12. Go Cindy!

[mogster]

15. This is incredible

This shows very well how the media consciously mislead their audience:

"To which she replied: "We had a big discussion about that and we decided that he ruled like a dictator." That statement really shocked, yet irritated me, because I can't believe that MSNBC and Norah O'Donnell would perpetuate the myth that President Chavez is a dictator and mislead and misinform their viewers, because contrary to facts, they "decided that he ruled like a dictator.""

:-o

K&R for Cindy. Keep exposing the lies!

[madokie]

18. Cindy speaks for me too, and it says a lot about her the fact she

didn't just bit*h slap whora, I woulda'.

[Mike Nelson]

20. Cindy, your son would be SO PROUD.

thank you

[Kurovski]

23. K&R.(nt)

[demgurl]

25. I think we all need to send MSNBC an email.

Let them know that we do not appreciate when the media spins the truth. At least I will write one but I think we all should.