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Fifth Column
Was Sheehan Bankrolled by Kerry 2004?
2006-10-20
If true, this shows that even 35 years afterwards, John Kerry still wants to dishonor those who served their country in combat against America's hostile enemies
HANNITY: You do two things in the book. Number one, you describe how Cindy Sheehan had met President Bush a year before she became critical and was very complimentary of him. The media seems to have not done their job.

And the second thing you uncover in this book is that she worked very closely with the Kerry people. This was — she, in essence, was used by them. Explain that.

MORGAN: We have documents from the FEC that tracked the money, and that's generally how you get to a good investigative stories. And we've spent a lot of time in putting this all together.

It was John Kerry's political campaign, John Kerry personally, along with Michael Moore, went to Cindy Sheehan just days and a couple of weeks after the death of her son and asked her to make a commercial for him.

And they did the same thing, political operatives, they asked the other families.

HANNITY: So here's a woman that said nice things about the president and then was used as a political pawn in a campaign and continues to be used, is that fair?

MOY: No.

MORGAN: No, she has divorced herself because she feels that John Kerry is not now representative and not anti-war enough and not radical enough, so she —and they broke up their association. It was a financial arrangement that took care of her daughter, Carly, and her expenses.

MOY: They kicked her to the curb because she became too radical — if you could believe that or not — for people like Hillary Clinton, even.

HANNITY: Why does the press ignore — you can go through and you chronicled, which, by the way, the media never did, the insanity of some of the things that she said. Why don't you give us examples, and then answer the question: Why did the media ignore this side of her?

MORGAN: The media was a willing and complicit factor in this whole story. Cindy Sheehan was not just an ordinary, suburban, Vacaville, California, mom who suddenly planted herself, and woke up one morning, and said, "I've got to do something about the war in Iraq," and went to Crawford to ask the president, "What noble cause did my son die for?"

What happened was, she was financially assisted — hundreds and thousands of dollars were spent to help her to create a media message, which she, in fact, began to unspooling every night on the 6:00 news.
Posted by:badanov

#4  Soros? The self-loathing, survivor-hating, Joooo hating commie?
Posted by: Bobby   2006-10-20 21:58  

#3  What about Soros? His tentacles may be there, too.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-10-20 21:21  

#2  Don't discount this as a campaign expense for Kerry. Teresa would be glad to bankroll this sort of thing, based on her pattern of contributions.
Posted by: lotp   2006-10-20 12:12  

#1  Right. Like Kerry would actually pay for anything himself. Just look at Theresa's checkbook!
Posted by: Raj   2006-10-20 11:11  

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