Peace Vigil Gets Wide News Coverage; Spin Goes Against BushThe Iowa Channel almost spins it correctly, calling Cindy Sheehan "Peace Mom." That's a far cry better than other media who have been smearing her this past week.
Anti-War Vigils Held In Support Of Peace Mom
According to The Daily Iowan, Iowa City saw 150 peaceful protestors.
Locals Rally to Back Sheehan
From the Quad-City Times, the added local slant about QC resident Caryn Unsicker, who traveled to Crawford to join Cindy.
From the Heart
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covers it locally.
Hundreds Join Vigil for Peace
National news actually covers the story. Looks like Cindy is striking such a nerve with middle America that the spin is turning against the cold-hearted Bush.
The San Francisco Chronicle spins it Cindy's way.
She reopened debate about war, and, boy, is she hearing about it
In the Minneapolis Star Tribune, David Sarasohn says that last week, Cindy was a California mother. This week, she's a movement. Wonder if ignoring Cindy really looks like the best tactic now? [The link below seems to only work occasionally - sorry about that.]
David Sarasohn: Staying away from a mother and a question
If you choose to read just one story, I recommend a great piece, very reflective, in the Washington Post by columnist Peter Beinert. See the excerpt below.
Why has Cindy Sheehan - the bereaved mother camped outside [Bush's] Crawford ranch - transfixed the nation?
...Sheehan's vigil says ... something important about [Bush]. Sheehan, after all, has only one demand: She wants to confront [Bush] face to face. The demand is so provocative because one of George W. Bush's defining qualities is his aversion to exactly this sort of challenge.
...[H]e dislikes being challenged by his political competitors - as the country learned during last year's first presidential debate, when Bush repeatedly scowled during John Kerry's answers. In fact, Bush aides were so scrupulous in shielding him from criticism during the campaign that they routinely expelled people wearing Kerry paraphernalia from ostensibly public rallies.
...When Cindy Sheehan first met with Bush, and tried to discuss her slain son, she encountered this self-protective filter firsthand. "He didn't want to hear anything about Casey," she told CNN. "He wouldn't even call him 'him' or 'he.' He called him 'your loved one.' Every time we tried to talk about Casey and how much we missed him, he would change the subject."
