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Cindy Sheehan Gets Ignored...Again!
| I hadn't heard much about Crazy Cindy in quite a while, so I checked Google-News. It was pretty much a bust, until
I stumbled across a rather nice article by Jeremy Meister on The Conservative Voice noting
that Cindy has been pretty much written off by the media. Perhaps it's because she's turned against Nancy Pelosi and
the Democratic Party and the mainstream media wants to silence Sheehan's rants. Maybe it's because she hasn't had
anything noteworthy to say in quite a while. "Hey look! Over there! Oh, never mind. It's just Crazy Cindy Sheehan jumping
that same old shark again. Nothing new here. Let's go cover the opening of that car dealership across town."
Or it could be that even the mainstream media has figured out that Willie Nelson is just another drugged-out musician
(but Lord, I do love his music) and Hugo Chavez really IS a Communist. He wants to literally become another Castro-style
dictator and if his referendum passes at the polls today, it will be the last real election held during his lifetime.
That picture of Cindy kissing Chavez could become as famous and damning as the well-known photo of Hanoi Jane sitting
on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. It wouldn't do to have people remember how they fawned over Sheehan and how
Sheehan endorsed Chavez. Katie Couric and Dan Rather don't want the public connecting those dots.
Any way you look at it Meister was right... the mainstream media has kicked Cindy to that well-known curb.
So how is Cindy going to make a living? No college degree. No husband. No job. And if you believe Cindy; no car.
She'll do what she always did. Show up, make a speech, and collect a nice, fat speaker's fee!
But how can she alert the Faithful to show up without the mainstream media? Fringe, baby, fringe!
On Sunday, November 18, Sheehan was to receive an award and (unless I am greatly mistaken) a nice fat check from the
Cranbrook Peace Foundation at the Cobo Center in Detroit Michigan. For weeks before the "event", the fringe media beat
the drums to gather Moonbats from near and far. The Detroit Free Press, Clickondetroit.com, micentral.com, huffingtonpost.com,
detnews.com, workingforjustice.blogspot.com, and greatstuff2do.com, all promoted her upcoming appearance. No effort was spared!
The Cranbrook Peace Foundation's own site offered tickets at $20 each ($50 including a pre-speech reception) and asked
for volunteers to promote and staff the event. They were so sure that Cindy's presence would draw massive crowds that they
reserved space at the Cobo Convention Center proudly announcing "To meet the large crowd, this year we've booked the whole
Riverview Ballroom, with a full 2,000 seat capacity,". Source That's thinking big!
Fortunately, the ballroom is actually 2 rooms (Source). Room W1-52 holds 500 people, while room W1-51 can accommodate
1,500 more. Only room W1-52 was actually needed.
The crowd, including staff, organizers, volunteers (who got free tickets), invited guests and actual paid attendees came to
a grand total of 300 (Source). Not even enough to fill the smaller of the two rooms available!
Apparently the Detroit News was so embarrassed by the low turnout that they deleted the headcount from the story currently online, but the
original posting lives on because Google cached the page. None of the other websites I have seen even commented on attendance figures.
What if you gave a speech lasting two hours on the topic of "We Cannot Be Silent"?
What if Moonbats held a Crazy Cindy event and (almost) nobody showed up? Ask the Cranbrook Peace Foundation. I doubt they broke even on the deal.
The mainstream media ignores her. The Fringe media can't get the job done. Cindy can't sell tickets anymore. Her next gig
may involve wearing a hairnet and asking "Would you like to Supersize that, sir?" That would be a good day for America!
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