My mea culpa

My mea culpa

by duckman | November 29, 2005 12:03 PM PST

In a recent post I had a link to a much dejected looking Cindy Sheehan and some may have gotten the WRONG impression that her book signing was not a success. I do utterly and completely apologize for the great distortion of the truth.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001572310
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Please set your sarcasm filter to maximum

100 books, only 100 more than I sold last week.
Amazing what some consider ?success?

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she prob bought all herself

by Mark5019 | November 29, 2005 12:35 PM PST

and she can autograph them

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More than 100 would show up ...

by Evie | November 29, 2005 9:22 PM PST

... in the summer TX heat to read a book by Barney

Evie

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Do you have any evidence, any at all

by Dan McC | November 30, 2005 12:22 AM PST

to support such a hateful accusation?

Dan

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How is that hatefiul?

by EdH | November 30, 2005 12:34 AM PST

Do you think authors or publishers never buy up their books to inflate sales numbers?? It happens all the time.

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Do you have any evidence

by Dan McC | November 30, 2005 12:41 AM PST

that it occurred here? Any?

Dan

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Earth to Dan...

by EdH | November 30, 2005 12:49 AM PST

I don't claim it did. Only that there's nothing hateful about speculating that it might have.

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well when you have a hatefull mind you tend

by Mark5019 | November 30, 2005 1:10 AM PST

to think everythings hatefull huh dan

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Such speculation, in general, is not, but

by Dan McC | November 30, 2005 2:14 AM PST

specific instances of it can be and are.

Dan

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Suuure, Dan.

by EdH | November 30, 2005 3:46 AM PST

You're blowing smoke.

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Selling 100% of her supply sounds like....

by Josh K | November 29, 2005 11:10 PM PST

...a success to me.

But in a statement today, Sheehan accused ?right-wing? sites of ?spreading a false story that nobody bought my book at Camp Casey on Saturday. That is not true, I sold all 100 copies and got writer's cramp signing them. Photos were taken of me before the people got in line to have me sign the book. We made $2000 for the peace house.?

The way I read that, she only brought 100 copies with her and sold all of them. In most business circles that would indicate that the sale was a success.

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Yeah; if she had brought only 10,,,

by EdH | November 29, 2005 11:14 PM PST

or 1....?

C'mon, Josh. It's pathetic. Do you have your copy?

Anyway, who cares about her? She's had her 15 minutes and more.

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Apparently you guys care a lot

by Josh K | November 29, 2005 11:18 PM PST

Every thread about her has been started by one of you, mostly Mark.

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So what?

by EdH | November 30, 2005 12:17 AM PST

Doesn't prove anything beyond the fact that we follow the news.

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So you guys are constantly posting about her.....

by Josh K | November 30, 2005 12:58 AM PST

....because you couldn't care less about her?

Sure, if you say so.

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Okay, you can have the last word...

by EdH | November 30, 2005 1:05 AM PST

if that's what you want.

Jeeez!

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and since you mentioned my name

by Mark5019 | November 30, 2005 1:15 AM PST

i guess you envy me hmmm

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Josh didn't even mention the word "envy"!

by Jimmy Jazz | November 30, 2005 1:21 AM PST

However, I am sure you have qualities that most of us would envy and so do we that you would. We're all very special Mark.

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Only if all the posts in which you mention my name....

by Josh K | November 30, 2005 1:58 AM PST

....mean you envy me, Mark.

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josh you would do good to save your copy

by Mark5019 | November 30, 2005 1:13 AM PST

it will go good along side band aid kerrys service records.
wait he hasnt released them yet
you work for us remember

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Jeeez Louise!

by Jimmy Jazz | November 30, 2005 1:23 AM PST

Kerry must be a heavy duty thorn in your side Mark. He appears in more of your posts than he does on a search at google!

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well as i despise liars and cowards

by Mark5019 | November 30, 2005 2:35 AM PST

as some here think hes a good man, same people think bill Clinton's an Honorable man, just because he lied to congress and committed adultery isn't a bad moralistic man to idolize.

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Do you think that's why?

by Jimmy Jazz | November 30, 2005 3:25 AM PST

"same people think bill Clinton's an Honorable man, just because he lied to congress and committed adultery"

Do you really think that's why some people like Bill Clinton? Otherwise, why would you even go there? Your hate is getting worse every day. Please just try to be a little more humble and try, just try to see things from more than your own perspective becuase your glasses have the stars and stripes all over them and that is NOT the way to look at the world or even the USA.

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lol

by Mark5019 | November 30, 2005 3:55 AM PST

and do the facts that he lied make him "your kind of honerable person"
and as to the stripes your dammed right im proud of my country.
good people died for it and more will die for it.
and what you see as hate is your low self esteem.
i can look myself in the mirror and not be ashamed.

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He released them, Mark

by Josh K | November 30, 2005 1:59 AM PST

And you well know it.

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not his war records josh

by Mark5019 | November 30, 2005 2:33 AM PST

he still hasnt released them he knows whats in them and thats why hes not released them

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Bush and Cheney have great war records.......

by Josh K | November 30, 2005 3:39 AM PST

....by the Andrews Sisters.

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(NT) (NT) OUCH!

by Dan McC | November 30, 2005 3:41 AM PST

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Way to duck the fact...

by EdH | November 30, 2005 3:44 AM PST

that Kerry used a sneaky trick to make it look like he relased his records (under duress) while not really releasing the ones that count.

And some people fell for it!

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and you cant say the same or was cub scouts

by Mark5019 | November 30, 2005 3:57 AM PST

all you did?

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This AGAIN, Mark???

by Josh K | November 30, 2005 4:05 AM PST

You know the answer to this one too, as I've told you at least four times now. Either you have a very bad memory or you're deliberately ignoring the facts in order to continue to lob insults.

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