{"id":1678,"date":"2005-08-10T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2005-08-10T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T18:01:02","slug":"cindy-sheehan-calls-bill-oreillys-show-an-obscenity-refuses-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Cindy Sheehan calls Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s show an &#8216;obscenity&#8217;; refuses interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by David Edwards<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/img\/bradblog\/oreillymad.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"> The BRAD BLOG has learned that Cindy Sheehan has refused to do an interview tonight on Fox&#8217;s <i>O&#8217;Reilley Factor<\/i>. On a conference call with bloggers this afternoon, Sheehan responded to a question from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\" target=\"_blank\">CrooksandLiars<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>Crooks and Liars:<\/b> I posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2005\/08\/10.html#a4390\" target=\"_blank\">video of O&#8217;Reilly and Malkin attacking you<\/a>. Are you going on his show?<\/p>\n<p><b>Cindy Sheehan:<\/b> No. I don&#8217;t like it when people lie about me. He attacks me personally about it. He asked me to go on show. My first reaction is that I&#8217;ll go on if he publicly apologizes for lying about me. But my second reaction is I won&#8217;t go on at all because his show is an obscenity.<\/p>\n<p>Our true mission is bringing attention to the occupation of Iraq and bringing our troops home. The Bush Administration doesn&#8217;t have the support of the majority of America. We do.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Right-wing media and blogs have put considerable effort into swift-boating Cindy Sheehan over the last few days. Check out what ThinkProgress has to say about <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2005\/08\/10\/smear-sheehan\/\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Reilly and Michelle Malkin&#8217;s attempt to smear Sheehan<\/a>. Atrios comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2005_08_07_atrios_archive.html#112351163792046726\" target=\"_blank\">Drudge&#8217;s baseless attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We wonder if the president&#8217;s odd behavior, speech and appearance at yesterday&#8217;s so-called press conference may have been caused by his fear of dealing with the situation developing outside his Crawford <strike>palatial estate<\/strike> ranch. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2005\/08\/09.html#a4379\">CrooksandLiars has a video clip<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Skinner at DemocraticUnderground has quickly put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&#038;address=104x4305926\" target=\"_blank\">a transcript of this afternoons blogcall with Cindy Sheehan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Media Matters has begun <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200508100009\" target=\"_blank\">tracking lies about Sheehan through the conservative media<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joetrippi.com\/node\/view\/1363\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Trippi<\/a> has provided audio of today&#8217;s BlogCall which we have happily reposted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/indy\/blogcall_cindy_sheehan_050810a.wav\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by David Edwards The BRAD BLOG has learned that Cindy Sheehan has refused to do an interview tonight on Fox&#8217;s O&#8217;Reilley Factor. On a conference call with bloggers this afternoon, Sheehan responded to a question from CrooksandLiars&#8230; Crooks and Liars: I posted the video of O&#8217;Reilly and Malkin attacking you. Are you going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}