America - AP Lying for Sheehan

Angela Brown, a reporter for the AP, continues to lie for anti-war protester, Cindy Sheehan.

In the article Brown once again makes this false assertion.

Sheehan and other grieving families met with Bush about two months after her son died last year, before she became a vocal opponent of the war.

Brown continues to peddle this lie even though Powerline debunked it several days ago.

As anyone who has followed this story knows, this claim is utterly false. Sheehan has always been a "vocal opponent of the war;" her opposition had nothing to do with "reports of faulty prewar intelligence." By her own account, as we noted here, Sheehan was bitterly opposed to the war before her son Casey re-enlisted in August 2003:

"I begged Casey not to go. I told him I would take him to Canada. I told him I would run over him with a car, anything to get him not to go to that immoral war. *** The U.N. weapon inspectors were saying there were no weapons of mass destruction. So I believed all along that this invasion was unnecessary and that there was some other agenda behind it besides keeping America safe."

So, far from having been turned into a "vocal opponent" some time after her son's death, Ms. Sheehan already considered the war "immoral" before he re-enlisted in 2003, and she never did believe the intelligence about WMDs.

So much for MSM's vaunted fact checking abilities.
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