Barone: WW II Press Would've "Mercifully Given No Publicity" to Sheeha

August 17th, 2005 8:32 PM
Michael Barone of U.S. News told FNC's Chris Wallace tonight that “if a World War II era Cindy Sheehan had gone to Hyde Park and Warm Springs and camped out and demanded a meeting with President Roosevelt,” she “would just been thought to have been a person who was the victim of a personal tragedy and who had gone over the bend as a result of it, and they would have mercifully given her no…

Barnes Calls Sheehan “Crackpot,” Rues Media Focus on Her

August 11th, 2005 7:32 PM
During the panel segment on tonight's (Thursday) Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC, Fred Barnes recalled Joe Wilson and Bill Burkett as he wondered, "is there any left-wing publicity hound who the media won't build up?” Zeroing in on Cindy Sheehan, Barnes criticized both her and the media's treatment of her: “This woman wants to go in and tell the President that the war is about oil because…