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From the look on her face it seems that the Peace Mom is coming to the realization that her 15 minutes ARE UP!

But that doesn't stop Reuters from running with this "patriotic" shot of PM at her book signing. See the rest at Sweetness and Light

UPDATE: It seems Cindy is upset with AP and Reuters (imagine that!) for running the photographs that show her sitting in an empty book signing tent. She says it leaves the impression that the book signing was a flop. Newsflash to Cindy, it was! She is of course claiming that the conservative sites picked up the story and claimed that NO ONE bought her book. I know I didn't claim that, AP and Reuters didn't make that claim and all the blogs I read did not make that claim either. Editor and Publisher has the entire story.

I guess Cindy just can't handle the truth!

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.”

Her publisher, Arnie Kotler at Koa Books, meanwhile released a letter to her supporters, charging that “AP and Reuters posted photos - I can't imagine why - of Cindy sitting at the book table between signings, rather than while someone was at the table. And now the smear websites are circulating an article, with these photos, that Cindy gave a signing and nobody came. It's simply not true…. the benefit books igning in Crawford, Texas on November 26, 2005 was well attended and a huge success.”

Asked for a response, anAP commented this afternoon:

"Photographer Evan Vucci, queried about the incident today said that he was present at the book signing from about 10 a.m. to about 11 a.m. During that time, he said, people were coming in to have their books signed in small groups of a few at a time.

"At the time the photos were taken 'maybe 5 people had come in,' Vucci says, and Sheehan was waiting for more to stop by, which they did individually as well as in very small groups. Therefore the wording of the caption is accurate in that Sheehan was waiting for people to show up at her signing."