Not that anyone noticed, but Cindy Sheehan brought her bus tour through Raleigh yesterday. You might remember her. She was a brief fad of the media before Hurricane Katrina made landfall and the savants of the press determined that President Bush didn’t hate dead soldiers’ mothers so much as he hates poor black folk.
It’s not that Sheehan didn’t try to recapture their attention. She reportedly said, “Congress, this administration and the media … the mainstream media ? their hands are blood-stained.” Sad, really. Her plight seems reminiscent of The Onion‘s account of another forgotten provocateur: Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People.
“Look at me, suburban dung/blood-stained media. Does this shock you?”
