Monday, August 08, 2005

Can you walk on the road? Or are you marginalized to the ditch?

Yesterday I highlighted Cindy Sheehan's efforts to speak with president Bush about the death of her son in Iraq. Well, reading about her march to the Crawford "ranch", I was struck by the deal she and her group of supporters had to make with the local sheriff. There would be no problem so long as Sheehan and her bunch walked to the ranch off the road, i.e. in the ditch.

But apparently the same demand by the sheriff was not made of the media corps following them. The press walked in the road! So, here we have the "story," confined to walking through fire ants and weeds in the ditch, while the story's "reporters"--the media--walked on the road!

I just find it interesting how authority will try to societally marginalize someone who gave her son to Bush's war lie. Maybe it's just the good ol' sheriff protecting the former governor of the state, native son and Crawford resident from outside "agitators". But can Cindy Sheehan, by giving her son to the nation's war, be any more mainstream?

It seems to me if anyone should be confined to the ditch, it should be the media. They're the ones who've been asleep at the wheel and "off the road" this millenium!

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