Media Whoredom

I was just browsing Google news, and I caught this headline:

Anti-war mother in White House arrest

A LEADING United States anti-war protester, Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, was yesterday arrested at a demonstration outside of the White House.

This is about the 500th time that I've seen the mainstream newsmedia refer to Cindy Sheehan as "the Anti-War mother" or "Anti-war protestor". One of the most hurtful ways that media whores distort the truth is their use of labelling. Read this excellent peice by Ted Rall to further explore this topic.

Here's my point. When did Cindy Sheehan ever say she was anti-war or a war protestor? Infact, when has anyone ever directly called her anti-war? The answer is nobody, nowhere. The fact of the matter is that Cindy Sheehan wants a face to face meeting with Bush, and she wants a clear and direct answer to a single question, why did her son die? Ergo, why are we in Iraq?

I think this is a fair question to ask, and the fact that our government will not answer it proves that her son died for no reason, and that we have no reason to be in Iraq. First it was weapons of mass destruction, then it was about getting Sadam, then it was about freeing the Iraqi people and spreading democracy, and now it's about nothing.

Even if you believe that this war was about oil, where is the oil? Reality check, the price of oil more than tripled under Bush's presidency, worldwide consumption is at an all time high, worldwide oil production is dropping off sharply, and oil costs CONTINUE to rise.

We are fighting and dying in a war for nothing. Why isn't that the headline?