Cindy Sheehan #1 news story in Google News - 547 related articles!

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Seattle Times
I'm not budging, says soldier's mother camped at Bush's door
Times Online - 45 minutes ago
GEORGE BUSH loves his Prarie Chapel Ranch in Crawford so much that he has spent almost one fifth of his presidency “taking the pulse of the heartlands” in this big-buckled, open — if not red — necked, beef-eating corner of Texas. ...
Bush to mother who lost son in Iraq: 'I grieve' Reuters AlertNet
Bush: Leaving Iraq Would Be a Bad Signal Washington Post
San Francisco Chronicle - Voice of America - CTV - Los Angeles Times - all 546 related »

The lead story (thanks, Seattle Times, you come through AGAIN!).

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002433202_mom11.html

CRAWFORD, Texas — For more than a year, a modest bungalow known as "Peace House," located a few miles from President Bush's ranch, has served as a headquarters for anti-war activists. It is lonely work, with little more than a skeleton crew on hand much of the time.
Then Cindy Sheehan hit town. The 48-year old mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed in an ambush in Baghdad, Iraq, last year, is consumed by the kind of grief that turns into a furious determination to do something — in her case, to confront the president and force him to explain why her son died.

Now, in the space of just a few days, what started out as a seemingly quixotic personal mission has become something of a phenomenon. Media are swarming around Sheehan; leading liberal and anti-war activists are parachuting in to try to make her their long-sought voice; and political experts in both parties are working to assess what role she may have in galvanizing the public's gathering unhappiness with the increasing American casualties in Iraq.

Anti-war leaders hope that putting the spotlight on Sheehan will motivate Americans who oppose the war, creating a political force strong enough to compel the Bush administration to change course. MoveOn.org and other liberal groups have rushed to provide support, offering media expertise and attempting to assemble a corps of others who have lost relatives in Iraq or have family members serving there.

Liberal voices have swung into action on the Internet as well. On Wednesday, Democratic media consultant Joe Trippi organized a conference call with Sheehan for bloggers, aiming to garner more publicity. By Wednesday afternoon, "Cindy Sheehan" was the top-ranked search term on Technorati.com, the search engine for blog postings.

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[Clark2008]

1. Because the corporate media hasn't done shit on it until

today.

People are realizing they have to go online to get their news - if they want more than stories about missing blondes and Michael Jackson.

[Synnical]

2. Very Cool

I've been googling her name fairly frequently . . .