March on Washington draws well-known fornicator and horde of photographers, available soon at fine adult video retailers.
But today protests of this sort have become so ritualized, so controlled, so derivative and predictable that it is a wonder anyone bothers. There is no particular tension, no threat of violence — power is not in the streets, and the whole world got bored with watching a long time ago.
Cindy Sheehan managed one final blip by slobbering on Jesse Jackson's back, but she is moments away from total irrelevancy. We viewers know she is nothing more than a convenient and disposable media product, a Big Story that has run its course. Americans don't care about anything for more than a month, six weeks tops, and half the country never cared about this so-called story in the first place.
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