This is Abby Martin and you're listening to an exclusive Media Roots interview with Cindy Sheehan,

mother who has made the ultimate sacrifice and fearless anti-war activist.

She relays her powerful, lucid point of view in a candid interview at her home on February 6, 2011.

I really enjoyed spending time with Cindy and hope you guys enjoy this interview.

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So Cindy, thanks so much for meeting with us today. I really appreciate it.

We just kind of wanted to jump straight to the point here.

You know, it seemed like when you were the figurehead of the peace movement, the mainstream media was fully behind you, and then it seemed like they turned against you, and the anti-war

movement turned against you, too. They used you as a symbol, and then they used you as kind of

a scapegoat. Do you want to elaborate on that? What did you think about when that happened?

Well, first of all, when I went to Crawford in 2005, it was a media circus.

I remember, like, on the third or fourth day, there was this really cool AP photographer

named Matt, and he was down there constantly.

And every day I'd say Matt is it a media

circus yet he's on not quite not quite and then about Thursday it was a media circus he agreed

that it was a media circus and I think that you know I used to think that the media was biased

towards the right when Bush was president.

And so a lot of that media, and all the media, when they started to realize that I was like

serious, I wasn't just a fluke and I wasn't going to go away, they, put the brakes on it, you know, and started to

marginalize me, you know, painting me as just a grieving mother or slightly off, um, kilter

because of my grief. And so that started to happen that summer, you know, and then, but still,

the, um, so-called progressive liberal media,

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