Wingnuts disappointed in the "liberal media"

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Republicans and The Media

By: John Cole October 8, 2007 at 9:13 am
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Apparently this past weekend several reporters made the profound mistake of appearing on Howard Kurtz and discussing coverage of the Iraq War, and Robin Wright answered the following question:

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Seems like a pretty reasonable answer. The media covered the story, but did not know how significant the data was at that point (or if it is significant). There are a number of different mechanisms for counting the fatalities, and the dip may be an anomaly. Regardless, it was covered, and the question by Kurtz was whether it should have received MORE coverage.

Again, it seems like a reasonable answer, because it was. But you and I live here on Planet Earth. On Planet Wingnut, where the air is laced with ether and tales of media bias, this response was seized upon as additional proof of TEH LIBERAL MEDIA CONSPIRACY AGAINST GEORGE BUSH, THE GREAT STRUGGLE IN IRAQ, AND ALL THINGS REPUBLICAN.

Almost immediately, a wingnut Voltron was formed, with Newsbusters leading the way:

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So there you have it. Because the media will not immediate declare Iraq a success after a one month decline in casualties, the media is biased. Because they will not make sweeping generalizations about everything in Iraq based on a one month decline in troop fatalaties, the media hates America. The notion of bias seems to come from the perception that “if more soldiers had been killed, it would have been reported more heavily,” compared to the difficulty in reporting soldiers who didn’t die (if casualties spike upwards, we have offcial numbers, and it is an obvious surge in deaths. If they go down, less dead soldiers is obviously a good thing, but it isn’t proof of a trend). Even then, the numbers were reported, as I commented about it. Here is the AP report I linked to:

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Guess the wingnuts long for Judith Miller and overt complicity by the media.

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1. let's simplify it: the 'war' against the people is a crime

it was fraudulently foisted on the American people. The million dead Iraqis who are victims of the fraud constitute the greatest war crime since dubya dubya 2. Those who effected the fraud are criminals, they belong in The Hague. The media barons and media personnel who used public aitwaves to aid/abet the fraud through lies and other misleading actions are outlaws, and fiscally responsible for the multi trillion dollar cost of the bush fraud. Efforts on the part of the guilty men in power to distract and confuse the issues, by constantly jamming up the apparatus which the founders of the laws of the nation designed precisely to counter the danger posed by them, just worsens an already bad situation. Rush limbaugh is an armed and dangerous enemy of mankind....and he's been exposed....there are tens of thousand of desperados in pinstripes still hiding themselves, and who should be shot on sight in the interest of national security, if they try to run