Michelle Malkin Fiddles While Baghdad Burns

Amidst the carnage inside Iraq and the Republican collapse at home, right-wing warbloggers have identified America's most treacherous enemy. They say the press lost the war.
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Amidst the carnage inside Iraq and the Republican collapse at home, right-wing warbloggers have identified America's most treacherous enemy -- a stringer for the Associated Press. War cheerleaders like Malkin claim the whole Iraq fiasco is the media's fault, that the press has done the terrorists' bidding, spread their propaganda, turned Americans against their fighting sons and daughters, and ruined what would have otherwise been a brilliant Bush foreign policy maneuver to spread Western-style democracy throughout a troubled part of the world. In other words, the press lost the war. Period.

Read the full Media Matters column here.

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