Wingnutosphere calls Iraqi deaths a hoax

The rightist intelligentsia is really grasping at straws to justify their war.

Their plaint that's making its way through the freeposphere now is that the media ran several stories about deadly clashes between terrorists and villagers in Iraq that war supporters claim were made up. They did? Weird. I never even saw the original stories until the warmongers started crying that they were hoaxes. That's because the American media (which is always eager to cave to Bush) generally ignored the stories, leaving foreign news organizations to cover them.

What's more, these were all separate incidents covered by separate news outlets. So the wingnuts are claiming all these news organizations from around the world got together to try to make up bogus stories about Iraq?

What right-wing site originated the false notion that these stories were hoaxes? The site responsible for this delusion is a project of a right-wing media criticism group funded by conservative foundations and headed by ultraconservative media hatchet man Brent Bozell III. The website itself proudly proclaims a stated goal of fighting alleged liberal media bias. (That it claims the media has a liberal bias dashes to smithereens any credibility it has.)

And what's this site's source for debunking the news stories about the deaths? Its source is a website run by the U.S. military command headed by David Petraeus. Um. OK. Like you're supposed to trust a Bush regime site?

But thanks, Freeper peeps, for trying in vain to discredit the original stories. Now I know the original articles existed and have become more informed by reading them.

Who do you trust more? A Bozell back-slapping blog, or several different news organizations operating independently of each other?