Right wing blogs DEAD Wrong, AGAIN!

[KelleyKramer]

The rightwing nut'osphere is such a joke.

For weeks they ran around with their hair on fire because they finally had 'Proof!' that the liberal MSM media was biased against the Iraq war. Because the AP had a report that sourced a guy that did not exist.

Well, well... guess what?? .....

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/credibility-of-right-wing-blogosphere.html

here are some snips, but follow the link and read the whole thing.. it delicious!! ...........

The "credibility" of the right-wing blogosphere

Packs of right-wing bloggers spent the last several weeks trying to destroy the credibility of Associated Press's war reporting by claiming that one of its sources, an Iraqi policeman named Jamil Hussein, does not exist, that AP simply invented him. As it turns out -- and as AP itself had the great pleasure of reporting (and then rubbing in the face of its irresponsible, taunting accusers) -- the Iraqi Government, which previously denied it, now acknowledges that Jamil Hussein does exist and he is a police officer in Iraq, just as AP reported accurately.

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And within the last twelve hours, multiple people have written comprehensively about the profound and long overdue humiliation which these right-wing bloggers just suffered. Greg Sargent re-caps how this incident exposes - yet again - the complete lack of credibility of the reckless, truth-free lynch mobs that compose the "right-wing blogosphere" and which hilariously see themselves as watchdogs over the media even though they traffic in the most reckless innuendo, gossip, and rank, error-plagued speculation that exists.

Here, Dave Neiwert documents but a fraction of the false accusations they made against AP, and during the controversy itself, he made the excellent point that this whole "controversy" was based on denials by the "Iraqi Government" and the U.S. military of Jamil Hussein's authenticity -- military and government denials which they mindlessly ingested and accepted as True like the good little authoritarians that they are.

To this superb commentary I want to add but one point -- there is nothing new, unique or surprising about this incident. Exactly this has happened repeatedly, time and again. This is what the right-wing blogosphere does. It is who they are and how they function. The only difference here is that they were so shrill and relentless in their attacks on AP, having prattled on about it for weeks without pause, that they actually pushed their accusations against AP into the national media.

and MUCH more here--
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/credibility-of-right-wing-blogosphere.html

[MADem]

1. They're putzes....Now there's a screen name for ya!!! Jamil Hussein! NT

[KelleyKramer]

2. hmmmm...

Surprised it hasnt been taken already