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I don't find it particularly amusing that the press was blatantly lying to us about what was going on over there.

I'm also not amused that they attempted to undermine the credibility of the coalition leadership by making up facts. "The General says this, but we here at Reuters can tell you that it's actually that."

This is not an opinion piece. Nor is it represented to be speculation. This is an alleged news story, peppered with quotations from, well, they never really say.

It will not always be true that members of the public can see for themselves what is going on, or that events will unfold so rapidly that the ax-grinding of media ideologists is so thoroughly exposed.

For most things going on around the world, we are still stuck with these so-called "journalists" who purport to tell us what's going on. But now we've seen that they are liars -- not just Reuters, nearly all of them -- and that they are pumping whatever bilge they think will bring us around to their political beliefs.

The exposure of the so-called mainstream press as a propaganda organ for the anti-war, anti-American left will, I believe, turn out to be the most significant domestic effect of this war.

The ability of this same media to sell the Democratic Party's candidates in the upcoming election has been dealt a severe blow. They will perform the same behaviors, and even read us the same 'push polls' to demonstrate the coming Democratic victory, but now we've seen that we can't trust these people to tell us the truth. They are liars and propagandists, and they just got caught. Big time.

The other area of reporting we need to be skeptical about is in the area of our economy. The media outlets known to be liberal in regard to politics are nearly always totally negative about our economy. They bash and bash and bash. They go out of their way to make good news into bad news. They know that they can only defeat this President now through economic means and I believe they are trying to create an atmosphere where people are afraid to buy, invest, etc., and I believe they would gladly welcome a recession, depression or whatever to take down President Bush. That is their goal. Readers of economic news had better think for themselves. Do not trust the news outlets you know to be leftist-liberal to give you the truth in respect to anything. Educate yourself and seek a variety of views.