Fact-checking Putz's links.

Like most right wingers, Putz is convinced that the media has an anti-American/anti-Bush bias, and his continuous and often venomous attacks on the free press have been well documented on this blog.

There are scores of laughable contradictions and absurdities in his ongoing "we're losing the war because of the pro-terror media" campaign. But one of the most glaring is his insistence that news organizations' reporting is distorted because of their bias, that they make stuff up, and that they are unreliable because of this supposed bias, while he links daily to partisan bloggers who distort, make stuff up and are unreliable.

That is the background behind this brief post.

MORE PEOPLE checking the A.P.'s work in Iraq.

And who are these people, from whom we should get the real story in Iraq? Who are these noble agents of truth and accuracy? This link is to Confederate Yankee, the far-right blogger whose blog is subtitled, "Because liberalism is a persistent vegetative state."

Let's check a little of Confederate Yankees' recent work.

11/17/2006

Please, tell us why the terrorists that overwhelming [sic] cheered for Democratic victories in the mid-terms [sic] should view a withdrawal from Iraq as anything other than a validation of their tactics and assumptions of how to best to conquer the world.

11/6/2006

Consider the historical fact that such polls tend to oversample [sic] Democrats and undersample [sic] Republicans, and I think we stand a pretty decent possibility of seeing Republicans being able to declare victory in both the House and Senate, if by narrower margins than what they currently hold.Final Prediction. I'll go out on a limb and predict that the Republicans hold the House by six seats and the Senate by three.

10/23/06

Only those on the anti-war left ever (purposefully) misstated that Iraq was involved with the terrorist attacks of September 11, and only the anti-war left ever stated that Saddam's Iraq received uranium from Niger. The Bush Adminstration [sic] did not hold those positions.

6/16/06

Saddam to al Tikriti to Atta. A strong link from Iraq to 9/11. Add this to evidence that Saddam gave money and housing to Abdul Rahman Yasin, the 1993 World Trade Center bomb builder, and I'd say that you're looking at evidence that Saddam was linked to attacks on the World Trade Center not once, but twice.

1/7/2006

Murtha's treason--and I do now classify it as such-- is even more shameful in my opinion, as he seeks to undermine not only the United States while at war, but he seeks to undermine another nation, Iraq, that has shown a stronger commitment to democracy each time it has been tested at the ballot box.

6/1/2005

Critics of the Bush administration have been quick to point out that attacks by the insurgency have not declined since the Iraqi elections, and that the numbers of attacks have actually increased. While technically accurate, this criticism misses the larger context that seems to bolster Cheney's that the insurgency is in its "last throes."… It is quite likely that any widespread insurgency in Iraq will fall apart well before the end of the Bush administration. It is possible that the insurgency will collapse by early 2007, and it could conceivably devolve from its current level of operations into local, cell-level operations with little or no widespread planning and coordination capabilities by as early as late 2005.

2/11/2005

It seems to me, based upon the words of Iran's mullahcracy, that taking them out now is the only sensible course of action. Better a little burning Hell now than a purpetual [sic] glow later.