Why does Glenn Reynolds ignore military polls?

The other day we mentioned the NYT poll, which showed that two-thirds of active military personnel think the war is going badly.

Putz totally ignored it.

We've also shown recently that Ron Paul netted the most military support among GOP candidates.

Putz totally ignored that too.

Now a Military.com poll shows this:

A recent Military.com poll posed this question: "When should American troops withdraw from Iraq?" The response from readers was noteworthy. Forty two percent of the 5,440 respondents chose the answer worded "Now. We're wasting lives and resources" and another 17 percent chose "The end of 2008. That's plenty of time." Added together, the results show 59 percent of those who responded were either for an immediate withdrawal or precipitous pullout within the next year or so.

And again, complete silence from Putz.

It's a real shame he hasn't read this article, because the author makes some excellent points on the veracity of polling as well as Putz's and the Bush followers' claim that the problem with the war is just the media coverage.

If this is, in fact, a media war that we're losing, which, in turn, will cause us to lose the actual war, then how did we come to be losing? Because as I remember it, the media seemed onboard for the big win back in '03. They were embedded - riding tanks with the first wave, sending blurry videophone reports from the front every hour on the hour. The embeds were smiling; back home the Pentagon press corps was smiling (along with Donald Rumsfeld). Life was good. Hell, the whole nation was swept up in the Abilene Paradox of it all.

So at what point did the MSM decide we were going to lose this thing? Was it during the Fallujah campaign in '04 (the one where we kicked their butts)? And what was the media's motivation behind the decision? Ratings? More ad dollars?

To Putz, the answer to that question is obvious. The media is liberal and partisan want to "hurt Bush." No other explanation is necessary.

Here is the bio for the author of this piece:

Ward Carroll is the editor of Military.com. During his 20-year Navy career he served in four different F-14 squadrons based at NAS Oceana and was the operations officer for Carrier Air Wing One. He was editor of Approach magazine and is currently a contributing editor for Naval Aviation News. His three books about a Tomcat pilot -- Punk's War, Punk's Wing, and Punk's Fight -- have been widely praised for their realistic portrayals of a Naval Aviator's life. His latest novel, Militia Kill, was recently published by Signet.

Sounds like just another defeatocrat Bush-hater, doesn't he?