Tony Snow: Michelle Malkin Is A Soldier In The ‘New Media War’ On Biased Iraq Coverage

The American public overwhelmingly opposes Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq and the White House blames the media. Yesterday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, Tony Snow vowed to fight a “new media war” to combat the coverage:

HH: All right, yesterday, the President also mentioned that there will be lots of carnage on television screens. Is the administration, and especially the Pentagon, prepared to fight the new media war when that starts to happen, Tony Snow?

TS: We’ve been fighting it. I mean, it’s not that it has started to happen, it’s been going on for some time.

Snow specifically cited right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin, who is currently embedded in Iraq, as a soldier for truth in the “media war”:

What is interesting, Hugh, and you know this as well as anybody else, you’re also starting to see little glimmers of guys like Michael Yon and others who get over there and they basically embed themselves in Iraq, and Michelle Malkin’s over there now.

Several times during the interview, Tony Snow referenced Malkin’s work on the Jamil Hussein “story.”

Michelle Malkin has been obsessed in recent months claiming that Hussein — an Iraqi policeman cited as a source by the Associated Press in a story about the burning of six people during a sectarian attack — does not exist. The Iraqi government recently debunked the conspiracy theory, acknowledging that the AP’s source was in fact a police officer in Iraq.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/12/snow-malkin-media-war/

...is that enough people buy into her bullshit that she is actually a thorn in our side rather than the simple cartoon she deserves to be.

Malkin will never get over the fact that, no matter how hard she tries, Ann Coulter will always be richer and more famous and smarter and meaner than she is.

Malkin is a second-tier also-ran, and that just tears her up inside. So she takes it out on everybody else instead.

They have names for people like her. But my mama made me promise to never, ever, type them in public.

then we don't need to send more troops then, right? I mean, if things are going so swimmingly ....

in Iraq and report on the "new schools" with sewage, etc. No kevlar.

the Iraq study group stated that the bad news was under reported.

Maybe the wrong reporters are over in Iraq. Snow, Rush, Hannity, O'Lielly, and company should get their chicken-hawk butts over their to report the 'good' news. Maybe the Bush daughters should become reporters and give us the good news. :)

government goon to taser that UCLA student. She also believed that the Japenese internment was a good thing.

Just the type of fodder that Snow, Rove and company love to love. Let them be known by the company that they keep!

It was her doing the legendary SNARL on the left side, and the chestburster Alien on the right side.

The resemblance was uncanny!

You think this last election would have taught them something.....naw

I can't wait to see what kind of responses this thread will get.

I think it's great, and hope she has a safe and enlightening experience.

you know, "entertaining the troops" ...

the two of them have the same type of followers.