I can’t believe this crap:

Conservatives across the country decry news coverage of the war as relentlessly and unfairly negative. Last week Brent Bozell, a conservative activist, launched a $2.8 million advertising and talk-radio campaign to discredit the “liberal news media.”

I like Kevin Drum’s take on it over at Washington Monthly.

Wow. These guys have $2.8 million to spend solely to convince people that they shouldn’t believe anything they read in the papers? That’s remarkable.

[...] Conservatives who don’t like the message these days either shoot the messenger or else hire their own more compliant messenger. It doesn’t change the facts, mind you, but for a short while it makes them feel better.

Seriously, go check it out – he’s got more comments and nice links to relevant articles at The New Republic and The NY Times.

BTW, Drum also has one of the best takes I’ve seen on Fahrenheit 9/11, if you’re interested.