Mark Steyn on the MSM

In an interview with Hugh Hewitt, Mark Steyn pounds the MSM for its awful Iraq coverage. He also is one of the first to call out Tim Russert, who I believe has become so far Left that he is now not much better than the folks on 60 Minutes. But for some reason, perhaps because he is a genuinely good guy, he gets a free pass.

Tim Russert said today, he defended NBC, the media's Iraq coverage, by saying we capture reality. Yeah, they capture reality in the same sense that those insurgent guys capture people. They saw it's head off and shout Allah Akhbar at reality. That's what they're doing when they capture reality. The reality of what's happening in Iraq is very different from what Tim Russert thinks it is.

You can read the trascript at Radio Blogger. Mark Steyn also has a great article in the Jerusalem Post, where he discusses part of the cost we would be paying in Iraq if we had never gone in to remove Saddam.