The thought processes of a wingnut:  From Andrew Sullivan's E-mail of the Day yesterday--a winger with a brother who served in the Fallujah area lets us know how he weighs information on Iraq.

My brother was a reservist near Fallujah (who thankfully came home just this past year, although he is still technically under contract until December), who reports that coercion was encouraged, and abuse (not the same as coercion) was greeted with a blind eye. Now, he and I don't see eye-to-eye on Iraq, because I pay attention to Chrenkoff's reporting in addition to what I hear from my brother and from the MSM. Thanks to Chrenkoff, I know that there are large areas in Iraq where things are going right. Thanks to my brother, I also don't automatically discount everything that MSM says (even a stopped clock is right twice a day).

Who is Chernkoff?  Some reporter on the scene in Baghdad?  Of course not!  He's a wingnut blogger in Australia! 

So, let me get this straight--you'd rather trust the analysis of some person who you have never met, who lives on another continent, who as far as we know, has never been to Iraq, and who is a mere casual observer, over the views of your own brother, who was there and saw with his own eyes the state of war?

Not to mention the fact that this pro-war nut is “thankful” his own brother is no longer there.

I do not make this shit up people.