Cursor's Media Patrol: 08/19/05

As the U.S. death toll rises during what a Financial Times report calls "the summer of the IED," the New York Times quotes an Army Reservist as saying, "The only reason we got this nasty job chasing roadside bombs is because we are expendable. They need bodies, and we provide them."

Arianna Huffington objects that "the MSM want to hold Sheehan's feet to the fire on statements she's denied making about Israel while allowing Dick 'last throes' Cheney, Condi 'mushroom cloud' Rice, George 'slam dunk' Tenet, Alberto 'quaint' Gonzalez, and George 'Mission Accomplished' Bush a free pass."

As The Poor Man rounds up evidence suggesting that "we will see worse than Larry Northern," a California man arrested at "Camp Casey" on complaints that included "making a terroristic threat and impersonating a peace officer," reportedly "told deputies he was a Secret Service agent ... but he wasn't."