CONCOCTING A POISONOUS DAY OF NEWS: Gateway Pundit is unimpressed with the press.

Meanwhile, Mystery Pollster looks at Zogby’s poll of troops in Iraq. Hmm. Apparently it’s sort of like an exit poll. Those certainly didn’t work out well. . . .

The Officers’ Club and Murdoc Online have some questions, too.

Just yesterday, Ralph Peters’ comment was: “You are being lied to.”

No doubt the reports are fake, but accurate.

UPDATE: LT Smash on the poll.

ANOTHER UPDATE: J.D. Johannes has a theory about what happened with the poll.