Why would you say that? The vitriol and the lies from the right wing media began even before they started the war.
The GOP used the war as a wedge issue, almost from the moment when Karl Rove told the Conservative Policial Action Committee that the war was "an issue we can win on in November".
When Al Gore gave a prescient speech at the Commonwealth Club just days before the Senate granted Bush Autorization to Use Military Force, right wing media attacked him and called him "unhinged". He turned out to be right, of course. As it turned out, "unhinged" rapidly became a code word in right wing media for any critic that had their facts right, but who the con media didn't want to see get attention.
Right wing media also attacked the 9/11 Widows in the most shamless manner when they shamed the Bush adminstration into reluctantly asking for an investigation into what went wrong before 9/11.
Ann Coulter led the charge labelling democrats as failing to "support the troops" In fact, no Democrat ever blocked one dollar, one bullit or one man the Bush adminstration ever asked for. "Not supporting the troops" was code for pointing out the graft, arrogance and incompetence of the war's leaders in the White House and Pentagon.
As to the specific event you say you doubt ever happened.
Well, it did.
http://www.charm.net/~somerby/dh120203.shtml
This attack of very typical of both the tone and tactics of right wing media in those days.
