{"id":2695,"date":"2004-10-06T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T16:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2695.html"},"modified":"2004-10-06T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T16:36:19","slug":"at-least-fox-news-knows-how-to-follow-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/at-least-fox-news-knows-how-to-follow-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"At least Fox News knows how to follow instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fox News Channel clearly isn&#8217;t good at reporting the news, but I think we&#8217;ve finally discovered what the network does well: follow the instructions sent to them by the Bush campaign.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/campaignjournal?pid=2155\">Ryan Lizza noticed<\/a>, the Bush campaign sent out the following message to BC04 &#8220;surrogates&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will be sending more talking points later this evening, but the decisive line by Vice President Cheney during the debate was the following: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So they, in effect, decided they would cast an anti-war vote, and they voted against the troops. Now, if they couldn&#8217;t stand up to the pressures that Howard Dean represented, how can we expect them to standup to Al Qaeda?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure enough, shortly thereafter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Kristol just told his Fox News audience that Cheney&#8217;s line about Dean was the best line of the night. A minute later on the same program Rich Lowry said, &#8220;And Bill is absolutely right about that Howard Dean line, which I thought was devastating.&#8221; Talk about message discipline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess FNC isn&#8217;t <i>completely<\/i> incompetent. At least they know how to follow directives from the Bush campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fox News Channel clearly isn&#8217;t good at reporting the news, but I think we&#8217;ve finally discovered what the network does well: follow the instructions sent to them by the Bush campaign. As Ryan Lizza noticed, the Bush campaign sent out the following message to BC04 &#8220;surrogates&#8221;: We will be sending more talking points later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}