{"id":5537,"date":"2005-10-14T13:25:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2005-10-14T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T17:25:38","slug":"even-fox-news-couldnt-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/even-fox-news-couldnt-take-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Fox News couldn’t take it"},"content":{"rendered":"

How ridiculous was the White House’s scripted teleconference yesterday? Even Fox News Channel blasted the Bush gang. Via Dan Froomkin<\/a>, here’s what Shepard Smith told<\/a> FNC viewers last night:<\/p>\n

“At least one senior military official tells Fox News that he is livid over the handling of U.S. troops in Iraq before their talk by satellite live with the president. […]<\/p>\n

“As the White House tries to prop up support for an increasingly unpopular war, today — to hear it from military brass — it used soldiers as props on stage.<\/p>\n

“One commander tells Fox it was scripted and rehearsed — the troops were told what to say to the president and how to say it. And that, says another senior officer today, is outrageous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, this ran on Fox News<\/em>. What’s more, FNC’s Carl Cameron — who, a year ago this month, stooped making things up<\/a> about John Kerry — piled on.<\/p>\n

“First, the White House and the Pentagon claimed it was not rehearsed. But for 45 minutes before the event, the hand-picked soldiers practiced their answers with the Pentagon official from D.C. who, in her own words, ‘drilled’ them on the president’s likely questions and their, quote, ‘scripted’ responses.<\/p>\n

“There are folks here at the White House now walking around shaking their heads about how badly it appears to have gone.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And to think, stagecraft was the one thing the White House was good<\/i> at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How ridiculous was the White House’s scripted teleconference yesterday? Even Fox News Channel blasted the Bush gang. Via Dan Froomkin, here’s what Shepard Smith told FNC viewers last night: “At least one senior military official tells Fox News that he is livid over the handling of U.S. troops in Iraq before their talk by satellite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}