{"id":8005,"date":"2006-07-22T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T14:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8005.html"},"modified":"2006-07-22T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T14:34:53","slug":"fox-news-never-gives-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fox-news-never-gives-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News never gives up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really no wonder Fox News viewers are so <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200607220002\">terribly confused<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the July 21 edition of Fox News&#8217; The Big Story, during a report on the &#8220;scary &#8216;what ifs&#8217; &#8221; surrounding the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, host John Gibson, along with Fox News&#8217; The Big Story Weekend Edition host Julie Banderas, speculated on whether there was any truth to the baseless reports and statements from unidentified &#8220;experts&#8221; that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction was secretly transported to Syria prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and &#8220;might have been put in the hands of Hezbollah.&#8221; Throughout the segment, the onscreen text read: &#8220;Are Saddam Hussein&#8217;s WMDs Now in Hezbollah&#8217;s Hands?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the report, Banderas endeavored to &#8220;separate fact from fiction.&#8221; Not mentioned at any time during the segment was the fact that the Iraq Survey Group&#8217;s final report, commonly known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/reports\/iraq_wmd_2004\/\">Duelfer report<\/a>, included <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200506070006\">no evidence<\/a> that any secret transfer of weapons from Iraq to Syria had ever taken place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They never give up, do they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really no wonder Fox News viewers are so terribly confused. On the July 21 edition of Fox News&#8217; The Big Story, during a report on the &#8220;scary &#8216;what ifs&#8217; &#8221; surrounding the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, host John Gibson, along with Fox News&#8217; The Big Story Weekend Edition host Julie Banderas, speculated [&hellip;]<\/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-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","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=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}