{"id":9482,"date":"2006-12-30T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9482.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T10:50:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T15:50:12","slug":"fox-news-pundit-says-iraqi-civil-war-a-positive-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fox-news-pundit-says-iraqi-civil-war-a-positive-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News pundit says Iraqi civil war a &#8216;positive&#8217; for U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Varney, filling on for Neil Cavuto yesterday on Fox News, did his level best to come up with &#8220;something positive&#8221; about conditions in Iraq. You won&#8217;t believe what he <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/12\/29\/fox-civil-war-positive\/\">came up with<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, let me put out something positive about Iraq, if I may for a second. Look, we took the fight to the enemy. We divided the enemy. The enemy is now fighting itself. America&#8217;s interest is surely being well-preserved and well-protected. We are in a fact, in a way, winning and preserving our interests.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Silly me, I didn&#8217;t think anyone in this country could possibly perceive of the Iraqi civil war as a <i>good<\/i> thing. I stand corrected.<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, it&#8217;s good to know that, when necessary, Fox News can find guest &#8220;news personalities&#8221; who are even less connected to reality than the network&#8217;s usual line-up. That, in and of itself, is an impressive feat.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine if Fox News was a person&#8217;s only outlet for news and analysis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Varney, filling on for Neil Cavuto yesterday on Fox News, did his level best to come up with &#8220;something positive&#8221; about conditions in Iraq. You won&#8217;t believe what he came up with. &#8220;Well, let me put out something positive about Iraq, if I may for a second. Look, we took the fight to the [&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-9482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482","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=9482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}