Fox News: Home for Wayward Analysts
To all pundits, politicians and journalists who got everything wrong about the Iraq War, fear not. You may have no credibility, but Fox News is your refuge and your benefactor. As Media Matters documents, the propaganda network has only added to its collection of mendacious war boosters since helping to launch the Iraq disaster.
To all pundits, politicians and journalists who got everything wrong about the Iraq War, fear not. You may have no credibility, but Fox News is your refuge and your benefactor. As Media Matters documents, the propaganda network has only added to its collection of mendacious war boosters since helping to launch the Iraq disaster.
Karl Rove, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, Stephen Hayes, John Bolton, Newt Gingrich and Dick Morris can all be found spouting nonsense on Fox, but the pickup that really stings like salt in the wound is Judith Miller. You’ll of course remember the New York Times reporter who fed Bush propaganda directly into the pages of the nation’s most trusted newspaper. Nice to know she found a home that can appreciate her lack of integrity.
Click here for Media Matters’ rundown on these Fox pundits and their history of getting it wrong on Iraq. — PZS
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