55 - WMD Found In Iraq! Anatomy Of A Fox News Propaganda Campaign

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 17 August 2006

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We didn't find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, correct? Most of you out there consider this an old issue. Surely most Americans understand that Saddam had no WMD.Think again.The Harris Poll recently asked Americans if the following statement was true or false:"Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded."50% of Americans said the statement was true! 50% of Americans

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 55 of Blast the Right.
0:24.4	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:28.1	Today we're going to prove that Fox News though liberally spread lies about Iraqi WMD and
0:39.1	that Fox's propaganda unfortunately has been effective in deceiving millions of Americans.
0:45.9	Let's get right into it.
0:49.0	We didn't find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, correct?
0:54.2	Most of you out there consider this an old issue.
0:57.2	Surely most Americans understand that Saddam had no WMD.
1:04.7	Think again.
1:06.5	Paul Krugman recently wrote, it's hard to imagine what the world looks like to the large
1:12.0	number of Americans who get their news by watching Fox and listening to Rush Limbaugh,
1:17.8	close quote.
1:18.8	Well, you're going to get a good idea about that now.
1:23.5	Sit down before I tell you the results of a recent Harris poll.
1:28.3	Harris asked Americans if the following statement was true or false.
1:33.3	Quote, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the US invaded.
1:38.5	Close quote.
1:39.5	50% of Americans said the statement was true, 50% of Americans think Saddam had WMD.
1:50.2	This is, of course, despite the fact that no WMD were ever found and the Bush administration's
1:56.8	own inspectors concluded and publicly stated that Saddam had destroyed his WMD arsenal.
2:05.5	The Harris company called the result of this poll surprising.
2:10.6	Media critic Michael Massing said quote, I'm flabbergasted.
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