{"id":10679,"date":"2014-06-17T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10679"},"modified":"2014-06-17T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:41:35","slug":"bombshell-capture-of-alleged-benghazi-attack-ringleader-not-a-bombshell-at-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10679","title":{"rendered":"BOMBSHELL: Capture of Alleged Benghazi Attack Ringleader NOT a &#8216;BOMBSHELL&#8217; at Fox &#8216;News&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of amusing. With today&#8217;s news that U.S. Special Ops forces have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-captured-benghazi-suspect-in-secret-raid\/2014\/06\/17\/7ef8746e-f5cf-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html?hpid=z1\">captured<\/a> the alleged ringleader of the deadly 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, suddenly Fox &#8220;News&#8221; is less than impressed.  <\/p>\n<p>Or, as <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/fox-news-finally-finds-a-benghazi-story-that-is\/199764\">Media Matters for America describes it<\/a> today, &#8220;Fox Finally Finds a Benghazi Story That Is Not a &#8216;Bombshell'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since 2012, Fox News has referred to numerous Benghazi reports &#8212; which typically just rehash their tired smears about the attacks &#8212; as &#8216;bombshells.&#8217; But in the hour after news of the arrest [of Ahmed Abu Khattala], nobody at the network has called the latest development a &#8216;bombshell&#8217;,&#8221; MMFA observes, before adding parenthetically: (Instead, Fox is busy <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2014\/06\/17\/fox-news-questions-timing-of-benghazi-arrest\/199756\">questioning the timing<\/a> of the arrest.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few comparative samples from the archives of Fox, which must be finally recognized as one of the most impressive and effective propaganda organizations of all time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfrhiaPEq2s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Seriously. This capture of the Benghazi guy is obviously just another play by Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/distraction-meme-benghazi-khattala\">to distract us<\/a> from #Benghazi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of amusing. With today&#8217;s news that U.S. Special Ops forces have captured the alleged ringleader of the deadly 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, suddenly Fox &#8220;News&#8221; is less than impressed. Or, as Media Matters for America describes it today, &#8220;Fox Finally Finds a Benghazi Story That Is Not a &#8216;Bombshell&#8217;&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239,14,474,188,107,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-fox-news","category-libya","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-national-security","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10679"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}