{"id":5639,"date":"2008-02-01T22:51:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T06:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2008-02-04T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:36:05","slug":"montel-williams-show-dropped-after-standing-up-for-the-troops-on-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5639","title":{"rendered":"Montel Williams&#8217; Show Dropped After Standing up for the Troops on Fox &#8216;News&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Friedman (no relation) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/1\/31\/23326\/1083\/699\/446791\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Four days later, after 17 years as a television host, Montel lost his job.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117979859.html?categoryid=14&#038;cs=1\">Variety<\/a> reported on Wednesday that the &#8220;Fate of &#8216;The Montel Williams Show&#8217; was sealed <strong>when key Fox-owned stations opted not to renew<\/strong> it for the 2008-09 season.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/co3Spcq6Uzs&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/co3Spcq6Uzs&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Despite the tease at the end of those uncomfortable three minutes, that Williams would be back for more after the break, he was not there when the show returned from commercial.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the above three minutes on <i>Fox and Friends<\/i>, and the fate of &#8220;former Marine and Naval officer,&#8221; Montel Williams, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/1\/31\/23326\/1083\/699\/446791\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Friedman (no relation) writes: Four days later, after 17 years as a television host, Montel lost his job. Variety reported on Wednesday that the &#8220;Fate of &#8216;The Montel Williams Show&#8217; was sealed when key Fox-owned stations opted not to renew it for the 2008-09 season.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what happened&#8230; Despite the tease at the end [&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,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fox-news","category-iraq-war","category-mainstream-media-failure","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","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=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}