{"id":15058,"date":"2012-05-20T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=15058"},"modified":"2012-05-20T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:19:19","slug":"fear-based-on-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/20\/fear-based-on-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;Fear Based on Fact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I work on <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\">pledge drive<\/a>, I torment myself by playing CNNMSNBCFOX in the background. Today&#8217;s tortured viewing included a rerun of <a href=\"http:\/\/amanpour.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/14\/special-presentation-nuclear-iran-the-expert-intel\/\">A Nuclear Iran: The Expert Intel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t as bad as one might expect &#8211;the calm measured <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/radio\/2012\/03\/05\/hillary-mann-leverett-4\/\">Hillary Mann Leverett<\/a> was given a reasonable about of airtime given the forum. Still, one doesn&#8217;t need to sit through a ponderous Christiane Amanpour interview to learn the facts of the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Below, <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/radio\">Antiwar Radio&#8217;s<\/a> Scott Horton in a this now classic clip demolishing the case for war with Iran in under seven minutes. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tb4etdm86Qg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I work on pledge drive, I torment myself by playing CNNMSNBCFOX in the background. Today&#8217;s tortured viewing included a rerun of A Nuclear Iran: The Expert Intel. It wasn&#8217;t as bad as one might expect &#8211;the calm measured Hillary Mann Leverett was given a reasonable about of airtime given the forum. Still, one doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,17,38,18],"tags":[190],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-radio","category-iran","category-media","category-nukes","tag-cnn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15062,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058\/revisions\/15062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15058"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}