David Corn: The sensationalism of FauxNews: Interview with a major

[La_Serpiente]

Fox News Channel is considered by many to be pro-Bush, pro-war, and pro-occupation. Yet one of the harsher critics in the media of the Bush administration's postwar actions has been retired Major Bob Bevelacqua, a Fox News military analyst. "Major Bob," as he is called on air, served thirteen years in the Army Special Forces, which included a nation-building stint in Haiti. He also put in three years at the Pentagon. Fox enlisted him as a commentator eight days after 9/11. When not deconstructing developments in Iraq for Fox viewers, he works with William Cowan, another former military officer who is a Fox analyst, in a company trying to provide security assistance to the U.S. occupation authority and private enterprises in Iraq. Bevelacqua, who supported going to war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant and a threat to stability in the region but not a direct threat to the United States, is clearly unhappy with the whole contracting process under way in Iraq--which certainly colors his opinions, as does his time in the Special Forces. After hearing him challenge the administration's handling of the occupation on the air and in the corridors of the Fox News Washington bureau--I, too, am a Fox News contributor--I asked Bevelacqua to spell out his objections and talk about what he saw in Iraq during a recent month-long visit there.

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[Devilock]

1. Major Bob

I am amazed (somewhat pleasantly) that Maj Bob is coming out with that opinion. (This explains why I haven't seen him on Fox in a while.) Of course, this is the guy who advocates torture of al-qaeda hostages -- or POSSIBLE al-qaeda hostages --, and whose tactical solution to problems is, and I quote, to "send in some barrel-chested, steely-eyed freedom fighters." He apparently lives in a Sgt Rock comic book.