# "All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?" (Fox News)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-out-civil-war-in-iraq-could-it-be-a-good-thing-fox-news/345997>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 24, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-out-civil-war-in-iraq-could-it-be-a-good-thing-fox-news/345997 "2006-02-24T23:40:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-out-civil-war-in-iraq-could-it-be-a-good-thing-fox-news/345997/161 "2006-03-02T18:40:31Z")

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> [@Patty O'Furniture](#):
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> Just paraphrasing Hentor. Now I don’t know what’s real and what’s not. I better start watching Fox News to get my screenshot facts straight.

I wouldn’t want you to make that sacrifice on my behalf. I’m sure **Hentor** was being sarcastic. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-out-civil-war-in-iraq-could-it-be-a-good-thing-fox-news/345997/162 "2006-03-02T19:00:59Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> I wouldn’t want you to make that sacrifice on my behalf. I’m sure **Hentor** was being sarcastic. 🙂

Sorry! Yes, I was being childishly sarcastic. I don’t believe any of the three screen caps we have discussed here are fakes. I think it was either an effort to distract or an effort to get the jump on Little Green Footballs for the credit for uncovering the next Memogate.

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**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-out-civil-war-in-iraq-could-it-be-a-good-thing-fox-news/345997/163 "2006-03-03T07:33:13Z")

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> [@Hentor the Barbarian](#):
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> Oh no - someone faked up another screenshot of a Fox News caption. However, the sentiment fits with the argument that **Scylla** might make anyway, so perhaps this simply fits in the category of “Yeah, Fox would probably say that, but someone probably photoshopped this, but we can’t know the context of what was being said anyway, so it doesn’t matter.”
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> [http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/01/fox-media-civil-war/](http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/01/fox-media-civil-war/)

I don’t wish to have this particular discussion again, so I only plan to make one post about this, but the same arguments apply to this screen shot as to the other ones. Are they implying literally what the caption says? Almost certainly not. Most likely, IMO, someone on the program questioned whether “civil war” was the most accurate label for what was going on. Of course, we’ll never know, since once again an embarassing screenshot was posted with no context whatsoever, for (apparently) the sole purpose of giving everyone an excuse to jump up and down on Fox News.

I think that’s a fine purpose, actually, since Fox News is biased and unprofessional. However, when we do that we should try to find a cause that isn’t so stupid.

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