: "Ritter, too, took serious punishment from his critics � and instead of doing proper due diligence or asking hard questions, the media quickly piled on. It was not Fox�s finest hour when that network gleefully painted him as a 21st-century Benedict Arnold � not that he had many prime-time advocates anywhere else. Even CNN�s usually evenhanded Paula Zahn said to Ritter six months before America unleashed its miscalculated military solution on Iraq, �People out there are accusing you of drinking Saddam Hussein�s Kool-Aid.�
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