Fox News - $400 million to Iran in January story - any legs?

[piechartking]

My conservative bro-in-law is ranting and raving about this story. Apparently, it first appeared in the WSJ, but it looks just that the US settled an old claim, paid the first payment, and around the same time, some detainees came home. Doesn't seem to be evidence that the two events are related.

Does anyone know anything else about this? Don't want another fucking Benghazi or more email bullshit.

[Dem2]

1. Hey, look over here!

Rumor mongering

[DURHAM D]

2. Does your BIL not believe in paying his debts? nt

[Sunlei]

3. no legs, unless any republicans wish to say in public the world should have let Iran have nukes.

Then it will damage republicans, if they have any legs left after their trump disasters.

[Democat]

4. You have a friend who is Concerned?

Thanks for sharing the Concern of this person who you know here on DU! I hope the Democrat Party takes it seriously.

[piechartking]

6. No, I've got a brother-in-law who is trying to argue with me that Obama is paying "ransom money"

I've never heard shit about this story. I just turned it on to Fox today to gloat over the shit storm that is the GOP now, and was flabbergasted to see nothing about it, only this 400 million story that my BIL was talking about.

[giftedgirl77]

10. So what did you tell your BIL?

I don't really know about that let me go ask a bunch of other ppl first. If it was such a concern for you why didn't you look it up right then so you could argue your point right then?

[giftedgirl77]

5. Google is your friend.

[piechartking]

7. Scoff if you want to, but it's a problem that people who watch Fox right now are seeing this BS

instead of watching Trump implode. Everyone else is all over the GOP collapse, and on Fox, it's this payment? It's astounding...I'm genuinely shocked at how irresponsible and manipulative Fox is. Shameless.

[giftedgirl77]

9. Yes, we all know Fox is a lying cesspool of bullshit

but going to another site & asking about it instead of just Googleing it is just lazy. Why not just take the 45 seconds to type the question in your search engine or if that's too hard use the voice commands? You could've answered your questions, came here with that information & the claims being made on Fox & given us all of the information so that if we were approached with the same issue we would have everything.

But instead you would rather someone else do the leg work for you.

[piechartking]

13. It's not the veracity of the story, that's what you don't get

Nobody is saying whether or not this is true. I asked if people think it has legs. That's different. Benghazi, emails, these stories all had legs. They were bullshit, but they had legs.

I want a fucking blowout in November for Hillary. That means peeling off a lot of these diehard Fox News viewers. But I flip over there, and it's like a propoganda channel.

[giftedgirl77]

16. Lol, sure you do.....

Die hard Fox viewers are not going to flip.

[piechartking]

17. I disagree. A lot of anecdotal evidence that military veterans

white college educated men, white college-educated women are polling horribly for Trump. For vets, especially, that's a locked-in Fox News demographic. But if they only watch Fox, they don't ever see anything like Trump yesterday lying about the Purple Heart, or that his campaign is falling apart.

That's all I'm saying. Maybe things will change now that Ailes is out.

[thucythucy]

26. As I recall,

this was Iranian money frozen in American and other western bank accounts, unfrozen when the nuclear deal was signed. In other words--it was THEIR money we were holding onto until they agreed to ditch their nukes.

Old story, which Fox has been trying to drum up to counter a) Trump's meltdown and b) the revelation that Fox News was a work environment rampant with sexual harassment.

[Demsrule86]

11. Fox viewers are not our concern

They have crossed over and are mostly unreachable...your posts are always so 'concerned'about some catastrophe about to befall us.

[piechartking]

15. Really? Go check me out n/t

[Demsrule86]

28. Say what you want.

I don't care about Fox viewers...if you are saying you watch Fox than I don't understand why you would...they suck.

[Adrahil]

12. Yup, and probably a good 39-40% will vote for him no matter what.

They watch Fox, and Fox knows it and panders to that segment.

Ignore that shit. People focused on that are NEVER going to change their vote.

[timlot]

14. This been reported on in the past. It was part of money held from Iran. Fox New rehash.

Has nothing really to do with Hillary though. Hostages were returned (also soilders that were captured) so this is just more Fox News Obama hate. Who cares he'll be gone in 5 months

[Lance Bass esquire]

18. From what I remember

The US seized a bunch of Iranian money in our banks back in the 70s in response to the hostage situation. We put it in accounts where it has been earning interest over past 35 years.

When they signed off on the nuke deal last year we gave them back those funds with interest included.

Thats all it is....no secret midnight shipments of ransom or bribe money.

[piechartking]

19. Makes perfect sense. They are really grasping at straws over on Fox.

I smell desperation over at Fox.

[BainsBane]

20. This

It's not aid but the release of Iranian assets seized after the 79 revolution. It's their money.

[Grassy Knoll]

21. Fox News Wants You To Look Away From The Obvious

Disaster Called Trump and the shit storm that's brewing,

[MohRokTah]

22. This was known since the nuclear deal was announced.

It's a first payment on money the Shah spent prior to the overthrow on weapons that were never delivered.

It's a settlement.

[Recursion]

23. It was part of a settlement of a decades-old case at the Hague (nt)

[RonniePudding]

24. Old news

[The Second Stone]

25. I don't get my panties in a twist every time Fox News or your "brother in law"

makes a wild lie up. It's a waste of time. Tell your brother in law that he is a lying sack of shit that thinks Fox News tells the truth and that you love his sister very much, and he can't touch her anymore.

[Peregrine Took]

27. Just preaching to their own nutball "choir." Fox people are the only ones who watch Fox.

They can set their hair on fire over this but I think it will be a big yawn to normal (non Fox) folks.