While we’re discussing Fox News silliness, we direct your attention to a nice piece written by Manning Pynn of the Orlando Sentinel. Pynn was responding to readers who wondered why the Sentinel hadn’t reported on Rick Santorum’s recent “discovery” of WMD in Iraq. After all, it had been the day’s top story on Fox News.

Wrote Pynn:

Representatives of three intelligence agencies, speaking anonymously, explained Thursday that the weapons — found individually, in pairs or in small caches during the past couple of years — were manufactured before the 1991 Persian Gulf War and that there was no evidence of chemical munitions made after that date.

Although the report states, “chemical warfare agents remain hazardous and potentially lethal,” David Kay, who led the U.S. weapons hunt in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, told The Associated Press, “It is less toxic than most things that Americans have under their kitchen sink at this point.”

(Via Romenesko)