Just days before Saddam Hussein was toppled from power in 2003, NBC/MSNBC/National Geographic reporter Peter Arnett popped up on Iraqi state TV to provide a propaganda boost for the dying dictatorship.
Arnett boasted about how his reports about Iraqi civilian casualties were helping anti-war protesters in America, and he suggested the U.S. military was reeling: "Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces."
After the interview aired, Arnett was fired by NBC.