- ISBN13: 9780061792892
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Bestselling author John Gibson shows that George W. Bush was the victim of a concentrated effort by Democrats and their allies in the press to discredit and distort virtually everything he did. That effort was amazingly successful. Was George W. Bush really the worst president in American history? Was the Iraq War really the biggest foreign policy blunder of all recorded time? Did Bush really steal the 2000 election, make war on civil rights, torture innocent goa… More >>
I don’t recall ANY liberal media in America in my lifetime, and certainly wouldn’t read a Fox “News” host-generated propaganda piece that directly conflicts with my own personal experience of the years from 2000 to 2008.
For similar fairy-tales, I heartily recommend this oft-maligned source of endless hilarity: The Bush Boom: How a Misunderestimated President Fixed a Broken Economy
Rating: 1 / 5
The Liberal Media didn’t make us think George Bush was the worst president in history. George Bush made us think George Bush was the worst president in history.
Rating: 3 / 5
The “media” bowed to the bush administration left and right, never once blaming him for the fact that he allowed terrorists to attack America on 9/11. And then for starting an un-needed and VERY expensive war in Iraq, while letting the terrorists that attacked America get free in Afghanistan. And then approving torture, embarassing America with his ignorance, and lying to his most loyal constituancy, the fringe/fundamentalist right christian wingnuts. bush and dick do share this groups anti-constitutional and Anti-American/Democratic agenda.
Now, our President Obama and our country is left to mop of the bush economic debacle and the many other messes bush and dick left behind.
Yes, bush and dick were the worst “presidents” in U.S. History, and nothing the piss-poor “research (which consists of referring to disproven wingnut conspiracy theories)” in this book can prove otherwise. Gibson is an anti-factualist, to be sure. But his ignorance goes beyond this in his unquestioning “mind.”
Rating: 1 / 5
When George W. Bush left office in January, the general consensus has been that he was an unmitigated disaster for this country. A small but vocal minority of Americans, about 20 percent of adults, still view Bush favorably, attaching themselves to conspiracy theories such as the fiction that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. Since Barack Obama took office, this small minority of Americas have embraced the birthers, deathers, and tenther conspiracies. These are the 52 % of Republicans polled who believe that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama. Although these people (who receive their information, or more accurately, disinformation, from talk radio, Drudge, and Fox News) are considered backward and silly by most Americans, they buy a lot of books–witness this year’s bestsellers by Glenn Beck. It’s not surprising that Fox News Radio’s John Gibson, the guy who tried to warn us against subversives who say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas,” would want to get into the act of rehabilitating Bush; it’s good work if you can get it.
Gibson knows the lingo of this hardcore 20 percent of Americans. The title itself, alleging that the left “swiftboated America,” conflates criticism of Bush with being anti-America; this was a favorite tactic of the right, especially in the days before the Iraq invasion (it’s doubly ironic that Gibson would use the term “swiftboat,” a term coined because pro-Bush operatives had denigrated the war record of John Kerry, a man who went to Vietnam because fortunate sons like Bush had better things to do in the 1960s). Also, Gibson has the annoying wing-nut habit of using the word “Democrat” as an adjective (e.g., he does it twice on page 4). Clearly, Gibson is preaching to the choir.
Gibson’s premise is the patronizing stab-in-the-back theory that Bush is a pariah because the majority of Americans were duped by a new generation of liberal operatives (Jon Stewart, Frank Rich, Markos Moulitsas, and Keith Olbermann) and a supposedly compliant journalistic community. Gibson cites David Brock’s influential book The Republican Noise Machine and argues that during the past decade, liberals have created their own mirror image of the right’s echo chamber. This is sophistry. What makes Olbermann, Stewart, Rich, and Brock’s Media Matters effective is that they don’t ape Limbaugh, Fox News, Drudge, and Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times by engaging in disinformation. Quite the opposite, they have become prominent because they serve as important sources of exposing and correcting right-wing smears.
This goes to show that the hard right can dish it out but they can’t take it. Throughout the 1990’s and early 2000’s, the right’s media apparatus ran roughshod over the American people with phony narratives (e.g., Al Gore is a habitual liar) and conspiracy theories (The Clinton Body Count was a favorite of talk radio and Fox News’ Roger Ailes). Now that progressive media forces have gotten their act together and pushed back against the right’s phony narratives, Gibson and others cry foul.
Rating: 1 / 5
“Was George W. Bush really the worst president in American history? Was the Iraq War really the biggest foreign policy blunder of all recorded time? Did Bush really steal the 2000 election, make war on civil rights, torture innocent goatherds, and prove America’s racism during Hurricane Katrina?” Of course the answer to each of these questions is an obvious YES! Unless you’re a dim bulb who gets all of your infotainment from the kooks at FOX.
Rating: 1 / 5