How the Left Swiftboated America: The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George Bush Was the Worst President in History
September 2nd, 2010How the Left Swiftboated America: The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George Bush Was the Worst President in History
John Gibson has pulled together an excellent synopsis of what was a concerted effort to undermine the president of the United States. In the early 2000s, in the aftermath of 9/11, George W. Bush was a popular president. In the 2002 mid-term elections, the Republicans actually picked up seats in both houses of Congress. This is something which is rare in politics, as the party not in possession of the presidency usually has the upper hand. Democrats were facing the possibility of being out of power for, perhaps, a long time. Something had to be done to discredit Bush and, therefore, his party to help Democrats regain power. The left developed a comprehensive scheme to attack Bush directly, and indirectly, at all costs. The time period immediately following the 9/11 attacks would be the last time there would be cooperation between the parties. “How the Left Swiftboated America” is a comprehensive study of the key events which defined and undid the Bush presidency. The author, John Gibson, examines Bush’s reasons for going to war in Iraq, the circumstances surrounding the Katrina disaster in New Orleans and “torture” of 9/11 suspects among other things. The reader is also provided extensive background details of key media personalities, including Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart among others. Gibson demonstrates how media is filled with left wing zealots who contributed mightily to the dismantling of George W. Bush’s reputation. He also shows the hypocrisy within the anti-Bush rhetoric as many of the same voices simultaneously accused Bush of being an incompetent ignoramous and a ruthless conniving dictator. Gibson points out how most of the reasons Bush used for going to war were the same ones prominent Democrats had been trumpeting for years, yet Bush was accused of being a liar for using these very ideas. We learn of the incompetence of local Democrat leaders in New Orleans (the mayor) and Louisiana (governor) in properly executing an evacuation of the city prior to the hurricane which ultimately flooded the area. Yet, it was Bush alone who took virtually all of the criticism for the aftermath of Katrina. Not all of the evidence provided by Gibson is equally powerful; however, he makes an extremely persuasive case.
Those who always hated our former president will not be moved by Gibson’s work; some people have their minds made up and will not be swayed with facts. However, for those with a more open mind, “How the Left Swiftboated America” is an important read. After all, it was the deliberate effort by Democrats to undermine Bush which led to the takeover of Washington, D.C. by some of the most left wing politicians ever to hold such high offices. Bush’s undoing has directly led to a government takeover of healthcare, potential cap and trade policies and who knows what else to come. Had the left been less successful in dismantling Bush, the Democrats would have been far less likely to amass 60 seats in the Senate, a huge margin in the House and the presidency at the same time. Gibson’s book does not delve much into the economic side of the Bush presidency. For that story, I would recommend “Architects of Ruin” by John Schweizer, which is an outstanding expose’ of how our economy was mortgaged by government liberals to advance a social agenda, all while many of them pocketed millions of dollars in the process. Ironically, the economic collapse was also blamed on President Bush while many of those who had a much larger role in the mess now have prominent roles within the Obama Administration.
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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 goatherds, and prove America’s racism during Hurricane Katrina?
If this is what you think, then you may have been swiftboated by the liberal media.
Swiftboating, as it has come to be defined by the left, is the political trick of claiming to expose the truth while in fact lying. The swiftboating of George W. Bush began in 2000 and continued throughout his presidency, involving his response to 9/11, the Iraq War, warrantless wiretapping, enhanced interrogation techniques, the Surge, uranium from Niger, the number of deaths in Iraq, the federal response to Katrina, and much, much more.
One only has to look at the charges leveled against the Bush administration by candidate Barack Obama to witness the success of this campaign. Obama ran for president and won on the left’s extensive catalog of lies about George W. Bush.
Moreover, once in office, Obama and the left continued to use these same techniques to swiftboat the Republican opposition. Obama constantly complained that he had inherited a “mess” in Iraq and blamed the “failed ideology” of free-market capitalism for the financial collapse that helped elect him. Meanwhile, his media allies attacked Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, the tea party movement, and the health-care protestors as “racists” for opposing Obama’s agenda.
In How the Left Swiftboated America, talk radio host and bestselling author John Gibson sets the record straight. Gibson shows that, in case after case across the board, Bush’s performance was much better than most people now believe. And he calls on all Americans to fight back and put an end to the swiftboating lies of the left.
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