Just in time for Christmas, the hilariously titled
new Bush legacy reclamation tome, How the Left Swiftboated America: The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George W. Bush Was the Worst President in History.
From Hurricane Katrina up through the Obama inauguration, the most insidious of poison memes was promulgated through not just far-left media outlets, but also through purportedly mainstream purveyors of news.
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Fox News commentator John Gibson, in his most recent book, ably dispels the fabrications and fallacies the left put forth to successfully torpedo the Bush legacy. He defines “swiftboating” as “undermining character and credibility, no matter whether the charges are accurate,” and accuses the left of trashing not only the president, but the Iraq war, the war on terror and conservatives at large.
Well, after they spent 8 years calling W. the Next Reagan Churchill Greatest Man in History, you can’t blame the Bushbots for trying to wipe some of that egg off their faces.
But how dare John Gibson suggest the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were liars.



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Oh goodie! I was wondering what to buy my friends and family for Christmas.
Heh. A flaming sack of dog duty would probably be a more welcome gift under the tree.
What is it with all the books?
I hope there is a whole team of social scientists studying the phenomenon of conservative projection. There are a couple of good dissertations that are hanging like low fruit.
From the conservitive point of view, he was a great president. Unfortunately he just about destroyed the country proving it.
The caption on that Gibson photo might read:
“What’ll it take to get you into this 2004 KIA today? I’ll talk to the sales manager myself. I’m here for ya…”
Who writes books for cartoon characters anyway? Pretty soon, these ghost writers are going to be the focus of serious attacks on their patriotism by a new Senator Joe McCarthy. This will be a different Joe, no longer content to be an independent from (Insurance). He will be the head of the new Teabag party trying to get air time for his advertisers. He will personally take on all comers, one handed! He will beat republicans to death with the jawbone he pulls out of his great ass! He will end the republicanschmuglican’s and their wimpy coddling of the constitution! He will personally destroy the Democrat party by treating it with inhumane indifference.
C, I’s kan right butter then anee uf dese newsies.
I dunno. Mayhaps the geeky virgin in a porn flick.
Why is it that the Rs and the media are so good at self-mockery?
I was just waiting for this other shoe to drop. However, it’s also true that a lot of the teabaggers actually don’t think W was a “great President.” But that’s because they think W was too liberal and a sell-out.
Go figure. I guess this used car salesman has a smaller group to pitch his bullshit to than he may think. But the meme of teh eeevul liebrul media is always fun times.
Hmm? Failed to get Ossama, caused the biggest economic recession since the Great Depression, Lost two wars despite fighting longer than it took us to win WW2.
Katrina (Didn’t Herbert Hoover become President because he handled flooding on the Mississippi well).
Caused the Housing Bubble which nearly destroyed the World Banking system?
I hated GWB all by myself. I did not need no stinkin’ media.
Oh wait the Media loves Bush so much they took away Judy Miller’s Pulitzer Prize for WMD lies./s
John has carried the same condom in his wallet for 50 years now, hope springs eternal.
Well if the charges are accurate then its the presses job to report them even if especially if they undermine the character and credibility of the President. Why because if the President is not getting the job done the people have a right to complain.
You got it! I see millions of dollars in your future.
Truth. I bought a GWB doll that speaks in Bushisms in about 2002. The guy at the store where I bought it and I marveled that it was even allowed to be made.
Gee, John, I guess the left-wing cabal achieved their goal: I’m convinced that W was the worst president ever.
GWB made EVERYONE ON EARTH except the flat-earthers and the I-got-a-worm-in-my-brain folks despise everything he stood for all by himself..
THAT’S why, he’ll stand alone only with Darth Cheeeeney by his side in the box at the HAGUE during his WAR CRIMES TRIAL.
O thank you john gibson for letting me love george bush again. now that i know that the reason i hate him is because ive been brain washed, im going to run off and scrub every blog post and comment ive made about him for the last 9 years.
He had a wheelbarrow filled with stacks of $100 bills and couldn’t get laid at the local hooker’s convention.
Is this guy dense Swiftboating is when you pay a bunch of Vets to lie about a Navy Seal who volunteered to fight a war our ex draft dodger President joined the National Guard to avoid but didn’t ever finish his term there.
I’m thinking the GOP using the phrase Swift Boating won’t play well with the Vets.
if all i do is delete each one and move on, 8 hours a day-40 hours a week, should only take about 8 months
Truthfully, he didn’t personally cause the bubble. It was the policies that his ideaology espoused that caused it.
Good luck with that.
Maybe all you need is a good cuddle or to whack a tennis racket on a pillow and you’ll be cured of your delusions.
Dear Mr. Gibson (R – Flat Earth), is this the same corporate media that was silent as a mouse when the REpublicants staged their fascist coup in December 2000 and put Bush in the Oval Office? Is this the same corporate media that fell silent when the anthrax attacks were launched against liberal Democrats that were resisting the “Patriot Act?” Is this the same corporate media that goop-stepped along with Bush and Cheney and the warmongers in starting Bush’s imperial war of aggression against the Iraqi people? Is this the same corporate media that fell silent in the face of seven million votes being flipped electronically from Kerry to Bush in the stolen 2004 Presidential Election? Please explain this to us, Mr. Gibson.
Kerry wasn’t a SEAL. You’re thinking of Bob Kerrey of Nebraska. Kerry was the Officer in Charge (OIC) of a Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), (Swift) attached to Coastal Division 11, commanded by LCDR George Elliott, one of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth. They were based at An Thoi on the island of Phu Quoc. The island is situated to the southwest of the mouth of the river that divides Viet Nam and Cambodia.
It’s kinda like believing in fairies. If they clap loud enough it will all come true.
That picture leaves me with the uncomfortable feeling that Gibson is going to lunge for my throat.
What lies did he dispel? The WH after 9/11 let a gay hooker into the press core? Iraq really did have WMD? Bush our first Harvard MBA was great for the economy ( a story Bobo and the GOP press were pushing almost up until the Banking Crisis).
Bwahahaha! Bush beat Karl in a book reading competition? Bush really was a smart man with Emotional Intelligence instead of normal intelligence? (given his actions in office spoiled 2 year olds had the same intelligence).
Come on what lies does he dispel?
Well, it is the Moonie Times.
He sold the Ownership Society where everyone would be able to buy a new home with the new low interest rates Greenpan was putting out to boost the economy and the lack of regulation on the banks that made the loans and selling them around the world to get them off the banks books.
Bush put his Clout behind Greenspan to grab credit now he owns it.
Ahhh…you will have to pay $29.99 for the priviledge of knowing the answer to that. (or $2.99 if you head directly to the Bargain Books section. Just look for Gibson’s book next to Going Rogue.)
Thanks for the correction my bad. Still he served Bush didn’t.
You can probably get it free with your subscription to the National Review.
And the Rev Moon thinks he is Jesus Christ come back how can we doubt God/s
He thinks he’s Jesus? I thought he was the guy who beat up the Prince of Peace…
Front Pagers get paid to read that stuff and I hope they get health insurance for the drop in I.Q points reading that crap causes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon
Yes he thinks he is Jesus.
Gibson is just lashing out at the media because they look down on him at this time of year, when he pipes up about The War on Christmas©. With a forehead like that you’d think there were some brains behind it, but I’m pretty sure there’s not. Does he think he’s going to be mocked any less because he chooses to be Bush’s Fluffer? What a dope.
Has the Second Coming of Christ noticed the wooden cuckoo that keeps popping out of the little door in his forehead?
Where there was Franklin Pierce, who in all likelihood created the impetus for the secession of the Southern States by rescinding parts of the Missouri Compromise…giving hope to the South for expansionism of slavery. In effect he exacerbated the tensions which led to the Civil War. Of course such actions were only recognized by historians as fatal decades after the event. I suspect that Dubya still has yet to be acknowledged for the seeds he has sown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon#Support_for_Ronald_Reagan
My bold George the First takes orders from Moon and the GOP has the guts to get pissed Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan?
When the Rev Moon dies I wonder if the Moonies will get violent?
I also notice that in some Christmas past, he DID get his 2 front teeth.
Fox is still pushing the war on Christmas? I gave up watching them a while ago.
Well, you must admit that W stuffed a huge amount of disaster into his 8 years in real time. Things that we don’t even have to wait for historians to discover.
Here’s a little tidbit about the guy who wrote the review.
http://www.takimag.com/site/article/who_is_banned_in_dc_a_sycophancy_so_immense
When all the top secret stuff comes out in 20 years does anyone think that Bush will look better?
Does anyone think that by pulling troops away to invade Iraq and not getting Osama that Bush will be remembered by history as someone who keep America safe from Al Quieda?
Where have I seen that visage before?
Not I, said the little red hen.
Fine your right Bush Over Achieved at Disaster and Failure on a scale no American has ever done before:)
Sorry not following.
When somebody called central casting for a slimy bastard they sent him. Then they sent him back with a nasty note about stereotyping.
LOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon#Support_for_Ronald_Reagan
Funny how many hard core Commie Haters deny the Holocaust.
Just how long can the cult of Reagan go on we have new voters who were not even alive when he was President the GOP needs a new hero, new blood, and new ideas.
The Blue Dog Dems need to stop being scared of him. I grew up with him as President and I have a hard time remembering his Presidency. I’m guessing young voters get bored when the GOP talks Reagan for more than 10 minutes.
Gankarski is one very weird bird. A Seattle area punk-rasta (aka Whigger) he appears to have been very anti-Bush, anti-Iraq War Paleocon at one time. Then he had some sort of “epiphany” and became the antithesis of his former self. Editors at several of the Conservative Journalists that he wrote for…like the American Spectator…simply say he sold out. They note that he was hired as a regular commentator by Horowitz at that time.
Of course, it may be that he’s simply a 21st Century Schizoid Man.
At one time after his, “Five to the noggin” comment I went to look up where he went to church. Since he was all for Christmas I assumed he was a Christian. My theory was to find the pastor of the church and ask him this question.
“One of your members is advocating summary execution of someone without due process. He considers himself a strong Christian and defends the holiday publicly. Could you please explain to him how his views that putting “Five in the noggin.” are not compatible with Christianity?
Then will you ask him to publicly acknowledge his wildly disconnected views with the views of the faith? Thank you.”
“The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George W. Bush Was the Worst President in History”
Err… And FAUX NOISE is doing what, exactly, to President Obama?
I distinctly remember how the liberal media forced W. to answer every press question with canned talking points delivered incompetently and relentless fratboy smirking. That was all totally the media brainwashing me.
Also, isn’t it interesting how selective right-wingers are when deciding whether the American people can be fooled or not?
Ah, well, the inevitable response of the reactionary to history is to rewrite it… in crayon.
I can’t even begin to imagine how Gibson will try to polish this turd. I guess it will all be stuff he makes up, things that never happened, quotes that were never spoken, rewrites of actual events. Maybe he quotes Karl Rove. Because if he actually addresses The Chimpitators record it’s impossible to defend.
He is releasing the book in a vain effort to not be found guilty of conspiracy to commit high crimes and misdemeanors amounting to treason.
My dad said we used to have Fairies, but with the invention of technology all the TV and radio waves chased them off into hiding.
It reminded me of the conspiracy HIS place of business put together against me for being a ‘liberal’. Torture is not funny.
The ‘Ownership Society’ is a well concealed argument for slavery.
Does he really? Why?
Is he ready to be crucified so we can see him rise again after three days?
I want to see that.
We should try to organize a convention.
Lets see just how many Jesus-want-to-bees show up. I think there was a Hispanic guy claiming to be Jesus too. Wouldn’t it be fun to organize a competition?
Talk about reality TV! Who WOULDN’T want to watch guys who think they are Jesus try to prove it?
Walking on water, healing the blind.
Which of them is Jesus is the question on my mind.
I am acknowledging him now.
If Mr Moon was Jesus, why didn’t he stop Bush from getting away with all that mass murder?
I just don’t believe a real Jesus would be OK with that. I think he would have DONE something about it.
Or [Edited by moderator. Not even in jest, please] into relics?
I thought Gibson was busy appearing at white supremacist rallies exhorting the racists to breed, breed, breed?
-G
Plus I said good things about his character and bad things about his policies. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s while in office. I don’t think if he had his wits they would have gotten away with starting up dealing drugs and arms like they did in the CIA.
Or at least we hope not.
It never has stopped, it just grows and grows.
Maybe he was [Edited. Not even in jest].
I didn’t think He could read or write, maybe He like Palin had somebody else write it for Him.