Ignoring Facts, Right-Wing Media Rush To Congratulate Bush On Bin Laden's Death

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http://mediamatters.org/research/201105050029

Ignoring Facts, Right-Wing Media Rush To Congratulate Bush On Bin Laden's Death

May 05, 2011 2:25 pm ET

Media conservatives are insisting that George W. Bush deserves as much credit as President Obama for the death of Osama Bin Laden, if not more. However, making this argument means ignoring what the Bush administration itself reportedly called its "gravest error" -- not capturing bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001 -- and Bush's 2002 statement that he was "not concerned" about bin Laden.

[izquierdista]

1. They don't ignore facts....

...they make up brand new ones just for this occasion.

[malaise]

2. Nothing they do will change the facts

Obama got Osama

[Ganja Ninja]

3. They live in a fanatasy world.

They're immune to facts. Facts bounce off them like bullets off Superman.

[indepat]

9. Pubs entire agenda and mantra are but one big lied piled upon a never-ending pile

of lies, deceit, distortion, falsehoods, disingenuousness, fear-mongering, mendacity, sanctimony, and reichousness. :patriot:

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Was it as early as 2002 that he walked away from bin Laden!

I thought it was 2005.

[Wednesdays]

5. March 13, 2002

"I don't spend that much time on him."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Wow! How can they give him credit when he didn't even spend a year

on it?

[RC]

8. bush didn't need bin Laden once he got his Iraq war going.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. Crediting Bush with getting OBL is like crediting Chamberlain for winning WWII

A DUer said that (not sure who), and it is very apropos.