I had hoped that "Bush-speak" would end when he fled the scene of his crimes, but it continues to

[Atticus]

flourish in the press, the MSM, the blogs and, of course, the wingnut radio talkers.

Bush-speak is easily mastered as it has just one underlying assumption: "Any statement, no matter how outlandish, that is reported and repeated in any national media BECOMES TRUE."

Thus, during the Bush regime:

Iraq attacked us on 9-11-09.
Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction, mobile biological labs, unmanned drones capable of reaching our East Coast.
Al Qaeda had bases in Iraq and received training and assistance from Saddam Hussein.
No one above the rank of sergeant had any knowledge of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
Waterboarding is not torture.

So far, in the Obama administration:

Obama is a Kenyan muslim.
Obama pals around with terrorists.
Obama is a socialist---fascist---communist.
ACORN stole the election for Obama.
Democrats are dope-smokin' perverts who kill babies and hate America.
Ben Nelson is a "moderate" Democrat.
Bush wasn't so bad.

Good God, people! Are we going to let these people write our history?

[Atticus]

1. Deleted---DUPE

[Bitwit1234]

2. Now...the democrats are responsible for this recession

Fox and rush have said it over and over and everyone has picked it up. Recent polls are now blaming the democrats. We were in power. Bush was for eight years. The republicans controlled both houses of congress from 1994 thru 2006, but yet the democrats are responsible. And from 2006 thru 2008, the republicans blocked everything the democrats proposed. And when they did get a bill thru bush vetoed it. So you might as well say from 1994 thru 2008. But the American people have a deficit retention of facts.

[Beartracks]

5. And when a recovery occurs...

... it will be due to Bush's excellent leadership:



:eyes:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Yup

It's still around and getting worse. We need some kind of progressive think-tank or DNC working group dedicated solely to fighting back 24-7-365 against the constant Republican/corporate media whore "framing" and spin IMHO. Messaging is definitely one of our weakest areas IMHO.

[Lorien]

4. Glad I don't listen to the MSM. nt

[chill_wind]

6. NYT: This example makes me want to vomit:

They still can't bring themselves to say the words.

Torture Still Qualified at NY Times
11/16/2009 by Peter Hart

New York Times on the pending trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed ( 11/15/09--emphasis added):

Mr. Mohammed's initial defiance toward his captors set off an interrogation plan that would turn him into the central figure in the roiling debate over the C.I.A's interrogation methods. He was subjected 183 times to the near-drowning technique called waterboarding, treatment that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has called torture. But advocates of the C.I.A's methods, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, have said that the interrogation methods produced a trove of information that helped dismantle Al-Qaeda and disrupt potential terrorism attacks.

Apparently Holder's views need to be balanced by Dick Cheney's.

more: http://www.fair.org/blog/

(italics mine)

[timeforpeace]

7. I didn't know those things about Obama. Wow.