Bozell: Bush Deserved To Kill Bin Laden More Than Obama, Therefore Deserves More Credit

[meegbear]

Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center is complaining that former President George W. Bush should have more credit than Obama for killing Osama bin Laden because Bush wanted it more. In a column for MRC, Bozell lambasts Obama because he described his administration’s fruitful efforts to locate and kill bin Laden and for being “rude” by not hailing Bush. In a show of incredible partisanship, Bozell says that the news of bin Laden’s death would’ve been better if it occurred during Bush’s presidency rather than as a result of the Obama administration’s successful operation: “My one regret is that Bush 43 didn't get this scalp,” Bozell writes, “he deserved it more than anyone”:

Unfortunately, while the president spoke for the whole country in remembering the pain of 9/11, his remarks left a gaping hole. He made no generous bow to all the efforts of his predecessor George W. Bush as well as his team. My one regret is that Bush 43 didn't get this scalp. He deserved it more than anyone.

Instead, Obama played subtle and wholly undignified games. He underlined that Osama had “avoided capture” under Bush and “continued to operate” during his tenure. But “I directed” CIA director Leon Panetta to make getting Osama the “top priority” (as opposed to?), and “I” gave the go-ahead to the final mission. Obama also avoided Bush in a Medal of Honor ceremony on Monday afternoon. Even in a Monday night “bipartisan” event at the White House, Obama honored the “military and counter-terrorism professionals” and “the members of Congress from both parties” who offered support to the mission....but no credit for Bush.

If the roles had been reversed, you know Bush would have been more generous. It’s what Bushes do. (my emphasis -- meegbear (WTF??))

What about our media? No one in the media wondered if Obama was being rude. No one seemed in any hurry to give Bush credit, either. In the media’s mind’s eye, Bush just doesn’t deserve it. They didn’t like him then, they don’t like him now.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bozell-bush-deserved-kill-bin-laden-more-obama-therefore-deserves-more-credit

[Zoeisright]

1. Well, Mr. Bozo certainly is aptly named.

And generous is the exact opposite of the word I'd use to describe Bush. Constipated is more like it.

[Zen Democrat]

2. Bozell deserves to be quoted less than just about anybody. n/t

[Renew Deal]

3. "I just don't spend that much time on him to be honest with you." -- George W. Bush, 2002

And Bush reinforced it in 2006 when he shut down the CIA group hunting Bin Laden.

[Sinistrous]

4. I must say Mr. Bozell is certainly magnanimous

in giving us the benefit of his crystal clear logic.

[City Lights]

5. Deserve's got nothing to do with it.

FO, Bozo.

[Johonny]

You know last election Bozell and the rethugs worried they wouldn't get credit for economy too

:)

[JaneQPublic]

6. Bush deserves it when he said he didn't know or care where OBL was?!?!?

He wanted it more when he put the Afghan War on ice to start another war in Iraq?

I think what Bozell is saying is that HE wanted Bush to get OBL more.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Rewritin' history is hard work. But there's plenty of money from the

George W. Bush Presidential Library and Image Rehabilitation Project to make sure sycophants like Brent are well fed and paid to write this POS.

[Armstead]

8. One rule of thumb....Assume that anything Brent Bozell says is obnoxious, arrogant and dumb

He is the most pompous and insufferable right wing public figure out there.

And with all the competition there is for that crown, that's really saying something

[alp227]

9. meanwhile i just read that GWB himself declined invite to be with Obama at ground zero

BUSH DECLINES OBAMA'S INVITATION.... President Obama will travel to Lower Manhattan, visiting Ground Zero and meeting with families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Some on the right, including Fox News personalities, have argued that the president should bring George W. Bush along as a "nice gesture."

Bozell's columns are just so full of hyper-partisan, ignorant trash and hypocrisy and getting nastier during this administration - maddening.

[gkhouston]

10. Maybe Bush would have done it, if his people hadn't been so busy outing Valerie Plame.

Burning an agent tends to wreck your humint network and make it tougher to recruit new contacts for a while. You'd almost think someone had done that on purpose.

[Yavin4]

11. Using That Logic, Al Gore Deserved the Presidency

Because he got more damn votes, and he won Florida.

[Bandit]

12. My how they whine and cry..

They are not just cowards but huge crybabies as well..

[Snotcicles]

13. Bozell, that stinking parasite has found a real job yet? nt

[TTUBatfan2008]

14. Bozell is an idiot...

"As opposed to?" Brent, as opposed to the fact that Bush got rid of the Bin Laden task force in the CIA.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. Tora Bora

Can you imagine if Obama had been President when Tora Bora was botched? My God, he'd have been impeached and thrown out of office. We knew right where he was and wanted to go get him, but the necessary force was denied the troops.

Obama would have been lambasted had he listened to NATO about deploying mines to cut off his escape route. About relying on the Afghanis and Pakistanis to close the escape route. This job was botched in Tora Bora.

Obama got it exactly right this time around.

[Fuzz]

16. Wow, does this guy want to be a Bush sex slave, or what? Aren't we

supposed to be the ones who 'worship' Obama? This guy probably had tears in his eyes when he wrote this.

[truebrit71]

17. Hahahahahaha!!! Of all of the 'this is bush's victory' arguments being floated...

...this is the dumbest of them all...I'd love to see the Rude Pundit's take on this :rofl:

[ismnotwasm]

18. Ew

I have this horrid picture in my head of a Bush family favorite photo, tastefully framed, of Dubya-(POS) standing with one foot on Bin Laden's body, rifle in one hand, head in the other, Big grin on face. Oh, God make it go away.

[myrna minx]

19. They are so ridiculous. n/t

[gratuitous]

20. You know, I think Bozell's correct

Let's get the rewrites done, shall we? For instance, the NBA has been running ads lately touting the playoffs, and one of the ads features the finish of a Spurs-Lakers game from a few years ago. Tim Duncan hit a fall-away jumper to give the Spurs the lead with 0.4 seconds left, only to have Derek Fisher hit a shot on the very last play and win the game for the Lakers. Now, as we all know, Kobe Bryant is really the best player on the Lakers, so isn't it more appropriate to credit him with the game-winning shot, rather than Derek Fisher? I mean, all Fisher did was deliver the game-winning shot; Bryant deserved it more than anyone.

Now, let's talk about Kirk Gibson's home run in the first game of the 1988 World Series. While all Gibson did was hit the ball out of the park, nobody ever gives any credit to the guy he pinch hit for!

[emulatorloo]

21. Well, Brent, I guess Bush should have tried harder.

[klook]

22. I got your "opposed to," right here

“I directed” CIA director Leon Panetta to make getting Osama the “top priority” (as opposed to?)

From G.W. Bush press conference SIX MONTHS after 9/11 --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o

"I don't know where he is. I just don't spend that much time on him, to be honest with you."

But of course Bozell knows this, and is using the "Big Lie repeated loudly and often" strategy...

:mad: :grr: :banghead: :puke:

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Damn, the truth really hurts, doesn't it, Brent?

[malaise]

24. What an asshole

If Bush wanted him more how come he could not find him? Why did he close that section of the CIA? Why did he make those statements.

Fuck the revisionists

[WCGreen]

25. Come on, this is from the Onion.....

What about our media? No one in the media wondered if Obama was being rude. No one seemed in any hurry to give Bush credit, either. In the media’s mind’s eye, Bush just doesn’t deserve it. They didn’t like him then, they don’t like him now.

That's the quote that gets me....

Because Bush didn't seem to be in any hurry to get OBL...

My dad always tol me to be warry or red headed strangers....

[kentuck]

26. Of course.

That's why he left Afghanistan to invade Iraq. Because he was so interested in capturing and killing Bin Laden. Yeah, that's the ticket!