Walk with me on a brief respite from the "No more Public Option" Blues on a brief trip into the land of the totally Fracking deluded...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!??
The first obvious thing is that the entire point of Gibson's premise here is that The Swiftboaters were Liars!! Ok, that's got to be News to the Fox & Friends crowd, yet they just go along with it as if it's common knowledge among those people who continue to support George W. Bush and his policies that the crux of his re-election campaign against John Kerry - WAS A PACK OF LIES!
Via Raw Story:
"They were lying through their teeth and they got away with it," Gibson told the hosts of Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning -- referring not not to the Swift Boat Veterans but to Democrats and liberals who portrayed Bush as incompetent and indifferent.
It took Fox host Steve Doocy to make the connection explicit. "They looked at the game plan that the Republicans and the Swiftboaters did back against Kerry," Doocy suggested, "and they said, 'Okay, it worked.'"
So let me get this straight - It didn't take Five Days to get Water to the Superdome?
This shit...
And this..
Didn't happen while THIS was going on??
The HELL it didn't.
Hey Gibson - just like you're other full-o-crap books "Hating America" and the "War on Christmas" - this one is a stinker too, because it wasn't a "Liberal media conspiracy" that George W. Bush was too deluded and bull-headed to pay attention to Richard Clarke and take al Qeada seriously, to dim-witted to realize (when he was specifically told by Habbush the former head of iraqi Intelligence) that Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11 and had destroyed all of his WMD, that he ignored Osama when he was vulnerable at Tora Bora, that he ignored the rapidly collapsing industrial base of the American Economy which forced so many to try an live on credit and the equity of the homes nearly leading to the Second Great Depression, and was too insouciant to not to let New Orleans DROWN even shen he'd been specifically WARNED that it could happen ...
All that Shit WAS REAL! If anything the "Liberal" Media was Bush's Lapdog and utterly failed themselves to show just how Fracked Up he was...
And yet...
Watch CBS News Videos Online
Federal officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief of possible devastation just before Hurricane Katrina struck. Six days of video footage from briefings and transcripts were obtained by The Associated Press. The warnings were that the storm could breach levees, risk lives in the New Orleans Superdome and overwhelm rescuers.A-P reports Bush didn't ask any questions during the final government-wide briefing the day before Katrina struck on August 29th....read on"
AmericaBlog has more...
DarkSyde has more: The video shows both FEMA Director Mike "Heckuva job" Brownie saying he had a gut feeling this would be the "big one" and storm meteorologist Max Mayfield standing in front of a radar image indicating a breach in the levees, specifically from Lake Pontchartrain driven by high winds, was a concern:
"<span style="font-weight: bold;">I don't think any model can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not but that is obviously a very, very grave concern," Mayfield told the briefing</span>."
Over and over again Bush was warned and TOLD what was likely to happen and didn't do JACK SHIT.
Bottom Line: Bush Presidency was a Complete and Total FAILURE! and he has noone to blame - not Obama, not the Liberal Media - for that but himself.
That President, had a VP who busted a cap in some old dudes face and is still hanging around.
That President's "No Child Left Behind" Initiative - Failed.
That President's "Abstinence Only" Initiative - Failed.
That President's "Faith-Based Initiatives" - Failed.
To be fair Gibson is right about one thing... Whoever runs in 2012 - Democrat or Republican - will be running against George W. Bush. - the Worst President in History.
And in 2016 and 2020 and 2024 and 2028...
Bonus Video just Because it helps remind us what we left behind...
Vyan