In today's "Will Bush Derangement Syndrome Ever End" segment, CBSNews.com published an article from The New Republic comparing Iran's crazed leader who believes the holocaust never happened and Israel should be wiped off the face of the planet to -- wait for it! -- America's 43rd president.
Isn't that special?
In a piece hysterically titled "Meet Iran's George W. Bush," author Laura Secor said Iran's upcoming elections (this is from last Monday) were similar to ours in 2004 for reasons that every American save the REAL Bush haters -- and you know who YOU are!!! -- should find thoroughly offensive (h/t Gateway Pundit via NBer Blazer):
[Mir Hossein] Mousavi is not Iran's Barack Obama. He's more like John Kerry, and this election year is strikingly like 2004 in the United States. The incumbent president is deeply unpopular at home and abroad. He came to power with a dubious mandate, but governed in a polarizing fashion that has divided even his one-time allies. Iranians have paid the price in every area of life that is touched by the government. The election is Mousavi's to lose--but to win it, he will need to unite a divided opposition, and inspire at least a few of the beleaguered urban voters who have stopped going to the polls.
I have no idea how much Secor knows about Iran, but her knowledge of America is rather pathetic.
After all, Gallup's final favorability rating for Bush just before the 2004 elections was 51 percent, with 46 percent unfavorable. Forgive me, but by my math, that is NOT deeply unpopular.
Lest we not forget that Bush became the first sitting president since Roosevelt in 1936 to get re-elected while adding to majorities in both chambers of Congress.
What was that about "deeply unpopular," Laura?
As for people paying "the price in every area of life that is touched by the government," the economy as measured by the Gross Domestic Product had grown in twelve consecutive quarters prior to the 2004 elections, and was in the middle of what any impartial economist would call above-average growth.
Furthermore, having bottomed in August 2003, nonfarm payrolls had grown in the following fourteen months before Election Day by 2.3 million jobs in the middle of a streak of 52 consecutive monthly increases.
With this in mind, Secor should continue writing exclusively about Iran, wouldn't you agree?
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June 14, 2009 - 20:52 ET by well99I think they have forgotten to take it.How many millions of people are alive in Africa due to President Bushes efforts.Who sent the military to help after the Tsumi in Indonesia.Who aided Pakistan after their earthquake.Secur needs to step away from the computer and take her meds.Just a note:Will Farrel that piece of trash's movie is really doing good.Not! Land Of The Lost
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Don't let facts get in the
June 14, 2009 - 20:56 ET by gmaniac1Don't let facts get in the way of BDS. These liberals are more dangerous to the country nowdays than any external forces. God help us with these fools.
When the people fear the government it's called tyranny, when the government fears the people it's called liberty!
The only ones reporting
June 15, 2009 - 09:46 ET by kgThe only ones reporting that Kerry won was the far left media. Wishful thinking on their part. And I thought Bush was like Hilter. What happened to that Laura?
"DumbAssity of Dope"
What she also failed to
June 14, 2009 - 21:03 ET by BlazerWhat she also failed to mention is that Bush brought freedom and Democracy to 50 million muslims while Acmadinijad chooses to terrorize many more even as we speak.
Barack Obama however is also sitting on his hands and keeping quiet while millions of people in Iran this very moment refuse to be steamrolled by tyranny. Evidently he's chosen to throw them under the bus also.
I hardly believe Bush would have kept silent this long.
Any liberal who can speak out in support of free election's in Iran while giving creedence to, or supporting a Democracy undermining and corrupt apparatchik like ACORN and a President who cut his teeth working for them, obviously has no sense of irony.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Deplorable, despicable,
June 14, 2009 - 21:01 ET by bigtimerDeplorable, despicable, disgusting, beneath contempt.
I have to stop...I cannot print here what I would like...I have to cool off.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
whenever you're ready bt -
June 15, 2009 - 09:15 ET by TruthMongerwhenever you're ready bt - meet America's cold war Praavda!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/08/opinion/main5072617.shtml
Palin/Prejean 2012
The New Republic
June 14, 2009 - 21:22 ET by BKeyserThe same journal with a headline:
"The Future of Newspapers Has Arrived And It's Called The New York Times"
I'm gonna break a cardinal rule of mine and call for new regulation- opinion pieces should be deemed 'Opinion- From an Idiot's Point of View' (for lefty garbage), or 'Opinion- You Should Read This One' (for Conservative viewpoints).
Hey- they're biased, why can't I be? We've got a lot of catching up to do...
By bringing up George
June 14, 2009 - 21:23 ET by MidAmericaBy bringing up George Bush they are potentionally causing people to have second thoughts about life during the Bush years and how it was more predictable, more stable and safer than now under obama.
Curious question
June 14, 2009 - 21:35 ET by nwahsThis is not a value judgment at all but an honest question.
Other than digital television or technological advances, if you woke up out of a coma and no access to news media, what in your daily life would tell you that:
Jimmy Carter was President
Ronald Reagan was President
George H Bush was President
Bill Clinton was President
George W. Bush was President
Barack Obama was President
I think Jimmy Carter is the easiest. Double digit interst rates would get anyone's attention, newspaper or not. It gets trickier after that.
Without a newspaper, could you really tell the difference? How?
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if you woke up out of a
June 14, 2009 - 23:33 ET by Dan The Man 2if you woke up out of a coma and no access to news media, what in your daily life would tell you that:
Its a pretty stupid premise. It takes some time to find out what these Presidents did. And to see how it affects your daily life is pretty obtuse. A persons life is affected in many ways they dont recognize by policies and laws set in place by the administrations. And some laws are set to begin in other admins.
Well Reagan was 20 years ago
June 14, 2009 - 23:38 ET by nwahsHow much time you need?
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But the premise was "if you
June 15, 2009 - 05:30 ET by Dan The Man 2But the premise was "if you woke up out of a coma and no access to news media" and if you did then you would not know. It would take time to make judgements and then they would be from the time you slipped into coma. That is the stupidity of the premise. You would need time to look at your daily life to tell.
Now if you are asking what makes these Presidencies stand out; what in there terms changed the daily workings of a persons life, that is different. But even then it depends on what you do. Sometimes it takes many years to determine the change. Look at FDR or LBJ and the cancers of socialism they left us and look how long they cancers took to mature so we could tell.
If there had been no
June 15, 2009 - 06:22 ET by sam.i.amaccess to news media, Obama would not have been elected. If Obamatrons would wake up out of their coma, common sense would take over and people would see his policies and duplicity as they are.
Maybe I'm not understanding the premise. . .
well if you go with his
June 15, 2009 - 09:25 ET by TruthMongerwell if you go with his premise then the COMMUNIST US GOVERNMENT, TERRORISM APOLOGISTS, CHINA MORE CAPITALIST THAN WE ARE, "ENTERTAINERS" STINKING OF RADICAL LEFT PARTISANSHIP, CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION, $3 GASOLINE, MASSIVE PORN INDUSTRY, HOMO CELEBRATION/GAY MARRIAGE, PRIME TIME SMUT TV, AND SOPHMORIC NEWS MEDIA might give you a heart attack...
Palin/Prejean 2012
Um, I'm still waiting for
June 15, 2009 - 21:04 ET by gmaniac1Um, I'm still waiting for you liberals to come out of your coma. When it comes to voting, I swear you all have a rubber stamp you use for the ballots.
When the people fear the government it's called tyranny, when the government fears the people it's called liberty!
Secor has no problem at all
June 14, 2009 - 21:35 ET by motherbeltSecor has no problem at all translating dates, misquoting polls, and anything else it takes to make her point.
If Bush was "deeply unpopular" in 2004, how the hell did he get re-elected? Even John Kerry should have been able to beat him handily!
But Noel, I think you read too fast. To be fair, she said Iranians have paid the price in every area of life, not Americans.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
MB
June 14, 2009 - 21:51 ET by Noel SheppardMB,
Yes -- in the same paragraph that she's equating Bush to Ahmadinejad. Read it again and you'll see what I mean. ns
You're right; I'm the one
June 14, 2009 - 22:08 ET by motherbeltYou're right; I'm the one who misread it. I thought the first part (dubious mandate etc) was about Bush and the rest about Iran. The whole description after the "2004" was about Iran.
It's after 10, my energy is low, I didn't have my Emerald Nuts....
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
If Bush was "deeply
June 14, 2009 - 21:41 ET by BlazerIf Bush was "deeply unpopular" in 2004, how the hell did he get
re-elected? Even John Kerry should have been able to beat him handily!
Easy, he wasn't popular. You see his regime manipulated polling data and stole two elections. That was the whole point of her post.
She's just another deranged lefty moonbat reaching for some lofty equivocation, who has no problem with elections being stolen as long as the outcome is favorable to her.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
When I edited my comment to
June 14, 2009 - 21:48 ET by motherbeltWhen I edited my comment to add the comment to Noel, I accidently deleted the line above it which was:
Oh, I forgot, all the dirty tricks.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Hey CBS News!!!!!!
June 14, 2009 - 22:01 ET by jdripperYo morons at CBS News. Yeah you guys with the sloping foreheads and a collective IQ of 60. William S. Paley and Fred Friendly would fire everyone who was involved with publishing that incredily stupid piece of writing.
The next time you great minds get together and attempt to understand why you are lagging over 2 million viewers behind NBC and ABC just look at what you did.
In a word everyone in the CBS News division needs to be fired. What incredible stupidity and insanity to publish that libelous piece of slander.
Jack
"If at age 20 you are a conservative then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are a liberal then you have no brains." Sir Winston Churchill
Obama is doing damage
June 14, 2009 - 22:39 ET by sevenWhy not report obama's Mess? Bush was not the destroyer power grabber Obama is.
Read Mark Lavin's book and understand how the Statist
June 14, 2009 - 23:51 ET by daveinbocapolitical elite's need to constantly demonize the straw man of the moment so that their snatch and grab [of your individual rights] can proceed apace. It's the old "look, over there!" strategy and GWB will end up being a better POTUS than the ineffectual weak equivocating Bambi.
And GWB himself was weak and equivocating on many occasions, and simply didn't take the time or appear to have the energy to defend his policies. He's not a man of words, which is all that Obambi has to offer.
The MSM loves a wordy incompetent like themselves.
daveinboca
June 15, 2009 - 00:12 ET by MrShy.... Raton, I'm guessing? :p
"The MSM loves a wordy incompetent like themselves."
Precisely. Perfectly put!
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this stupid comparison wasn't just on the Republic...
June 15, 2009 - 00:45 ET by Jnoble...CBS nightly news last week ran a segment on the Iranian elections and the idiot reporter who's name escapes me reiterated exactly this same thing. I actually perked up from reading a magazine and looked at the TV like "wait....did he really just compare the election of the Iranian Pres to George Bush??" He also said something like "Karl Rove would be proud". These MSM reporters need to find a new line of work, 'cause they clearly can't do their current jobs correctly
Dictionary of
June 15, 2009 - 05:54 ET by HockeyKidDictionary of Libspeak
"Deeply unpopular": deeply hated by me.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
First, Noel, why do you
June 15, 2009 - 06:12 ET by ThisnThatFirst, Noel, why do you honor this woman by calling her an author? Shrill comes to mind.
Second, her quote: Iranians have paid the price in every area of life that is touched by the government. Sounds like Obama, doesn't it?
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an article from The New
June 15, 2009 - 07:10 ET by Jack BauerInteresting. Thinking tangentially -- always a good place to start..
Isn't it America's 44th President Obama who boasted that he would sit down with Iran's crazed leader WITHOUT any preconditions?
He did it during the election, after the election, and after his inauguration.
I believe it was the 43rd President George Bush who point blank refused to negotiate with Iran's tyrannical "government."
Who is it that's like Akmadinnerjacket, again?
HMMMMM
June 15, 2009 - 09:32 ET by rick007Look at the records and the "O" Dumbo looks just like the Ahmad.
Both think they are Gods.
Re Hmmm
June 15, 2009 - 10:13 ET by slickwillie2001Ahmadickwad's election slogan was 'Yes We Can', in Farsi. He also ran on a platform of 'change'.
jessieH It's really sad
June 15, 2009 - 10:36 ET by jessieHjessieH It's really sad when you think about it. It sounds a lot like a bunch of kids. "I didn't break the window, the other kids did it...............If WE blame Bush WE must blame Obama. Bush was pressured into the stimulous bailout, but Obama took it a few steps further. Congress didn't even read the bill before signing it. WE must blame them. Senate did the same. WE must blame them. The people who report the news covered up facts. WE must blame them. WE elected these morons to office. WE must blame ourselves........WE can fix this last one. WE don't elect anyone who is in office now.............Problem solved!
HMMMMMMM
June 15, 2009 - 12:13 ET by rick007Talking abot Ahmadinejad? Watch "O" Dumbos brown shirts in 2012 .
I expect in 2012 it will called be the Brown Panthers
What do you expect from the...
June 15, 2009 - 19:59 ET by jawebster1same network that carries Letterman? I expect BDS and that is what I get if I watched...but I don't. Jim Webster