• How the Left Swiftboated America

  • By: John Gibson
  • Narrated by: John Gibson
  • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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How the Left Swiftboated America

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The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George Bush Was the Worst President in History

Best-selling author John Gibson shows that George W. Bush was the victim of a concentrated effort by Democrats and their allies in the press to discredit and distort virtually everything he did. That effort was amazingly successful. Was George W. Bush really the worst president in American history? Was the Iraq War really the biggest foreign policy blunder of all recorded time? Did Bush really steal the 2000 election, make war on civil rights, torture innocent goatherds, and prove America's racism during Hurricane Katrina?

If this is what you think, then you may have been swiftboated by the liberal media. Swiftboating, as it has come to be defined by the left, is the political trick of claiming to expose the truth while in fact lying. The swiftboating of George W. Bush began in 2000 and continued throughout his presidency, involving his response to 9/11, the Iraq War, warrantless wiretapping, enhanced interrogation techniques, the Surge, uranium from Niger, the number of deaths in Iraq, the federal response to Katrina, and much, much more.

One only has to look at the charges leveled against the Bush administration by candidate Barack Obama to witness the success of this campaign. Obama ran for president and won on the left¹s extensive catalog of lies about George W. Bush. Moreover, once in office, Obama and the left continued to use these same techniques to swiftboat the Republican opposition. Obama constantly complained that he had inherited a "mess" in Iraq and blamed the "failed ideology" of free-market capitalism for the financial collapse that helped elect him. Meanwhile, his media allies attacked Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, the tea party movement, and the health-care protestors as "racists" for opposing Obama's agenda.

Talk radio host and best-selling author John Gibson here sets the record straight.

©2009 John Gibson (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers
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accurate but bland

I think the title says it all. There is a lot of information that is given, as well as the list of all of the usual suspects and what they did to "swift boat" Bush. However, it did not give a whole lot of information on how to prevent this (can't because of left leaning press....blogosphere...msnbc, etc) or why it was so successful. I agree with all that Gibson says -- just didn't find it very interesting or informative IF you have been paying attention to what was being said by the left, and the responses (once given) by those with accurate information.

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