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04 Jun 2007 09:27 pm

The Right's Repudiation of Bush

Greenwald is having none of it:

The media's function is not merely to pass on self-serving conservative propaganda but to report actual historical fact, to point out when such propaganda deviates from objective truth. The "conservative movement" now desperately trying to depict Bush as an anti-conservative vigorously argued the exact opposite for the last six years. No account of the conservative movement's chicanery can be remotely accurate without prominently highlighting that fact. George Bush is tied irrevocably around the neck of the right-wing movement because they tied themselves to him when they thought doing so would be politically beneficial.

What about those of us who complained about spending in 2002? Who backed Kerry in 2004 because of Bush's unconservative record? Who opposed torture as soon as the evidence emerged? Who dissented from the FMA and Schiavo? Who opposed compassionate conservatism from the start? Who wrote books explaining how Bush was not a conservative? I guess there weren't many of us in public. Give Bruce Bartlett some props. But our existence is also part of the objective truth of the past six years.

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