Fox News Talks Up ‘Bush Recovery’
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 11:58 am
Here’s the video of the day: Neil Cavuto of Fox News reacting to the Dow Jones index’s recovery by asking his first guest whether former President George W. Bush should get credit.

“What was once the Bush recession is now the Bush recovery,” asks Cavuto, “or is that a stretch?”
“It defies logic that you could blame Bush for the banking problems,” says guest Jim LaCamp, “the banking system, and criticize the bailouts, and not give him a little bit of credit right now.”
Here’s the whole video:
And here’s how Fox used to cover the stock market:
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[...] “What was once the Bush recession is now the Bush recovery,” asks Cavuto, “or is that a stretch?” “It defies logic that you could blame Bush for the banking problems,” says guest Jim LaCamp, “the banking system, and criticize the bailouts, and not give him a little bit of credit right now.” READ MORE… [...]
Comment posted October 15, 2009 @ 5:38 pm
Teabagger brains set to explode across the nation as they try to process the self-contradicting rationalizations.
Oh wait: teabagger and brain should NEVER be used in the same sentence.
My bad.
Comment posted October 15, 2009 @ 8:27 pm
Funny, but the fall in the DOW before Obama actually became president was his fault. Now that Bush is no longer president and Obama's policies have resulted in an increase in the DOW, it is to Bush's credit. I suppose that there is some sort of logic there, but darned if I can see it.
Waiter, I'll have whatever they're drinking.
Comment posted October 15, 2009 @ 8:51 pm
This really is not all that surprising. These are the same people that insisted 9-11, which happened almost a year into W’s watch was really Bill Clintons fault. And Sadam having WMD’s was also Clinton’s fault because he was not hard enough on Iraq. Then when they realized there were no WMDs in Iraq, that too was Clintons fault because apparently the Bush team was using intelligence gathered from the previous president’s term. According to the GOP, a president really has no power when he is in office, its only after they leave that they really make their impact.
Comment posted October 15, 2009 @ 8:51 pm
Claiming credit for what you have not done, and denying responsibility for what you have done. That's the ethos of what passes for “republican” these days. Oh, yeah, and being criminally greedy and hostile towards the wellfare of America and its people.
Comment posted October 15, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
faux news strikes again, just goes to show how damn stupid americans are.
Russians new pravda in the ussr was pure propaganda and treated it as such.
Its painfully obvious that fox news, and most msm is pure corporate propaganda.
unfortunatly many americans believe this bullshit, especially the christian nazis
that occupy most of the south and midwest.
Comment posted October 15, 2009 @ 9:29 pm
After listening to that how can people say that Bush's plan to give money to the banks to lend did not in some way spur their earnings? Banks weren't lending money(so they weren't making money)…Bush gave them money, so they started making money. So yeah, Bush had a small part in this recovery, just because he gave the banks money so that they would lend it and make money. I know it's fun to blame Bush for everything…which I pretty much do…but he does deserve some credit, for taking a lot of heat from his own party and stepping up and doing what had to be done.
Comment posted October 16, 2009 @ 1:32 pm
Unless of course it's a Republican in power. When that happens, the president has “near dictatorial” power.
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Comment posted November 1, 2009 @ 5:13 am
Sorry… if Bush is absolved from all blame by conservatives, he can't have any credit either. It's your dumb rule.
Comment posted November 1, 2009 @ 10:13 am
Sorry… if Bush is absolved from all blame by conservatives, he can't have any credit either. It's your dumb rule.
Comment posted May 5, 2010 @ 3:08 pm
Listening to Hannity say that markets don't react emotionally just reveals what an idiot he is.
Comment posted May 5, 2010 @ 4:53 pm
So the Bush recovery will end the Obama recession, thanks to the Obama bank bailouts that Bush signed into law? Do I have it right?
Relativistic conservatism is amazingly nuts.
Comment posted May 5, 2010 @ 6:10 pm
By this logic, I believe Hitler gets credit for the Marshall Plan.
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