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Memo Sent Out to Bush Staffers on How to Sum Up His Record
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... LA Times: Titled "Speech Topper on the Bush Record," the talking points state that Bush "kept the American people safe" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, lifted the economy after 2001 through tax cuts, curbed AIDS in Africa and maintained "the honor and the dignity of his office."       ...

Talking Points Celebrate Bush’s 8 Wonderful Years
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... tax cuts, curbed AIDS in Africa and maintained “the honor and the dignity of his office.” The document presents the Bush record as an unalloyed success. It mentions none of the episodes that detractors say have marred his presidency: the collapse of the housing market and major financial services companies, the flawed intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, the federal response to Hurricane Katrina or the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...

Bush Staffers Told How to Sum Up President's Record
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... LA Times: Outgoing administration officials receive a talking points memo on what to say on their way out the door. Says Bush "kept the American people safe" after 9/11, lifted the economy after 2001 through tax cuts, curbed AIDS in Africa and maintained "the honor and the dignity of his office."       ...

On the Upbeat
N/A — ... Upbeat only please.  The Great Bush Legacy Project rolls on.  Here’s the latest push from the White House: Titled “Speech Topper on the Bush Record,” the talking points state that Bush “kept the ...

Bush Legacy: Speed-Read Version
Swampland — ... Peter Nicholas of the LA Times gets a copy of the memo that the White House is sending to cabinet secretaries and other top officials who might be giving speeches: ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... The Los Angeles Times reports that Bush Administraton officials have been given an internal memo containing talking points to use in their public appearances, praising President Bush's record as he left office. Among other things they are to discuss how he "kept the American people safe," helped the economy through his 2001 tax cuts, fought AIDS in Africa, and "maintained "the honor and the dignity of his office." ...

T.P.
Jules Crittenden — ... Bush admin issues accomplishment talking points to White House staff. Scribbler for the troubled LA Times  fires back with … Dem talking points: In case any Bush administration officials have trouble summing up the boss’ record, the White House is providing a few helpful suggestions. A two-page memo that has been sent to Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials offers a guide for discussing Bush’s eight-year tenure during their public speeches. Titled “Speech Topper on the Bush Record,” the talking points state that Bush “kept the American people safe” after the Sept. ...

White House sends out legacy talking points
The Reaction — ... Basically since President Bush refrained from getting blown by an intern during the last eight years his presidency is deemed a success. Mission accomplished. ...

You Spin Me Right Round, Baby, Right Round, Like a Record, Baby, Right Round Round Round
Shakesville — In the waning days of the eight-year coup by rightwing extremists known as the Bush administration, the despicable lot of miscreants are still doing the only thing they've ever been good at: spinning. ...

Bush Administration Gets Talking Points on How Awesome Bush Administration Is
Politics Daily — ... With the Bush presidency winding down, administration officials might get asked to reflect publicly on the past eight years. Now the White House is providing them a cheat sheet of sorts, in the form of a two-page memo titled "Speech Topper on the Bush Record" that has gone out to Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials. The LA Times has seen the document, which "presents the Bush record as an unalloyed success"! ...

Who Wants To Buy Bush’s Rock?
Wonk Room — ... the White House memo going out to administration officials as “a guide for discussing [the] eight-year tenure” of the most unpopular president ...

Weighing Obama
The Reaction — ... The White House has helpfully issued a two page memo titled Speech Topper on the Bush Record for those in the administration that may be having a little trouble coming up with good things to say about Bush's self-designed fairytale legacy. Meanwhile, the ...

Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog — ... The LA Times finds it newsworthy to report that a talking-points memo on Bush's legacy "mentions none of the episodes that detractors say have marred his presidency". ...

Countdown: Keith Olbermann Looks At Bush's REAL Legacy
Crooks and Liars — ... Keith Olbermann shines the cold, harsh light of reality on BushCo's attempt to catapult the propaganda and spin his legacy based on an LA Times report of talking points handed out to staff: A two-page memo that has been sent to Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials offers a guide for discussing Bush's eight-year tenure during their public speeches. Titled "Speech Topper on the Bush Record," the talking points state that Bush "kept the American people safe" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, lifted the economy after 2001 through tax cuts, curbed AIDS in Africa and ...

Making the pie higher
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... In case any Bush misadministration officials have trouble summing up the boss' record, the White House is providing a few helpful suggestions to catapult the propaganda. ...

Maddow Guest: 'Perhaps' Americans Should Be Thankful Terrorists Haven't Struck Again
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Former "Wonkette" blogger Ana Marie Cox (shown in photo), a contributor to Time magazine and The Daily Beast, appeared on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show last night to discuss, among other things, a Los Angeles Times story about Bush cabinet members receiving talking points on accomplishments they can cite from the 43rd president's tumultuous tenure. ...

George W. Bush, Agent of al Qaeda
The Democratic Daily — ... can CREATE reality by getting it in the newspapers. That was the one that didn’t allow them to self-correct after going into the wrong war with the wrong assumptions, for the wrong reasons after the wrong people and conducted in the wrong way, especially AFTER the “shock and awe” phase of flight-suited codpiece dancing on the decks of aircraft carriers. They believe their own PR, even though they kind of realize that they themselves PLANTED it. For Bush’s staff, upbeat talking points on his tenure Administration officials ...

David Latt: Cheney Taunts Bush, Pardon Me or Else
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... President Bush has been working on his legacy by circulating an upbeat, 2-page talking point memo with a description of his successes in office. Bush likes to white-wash and obfuscate. Cheney prefers a more aggressive approach. ...

Brad Woodhouse: Another presidential legacy gets the Orwellian treatment; Reagan got away with it, George W. will not
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... According to the Los Angeles Times, the White House recently felt the need to distribute a memo to Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials with vague talking points on what Bush accomplished the last 8 years, just in case they find themselves at a loss of words during their final round of public speeches. The memo reportedly includes such talking points as "responded with bold measures to prevent an economic meltdown;" "kept the American people safe;" and maintained "the honor and the dignity of his office." ...