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Saying Goodbye To A Decent Man
Nice Deb — ... Ed Gillepsie  wrote a good piece at Real Clear Politics, about The Myths and Facts About The Real Bush Record. It’s definitely worth the read…especially for myth number 1: ...

Quick links around
The Anchoress — ... O’ Hannigan, even though he does not say whether it was the delectable Mystic Monk Coffee being served. No, I can’t recommend it enough! We’d like Rites and Rituals: but with no transcendence, please. Bush is mulling a farewell message. I personally think he should buy an hour of tv time and debunk the NY Times one distortion, spin or outright lie at a time. At the very least he ought to read these facts vs myths to the nation. Christmas celebrated in ...

Bush: socialist or right wing extremist?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... The answer is neither, of course. But the president has surely taken a beating from both sides of political center over his two terms in the White House. Ed Gillespie explodes some of the myths from both left and right about the Bush record in an op-ed for RealClearPolitics.com. ...

Bush Legacy: A Liberator of 50,000,000-- A President Who Kept US Safe
Gateway Pundit — ... Ed Gillespie also adds a list of Myths vs. Facts on the Bush Presidency at Real Clear Politics that is something you won't see reported in the liberal media. ...

The Bush Legacy
Matthew Yglesias — ... Ed Gillespie’s RealClearPolitics article on “Myths and Facts About the Real Bush Record” is about as stupid and dishonest as you’d expect. But after “debunking” five perfectly accurate alleged myths, Gillespie gets into the whopper that really gets my goat: ...

Bush's record on terrorism
Political Animal — BUSH'S RECORD ON TERRORISM.... As part of the apparent Bush Legacy Project, we've been hearing quite a bit -- from the president on down -- about Bush's record of keeping America safe from terrorist attacks since 2002. The latest comes by way of Ed Gillespie , a White House aide and former RNC chairman, who wants Americans to remember a key "fact": Our homeland has not suffered another terrorist attack since September 11, 2001. That, too, is part of the real Bush record. First, this is plainly false. In the fall of 2001, someone (presumably scientist ...

More Myths & Facts
Jules Crittenden — ... About the Bush era. Ed Gillespie at RCP . Raise your hand if you think history will ever get it right. Raise your other hand if you think the Democratic (re)adoption of Bush’s war strategy gets checked as a win in the Bush column or the Obama column. Topics: ...

AEI Scholar: ‘Bush’s Legacy May End Up Better Than You Think’
Think Progress — ... Similarly, Bush’s Counselor Ed Gillespie wrote a piece for RealClearPolitics yesterday titled, “Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record.” Gillespie also tried to absolve Bush of any blame for the economic crisis, saying that “the President and his Administration have responded to aggressively” to “the current economic challenges.” But Bush’s inaction on the economy is precisely what helped throw the country into recession. Bush “ ...

Loading the Dice
Comments from Left Field — September 11, 2001: 3,000 Americans killed in terrorist attacks. October, 2001: For about six weeks in the fall of 2001, a series of anthrax attacks via the U.S. mail service killed 5 people, sickened over a dozen others, and kept the rest of us terrified everytime we opened the mail. Ed Gillespie, counselor to George W. Bush: And one last fact: Our homeland has not suffered another terrorist attack since September 11, 2001. That, too, is part of the real Bush record. ...

Stephen Kaus: Bush Flack Spouts Nonsense While Touting Success of Presidency
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Last Monday, RealClearPolitics provided a forum for Bush White House Counselor Ed Gillespie to dissemble on "Myths and Facts About the Real Bush Record." This document should serve political science instructors well in the future as the epitome of dead end political propaganda. ...

Parallel Universe
democracyarsenal.org — A message from a parallel universe. 

Matalin: ‘Arguably’ George W. Bush’s 2001 Recession Was ‘Worse’ Than Today’s
Think Progress — ... Additionally, Matalin claims that she isn’t spouting “talking points” when she says that Bush’s 2001 tax cuts led to “52 months of consecutive growth.” But that is exactly what the Bush talking points are. As the Center for American Progress’ Joshua Picker has pointed out, overall monthly job growth during the economic cycle that began in March 2001 and ended in December of 2007 was “ ...