Conservative Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly will not let George W. Bush, the former president, have much blame for this current economic crisis that started/exploded under his watch. O’Reilly has been spending a lot of time on his Fox News television programming whining about people blaming poor George for the current horrid economic state that President Barack Obama has inherited. Instead, O’Reilly spends his time tossing much of the blame on Barney Frank and Chris Dodd (both, you guessed it, Democrats). Funny how these two Democrats seem to be the two main causes of this economic crisis while G.W. Bush and the Republican Congress (in place for much of the time) are treated like innocent bystanders on The O’Reilly Factor.
From Media Matters:
Summary: On The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly falsely claimed that “the Democrats in charge of the finance committees” resisted efforts by the Bush administration to regulate the mortgage industry and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in particular. In fact, it was only after the Democrats did gain control of both “finance committees” in Congress in 2007 that Congress passed legislation strengthening oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
O’Reilly has a vendetta against Frank and Dodd (especially Frank) and he is using his television show as a platform to take his shots at men like Dodd (he also does it with General Electric, MSNBC, Media Matters, CNN, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jim Clyburn, Huffington Post and anyone else he does not like … the list goes on and on). Interesting how the fair and balanced O’Reilly (who is a conservative) puts together a partisan right-wing panel with himself and Karl Rove, a right-wing advocate who was/is Bush’s right-hand man for so many years. There is no balance on that kind of a panel.
Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200902250016?f=h_top
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