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Big Love: Breitbart and crew mark Obama's first year by sending love letters to George W. Bush

January 20, 2010 5:28 pm ET by Brian Frederick

Discredited Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart rallied his Big Journalism, Big Government and even Big Hollywood troops today to mark the one-year anniversary of Obama's inauguration by publishing not one, but eight separate paeans to former President George W. Bush.

Remember how great things were a year ago this time? Well, Breitbart's crew does.

Eight glorious hymns of distortions, Bush revisionism and attacks on Obama.

The head honcho himself proclaims: "After the MSM's relentless assault, the President still stands proud." (Bear in mind, he's not talking about the current president, who is still standing proud after Breitbart's lame campaigns against him.) Breitbart writes:

[T]he simple fact was that media deliberately and malevolently sustained a false caricature of Bush in its pages and on its broadcasts in order to bog down the leader of the free world when he needed all the help he could get, and a time when the country was in great danger. 

Again, he's not talking about now, or his own attacks on Obama.

The most absurd screed goes to J.S. Shapiro, who writes that "America betrayed President Bush." You see, America owes George W. Bush.

Here's the Twitter-ized version of the rest of the posts:

Bush was a fearless leader in perilous time who was hamstrung by attacks from Left and media. And Obama is now following the Bush doctrine.

Oh, and somehow "class died" the day Bush left office because he had been hated for eight years because he is "openly Pro-Life." (Gary Graham wins the award for the most incomprehensible ode.)

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    • Author by Good Creon (January 20, 2010 5:53 pm ET)
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      I never hated Bush because he was openly "pro-life", nor do I think many other people "hate" him for that reason. We hated him because he lied to us to start a war in Iraq, and in the process pretty much gave up on catching bin Laden. We hated him because it was under his watch that the economy started to crumble. We hated him because he seemed more interested in maintaining a macho-man, cowboy image than maintaining working relationships with the other countries of the world. Being pro-life is way down on the list of reasons why he left the office with one of the lowest approval ratings ever.
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    • Author by Publius39 (January 20, 2010 8:29 pm ET)
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      Shouldn't that headline be the other way around? "Bush Betrayed America." That sounds closer to reality then the garbage they wrote. This coming from a site that tried to rationalize what Robertson said about Haiti.
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    • Author by MickD (January 21, 2010 12:24 am ET)
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      Their liquor bill must be astronomical to drown such delusion.
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    • Author by Bluemask (January 21, 2010 3:22 pm ET)
         
      I had a hard time deciding which was funnier: the columnist who argued that since Obama has continued some of Bush's policies, they must therefore have been correct in the first place, or the gentleman in the next piece who argued that Obama's election signaled the "death of class" in American culture. "There goes the neighborhood," he wrote. Cute.
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    • Author by fabucat58 (January 21, 2010 4:27 pm ET)
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      The only GOOD thing about Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller is that it's a classier act than anything organ of the Breitbart "empire" (run from the basement of his home). Also, Tucker, for all of his preppie elitism, is a LOT classier than the boorish Breitbart.
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