May 05, 2011: Media conservatives are insisting that George W. Bush deserves as much credit as President Obama for the death of Osama Bin Laden, if not more. However, making this argument means ignoring what the Bush administration itself reportedly called its “gravest error” — not capturing bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001 — and Bush’s 2002 statement that he was “not concerned” about bin Laden. [ READ MORE ]

This is also in stark contrast to their usual attacks that Obama is responsible for things that are happening during his presidency, including those tied to Bush-era policies like the Gulf oil spill, the weak economy, and the nation’s deficit problems. [ READ MORE ]

Dishonest Crook Sean Hannity Says Bush Not Obama Deserves Credit For Bin Laden Killing!

Hannity: We Got Osama Bin Laden “Thanks To George Bush“

Brent Bozell: Bush Gets All The Credit, None Of The Blame

Donald ‘Birther’ Trump: Obama is Getting Too Much Credit on Osama Bin Laden

Obama To GOP ‘Appeasement‘ Critics: ‘Ask Osama Bin Laden’

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Osama Bin Laden: Obama Reminds GOP He Won’t Be Underestimated

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Other Lies, Distortions, Mis-information and Outright Racism From Fox and Other Right-Wing Political Whore Houses [ WorldNetDaily: Obama "Wants To Import Homosexuals" ]
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Fox Sees “Black Reparations” In UN Climate Deal in Durban, South Africa

“Fuzzy Math“: Fox’s Latest Attempt To Obscure The Current Unemployment Figures — Ever since the Department of Labor released the November unemployment numbers, which showed that the unemployment rate had dropped to 8.6 percent from 9 percent, Fox News has had trouble accurately presenting the data. [ READ MORE ] [ DISHONEST FOX NEWS CHARTS ]

Debating Government Involvement In Health Care, O’Reilly Tries To Claim The Military Is Not Government-Controlled

Limbaugh Plays “First Family Early Kwanzaa Celebration” Parody That Features Jeremiah Wright

Limbaugh Congratulates Himself For Hoping Obama Fails

Limbaugh: Obama “Sabotaged” And “Tried To Undermine” The Iraq War

Limbaugh: Democrats “Can’t Win Unless There Is Vote Fraud” And “Signature Fraud“

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The Big Picture: December 9, 2011

MMFA: On the May 11 edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart highlighted the absurd hypocrisy in Fox’s manufactured controversy over the White House’s decision to host rapper Common at a poetry event. As Stewart pointed out, Fox has celebrated musicians with far more violent lyrics, including hosting Ted Nugent–who once told President Obama “to suck on my machine gun“–multiple times. From The Daily Show:

Jon Stewart On Fox’s Fake “Common” Controversy: “It’s Almost Impossible To Express How Ridiculous…You All Are”

Then Bill O’Reilly, the chief narcissist at Fox News made the mistake of inviting Stewart to his show. Stewart destroyed O’Reilly, exposing his stupidity and hypocrisy:

Stewart & O’Reilly Debate Common: Stewart Notes That Fox Regular Liddy Advised How Best To Shoot ATF Agents

Stewart Debates O’Reilly: Fox Shows “Selective Outrage” By Attacking Common But Ignoring Similar Songs By Dylan, Bono

Complete Unedited Debate

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Bill Maher: Newt Gingrich ‘Is a Professor of Idiocy’
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Bonus Videos: The Obama Derangement Syndrome
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From Tora Bora to the Deathers: The Conservative Media’s Lies, Conspiracy Theories, and Hypocrisy in Covering Osama bin Laden’s Death.

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MMFA: In the wake of President Obama’s announcement that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan, Media Matters looks back at conservative media who attacked Obama’s commitment to fighting terrorism. Since his election in 2008, right-wing media figures have repeatedly suggested that Obama is weak on terror and that he is not serious about defending America from terrorism threats.

FLASHBACK: Right-Wing Attacks on Obama’s Pakistan Terrorism Policy

Elsewhere, conservative media outlets and personalities have declared that the death of the world’s most famous terrorist was just another opportunity for the president to “strut like [a] peacock” and make it all about himself. [ READ MORE ]
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CLASSIC FOX ANTI-OBAMA BIAS: Fox’s Napolitano Wonders If Gov’t. Is “Telling The Truth” About Bin Laden Or “Pulling A Fast One To Save Obama’s Lousy Presidency“

And, they are trying their darn hardest to heap ALL credit on Bush at the expense of Obama. Bush, a criminal who should face judgement at the ICC for crimes against humanity, may deserve some credit, — which is totally negated by the criminal killings he caused in Iraq.

This has not stopped Republicans, who are leaving Obama out altogether in the “credit game” — instead piling it all on Bush, and using Bin Laden’s death to justify Bush’s criminal waterboarding and Gitmo detentions. Some who gathered Sunday night outside of the Dallas-area community where Bush lives with his wife Laura, apparently had a similar thought: They posted a sign on the gate that read, “Obama forgot to say…THANK YOU, PRESIDENT BUSH.”

President Obama deserves FULL credit for capturing and killing Bin Laden, in any case his presidency has been hopelessly bogged down by results of the destructive policies of Bush’s arrogant and imbecilic eight year regime of theft and racist graft.

In killing Osama Bin Laden, Obama has demonstrated clear and decisive leadership, unlike Bush who failed to do so at Tora Bora and then claimed Bin Laden wasn’t a priority.

“I truly am not that concerned about him,” Bush said at a White House press conference on March 13, 2002. And of course the following March, he shifted America’s focus to Iraq, which proved to be a gigantic diversion.

Obama has “accomplished the mission,” unlike Bush who stupidly hang a huge banner on an aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln (after landing on it dressed in a pilot’s combat uniform [ which he never wore in battle ]) claiming “mission accomplished,” only to see Iraq explode into beastly violence.

Unlike Bush, Obama avoided stupid Texas-Cowboy chants like “bring ‘em on!,” instead the president has at all times exuded “dignified restraint,” in directing the manhunt which finally brought Bin Laden to justice. Obama has been in charge all along, while Bush “cowboy bamboozled” a bloodthirsty right-wing America.

As Dan Froomkin of The Huffington Post notes — Obama succeeded where bush failed, again and again.

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One Fox station announced Bin Laden’s death as follows — “Reports: Obama Bin Laden Dead”
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Tells you in a nutshell what these racist goons think about the first black president of the United States!

HATE-MONGER Rush Limbaugh Laughs At Media Who Report That He Lavished Praise On Obama Over Bin Laden Killing

Fox Business’ Napolitano Asks Guest: “Do You Believe” Bin Laden Is “Dead, Or Do You Want Some More Evidence?”

HATEMONGER Rush Limbaugh Claims Obama Took Credit For “Single-Handed[ly] … Securing The Death Of Osama Bin Laden”

Limbaugh: If Obama Were A Shoo-In For Re-Election “Osama Bin Laden Would Still Be Alive Today”

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Reference: USS Cole bombing — The USS Cole bombing was a suicide bombing attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) on 12 October 2000 while it was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen American sailors were killed.

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Before the September 11 attacks, Washington’s Neo-cons had waited in frustrated hope for an event that would serve as the excuse needed to enable them to rouse public support for a war against Iraq and other “rogue states” where they were sure American power could easily dispatch. Their project for the New American century proposed to remake the oil-rich-Middle-East in America’s image. Vice President Dick Cheney was also dreaming to restore the imperial presidency that had been lost with Richard Nixon’s Watergate.

In 1999, when George W. Bush was considering for the Presidency, he contracted with Houston Journalist Micky Herskowitz for a ghost-written autobiography. No more than two months passed before Bush’s team of advisors dismissed Herskowitz. The gregarious governor was telling Mickey too much. What’s interesting about the Russ Baker interview with Mickey Herskowitz is the reasons Bush gave for wanting to attack a small country: he wanted to emerge from his father’s shadow and become more popular.

From a strategic point of view the most effective way to fight terrorism is by intelligence operations and police work. However, for all the above reasons, militarizing the fight into a perpetual state of “war” would most easily facilitate the expansion of presidential powers.

On the other side of the world, the extremist Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were also making their plans. The people and government of Muslim nations from Algeria and Egypt, to Saudi Arabia and the Sudan, wanted to run the extremists out of their country, because they were inflicting violence to those they considered “not Muslim enough.” In Algeria the radicals had began eliminating each other over perceptions that many of their own members were not “pure enough.” For these reasons extremist Osama bin Laden had been chased from Saudi Arabia to the Sudan and then back to the caves of Afghanistan. Even in Afghanistan, Mullah Omar, concerned for the well-being of his Taliban government, had ordered bin Laden to quit giving interviews to the western press declaring jihad against Israel and the U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling had described “Afghanistan” as the “place where empires go to die.” Bin Laden knew that, and believing that Israel and its supporter, the United States, were instruments of oppression for the muslim people, was looking for an opportunity to drag the United States into a long and costly war similar to that they had engaged the Soviet Union in the 1980s. They hoped to slowly wear Americans down as they had already succeeded with the Soviet forces. Their goal was to provoke such a heavy military response from the Americans that would offend the Muslim world, destabilize the region, and increase the oil prices (which were cheap through the previous two decades) bringing further damage to the American economy while the Middle East was prospering.

Of course Bin Laden was taking the risk that Americans would strike and destroy al-Qaeda in a way it would not alienate U.S. from the rest of the Muslims. But that did not happen. The Bush administration was not focusing its attention on bin-Laden, because they were planning to attack Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Instead of using U.S. troops to seal the border, President Bush relied on hired Pakistanis, who were receiving money also from Al-Qaeda! In the battle of Tora Bora the local “allies” who had mixed sympathies towards al-Qaeda, let many of them escapeâ?¦ Marine officials, who foresaw Al-Qaeda’s strategic withdrawal from Tora Bora were not allowed to patrol the border and seal off bin Laden’s caves. Some reports suggest that bin-Laden had escaped by the end of November, 2001. A witness present in the Tora Bora claims that Osama escaped around December 10, 2001.

“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. March 13, 2002. Six months after September 11.

President Bush should be grateful to Osama Bin Laden for his re-election in 2004, when the race for presidency was neck-to-neck with Democrat Kerry. While the Neo-con political adviser Karl Rove was orchestrating Bush’s image as “resolute” and Kerry’s as “weak flip-flopper,” Osama bin Laden released a tape saying “Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or Al-Qaeda. Your security is in your hands. Any nation that does not attack us will not be attacked.” Bin Laden knew that by demanding the Americans to surrender, they would proudly want to fight back and consequently vote for the “resolute” presidential candidate Bush instead of the “weak” Kerry. Bin Laden knew that Bush would continue his clumsy war in Iraq that depleted our economy and deteriorated diplomatic relations with Middle East.

The war on Iraq was not as easy as Americans had expected. Sad to admit, the “war on terror” made Americans fall in bin Laden’s trap, resulting to all the things that Bin Laden had wanted. One of the things that bin Laden demanded years ago was the oil should cost $144 barrel, Charles Edmund writes in “W got his war” of The Coyote Report.

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About The Author: Coddie Adwar writes exclusively for THE COYOTE REPORT, a POLITICAL NEWS BLOG, the home of “GOOD RIDDANCE BUSH, THE END OF AN ERROR“ bumper stickers. and “W GOT HIS WAR” e-book written by Charles Edmund Coyote Get a FREE CHAPTER on how we let bin LADEN escape from Tora Bora.
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