Before Badgering Obama, Fox's Bret "Interrupt-A-Thon" Baier Compared Bush to Lincoln

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Before Badgering Obama, Bret Baier Compared Bush to Lincoln

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/bret-baier-compared-bush-to-lincoln

By Jon Perr Thursday Mar 18, 2010 6:00am



The conservative blogosphere is abuzz over the Bret Baier's contentious interview Wednesday with President Obama. Of course, Baier's repeated interruptions and confrontational tone should come as no surprise. After all, the Fox News hatchet man established his partisan bona fides two years ago in an exclusive interview with President Bush titled, "George W. Bush: Fighting to the Finish." And in that lovefest which Fox News deemed a "historic documentary" (and which is available from Amazon.com for $19.95), Baier compared Bush to Abraham Lincoln.

Mercifully, you don't waste your money or your time listening to a fawning Bret Baier toss George W. Bush softball questions or lay rhetorical rose pedals as his feet during that 2008 hagiography. After his "unflinching, fair and balanced interview with the 43rd president," Baier explained how Bush "was inspired by the writings and deeds of Abraham Lincoln":

"We talked a lot about President Lincoln. And there's going to be a lot of people out there who watch this hour and say, is he trying to equate himself with Lincoln?

I tell you what - he thinks about Lincoln and the tough times that he had during the Civil War. 600,000 dead. The country essentially hated him when he was leaving office.

"And the President reflects on that. This is a President who is really reflecting on his place in history."

That Lincoln didn't "leave office" but was instead assassinated just one month after his second inaugural is one of the more humorous errors produced by Fox News in its ongoing efforts to rewrite history on behalf of President Bush and the Republican Party.

[WCGreen]

1. Fox News, where history and fantasy meet....

[Urban Prairie]

2. I talked to my formerly left-leaning mother on the phone last weekend

She is who I first learned from about history and politics at a very young age, much more than from my late father. We had often talked on the phone about how the Bush administration was ruining the country during the previous decade. She told me that she was turning the TV volume down to talk to me. When I asked her what she was watching, she said "Fox News...."

I paused for a moment, then said hopefully: "You mean the local news?"

She said: "Oh no, the Fox News channel, I watch it all the time now...they do the best job on reporting about what is going on in the country"

I said: "You must be kidding me, right?"

She said: "No"

I thought about telling her about how much she was being lied to by watching that channel, but she now spends a lot of time visiting my RWer sister who is a big Palin supporter and SarahPAC contributor and her wealthy husband at their home, and she is getting very old and gets upset easily, so I just decided to avoid confronting her, and changed the subject...sigh. :(

[Cha]

4. Sorry..

:(

[HopeHoops]

3. Well, they were both white, but other than that I fail to see any similarity.

Now if you are out to insult Lincoln, that's a fucking good way to do it!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. you do realize that he just became a hero to the Reich Wing.

possibly, even the Tea Baggers