Fox News' Eric Bolling: 'I Don't Remember' Any Terrorist Attacks During President Bush's Term

[meegbear]

Fox News host Eric Bolling pulled a Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, asserting that there were no terrorist attacks on "American soil" during President Bush's term in office.

Giuliani famously made a similar assertion in early 2010, saying, "we had no domestic attacks under Bush." Of course, the 9/11 attacks happened under Bush.

Bolling's misstatement came during a discussion on the network's Glenn Beck replacement show, "The Five." He and a panel—which included former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino—were arguing about whether Bush had been guilty of "fear-mongering" during his tenure. Panelist Bob Beckel said that the former president had used fear-mongering around the non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. As he attempted to continue his point, Bolling cut him off and started to move on to the next segment.

"America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008," he said. "I don't remember any attacks on American soil during that period of time." Nobody on the panel challenged this comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/14/eric-bolling-terrorist-attacks-bush_n_898135.html

[hobbit709]

1. Too bad STUPID isn't immediately and excruciatingly painful.

It would be quite instructive.

[SpiralHawk]

19. He's not stupid. That's a bald-faced republicon lie

Tell a lie enuf times and their are Suckers ut there (Freepers and TeaBaggers) who will believe it. Look at all the other bogus shit they already 'believe.'

[salin]

2. "Nobody on the panel challenged this comment."

gross.

[Maccagirl]

6. Why didn't Beckel say something?

n/t

[senseandsensibility]

29. I used to really like Beckel.

Has he sold out to FAUX? He could throw his weight around in the old days.

[jorno67]

3. And how many people sat there watching at home nodding their heads?

Feeling all tingly inside about what a great president Bu$h was...its sickening

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. I wish Murdoch would buy Fox.

then enter round 2 of self destruction.

[Maccagirl]

5. Murdoch owns Fox

n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Good, maybe his scandal WILL crash and burn Fox.

[Odin2005]

7. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

[meegbear]

8. +1

[ET Awful]

We've had fewer terrorist attacks on American soil during Obama's first term than during Bush's.

Just sayin' is all.

[goforit]

9. Unfortunately, their dumb ass viewers will agree.

Now..., can you see how easy it is to brainwash the masses into a fascist society?

OMG!

[HughBeaumont]

10. Eric Bowling: Commodities Trader. Serial Asshat. No-talent. Professional Shit Stirrer:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x598195

Makes a complete idiot of himself here.

Faux hires nothing but professional Barbie Dolls and Reaganite parrots, not journalists.

[get the red out]

11. Well, having known people suffering from dementia

I know that it is difficult for the individual to cope with. Hopefully these guys can get into see a good Neurologist; especially considering there was a big, smoking hole in the ground in NY City back in 2001 that they can't recall.

[tallahasseedem]

12. This guy is an idiot...

he tried to take on the awesome Alan Grayson last week and got his clock cleaned.

[City Lights]

13. Fux nooze at its finest.

Keeping their viewers ignorant since 1996.

[fascisthunter]

14. Lol.... I fucking Hate Liars... FOX news needs to be shut down

their propaganda is so fucking obvious it makes realize how fucking dumb their viewers are.

[kestrel91316]

16. Well, 9/11 doesn't really count, you see, because it was all Clinton's fault,

and Bush had barely taken office.

[butterfly77]

17. Really???

What were these..

Feb. 14, 2008: Former student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, fatally shooting five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide.
http://www.fbi.gov/

They define what they see as terrorism.

Fox also has a list:

Feb. 14, 2008: Former student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, fatally shooting five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide.

Dec. 5, 2007: 19-year-old Robert A. Hawkins opened fire with a rifle in Omaha, Neb., at a Von Maur store in the Westroads Mall, killing eight people before taking his own life. Five more people were wounded, two critically.

April 16, 2007: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shot 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then killed himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Feb. 12, 2007: 18-year-old Sulejman Talovic killed five and wounded four at the Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was then shot and killed by police.

Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, shot to death five girls at West Nickel Mines Amish School in Pennsylvania, then killed himself.

March 21, 2005: 16-year-old student Jeffrey Weise killed nine people, including his grandfather and his grandfather's companion at home, and then five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota, before killing himself. Seven students were wounded.

March 12, 2005: Terry Ratzmann, 44, gunned down members of his congregation as they worshipped at the Brookfield Sheraton in Brookfield, Wisconsin, slaying seven and wounding four before killing himself.

CBC story: Illinois university shooting over in seconds: police

Dec. 5, 2007: Robert A. Hawkins, 19, opened fire with a rifle at a Von Maur store in an Omaha, Neb., mall, killing eight people before taking his own life. Five more people were wounded, two critically.

CBC story: No way to predict deadly Omaha mall shooting: officials

April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, fatally shot 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then killed himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

This next list is from CBC news.

CBC story: 33 dead in 'horrific' campus shooting in Virginia

Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, shot to death five girls at West Nickel Mines Amish School in Pennsylvania, then killed himself.

CBC story: Funerals held for 4 victims of Amish school shooting

March 21, 2005: Student Jeffrey Weise, 16, killed nine people, including his grandfather and his grandfather's companion at home. Also included were five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minn. He then killed himself. Seven students were wounded.

CBC story: Teenage killer used police vest, car

March 12, 2005: Terry Ratzmann, 44, gunned down members of his congregation as they worshipped at the Brookfield Sheraton in Brookfield, Wisconsin, slaying seven and wounding four before killing himself.

CBC story: No clear motive for Wisconsin church shooting: police

March 5, 2001: Charles "Andy" Williams, 15, killed two fellow students and wounded 13 others at Santana High School in Santee, Calif.

[Fuzz]

21. There are two lists. When defending Bush, no terrorist attacks. When scaring the public and/or

demonizing over 1 Billion mostly brown people, hundreds of attacks.

[butterfly77]

28. They don't consider..

kkk,aryan nation,militias and other groups who have been terrorizing many for decades to be terrorists..

[hifiguy]

18. If sheer bulk stupidity were gold

the bots on Faux could buy the moon a thousand times over.

[Scurrilous]

20. Idiot. n/t

[indepat]

22. Was that a humongous Freudian slip, eh Eric?

:patriot:

[JuniperLea]

23. No surprise they are trying to rewrite history again...

Cheaters never prosper... something the GOTP will learn soon enough.

If you have to make shit up, if you have to rewrite history, then your stance can't be all that solid.

[Cannikin]

24. How do you submit a fact check request on Politifact?

[Uncle Joe]

25. I thought that incident was screaming for Rude Pundit analysis.

Thanks for the thread, meegbear.

[gort]

26. My reply will be silent so that you can hear the sound of my jaw dropping...

:wow:

[Politicalboi]

27. If the Repukes can get this message out

Just think of how they will blame the Dem's over the recession. This is their method.