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Eric Bolling: George W. Bush Isn’t Getting Enough Credit For Al-Awlaki Death

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While others on his channel were giving the current administration credit for their recent spate of terrorist killin’, Eric Bolling wasn’t about to join into the Obama back-patting. Instead, he took a page from that last big terrorist death, and accused Obama of overshadowing the guy who really deserves credit; President Bush. Bolling claimed to be offended by the current President’s undeserved “victory lap,” while an incredulous Kimberly Guilfoyle pointed out that she didn’t remember seeing Obama do any running.

“Look, the issue I have is that Mr. Obama came out today during a podium appearance and said, ‘Look what we’ve done.’ I’m not so sure he should be taking all the credit for this. Y’know, Dana, George Bush – your administration – put a lot of the infrastructure in place that they’re using to capture and kill these bad guys and all of a sudden there’s a victory lap by the White House.”

It was not an opinion shared by many at the table but it wasn’t an exactly surprising one from Mr. Bolling. More surprising is that the only other person who didn’t seem too enthusiastic about the news was lone liberal Bob Beckel. Beckel took the Ron Paul route, pointing out that he didn’t love the idea of America executing people without a trial. However, when prompted by Dana Perino, he did admit that there may have been some kind of “presenting of evidence” done in private that we weren’t privy to.

All of that being said, Beckel did want to make it clear that, no matter what some of the conversation may have implied, liberals like killing terrorists just as much as the next guy.

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  • Cain

    On the economy: “It’s three years later. Obama owns this economy. Stop blaming Bush”
     On terrorism: “Bush deserves more credit for this. He had a big part in this. It’s been only three years.”3 years of policy changes means that Bush’s initial influence has diminished. Economy and terrorism.  

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    This guy is a frickin idiot !!

  • Anonymous

    Bolling, at least try to pretend you’re being fair and balanced.   

  • Exgoper

    Blah, blah, blah. This is such an unbelievably predictable, absolutely delusional talking point that it’s BEYOND pathetic.

  • Onne

    Eric Bolling is as dumb as a fence post. Case closed.

  • Pablo’s Ex Husband

    Uhhh. Victory lap? I thought that was George Bush taking a victory lap in May 2003 declaring mission accomplished in Iraq. Eric Bollling desperately needs to see an ophthalmologist.

  • Bob

    Suddenly conservatives want to remember the world of pre-2009.
    But talk about the economy and they act like nothing that happened in the past, including a near-total collapse of the U.S. financial sector in November 2008, has any bearing on the present.

  • Norbit

    Conversely!

    It’s Bush’s Fault!

    - and -

    I Killed Al-Awlaki…
    I Killed Al-Awlaki…

  • Bob

    Also:
    Bolling, button your damn shirt. The eighties have been over for some time.

  • Guest

    If GWB had done this the liberal left would be screaming.  They would have accused GWB of killing an American citizen and on and on and on….

  • Norbit

    Oh, and by the way…YOU’RE ALL SOFT!
    - and that’s the President telling you that!

    So now, not only is it Bush’s Fault…IT’S YOUR FAULT!

    lol!

    ONE TERM!
    Bye-Bye!

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Eric Bolling needs to go back to being a commodities trader.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I think Eric Bolling is trying to give Gretchen Carlson a run for her money as the biggest idiot on Fox News!! Fox News themselves stated today that Al-Awlaki didn’t step onto the scene until January 2009… after Bush already was out of Office!! So why would he deserve credit for his death??

  • Anonymous

    Hell Dubya wouldn’t even have known who this dead guy was….but Karl Rove would have had him more dangerous than Attila the Hun.

  • Exgoper

    Thank you for being fair enough to say this. Not many of Obama’s opponents are willing to make even this small a concession.

  • Joseph Bernard

    Eric Bolling is a fucking idiot.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    We kept hearing the false meme over and over from the conservatives that “Bush kept us safe”. Why all the hair-splitting about “Obama got Osama”? Talk about hypocrisy.

  • Darladoon

    pretty much sums it up

  • Broadhorizons

    You know, after reading the title, I thought it was all a joke! After reading the article… well, you know. 

    Wow.

    :- 

  • Darladoon

    if bush deserves credit for this guy’s death, then he also deserves credit
    for the economy

  • Anonymous

    If this slug had been offed during the Bush administration, the press would be apoplectic and Harry & Nancy would be screaming for impeachment, and you all know that’s true. 

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    I think the Republicans have the record on blaming the predecessor. They blamed Clinton for what he did in office for the housing debacle that started in 2006! Poor Republicans never got the chance to fix it despite the Republicans having at least majority control of all branches of government most of the intervening time.

  • Dummy123

    Thank you Bush and Cheney !
    There is no way Obama could have killed the bad guys (TERRORISTS) without your help!!! 

  • Anonymous

    Eric Bolling might actually be as dumb and as racist as Michelle who posts here regularly.

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    MIAMI VICE !!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Obama couldn’t have done this without the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld policies the left screamed about for 8 years.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    Yes. We all know how accountable the Bush Administration was kept by the media. That’s why the media held off on reporting on the warrant-less wiretaps story until the 2004 election was over, the way Bush was eventually impeached over condoning the use of torture and trying to deny habeas corpus to an American citizen. Oh wait. None of that never happened.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    Well Obama did do it without some of those policies. Torture is now banned if you didn’t get the newsflash. It seems like a pretty obvious strawman to suggest Obama just threw out every policy or even claimed he would.

  • Anonymous

    Boiling is like Beck never knows when to stop.

  • Norbit

    I’m pretty sure anyone disagreeing with a Liberal has been branded a “racist” – as a political calculation and smear – for the past 40 years.

    What do you think?

  • Limpbaals

    And which policy would that be?

  • Norbit

    The media tried their best.
    They promulgated every Democratic talking point, from “Bush Lied” to turning some bitter secretary-wife into an outed CIA ”operative”! 

    If Bush were involved with “Fast & Furious” or Solyndra the media would be on these stories every day – WHERE ARE THEY NOW??

    They’re network propagandists for the Democratic Left.
    It’s not only Matthews that still gets that chill!

  • Norbit

    The media tried their best.
    They promulgated every Democratic talking point, from “Bush Lied” to turning some bitter secretary-wife into an outed CIA ”operative”! 

    If Bush were involved with “Fast & Furious” or Solyndra the media would be on these stories every day – WHERE ARE THEY NOW??

    They’re network propagandists for the Democratic Left.
    It’s not only Matthews that still gets that chill!

  • Norbit

    The media tried their best.
    They promulgated every Democratic talking point, from “Bush Lied” to turning some bitter secretary-wife into an outed CIA ”operative”! 

    If Bush were involved with “Fast & Furious” or Solyndra the media would be on these stories every day – WHERE ARE THEY NOW??

    They’re network propagandists for the Democratic Left.
    It’s not only Matthews that still gets that chill!

  • Anonymous

    It is stupid to try to give Bush credit for this death but it is also stupid to tout it as such a great victory. The left screams at every war and death and capture so that the laws are changed and our hands are so tied once we catch someone and it is so expensive to incarcerate him that now the left gets in control and instead of even trying to capture them they just ki// them. I don’t think it is something to crow over.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVWU6V6ORHYQ57UOHAEI52XTVU Dennis

    Jon Bershad  First let me say that personally I’m thankful to our president for this mission accomplishment and secondly, I think Eric is a french fry short of a happy meal BUT, BUT, BUT, I find it very interesting that you left out the ENTIRE BASIS for Eric’s Claim. You positioned your entire article in such a way as to cause bias and controversy. What Eric said (and would not have made a headline or a story is) “You can’t give complete credit to Obama when victories for our country are made and then blame bush for all the bad things taking place”. Strategic combat war policies and intel, as well as, economic policies BOTH have influences carried over from the previous administration. That is a fair assumption you completly neglect. Stop trying to make us fight here in the comments section.

  • Mrprogreso

    It doesn’t matter when this guy came on the scene.  We’re talking about infrastructure, laying the groundwork to kill or capture any terrorost.  Someone could get nailed next year and it’s still related to the infrastructure.

  • Anonymous

    I think you’re a dumbass.  Next question.

  • Anonymous

    You lefties are a laugh riot.

    It’s Bush’s fault for all the bad, but not all the good?  Honestly, pick a side, a position….either it’s his fault for everything (including OBL and Alwaki) or it’s not his fault at all.  But you cannot continue to pick and chose, it just makes you look foolish.

  • Anonymous

    You lefties are a laugh riot.

    It’s Bush’s fault for all the bad, but not all the good?  Honestly, pick a side, a position….either it’s his fault for everything (including OBL and Alwaki) or it’s not his fault at all.  But you cannot continue to pick and chose, it just makes you look foolish.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Goober W. Bush was the biggest military idiiot on the globe since Neville Chamberlain and Eric Bolling thinks Bush deserves credit for Alawiki?  The myth of Republican military acumen has been exploded as just that and now Fake Newscorp is trying yet again to revise history to benefit those who deserve no credit. Leave us not forget the Blunder in Iraq, the pooch screwing in Afghanistan, the decade long head start given bin Laden. And best joke yet, don’t blame Bush for fucking up the economy but give him credit for this killing where he deserves none.  Bolling you are a chickenshit punk but thanks for playing. 

  • Hypocrisiejoe

    This is an incredible story! The only person more ignorant than Kimberly fish lips Guilfoyle is Eric A.D.D Bolling and Fox News gave us the opportunity to see them both at the same time. Thank you Mr Ailes.

  • Tell

    Does that mean the Bush administration laid the infrastructure for our current economy? 

  • Darladoon

    so ron paul is now a “leftist”?

    interesting, profound, rational argumentation

  • Anonymous

    Goober Bush as you called him couldn’t even find the WMD’s under his desk.The only credit he deserves is he is out of office

  • Anonymous

    oh ….do you mean the same infrastucture that was laid out 2 trade towers and 3000 lives too late???/ or some other infrastructrue dumbass

  • Anonymous

    your name fits dummy

  • Anonymous

    you may be right you racist dumbass crossburning piece of dogshit

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget the “NEW” Republican Tea Party would have us offset the cost with cuts to social programs.

  • http://twitter.com/ZonaCumia Zona

    What bush should be remembered for is the fact that he disbanded the committee he had to get Bin Laden.  He disbanded them.  In other words, he said its not a priority to get him anymore…then when Obama got him (which would not have happended if Bush 3, McCain had been elected) every relic came out of the woodwork to remind us how important Bin Laden was to Bush and to them.  OH please.

  • Anonymous

    LOL.    Bush didn’t even know this guy existed when he was president.

  • Anonymous

    LOL.    Bush didn’t even know this guy existed when he was president.

  • Anonymous

    couldn’t have been said any better.

  • Anonymous

    lol   this one must have stung.  And soon Ghadaffi without one U.S. casualty.  ouch! 

  • http://twitter.com/ZonaCumia Zona

    Bush disbanded the group he got together to fine Bin Laden.  Oh and Obama got him without torture.  You see, according to McCain (a man I disagree with 99% of the time, but he does know about torture), torture does not work.

    Righty’s love it but IT DOESNT WORK.  Obama got Bin Laden.  Thank god he decided to not “forget about him”.

  • Anonymous

    When “W” takes responsibility for and the TEA party ran Republican/GOP groupies signal our economy is totally their fault, maybe we should give baby boy Bush credit for getting the process started. Bush had eight years! Congratulations to the president for keeping his eye on the heads of the serpent and doing what Baby boy Bush didn’t! The president is an effective leader as he ordered and authorized the taking out of Osama Bin Ladin, Atiyah abd al-Rahman and Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Khaddafy on the run! There have been two or three other high targets taken out in the past! This is effective leadership as he never took his eyes of the target for thirty-two months! Baby boy Bush was in office eight years and didn’t accomplish what president Obama has done in just thirty-two months! This was a major blow to Al-Qaeda and president Obama was in charge and authorized this taking out!

  • Tex45

    Eric Bolling is Rush Limbaugh’s bastard son.

  • expatpatriot

    Let’s be sure we have these distinctions firmly in hand:

    • Any bad aspects of the economy? — Obama’s fault (he’s been in office for 3 years, fer chrissakes!)

    • Any terrorist takedowns while Obama’s been Commander in Chief? — Credit goes to Bush for the robust terrorist killin’ infrastructure he built. Obama has nothing to do with it – he just inherited the good work Bush did.

    Just so we all know how such things are to be thought of.

  • Anonymous

    Not that the GOP has any accountability to logical consistency, but if you can give Bush credit for things, then you can also give him blame. But “he’s not President anymore!!!!!!!!!1″ so hence he can’t be blamed. So hence he can’t receive credit, either.

  • TbagsRstupid

    Reason and Rational?

    Come on, these people believe this crap

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-29-2011/wayne-s-world

  • TbagsRstupid

    He wants a Rush Limbaugh stamp

    perhaps he want to lick his backside

  • Anonymous

    I think you paint with too broad a brush and have a tendency to be paranoid.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    If Bush were involved with “Fast & Furious” or Solyndra the media would be on these stories every day – WHERE ARE THEY NOW?? — Norbit

    That’s hilarious. The Solyndra loan guarantees were about $500 million. Where was the media when the Bush Administration lost $30 billion in Iraq.  Heck, that one colossal screwup (at least 60 times larger than Solyndra) includes the same element where money went to fund our enemies. How many stories were done on it by comparison? Check it out for yourself. If the media are supposed to be liberal, they sure are doing a crappy job of it.

  • Anonymous

    Does Bolling even apply reason to anything he says? So every terrorist that dies from here forth needs to result in a thanks to George Bush? What about Clinton? Reagan for that matter? Because no credit should go to the sitting president authorizing these questionable attacks right? This might have had some merit with the OBL killing, but running with it everytime makes it lose its worth

  • Anonymous

     I wonder if Bolling wants Bush to take credit for the Iraq war clusterfck. and the 5.000 of our guys that got killed. As a Democrat Beckle was a total embarrassment for even questioning the citizen thing. The only 2 that made sense is the hot babe on the left with the dark hair and the guy on the right that hosts the red eye show. Maybe I’m more and more disagreeing with the Dems. On this, on their immigration policies (although Obaba has doubled the amount of deportations) and I’m for the death penalty. I don’t walk in lock-step with the Dems just because the agree on something. I call them like I see them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Instead of celebrating as a country the fact that we got a couple more high profile terrorists, pompous ass idiot Bolling is looking for even more ratings. BTW, it looks like Sarah Palin may not be on Fox much longer after criticizing Fox for having distorting her position. She blames the network for quoting her verbatim. Roger Ailes has finally come to his senses that this idiot is not worth the $1 million he pays her.

  • Anonymous

    Looking at the comments, both sides are.. funny.

    The left sounding like nazi’s wanting Jews exterminated or like Zionists wanting Palestinians eradicated…  and the right sounding defensive and terrified that the left is stealing their act sounding more Bush-itie and war-mongerie than they are

    What a funny country we’ve become

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_35AUAS4525FVFYNPRKECNNW6GE Libturd Flagger

    John Walker Lyndh was captured, not executed overseas…. we dont murder American citizens.

  • PrezOworst

    yeah torture is banned but killing entire families via drone attacks wihout judge or jury had tripled.  More liberal double speak.  Oh  i’m for drones but lets talk honestly about it.

  • Cjrisbourg1967

    It’s President Obama, not Mr. Obama asshole.  It seems like a small point, but it just shows the prejudice and disrespect of Bolin.

  • Dougster

    Both of the individuals in the picture above have stated on camera that there were NO ATTACKS under GWB. Neither has apologized. That either of them were even present on camera to make/listen to this comment is an outrage to those who lost their lives in the 9/11, and those whose lives were wasted in Iraq.

  • richs

    DId they ever find those missing shoulder fired missles, capable of shooting doing commercial airliners, that went missing from the Libyan Army?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    There is no disrespect in calling a president Mister…  The words president and Mister can be used interchangeably as both show respect.  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500803_162-2265934-500803.html?source=search_story&tag=contentMain%3bcontentBody

    As far as Bolling goes he is much too fixated on the president and is overly biased in his critiques of the Mr. Obama.  This is easy to see in the reactions of the other 3 conservatives on the panel.  They often challenge Bollings opinions as he does this sort of thing on most every show. 

  • Anonymous

    I think Bob Beckel raises a good point. 

    ‘Due process!’

    It has to be adhered to and respected whatever the circumstances. I have no problem with terrorists being killed. We must not, however, allow ourselves to lose sight of our own process, because that’s what separates us and raises us above our enemies and maintains correct allegiances.

  • Rio

    That’s not true.  It was the CIA that disbanded the out of control bin Laden unit,(Alec Station)…. not committee,  and revamped it.  There was never a moment where the goal of finding bin Laden changed. 

    Here, check out how little you know:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html

  • Rio

    The housing debacle was set up during Carter’s term, made even more risky by Clinton’s policies and finally crashed from the years of ignoring a problem that was not only predicted to happen during Clinton’s terms, did happen.

  • Rio

    Wrong, Bush did not disband Alec Station, repeatedly posting this tripe doesn’t make your comment correct:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html

    Got him without torture?  Obama never nixed renditions, we have no idea what other countries are doing to get information.

  • Rio

    There were a lot of stories done on it, Halliburton ring a bell?  BTW, your….MediaMatters…..blog mentions the problem is still ongoing.  Guess what, the evil Halliburton the left and the media ragged on and on about throughout both of the Bush terms, just got another no-bid contract.  Looks like Obama is really serious about cleaning that up, eh?

  • Colonel Lingus

    This just in, President Obama took a dump in a bathroom in the White House and Bolling demanded Bush be given credit for toilet paper.  default5594 {“method”:”validate”,”params”:[],”id”:1,”jsonrpc”:”2.0″}

  • Rio

    It was the Bush administration that armed the drones and laid the foundation for our military to get these guys.  I doubt the intent was to use the drones to assassinate American citizens, it’s causing a lot of questioning of ethics and morals in warfighting:

    http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/04/22/042211-news-drones-1-5/

  • Anonymous

    As a matter of they believe they are with Ghadaffi’s loyalists fighting with him. That’s why Obama isn’t stupid enough to fly planes overhead to be shot down. And if and when they do let me know. You have to come up with something better than that.

  • Anonymous

    That I agree with. Racism is being used for every excuse there is including disagreeing with the Republicans. Some in the democrat party should read the story about the boy who cried wolf.
     I don’t walk in lock-step with everything in their ideology. Expecially the fact now that some of the extreme in the left wing including the ACLU give the party a bad name. Especially in light of this latest al-Queda take out. They are embarrassing on this issue.

  • Rio

    OMG what drivel.  Killed and captured during the Bush terms?  What’s sitting down at GITMO, abu Gharibe, Bagram and the prisons in Afghanistan?  How many had the Iraqis tried and executed that were captured by……our guys?  What about the whack-a-mole terrorist leaders that were killed throughout both theaters with others waiting in the wings to take their places.

    When Bush was in office you libbies didn’t seem to impressed when Saddam’s two little wmd’s were taken out, or Saddam himself.  Then in Afghanistan, the list is long of the leaders that were wiped out.  They used to keep spread sheets of the kills and how each was connected to bin Laden operationally.

    The WOT success is to be shared, the tools used to implement it didn’t occur overnight, but most credit should go to the brass and troops running it. 

    As far as the economy, that crash was a long time coming and failing to see how much both parties contributed to it highlights the delusions some need to childishly cling to, it’s more difficult for some to give up their binkies than others.

  • dono

    Obama is very good at having terrorist leaders killed.  Period.  Bush was unable or unwilling to do so.  Period.  Doesnt bake President Obama brave or cowardly it just makes him successful in setting and executing anti-terror policy in this regard.

  • Mauisun

    This is not suitable for a blog post. Everyone knows it is forbidden to say anything positive about Obama on Fox News Channel, the 24/7 bash the president network.

  • Djbynum02

    George Bush is a liar. He led us into a personal war in Iraq at the expense of over 4000 dear troops. I wouldn’t believe he could help do anything. Iraq wants him and Cheney for war crimes–I would gladly escort them to Iraq and watch them hang.

  • Anonymous

    Bolling is a bed-wetting Cheney lap dog.  Misinformed, insignificant and really, not a very smart guy.  But a big ego and xenophobic world view certainly serves people like him, O”Reilly, Limbaugh, etc, well.  

    Bottom line, the Obama foreign policy has significantly diminished many formerly powerful terror organizations.  Not through “nation building”, invasions, etc, but by deftly taking them out with technology.  It’s pretty amazing, shameful really, and speaks volumes about the pettiness of the right wing that attempts lamely to diminish those accomplishments.  Such little people, little minds.

  • Anonymous

    Horse feathers! George Bush came out and said that Bin Laden was not a priority of his administration; that they were no longer looking for him. President Obama, on the other hand, specifically said that we were looking for Bin Laden and would capture or kill him.

  • Howard Hill

    You must be KIDDING!

  • Howard Hill

    When you bash the ACLU, we know where you are coming from without doubt.  Keep up the good work ACLU, and continue GUARDING my Civil Rights!

  • Howard Hill

    Immediately take Office with a Budget Surplus and give it to the RICH?
    Start 2-WARS and don’t PAY FOR THEM!
    Take your eye off the prize (Bin Laden) and go after Saddam in IRAQ!

    Everything thereafter has been a catastrophe, brilliantly engineered by BUSH & CHENEY for 8-years!
    Tell me how anyone else can be BLAMED?……and you expect Obama with no help from this silly House of Representatives to have this mess cleaned up in 2-1/2 years?  How naive can you be!

  • Anonymous

    How naive can they be? Simple. Watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh and believe everything they say.

  • Rio

    That was in concert with the CIA disbanding and restructuring the unit.  If your read the article, just maybe you could have figured it out.  Also, liberal bloggers cropped  the video comment, took it  out of context and posted it with the full intention to mislead.

  • Rio

    The budget surplus was a myth, it was created by folding in the money from the trust funds into the general fund that was later disbursed leaving a deficit every single year of the Clinton administration.  Bush also inherited the results of the internet bubble burst and a recession that began two months after he took office.

    The two wars were bi-partisan until the enemy fired back then the democrats couldn’t run fast enough, cowards that they were.  They were also voting to fund the wars via supplementals that had to be pork filled to bribe them,  We were not only funding the war, we were paying for the California wild fires and a number of other pet democrat projects out of the war funds.  Murtha ring a bell?

    The CIA disbanded Alec Station, the bin Laden unit and restructured it because the unit was out of control.  It never once took their eyes off the prize.  I posted the source above, google CIA disbands al qaeda unit for yourself or, just continue the false meme, but to repeat it now would be a lie, you were told.

    Freeing 50 million people and fighting two wars while the opposition was stabbing you in the back was quite a feat.  The wars would have been won years prior had not the other side of the aisle had not given the enemy encouragement.  The enemy quickly caught on to planning attacks specifically to play to our news broadcasts, allowing the liberal media and democrats an avenue to instigate public apathy thereby aiding them in their cause.  Useful idiots.

    Obama and Biden were both…..part of the mess as was a host of democrats from Carter to Clinton.  After all the trillions of Obama spending we were told last year of the Recovery Summer, remember that?  Obama and Biden have also both told us that they own the economy, an economy they made worse.  Yeah, they can be blamed.

  • Rio

    There were many terrorist leaders killed and captured during the Bush administration, more than Obama, to deny that is dillusional.  What seems to be beyond your understanding is that the enemy replaces the leaders and recruitment is still going on, we’ve got over 20 years of terrorists that went through the madrassas and all the online recruitment to get through.  In the mean time Obama keeps kicking the hornets nest with his toys, kills them and all the intelligence goes with them.  Round and round we go.

  • Rio

    What do you think the democrat strategists are doing in every program throughout the day?  Use your heads people, realize how dumb your petty comments sound?

  • Rio

    Irak wants him and Cheney for war crimes

    Looks like it’s you that’s the liar.  A discusting liar.

  • Anonymous

    I think Bolling is right, but he forgot to give credit to Teddy Roosevelt and Nixon! They knew this guy and tried to stop him. Those liberals will take credit for anything,… on their watch,…. that they did,… mostly on their own! Damn those guys!

  • Rio

    Your bottom line has much to be desired.  Obama’s foreign policy has not “diminished many formerly powerful terror organizations.”  Study up:

    Diversified, Not Diminished:  Al Qaeda in Pakistan since 911

    http://www.criticalthreats.org/al-qaeda/jan-qaeda-pakistan-diversified-not-diminished-september-20-2011

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    That was in concert with the CIA disbanding and restructuring the unit.

    Please quote where it says that in the article or from any other credible source. Thanks.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    I stand corrected. They blame Carter for the debacle that happened in 2006. Thanks, Rio. Republicans are even lamer than I originally gave them credit for.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    So you criticize Obama for doing what you approve of. Sounds pretty typical of you guys.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    Rio, the data speaks for itself.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    The predator was armed during the Bush Administration, but the concept and the program goes back to the early 1990′s. If you are going to talk about “laying the foundation”, some mention needs to be made regarding the Clinton Administration.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    Well the truth hurts. Did you read the article you just cited?

    Michael Scheuer, a former senior C.I.A. official who was the first head of the unit, said the move reflected a view within the agency that Mr. bin Laden was no longer the threat he once was.

    Mr. Scheuer said that view was mistaken.”This will clearly denigrate our operations against Al Qaeda,” he said. “These days at the agency, bin Laden and Al Qaeda appear to be treated merely as first among equals.”

    I don’t know if the President “never nixed [extreme] renditions” (the larger objection to Bush’s policies was to “extreme rendition” – not “rendition”), but I cannot find any evidence that they are still happening under President Obama.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    The program goes back to the early 1990′s. A good deal of that “infrastructure” was due to Bill Clinton. At some point there is going to be a cutoff, though. You do understand that? Why are Bush fans so needy?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YRDPWIK2SZEFSU3ABVKLB226MM aDCBeast

    Awlaki was a YEMENI citizen at the time of this death.

    He is an EXPAT not a citizen of the US

  • Rio

    From the Times article:

    The realignment reflects a view that al Qaeda is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, intelligence officials said, and a growing concern about Qaeda-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of M. bin Laden..”

    There are examples explaining hierarchical in a religious context that would more apply to the al Qaeda group but I chose this example for you because of it’s simplicity:

    Hierarchical Organization:
    http://www.learnmanagement2.com/hierarchical%20structure.htm

    From the President’s response:

    “..focusing on one person is–really indicates to me people don’t understand the scope of the mission…”

    Terror is bigger than one person and he’s just–he’s a person who’s now been marginalized.  His network, his host government has been destroyed..”

    But once we set our policy and started executing the policy he became–we shoved him out more and more on the margins.

    FreeRepublic posted the full quotes:

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1244536/posts

    The mission changed six months after Operation Enduring Freedom began, bin Laden’s command structure had been decimated, he no longer had his training camps or the real estate he once operated from, he was on the run so the attention turned to the groups acting independently of bin Laden.  Some fled to Pakistan, some were holed up in Iran and were crossing into Iraq to set up there.  bin Laden was forced into hiding and some in the intel services considered that he may have been dead, at that time.  So the strategy and focus was changed.

  • Rio

    You are the one living….and dieing on talking points.  There has been much written and explained about the origin of the collapse, but, I believe you are allergic to facts so stay in that little cocoon.

  • Rio

    Sigh, wrong again.  The first use of drones occured during WWII, they were also used in Vietnam and the Gulf war, the Israelis even had them prior to the 90s.  Sorry, they were already there when Clinton arrived……..but were armed during the Bush administration, as I said:
    http://www.iar-gwu.org/node/144

  • Rio

    Truth?  are you now pretending to recognize the truth?  You betcha, I’ve read the article and a lot of other information of the one….Michael Schuer through out the years we have been fighting the WOT.  It was Mr. Schuer’s intense unit that missed many of the signs that al Q would be knocking on our door.

    Also from the article:

    The bin Laden unit’s analysts were so intense about their work that they made some of their CIA colleagues uncomfortable,” Mr. Coll wrote that some inside the agency likened Alec Station to a cult that became obsessed with Al Qaeda.

    Members of Alec Station called themselves ‘the Manson Family’ because they had aquired a reputation for crazed alarmism about the rising Al Qaeda threat.

    “…Alec Station was disbanded after Robert Grenier, who until February was in charge of the Counterterrorist Center, decided the agency needed to reorganize to better address constant changes in terrorist organizations.

    You do understand that al Qaeda means “the base,” that a number of terrorist organizations operated under the umbrella of “al Qaeda,” that the war was never…..just about al Qaeda,  and that’s why we were fighting “the war on terror”  not “the war on al Qaeda,” or a war on bin Laden.

    Can I find any proof that “extreme renditions” are still occuring under Obama?  Of course I can:

    http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/01/nation/na-rendition1

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/11/target-of-obama-era-rendi_n_256499.html

  • Rio

    Pfft.  So did the multitude of front page articles written about Halliburton, the company still getting no-bids from the O administration.

  • Smothermenana

    i would love to see Jeri Ryan put her hand over Bolling’s stupid mouth

  • Meh005

    It can also be seen the other way: The Dems keep saying IT’S ALL BUSH’S FAULT( about the economy)  and then when when something positive happens they say LOOK WHAT OBAMA DID!! HE’S THE BEST. 

    I don’t mind Obama taking some credit for this…it did happen under his administration. But, he should be fair. He is using many of Bush’s terrorist policies. 

  • Yossi Gee

    Simple, on the economy Obam made massive changes from day one so he owns it. But on terror, Obama mostly increased the bush tactics that obama ripped.

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