Brit Hume: Obama Should 'Share Credit' For Economy With Dubya
If it's rewriting history, it's Fox News.
Brit Hume is rolled onto the stage to talk about the economy and starts off with the Roger Ailes standard that the Trump and Sanders campaigns are exactly the same and appeal to exactly the same voter. Note how many times they get the word "socialist" in there, too.
But what amazes me about this clip is the turnaround that Fox News is currently experiencing. After almost eight years of insisting that history started on January 20, 2009, and in the words of a better blogger than I:
...before that nothing whatsoever existed. Except Ronald Reagan, who floated alone in the cosmos for an undetermined time until he created America out of his short rib and three jelly beans.
It's a complete turnaround from what has, until now, been Fox News gospel: not that Obama must share credit for the recovery with Bush, but that Obama, NOT Bush, was responsible for the economic crash in the first place. Fox News is happy to re-write history from one week to the next when it's between political conventions. Daily Show, 2012: