From the Archive: With six in ten Americans – including a majority of Democrats – now holding favorable views
of George W. Bush, we republish an analysis by Robert Parry from 2010,
when the revisionist history of Bush’s presidency began with publication
of his memoirs.
A self-portrait by George W. Bush
George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, is without doubt a
self-serving defense of his presidency – and Bush’s own words condemn
him as a liar – but there is another nagging question that surrounds
this curious book: Has the U.S. media/political system become so
polluted with falsehoods that even people at the top now believe the
propaganda?
It is not clear which is the more troubling answer: that Bush and his
advisers were bald-faced liars confident that their elite status lets
then deceive at will, or that they have wallowed so long in a
Washington’s hot tub of spin that their brains can no longer separate
fact from fiction.
