I SAW SOMETHING IN A POLE THIS MORNING THAT I FIND A
LITTLE BIT TROUBLESOME, MAYBE YOU WILL TOO.
THIS IS A POLL CONDUCTED BY THE ECONOMIST AND YOU GOT.
AND IF THEY ASK WHETHER YOU HAVE A FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE
VIEW OF A POLITICIAN YOU MIGHT REMEMBER, BY THE NAME OF
GEORGE W.
BUSH.
HE WAS NOT PRESIDENT IN 1903.
IT WAS NOT THAT LONG AGO
, MAJORITY APPROVAL AMONGST DEMOCRATS.
IT LEADS ME TO WONDER IF FORGET-ME-NOT HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO
THE ENTIRE AMERICAN POPULATION.
BUT 51% FOR THIS GUY WHICH HAS ALL OF HIS PERSONAL ISSUES.
BUT THEN THE HUGE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HIS TAX CUTS, HIS
ATTEMPT TO PRIVATIZE SOME OF THE MASSIVE SOCIAL PROGRAMS,
THE BOTCHED RESPONSE TO KATRINA.
THE IRAQ WAR PERHAPS.
THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT SHOULD DISQUALIFY HIM FROM
EVER BEING SEEN FAVORABLY BY AN AMERICAN COULD GO ON AND ON.
AND IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, LESS THAN 10 YEARS.
IT IS AT 51% AMONG DEMOCRATS.
THERE IS TO PHENOMENON, ONE IS TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS
.
THE OTHER IS PROPAGANDA.
LET ME EXPLAIN.
WHEN GEORGE W.
BUSH LEFT OFFICE, REMEMBER WHAT HIS APPROVAL RATING WAS?
26%.
RIGHT NOW EVEN IN THIS POLL, DONALD TRUMP IS AT 37%.
AND ANOTHER POLL I THOUGHT TRUMPET 44%.
BUSH WAS FAR MORE UNPOPULAR THAN TRUMP IS TODAY.
WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT THE COUNTRY, UNIVERSALLY
DESPISED GEORGE W.
BUSH FOR THE TIME HE LEFT OFFICE.
THE IRAQ WAR WAS A DEBACLE OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS LOST THEIR LIVES.
IT LED TO THE CREATION OF ISIS, CREATED CHAOS, LET ALONE
ALL THE GUYS WE LOST.
LET ALONE THE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS ñ
AND THEN THERE WAS THE ECONOMIC CRASH.
WHEN HE LEFT OFFICE DEMOCRATS HAD THEM POLLING AT 7%.
IT HAS JUMPED AT 7% TO 51% NOW.
SO YES YOU FORGET SOMETIMES.
AND HE COMES OUT AND DOES A NICE SPEECH WHICH I GAVE HIM CREDIT
FOR AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND WARNING ABOUT THE CREEPING
NATIONALISM AND WARNING ABOUT WHITE SUPREMACY.
WONDERFUL, I WILL TAKE IT.
BUT HE DOESN'T WIPE AWAY THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEAD
CIVILIANS AND 8 MILLION JOBS WE LOST IN THE ECONOMIC CRASH.
ONE THING IS THIS WAS TAKEN A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, AROUND
THE TIME THAT HE HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN SOME HIGH
PROFILE FUNDRAISING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY HURRICANES.
THAT COULD BE THROWING SOME PEOPLE OFF AS WELL.
BUT EVEN THEN YOU WOULDN'T THINK IT WOULD BE THAT HIGH.
SOME PEOPLE ARE YOUNG AND WERE NOT NECESSARILY WATCHING
POLITICS BACK DURING THE BUSH YEARS.
THAT WAS THE FIRST.
THAT I PAID A LOT OF ATTENTION TO POLITICS IN LARGE PART
TO WATCHING THIS SHOW ACTUALLY.
TO SOME EXTENT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WORRY ME ABOUT
THIS IS NOT JUST THAT WE SO EASILY FORGET ABOUT THE
CRIMES OF PAST PRESIDENTS.
EVEN OBAMA, THE BAD THINGS THAT OBAMA PEOPLE WILL FORGET THAT.
BUT THE FEAR THAT TRUMP BEING SO HORRIBLE, SO CRUEL AND SO SMALL
AND SO PETTY MIGHT WELL MAKE ALMOST ANYONE ON THE
REPUBLICAN SIDE LOOK LIKE A VAST IMPROVEMENT, LET ALONE ON
THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE.
YOU COULD HAVE THEORETICALLY, IF THIS STRONG AND EFFECTIVE
HAPPENING ON SOMEONE AS OBVIOUSLY EVIL AS GEORGE W BUSH
ñ HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR A FEW DEATHS IN THE HISTORY OF
OUR WORLD.
BUT NOW WITH TRUMP ñ IF MIKE PENTZ RUNS THE NEXT TIME,
NOTHING THEY WILL HAVE DONE CAN POSSIBLY MAKE A DENT AFTER
THE EXPERIENCE PEOPLE HAVE HAD AFTER DONALD TRUMP.
WE COULD END UP WITH ANOTHER MONSTER JUST BECAUSE THE
MONSTER IS SLIGHTLY MORE PRESENTABLE.
YES.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE DAMAGE BECAUSE I AM WORRIED THAT
TRUMP COULD CAUSE EVEN MORE DAMAGE.
BUT HE HASN'T YET.
IF YOU'RE JUST TELLING THE DAMAGE.
HE REPEATEDLY SAID YOU HAVE TO KILL THE FAMILIES OF
TERRORISTS AND WE TALKED A WEEK AGO, THE NEWEST NUMBERS BY AIR
WARS SHOW THAT IN THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS THERE HAVE BEEN MORE
KILLED CIVILIANS IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST ISIS THAN THROUGH
THE ENTIRETY OF OBAMA'S EFFORTS AGAINST IT OVER THE COURSE
OF MULTIPLE YEARS.
THAT IS A SMALLER NUMBER THAN IRAQ, BUT IF THAT CONTINUES FOR
THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS, IT COULD START TO GET UP TO POINTS
WHERE IT BECOMES AN ACADEMIC DISTINCTION.
NO, NO, NO.
I WANT TO BE CLEAR.
BUSH HAD EIGHT YEARS TO DO THAT DAMAGE.
TRUMP HAS ONLY HAD LESS THAN A YEAR.
OH MY GOD, HEAVEN FORBID WE ACTUALLY HAVE EIGHT YEARS
OF TRUMP.
THE DAMAGE HE COULD DO, HE COULD EASILY BEAT BUSH.
I DON'T WANT TO GET THERE.
I THINK THE GUY'S A MANIAC AND A COMPLETE DANGER.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT BUSH WASN'T ALSO A DISASTER WHICH
LEADS ME TO THE FINAL THINGS HERE.
BUSH DID DO ONE THING RIGHT AFTER LEAVING THE PRESIDENCY.
HE DID SOMETHING THAT I SUGGEST FOR A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO
GET IN TROUBLE THAT THEY'LL ALMOST NEVER DO WHICH IS GO HIDE
IN
A CAVE.
THE OWNER OF THE CLIPPERS, SAYS ALL THESE TERRIBLE THINGS
ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE AND THEN DOUBLES DOWN.
GO HIDE IN A CAVE, MAN.
BUSH HID IN A CAVE AND DID
SOME ARTWORK.
PAINT A DOLL.
IT WORKS BECAUSE HE WASN'T OUT THERE AND PEOPLE FORGOT
HOW BAD HE WAS, BUT THE OTHER THING THAT I WANT COME BACK
TO IS THE REALLY IMPORTANT IS THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA.
THE OTHER REASON WHY THOSE NUMBERS HAVE MOVED UP FOR THE
WHOLE COUNTRY AND EVEN FOR DEMOCRATS IS BECAUSE OF THE
POWER OF TELEVISION.
WHENEVER JIMMY CARTER'S
NAME IS BROUGHT UP ON TELEVISION THEY CALL HIM A LOSER.
YOU DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE JIMMY CARTER, A DEMOCRAT LIKE JIMMY
CARTER.
IT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF LOSER.
THE REALITY IS THAT IS NOT REMOTELY TRUE.
JIMMY
CARTER LITERALLY DID PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND EVERY
ONCE IN A WHILE THEY'RE LIKE, CAN YOU IMAGINE IF A
PRESIDENT WAS SO GREAT THAT HE DID PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
I CAN, IT WAS JIMMY CARTER.
I COULD GO ON AND ON.
THE PRESS CONSTANTLY CALLS HIM A LOSER.
HE WIPED A DISEASE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
LOSER, HELPING PEOPLE, DOING PEACE DEALS AND ENDING
DISEASE AND SAVING MILLIONS OF LIVES.
BUT WHEN THEY MENTION BUSH IT'S MORE LIKE, BUSH, HE
DOES ART NOW AND WOW, HE HELPS PEOPLE.
BUSH.
REPUBLICANS AND OFTENTIMES SO-CALLED DEMOCRATS AS WELL AND
SO WHAT DOES THAT DO?
IT MOVES CARTER'S NUMBERS DOWN AND BUSH'S NUMBERS UP.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
IT IS ALMOST AS IF WE HAD MANUFACTURED CONSENT THAT
BUSH WAS A GOOD PRESIDENT WHEN IN REALITY, WHEN HE LEFT
OFFICE WE WERE ALL AGREED THAT HE WAS A TERRIBLE PRESIDENT.