Fact Checking Kelly Ann Conway
by digby
I was just watching a thoroughly disagreeable segment on Parker-Spitzer on DVR and heard a blatant falsehood from a Republican operative which nobody called out, as usual.
So, just for the record, I thought I would correct the record now. Here's Kelly Ann Conway on the subject of Bush's book:
CONWAY: I'm glad to see he's back on the scene. I'm glad that he hasn't butted into the Obama administration. He's been purposefully silent and not even sort of giving blind quotes to the media and trying to pick on the successor, even though the successor's pretty down now. President Bush, right before his party took a mini shellacking in 2006 and lost 30 seats in the House, his approval rating was 63 percent. Last week, the president's party lost more than 60 seats and his approval rating was in the mid-40s.
That's an outright lie. On election day 2006, Bush's approval rating was 38% and it was all downhill from there. Obama's was at 43% and has gone back to 47%.
But then, I recall that it took Bush languishing for months in the 30's before the press stopped calling him a "very popular" president. Maybe they can't read polls. Or maybe they're just fools for love.
*The rest of the segment was just as ridiculous with participants calling for the fainting couch any time someone used the word "criminal" in the same breath as Bush. At some point we're going to have to recognize that right wing political correctness is more Stalinist than anything the nanny-staters could ever come up with.
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