“What got Obama elected were the incessant lies told by the media”
You mean it was a lie that we had a huge stock market crash, bank-funds freeze-up, and recession, in 2008? You need to tell Bush that this was a media lie, because he responded to it with TARP, dumping billions of our tax dollars on banks.
And it was also a lie that the Iraq war was a disaster? Hmmm. Could have fooled me - and anyone who dares to go to Iraq these days, where the violence is as bad as ever.
But that’s ok, keep telling yourself that it’s all “media lies,” if you can’t handle reality.
It was only after the surge in Iraq and it became apparent that we would win in iraq that the media pivoted to destroying the economy. Bush had had remarkably low unemployment but when it became clear that the media was determined to lie and prepare the way for a socialist president people began selling assets.
Same happened with the crash of ‘29.