The genesis is "Bush lied, people died".....
In other words, it is just one of many concoctions from the leftwingers. What's so amazing is that these concoctions are far superior in brain washing individuals than Faux News will ever be, but the libs whine about it anyway........
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-is-boiling-heres-why/?utm_term=.c011781f81a0
Then we were launched into an era under President George W. Bush when liberals embraced slogans such as “Bush lied, people died” to ferment protests against the Iraq War and Bush’s leadership. To remind, this slogan perpetuated the notion that Bush had lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and in doing so was responsible for the lives of countless American soldiers and others. Perhaps that was the original “alternative fact.” The Democrats pushed fake news stories that Bush had been purposefully deceitful in his claims that brutal dictator Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction, ignoring the reality that, at the time, every intelligence service backed those claims. In hindsight, the intelligence was incorrect — but the Bush White House wasn’t pushing alternative facts or knowingly lying to the American people. It was the liberals and the media who followed their lead who were using fake news to advance their own agendas and discredit Bush. And their success in doing so throughout Bush’s presidency is, in my opinion, the dawn of the corrosive “fake news” era. The Democrats realized that an onslaught of fake news served their purposes and could discredit sincere people and policies without much blowback. It became a useful — maybe even central — component of their messaging.
In other words, it is just one of many concoctions from the leftwingers. What's so amazing is that these concoctions are far superior in brain washing individuals than Faux News will ever be, but the libs whine about it anyway........
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-is-boiling-heres-why/?utm_term=.c011781f81a0
Then we were launched into an era under President George W. Bush when liberals embraced slogans such as “Bush lied, people died” to ferment protests against the Iraq War and Bush’s leadership. To remind, this slogan perpetuated the notion that Bush had lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and in doing so was responsible for the lives of countless American soldiers and others. Perhaps that was the original “alternative fact.” The Democrats pushed fake news stories that Bush had been purposefully deceitful in his claims that brutal dictator Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction, ignoring the reality that, at the time, every intelligence service backed those claims. In hindsight, the intelligence was incorrect — but the Bush White House wasn’t pushing alternative facts or knowingly lying to the American people. It was the liberals and the media who followed their lead who were using fake news to advance their own agendas and discredit Bush. And their success in doing so throughout Bush’s presidency is, in my opinion, the dawn of the corrosive “fake news” era. The Democrats realized that an onslaught of fake news served their purposes and could discredit sincere people and policies without much blowback. It became a useful — maybe even central — component of their messaging.
