(More on MRC's NewsBusters blog.) Without laughing, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday’s World News Tonight advanced the White House hope that Barack Obama will be seen as Ronald Reagan was in 1987, as the President who rescued the economy and was rewarded by voters.
Opining on the President’s political mission at tonight’s State of the Union speech, Stephanopoulos said the goal was for Obama to convince the public that the economic “recovery is sustainable.... and it’s because of the work that he did over the last six years.” When the public credited Reagan for the boom in the 1980s, Stephanopoulos reminded, “he was able to lock in gains for Republicans for a generation....That’s President Obama’s job tonight.”