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When Democratic leaders pass away, the liberal media prefer to treat them like saints and pretend rougher points didn’t exist. But that standard doesn’t apply to Republicans ones as the largely liberal panel on ABC’s This Week demonstrated on Sunday, where faux Republican commentator Matthew Dowd decried people who wanted to “canonize” the late George H.W. Bush, who passed away Friday night.
After touting Bush as “the Forrest Gump of the last 50 years of the 20th century. Because, he’s almost at every single moment of change in the country”, Dowd lamented how people treated the former President’s memory so fairly. “[O]ne thing I would like to say is, I think often in the times when we have these deaths, we're way too quick to canonize these people. George Herbert Walker Bush was a great man. He did great things, but he also had flaws,” he opined.
“George Bush was a good man,” Dowd continued, “but he was also somebody who used brass knuckles in a political campaign. He’s the one who did the Willie Horton ad. He’s the one who did certain things in political campaigns.”
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