-By Warner Todd Huston
It didn’t take long for a major media outlet to lapse back into blame Bush mode once Chicago’s bid of the 2016 Olympics failed on the first ballot. The day after the startling loss the Chicago Sun-Times revealed its penchant for “Bush Derangement Syndrome” by reporting the claim that the reason Chicago lost is because Bush made the world mad at us.
Even as Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs rejected the idea, the Sun-Times eagerly reported that “some Chicago officials” were saying that they lost the bid because of Bush.
Some Chicago officials say anti-American resentment likely played a role in Chicago’s Olympic bid dying in the first round Friday.
President Obama could not undo in one year the resentment against America that President Bush and others built up for years, they said.
The facts of the matter, however, seem to argue against the blame-Bush meme. Chicago had a lot against it from the beginning, none of which had anything to do with George W. Bush. Few have bothered to pay much attention to the fact that Chicago simply doesn’t have the infrastructure nor the space to build the giant facilities needed to host the games.
Still, it is interesting that certain people want to blame Bush even without the slightest bit of proof that it might be so.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as NewsBusters.org, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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