How the Left Swiftboated America: The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George Bush Was the Worst President in History »

John Gibson is a bestselling conservative author who appears frequently on Fox News Channel and has his own national radio program, reaching about two million listeners on ninety stations each week. He lives in New York City.

Bestselling author John Gibson shows that George W. Bush was the victim of a concentrated effort by Democrats and their allies in the press to discredit and distort virtually everything he did. That effort was amazingly successful.

Was George W. Bush really the worst president in American history? Was the Iraq War really the biggest foreign policy blunder of all recorded time? Did Bush really steal the 2000 election, make war on civil rights, torture innocent goatherds, and prove America's racism during Hurricane Katrina?

If this is what you think, then you may have been swiftboated by the liberal media.

Swiftboating, as it has come to be defined by the left, is the political trick of claiming to expose the truth while in fact lying. The swiftboating of George W. Bush began in 2000 and continued throughout his presidency, involving his response to 9/11, the Iraq War, warrantless wiretapping, enhanced interrogation techniques, the Surge, uranium from Niger, the number of deaths in Iraq, the federal response to Katrina, and much, much more.

One only has to look at the charges leveled against the Bush administration by candidate Barack Obama to witness the success of this campaign. Obama ran for president and won on the left's extensive catalog of lies about George W. Bush.

Moreover, once in office, Obama and the left continued to use these same techniques to swiftboat the Republican opposition. Obama constantly complained that he had inherited a "mess" in Iraq and blamed the "failed ideology" of free-market capitalism for the financial collapse that helped elect him. Meanwhile, his media allies attacked Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, the tea party movement, and the health-care protestors as "racists" for opposing Obama's agenda.

In How the Left Swiftboated America, talk radio host and bestselling author John Gibson sets the record straight. Gibson shows that, in case after case across the board, Bush's performance was much better than most people now believe. And he calls on all Americans to fight back and put an end to the swiftboating lies of the left.

Introduction Swiftboating for fun and profit

1 How many reasons do you need to hate George W. Bush? 1

2 Bush was no Churchill; seriously, he can't talk : so what? 25

3 The Swiftboat twins : how Jon Stewart and Frank Rich teamed up to mock and discredit Bush 45

4 Who let Keith Olbermann go off his meds? : a look behind the curtain of left-wing cable news 85

5 Sixteen words : the bogus storm over Bush's speech and the Wilson/Plame affair 115

6 The numbers game : swiftboating the war with statistics 139

7 Katrina and the Bush-hating left 159

8 The echo chamber : Dailykos and the left-wing noise machine 177

9 The torture myth : how the left spun Bush's restrained and successful interrogation techniques into the Spanish Inquisition 197

10 Swiftboating the surge : how the Democrats got married to losing in Iraq 225

11 What to do when swiftboating lies about Bush are spoken in your presence 261

Afterword How Barack Obama swiftboated his way to the White House - and beyond 271

Acknowledgments 281

Index 283