Take Back The Media! TBTM Commentary by Dennis Hans

Take Back The Media! TBTM Commentary by Dennis Hans

Here at Take Back The Media, we make no secret of our dislike for George W. Bush and his administration's policies, both foreign and domestic. ...

A quick look at our Flash page shows no less than 10 flash animations poking fun at the Whistle Ass administration on a variety of topics, from the economy to the rollback of civil rights to the lies he told in the wake of Afghanistan and in the run-up to Iraq. It would be an understatement to say that satirizing Bush provides a target-rich environment. ...

From time to time, members of the So-Called Liberal Media "discover" TBTM all over again - mostly when they need a new target of feigned outrage. Last year, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Los Angeles Times went on the attack over a then-current flash animation by Symbolman entitled "Bush Is Not A Nazi, So Stop Saying That!" We were accused at the time of being unpatriotic, anti-American, and unnecessarily critical of a "popular wartime president." The words "disgusting," "ill-informed" and "history-twisting" were used to describe our animation and our web site. We took that criticism and moved on, after taking time to correct the record as we saw it.

The correction that was needed was this - those who criticized Symbolman's flash and our web site were missing the point of the animation. The point was that George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, had the assets of the family business seized by the U.S. Government under the Trading With The Enemy Act of 1941. Much of the Bush family fortune was made by dealing with Nazi Germany - both before and during World War II. Click here for the history.

These facts are not in dispute - but the critics of our web site would not acknowledge them.