{"id":109613,"date":"2009-12-28T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2009\/12\/28\/quick-fact-on-cnn-matalin-falsely-claims-bush-inherited-9-11-attacks-and-recession\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T12:45:07","slug":"quick-fact-on-cnn-matalin-falsely-claims-%e2%80%9cbush-inherited%e2%80%9d-9-11-attacks-and-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/109613","title":{"rendered":"Quick Fact: On CNN, Matalin falsely claims \u201cBush inherited\u201d 9-11 attacks and recession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick Fact: On CNN, Matalin falsely claims “Bush inherited” 9-11 attacks and recession <\/a><\/p>\n

On the December 27 edition of CNN’s State of the Union,<\/em> Mary Matalin falsely claimed that President George W. Bush “inherited a recession from President Clinton, and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation’s history.” In fact the 9-11 attacks occurred eight months into Bush’s presidency and more than a month after he had received a Presidential Daily Briefing titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,” and the recession began in March 2001.<\/p>\n

From the December 27 edition of CNN’s State of the Union<\/em>: <\/p>\n

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MATALIN: I was there, we inherited a recession from President Clinton, and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation’s history. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Matalin’s comments were September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks<\/a> killed 2,973 victims in New York City; Arlington, Virginia; and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The 9-11 Commission stated<\/a> that on August 6, 2001, Bush received a Presidential Daily Briefing titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,” and that Bush “did not recall discussing the August 6 report with the Attorney General or whether [then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice had done so.” The Commission also<\/a> “found no indication” that Bush’s aides further discussed with him “the possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States” prior to 9-11 — this despite the fact that “[m]ost of the intelligence community recognized in the summer of 2001 that the number and severity of threat reports were unprecedented.”<\/p>\n

Perino previously stated that “We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.”<\/strong> Matalin’s claim about the 9-11 attacks follows former Bush White House Press Secretary Dana Perino’s false assertion<\/a> on the November 24 edition of Fox News’ Hannity<\/em><\/em> that “We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.”<\/p>\n

Fact: According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, recession began in March 2001 during Bush presidency
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NBER determined that recession started exactly 10 years after expansion that began in March 1991, “the longest in the NBER’s chronology.”<\/strong> In March 2001, the U.S. economy went into recession for the first time in 10 years<\/a>, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research<\/a> (NBER). NBER — the private, nonpartisan organization whose business cycle announcements have long been considered the definitive word on the topic — announced its determination on November 26, 2001: <\/p>\n

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The NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee has determined that a peak in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in March 2001. A peak marks the end of an expansion and the beginning of a recession. The determination of a peak date in March is thus a determination that the expansion that began in March 1991 ended in March 2001 and a recession began. The expansion lasted exactly 10 years, the longest in the NBER’s chronology. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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