Media bias watch: Bush credited for Ted Kennedy's health clinics

Sort of like how much of the evening news in mainland China is devoted to praising that country's regime, some in the American media are trying to do the same for Bush.

Not ones to let history go unrevised, the wingnuts' latest contention is that Bush - all by his lonesome - built countless health clinics in poor areas all over America.

Where are these new clinics then? I sure don't know of any expansion of such clinics in poor areas around here.

Actually, the first congressional champion of these clinics was Ted Kennedy, and most of the clinics were built before Bush took power. And Barack Obama introduced a bill to quadruple funding for this program. Apparently, however, Obama's bill didn't pass, because so many Republicans opposed it.

It would be laughable that the Bush era would be considered one of improvement in American health care - except it's really no laughing matter. I don't know if this media folktale about Bush's alleged flawlessness will achieve the same penetration as the "MIRACLE ECONOMY!!!" hoax of a few years back, but I'm sure they'll think of something else.