Bill Hemmer isn't aging backwards.  Apparently, he's just aging and suffering from a common ailment of getting long in the tooth - memory loss.  

 

This morning Hemmer was "discussing" the issue of Vice President Joe Biden slamming the Bush administration in recent days.  To create "heat" about the issue in the normal cable news right versus left format he had Juan Williams and Tucker Carlson on.  Juan Williams remarked that looking back to past administration to explain current woes was nothing new.  Williams went on to specifically cite the Bush administration's focus on the Clinton administration's approach to terrorism as a partial explanation for the 9/11 attacks.

 

At that point the degree of complete shock that flashed over Hemmer's face was itself incredulous.  Hemmer went on to say, "I don't ever remember anything like that."  Hemmer was at CNN from 2000 to just recently when he joined Fox News.  Unless he was just a news model and didn't ever digest or consume anything he was peddling, we're wondering how he missed...

 

1. GOP congressional leaders blaming 9/11 on Clinton policies in the run up to the 2004 elections

2.  The issue still being hotly debated as to who was more to blame for 9/11 5 years later

 

But even in the earliest days of the Bush administration, the White House was blaming the preceding Clinton administration for the country's economic woes as the dot-com bust was blossoming.  

 

Blaming the preceding administration for current woes is nothing new.  Why the media doesn't just say that is what is striking.  Hemmer's display of complete shock should only hurt his credibility.  Either he has a serious case of amnesia and is not qualified by virtue of a medial condition to play the role of news anchor that he does OR he's completely biased and throwing the game as a less than impartial ref and should also not be playing the role of news anchor.  Either way, just as Hemmer's jaw seemed to drop at the notion that one administration could blame another; our jaws dropped at either his naivete or his poor acting...we're still trying to sort out which it was.

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