Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail – FOXNews.com — This story has been developed from probably good sources in an attempt to defend the Rush Limbaugh comments that were taken out of context.

Eh. So what?

My question about this or about the Limbaugh remark: Who cares!?!?!? Why did it become a big deal about someone wanting Obama to fail or succeed in the first place? Are they 12-year olds? I’m sure there is some old fart bitching about Obama right now. So what? Are we all supposed to stop the presses because everyone does not 100-percent love the guy? Is this Venezuela? That said, it is funny how the media covered up this tale. THAT is the story here.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: “I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.”

Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.

“We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him,” Greenberg admitted.

The pollster added with a chuckle of disbelief: “They don’t want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails.”

Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: “Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!”

The press followed Carville’s orders, never reporting his or Greenberg’s desire for Bush to fail. The omission was understandable at first, as reporters were consumed with chronicling the new war on terror. But months and even years later, the mainstream media chose to never resurrect those controversial sentiments, voiced by the Democratic Party’s top strategists, that Bush should fail.