Read more at NewsBusters | Former John McCain presidential campaign advisor Steve Schmidt pushed back against former Carter staffer Chris Matthews on tonight's Hardball when the latter whipped out his tired Bush-caused-ISIS talking point.
Schmidt wondered why set the clock for the genesis of ISIS in the Bush era when Jimmy Carter's mishandling of Iran in 1979 and the Eisenhower administration's sponsorship of a coup d'etat in Iran in 1953 were arguably also part of a long history of mishandling by Western powers of the complicated politics of the Middle East.