A NEW LITERARY TRADITION
The George W. Bush Presidential book tour is underway. To earn the millions former President Bush will pocket on his Presidential tome "Decision Points" being released November 9, he has booked the following schedule:
Interviews with Matt Lauer and Jay Leno on NBC's Today and Tonight shows; conservative superstar Rush Limbaugh; Fox News' Greta Van Susteran and Sean Hannity; Oprah;
CNN's Candy Crowley and Jim Axelrod of CBS Sunday Morning. Joining the President for some of the interviews will be his parents George H.W. and Barbara, wife and former First Lady Laura, and brother Jeb. Maybe even former Presidential dog Barney will make an appearance.
The former President is free to write and publish whatever he wants to rationalize and justify his made up, unnecessary, self destructive and therefore criminal war which has pretty much smashed Iraq to smithereens. But no one should voluntarily publish, promote or give Bush any forum whatsoever to profit from the re-writing of a terribly sordid chapter in American history; one I am profoundly ashamed of.
I will not watch the spectacle unfolding this week when the stars of American punditry and opinion serve up endless softballs to President Bush instead of asking him why he voluntarily chose to launch a criminal war which has created millions of casualties and refugees far out of sight of an uncaring American public. Therefore, I suggest every American help launch a new literary tradition: the Presidential criminal war book shunning.
Interviews with Matt Lauer and Jay Leno on NBC's Today and Tonight shows; conservative superstar Rush Limbaugh; Fox News' Greta Van Susteran and Sean Hannity; Oprah;
CNN's Candy Crowley and Jim Axelrod of CBS Sunday Morning. Joining the President for some of the interviews will be his parents George H.W. and Barbara, wife and former First Lady Laura, and brother Jeb. Maybe even former Presidential dog Barney will make an appearance.
The former President is free to write and publish whatever he wants to rationalize and justify his made up, unnecessary, self destructive and therefore criminal war which has pretty much smashed Iraq to smithereens. But no one should voluntarily publish, promote or give Bush any forum whatsoever to profit from the re-writing of a terribly sordid chapter in American history; one I am profoundly ashamed of.
I will not watch the spectacle unfolding this week when the stars of American punditry and opinion serve up endless softballs to President Bush instead of asking him why he voluntarily chose to launch a criminal war which has created millions of casualties and refugees far out of sight of an uncaring American public. Therefore, I suggest every American help launch a new literary tradition: the Presidential criminal war book shunning.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 5:15 AM
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