NYDN: Dubya taper: Keeping quiet cost me a million

[question everything]

Dubya taper: Keeping quiet cost me a million
BY KENNETH R. BAZINET
and THOMAS M. DeFRANK
in Washington
and DAVE GOLDINER in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

The conservative author who secretly taped conversations with President Bush insisted he gave up big bucks by holding his controversial book until after the 2004 election.

Doug Wead, who worked for Bush's father, said that decision proves he never planned to betray the future President by playing tapes of their private conversations for a reporter.

"I lost a million dollars by delaying the book after the election, where it would have been driven by partisan interests," Wead told CNN.

(snip)

"I'm a historian, and he's President," Wead said yesterday of Bush, adding, "He's my friend, yes."

Wead did not seem to get the message reported yesterday in the Daily News that he's persona non grata after breaking the No. 1 demand of the nation's most powerful political family: loyalty.

"We do not consider him to be a friend of the President," a Bush source told The News.

But even as Bush insiders blasted the secret tapes, Wead claimed the recordings - complete with controversial comments about past drug use and gay rights - only burnished Bush's legacy as a straight shooter.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/283336p-242710c.html

[gWbush is Mabus]

1. this guy is a Rove-plant

[w13rd0]

2. I know....

...the "manufactured outrage" has an almost "camp" quality to it, like Rocky Horror Picture Show...

[MADem]

3. This guy is an opportunist, a blatant opportunist

He is not a historian, he is a non-liturgical minister from one of those amorphous churches that crop up. If his hubris permits him to believe he lost a million bucks in sales during a hotly contested election where his book would have sunk like a stone in a still pond, he is also DELUSIONAL.

And the million bucks he supposedly 'lost'??? He got a million bucks worth of publicity for his little effort by releasing those tapes.

He might as well go all the way, and release the rest of them--I wouldn't buy his book, but I'd spend five times the price of a book for a full set of those tapes. The lousy dozen he released are just the parsley on the plate...

[BrightKnight]

8. No, he is an Assemblies of God minister, family friend and political activ

He is an Assemblies of God minister, a well-connected party activist, and a family friend. Why would a minister repeatedly and secretly tape Mr.Bush? Why didn't he release these two weeks ago. He has no credibility.


"Mr. Wead, a former Assemblies of God minister who was well connected in conservative evangelical circles"

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20talk.html?...

[MADem]

11. I understood Assemblies of God to be non-liturgical

http://www.answers.com/topic/liturgy (definition, discussion--scroll down to see all).

If I am not mistaken, AoG doesn't have a formal (ritualized) service, with incense, sacraments, and so forth. I'm using the theological definition of the term.

If that was where you were going with the NO part of your subject line...

I understood that Karl Rove did not like him, and tried to separate Wead from Bush. I think Wead is taking a bit of revenge on Rove, but I also think his timing is based on the release of his book. Free publicity is free publicity.

[whistle]

4. I heard Wead say that on the news last night and he is full of

...shit. There was no way this guy would forfeit $1 million. The whole thing just sounds like another KKKarl Rove dirty trick.

[cthrumatrix]

5. Rove, rove rove..... you are soooooooo predictable

[applegrove]

6. we know we know and Bush didn't admit to cocaine addition for the children

[Canuckistanian]

7. Oh, puh-LEEEZE

News Flash: Bush admits that he "sorta smoked marijuana but not really" when he was younger. Stop the presses!

[applegrove]

12. He lied to us all - 'for the children'

He's a good man :cry: ......NOT!

[applegrove]

13. WH was just exhausted with paying all the blackmail money

[ElectroPrincess]

9. I caught him saying that on the television ...

I hope he goes broke because he could have saved this "once great" nation from having to endure four more years of the Neo-Con's puppet.

He's NOT a good man, i.e., shades of Lynn Cheney anyone.

[Disturbed]

10. Some speculating pundits said...

that had that one tape been released right after the debates that it may well have cost the Silverspoon Sociopath the election. This entire situation stinks of a Rove fart.

[proudbluestater]

14. Mr. Wead, your 15 minutes of fame are up. Exit stage right.