Bush plundered his lackeys' memoirs, passing off their memories as his own

[BurtWorm]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/12/george-bush-book-decision-points_n_782731.html?utm_campaign=111210&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-politics&utm_content=FullStory&utm_term=Daily+Brief

George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted Passages From Advisers' Books

November 12, 2010



When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn't getting Faulkner. But the book, at least, promises "gripping, never-before-heard detail" about the former president's key decisions, offering to bring readers "aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America's most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq," and other undisclosed and weighty locations.

Crown also got a mash-up of worn-out anecdotes from previously published memoirs written by his subordinates, from which Bush lifts quotes word for word, passing them off as his own recollections. He took equal license in lifting from nonfiction books about his presidency or newspaper or magazine articles from the time. Far from shedding light on how the president approached the crucial "decision points" of his presidency, the clip jobs illuminate something shallower and less surprising about Bush's character: He's too lazy to write his own memoir.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Laziness aside, I do not believe the man is capable of putting together a string of words

that make a cohesive sentence. Whatever may be grammatically acceptable in that book is most certainly the product of someone else's mind. And that does even begin to cover the absolute lies and delusions that do spring from his alcohol besotted brain.

[Aramchek]

16. come on, are you saying "Fool me once shame on you, Fool me twice duuuhhhhh won't get fooled again"

isn't a cohesive sentence??

[BrklynLiberal]

19. ROTFLMAO!!!

[lob1]

2. Stealin' is hard work.

[Denninmi]

3. I figured it had a great deal in common with the Peterman book on Seinfeld.

Fictious stories of someone else's life.

[rocktivity]

4. Shouldn't that be

"His own GHOSTWRITERS are too lazy to write his own memoir?"

:rofl:
rocktivity

[HuckleB]

9. +1

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I can't believe:

a) he didn't think he'd be called on this, or

b) he just didn't care if he'd be called on this.

[BurtWorm]

6. I can believe b) completely.

[rocktivity]

17. DING DING DING! No_hypocrisy and BurtWorm, you're our grand prize winners!

I can believe... b) he just didn't care if he'd be called on this...completely.

Yep, just like with that little matter of the Mission Accomplished sign--such a pointless, stupid, sick lie. But I guess he really can't help it.

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x609935

:headbang:
rocktivity

[corpseratemedia]

18. I'm with B.

* lives in "Who gives a shit" land.

never has been accountable, never will be

[Blue Owl]

7. Dear Leader, thou art not made up

Pay no attention to the fake cowboy schtick, the fake election, the fake ranch, the fake press conferences, the fake crowds, the fake photo-ops, the fake leadership, etc.

The people on TV tell me George W. Bu$h is the GENUINE ARTICLE.

[KansDem]

8. Well, Reagan used old movie scripts..

...so Bush's plundering of other's memoirs is in line for GOP presidents.

[glitch]

10. I am sure they'll be publishing their apologies shortly

a la Cheney's shot-in-the-face "hunting" partner.

[KamaAina]

11. "the publisher knew it wasn't getting Faulkner"

One of Faulkner's nicknames around Oxford was "Count No 'Count".

Crown definitely did get "Count No 'Count". :P

[mzmolly]

12. Uhm, couldn't he be

sued? :crazy:

[surrealAmerican]

21. Theoretically, yes ...

... but remember, most of his subordinates were given their positions because of their demonstrated "loyalty" to bush.

[bluesmail]

13. I'm never forgetting that I read here on DU, a few years ago, that *

had made a deal with (sorry can't remember who) he would give the names of the true culprits, (not the one's pulling his strings mind you). I can't help but think the book is his day in court before his day in court.

[rocktivity]

14. "His absence doesn't stop Bush from relating this anecdote...He wasn't at Karzai's inauguration."

When Karzai arrived in Kabul for his inauguration on December 22...several Northern Alliance leaders and their bodyguards greeted him at an airport. As Karzai walked across the tarmac alone, a stunned Tajik warlord asked where all his men were. Karzai, responded, "Why, General, you are my men. All of you who are Afghans are my men."

That meeting would sound familiar to Ahmend Rashid, author of The Mess in Afghanistan..."At the airport to receive was the warlord General Mohammad Fahim, a Tajik from the Panjshir Valley...As the two men shook hands on the tarmac, Fahim looked confused. 'Where are your men?' he asked. 'Why, General,' he replied, 'you are my men--all of you are Afghans and are my men.'"

I suppose it's better than lifting scenes from movies like Reagan did...

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Kaleva]

15. So it was the janitor that authorized waterboarding?

[tanyev]

20. Leave George Bush alone!

You'll make lacerates run down his face. :cry:

[surrealAmerican]

22. He probably has no idea that much of his "autobiography" ...

... is plagiarized. Why, he doesn't even know the meaning of the word!

[ThoughtCriminal]

23. So, he hired a lazy ghost-writer?

Figures.