Publishers not interested in producing Bush’s memoir.
By on Nov 6th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Publishers not interested in producing Bush’s memoir.
When George W. Bush leaves office in January, he’s likely to join other past presidents and write a memoir. However, publishers aren’t that interested in producing something from history’s most unpopular president at this point and are suggesting that he “take [his] time.” Even Marji Ross of the conservative Regnery Publishing said, “Certainly the longer he waits, the better.” President Clinton received $15 million for his autobiography, “My Life,” although few expect Bush will command the same sum.
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Publishers not interested in producing Bush’s memoir
No Shite!
November 6th, 2008 at 12:02 pmLaura: “I found a mimeograph machine on E-Bay, George…”
November 6th, 2008 at 12:04 pmGeorge: “Awesome, heh heh, is it a Buy It Now?”
Coloring books don’t sell all that well anyway.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:06 pmWhy in Dog’s name would any publisher anywhere spend $15MM on a memoir that will undoubtedly have the breadth the and depth of “My Pet Goat”, sans the pictures?
As the Romans would say… Veni, vidi, screwi…
I came, I saw, I screwed up ROYALLY.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:07 pmGee… that picture of Duh-bya must be from an earlier, happier time.
Did he get to go ride his bicycle afterwards?
November 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pmMy understanding is that Bush’s autobiography will be called “Life in the Thug Lane.”
November 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pmWooo-Hooo, It Just Keeps Getting Better and Better! Here’s the true Bush Legacy in action!
November 6th, 2008 at 12:11 pmImpeach, while There’s Still Time!!!
Publishers are less motivated by political leanings than they are by whether or not a book will sell. And there really doesn’t seem to be much of a market for anything by Dubya.
Their advice for Bush to wait for awhile is sound. Maybe at some point in the future, people with an interest in history will want to ana|yze what contributed to the worst presidential administration ever.
And if Bush decides to honestly reveal everything that happened behind the scenes (which probably won’t happen until after Cheney has passed on and Bush himself is too old and feeble to put in jail), he’s actually have a best-seller.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:13 pmAbu Ben Hussein Leporello Says:
Here’s the true Bush Legacy in action!
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Don’t forget those disgusting Abu Ghraib sex-torture photos, circulating on the Internets for DECADES and CENTURIES to come.
It is fitting that Geo W Botch and his thuggish henchmen will forever be seen, in the end, as mere sadistic bullying perverts, indeed.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pmThe working title “Deciderin’ For Dummies” by George W. Bush. I hear it will be a pop-up book!
November 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pmI’ll buy a copy — heck, several copies! — if he lets Glenn Greenwald and Ron Suskind write it for him.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pmApparently, Bush will have to find another way to, as he put it, “replenish the ‘ol coffers.”
November 6th, 2008 at 12:18 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
And if Bush decides to honestly reveal everything that happened behind the scenes, [...] he’s actually have a best-seller.
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Right… right up there w/ books on the Titanic, the Hindeburg, Inchon, and the movie “Cleopatra”… hideously expensive, over-the-top disasters all.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:18 pmAll one would have to do is crap on an empty page, and boom-bam, there you’d have Bush’s memoir.
¶ AIO
November 6th, 2008 at 12:21 pmThe publishers rejected the first draft because it was in crayon…
November 6th, 2008 at 12:21 pmChimpy’s memoir- the ONLY place it’s fit for is the bonfire.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:27 pmNot to mention that it would be full of lies, half-truths, and misinformation. That could mar a publisher’s reputation, which comes back to the ‘bottom line’.
Kind of ironic: the bottom line interest of the publishers will keep chimpy from getting his memoirs printed, though chimpy served 8 years of helping the bottom line of big corporate interests.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:27 pmI knew this thread was gonna be good for a few laughs. Thanks for not disappointing me :)~
November 6th, 2008 at 12:28 pmOf course they’re not interested.
Pop-up books have very low margins.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pmUncle Ho Says:
Chimpy’s memoir- the ONLY place it’s fit for is the bonfire.
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Sh*t doesn’t burn all that well, Unc… and it stinks up the place sumpin’ wicked.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
And if Bush decides to honestly reveal everything that happened behind the scenes, […] he’s actually have a best-seller.
My money says that he could NEVER do that. For him to reveal the truth about the machinations and schemes (i.e. knowing criminality and willful atrocities) of his administration would be cause for trial, no matter what his age.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:31 pmMemoirs?? Dont you have to have the capacity for a memory to write memoirs? No wonder publishers don’t want it. They publish enough fiction already.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:32 pmPhoto caption: “Look, ma! I colored real gooder!”
November 6th, 2008 at 12:33 pmAnd what is with his perverse fascination with childern’s books?
November 6th, 2008 at 12:34 pmoh please!
Bush is very interesting person and i think many people would enjoy reading about him. It’s very strange that it cannot get published.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:34 pmThis reminds me of Bush’s interview where he relates his post-presidental plans to give some high-paying speeches to “replenish the old coffers.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/03/usa.edpilkington
November 6th, 2008 at 12:35 pmIt seem’s to me the best way to sell something bush is to print it on toilet paper, sell it in bulk at wal-mart and let everyone do what should be done with bush and cheney…Wipe and flush….Blessings all
November 6th, 2008 at 12:36 pmwicodemo Says:
It’s very strange that it cannot get published.
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Actually, it’s totally understandable, if you haven’t had your head up your Cheney for the last 8 years.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:37 pmBush’s memoir will be a must-have if you want to have a reference to all the lies, distortions, and misinformation that the Bush administration spewed all these years -all in one book.
Other than that, its value is marginal at best. Who wants to re-read the same ole’ tired nonsense? Because you know he will try to pin all his failures on someone else(s).
November 6th, 2008 at 12:39 pmJosephP Says:
This reminds me of Bush’s interview where he relates his post-presidental plans to give some high-paying speeches…
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Would George’s “post-presidential plans” include, oh, I dunno, fleeing the country, by nay chance? Does he think Texas is its own nation? Mebbe he can get a lesson in Geography from Sarah.
Perhaps we can get him a speaking engagement at the Hague…
November 6th, 2008 at 12:41 pmwicodemo babbles:
Bush is very interesting person
Interesting? Right -in an experiment subject sort of way…
November 6th, 2008 at 12:43 pmwicodemo says: Bush is very interesting person.
Much in the same way some people find a car accident interesting.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:45 pmIt is my understanding that Bush will “restore the coffers” by building onto the Crawford ranch in order to start a residential treatment center for people with warts, much like the fat-farms. It will be called “Compound W”.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:55 pmBush had said something about his post political life and an opportunity to ‘fill those coffers’ (noting they were getting low) from lucrative speaking engagements that were sure to follow. This had really upset me; to think that he could bankrupt a nation and then be celebrated and compensated for it was mind blowing.
It isn’t looking like there will be all that many interested in hearing what this clown has to say, or be charged for it anyway.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:58 pmAmerica is back!
November 6th, 2008 at 1:03 pm29. “Other than that, its value is marginal at best. Who wants to re-read the same ole’ tired nonsense? Because you know he will try to pin all his failures on someone else(s).”
You miss the point of his memoirs; there will be no mention of *any* failures, as this a**hat does not consider any aspect of his “presidency” to have been anything less than outstanding.
It would be a worthless self-congratulatory door stop of a text, similar to some of the dense tomes produced by nixon in his later years.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:03 pmwicodemo Says:
oh please!
Bush is very interesting person and i think many people would enjoy reading about him. It’s very strange that it cannot get published.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I’d be willing to bet you couldn’t taste the difference between tomato sauce and Iraqi blood.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:06 pmIdiot alert at comment #33.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:10 pm“Russia is the new hope for humanity.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, that’s a good one!
November 6th, 2008 at 1:11 pmAsk the average resident of Russia or Georgia for that matter just how humane that tin-pan dictatorship is for them.
Highlarious stuff, though.
When the first draft was received, it was full of fart jokes and titty doodles in the margins.
Doesn’t bode well for Bush’s “legacyerating”. Our future, however, is looking better every day.
PEACE
November 6th, 2008 at 1:16 pmMeanwhile the books written about the criminality of the bush administration all sit at the top of bestseller lists , world wide !
November 6th, 2008 at 1:16 pm# 33 Russia is the new hope for humanity.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:19 pmNo friend , compassion is and has always been the only hope for humanity , it just isn’t monetarily as profitable as weaons systems and warfare .
George Bush headed up the first administration that believed it could actually dictate reality itself. If facts challenged political dogma, then erase the fact. Who needs to read lies? We’ve already seen them in action, destroying our world.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:23 pmSomeone should publish Bush’s book. I’ve heard that he has gotten really good at staying inside the lines.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:23 pmI don’t think it will be a coloring book. It will more likely be a pop-up book with some connect-the-dots on the back cover
November 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pmBush on his new book:
“Look, it has a horsie! It has a duckie! And it has a toadie too! I named him Karl.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:30 pmJonathan111 Says:
I don’t think it will be a coloring book. It will more likely be a pop-up book with some connect-the-dots on the back cover
If anyone ever connects the dots, the entire administration will go to jail.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:33 pmThere’s nothing memorable about Bush. What is there to publish about the idiot? I can suggest titles like ‘The un-President’ or ‘The Un-Elected President’ or how about ‘A Chimp in the Mist’? ‘Illegitimate War Criminal President’ all these titles fit the idiot’s legacy.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:36 pmwicodemo Says:
Bush is very interesting person…
So was Idi Amin.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:39 pmPage 3:
“I caught a fish this big”.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:51 pmTROS; about the bonfire, you are right. My bad.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:53 pmshoeless; If anybody connects the dots, the ENTIRE administration will be marched to the guillotine, and rightfully so.
There, I fixed it for you.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:54 pmI’ll happily diss Georgie as much as the next guy. But it still seems totally unbelievable that the publishers wouldn’t want a memoir from a president – no matter how deluded and fabricated it is.
There has to be something in the terms that the publishers won’t accept.
May I suggest the title:
History repeats: George Bush and his ancestor President Pierce.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:56 pmYou could only give them away for fireplace logs.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:59 pmThe idea that anyone would even dare to approach a publisher is laughable. Are “ghosts” waiting in the wings to write it? He could, perhaps, write a book of his philosophies, something like “At Randomness” and it could reach a fair amount of success on the humor shelf.
Another point: would he be writing it from his “retirement” home in Paraguay? He could be truthful about a lot of stuff and not be extradited.
In order not to contradict his actions and policies as president, he would have to dream up a lot more lies. That’s just too must trouble for poor ‘ole Georgie, who has admitted that he’s never been interested in details.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:24 pmHe should make it a comic book. That’d be cool. I’d read it.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:30 pmMy title recommendation:
TMI
November 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pmMaybe he ought to write Barney’s biography instead.
That’d sell better.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:24 pmI kinda miss it when people who wrote books were limited to people who were good at writing books, instead of anybody even remotely famous. It gives a bad name to books.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:01 pm