Bush’s book deal fetches just $7 million.
Bush’s book deal fetches just $7 million.
President Bush has signed a book deal with Crown to publish his memoir, tentatively titled “Decision Points.” The deal is worth a reported $7 million — a hefty sum, but it pales in comparison to the rumored $11 million Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) might fetch. As Gawker pointed out, other political figures have landed more lucrative deals:
It’s $5 million less than Bill Clinton’s advance for My Life, $1 million less than Hillary Clinton got for Living History, and $2 million less than the advance for the memoirs of Tony Friggin’ Blair.
Late last year, some publishers were suggesting that Bush hold off writing a book, because of his dramatically low approval ratings. “[G]iven how the public feels about him right now, I think patience would probably be something that I would encourage,” Paul Bogaards, executive director of publicity for Alfred A. Knopf, said.
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March 19th, 2009 at 6:53 pmBush and Sarah Palin might want to consider hiring the same ghost writer. Someone with a wild imagination and a vocabulary.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:53 pmBush’s book deal fetches just $7 million.
– - Just? Comparable deals notwithstanding, using “just” in that context is insulting on so many levels.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:55 pm.
Working title: “Decision Points: Right foot or left foot first.”
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March 19th, 2009 at 6:55 pmYou don’t do roll-outs in the middle of a depression…
…especially if you caused it.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:56 pmPut the Criminal Bush in prison for treason and war crimes. He will then have a lifetime to write his book.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:57 pmBush is in a hurry to “catapault the propaganda.”
March 19th, 2009 at 6:58 pmheh, heh, heh.
“decision points”?
i like it. sounds gutsy.
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will he read the audio version himself?
“say condi, put down that pipe and get my pipe up.”
“off with those pants, brownie.”
and
“i wish I were a lesbian.”
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good stuff.
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March 19th, 2009 at 6:59 pmjoe cantwell Says:
Ouch! My head hurts from laughing so hard.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:01 pmjoe,
March 19th, 2009 at 7:05 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MWFuyqOP0M
pastcaring Says:
joe cantwell Says:
Ouch! My head hurts from laughing so hard.
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just pull it out of your ass,
feel better?
:)
March 19th, 2009 at 7:06 pmEven during the Great Bush Depression, there’s still a company like Crown that is stupid enough to thow away $7 million?
Wow, remind me NOT to invest in THAT corporation!
March 19th, 2009 at 7:06 pmHia premier book signing should be held in the same kindergarten classroom where he was during 9/11. I’m sure that the intelligence level of the book will be appropriate.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:06 pmIt’s preposterous to imagine a book written by someone with W’s poor command of the English language. I wonder how long it took him to pick the title from the choices put before him.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:08 pmAt any rate, the book is sure to be little but lies twisted and embellished by someone other than W. That won’t discourage the twenty percenters from believing it to be the true gospel.
I’m curious…..how much is the ghost writer going to get?
March 19th, 2009 at 7:08 pmI feel sorry for the ghost who has to frame this flaming catastrophe into a cogent narrative.
If they gave literary Bronze Stars for valor in the face of certain defeat, this one would be the most deserving.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:08 pmAlternate title: The Decider Points to the Decision on How the Decider Pointed to Make the Decider Decision Points
March 19th, 2009 at 7:09 pmWHAT!? Bush is lucky to get that! I’m surprised – 7 million dollars for his book of lies. That’s just too much.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:09 pmthanks max,
blue gal did it,
great mash.
:)
take a mydol before
you link to it past.
:0
March 19th, 2009 at 7:12 pmAnd $6.5 million will go into the search to find someone stupid or greedy enough to write it. Otherwise it will be about 14 pages long and no sentence over 10 words.
“See the goat?”
March 19th, 2009 at 7:12 pm$5M less than Clinton and $7M too much for him. This finally demonstrates that money has no value.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:13 pmDecision Points:
March 19th, 2009 at 7:14 pmPretzels or Potato Chips?
Jack Daniels or Jim Beam?
Cowboys or Redskins?
Iran or Iraq?
Hopefully, the $7M will be distributed to a team of defense lawyers and staff, thus stimulating the economy.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:14 pm“Decision” Points
Bush’s nickname for Cheney was “Decision” and where Decision pointed Bush went. The End.
How much of the $7M to I collect as ghost writer?
March 19th, 2009 at 7:18 pmI really want to know what he decided to use for bait when he caught the 7 pound perch.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:20 pmjoe cantwell Says:
it was a compliment. don’t get mean.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:25 pmThe book company has a 7 million dollar right off as a lost. Look for Bush’s book to go for 4 for 99 cent. People should save that money for the International Court’s War charge against George W. Bush. Now he can try writing a book from his jail cell. Notice how sickly Mr. and Mrs. George H. W. Bush have been lately, it’s because their fear for their son the idiot. George W. is in Jacksonville Florida for a fund raiser for his so called Library. He had to pay 14 people to stand out side as his cheering team while President Obama had thousands waiting over night to just hope to get a ticket to hear his speech yet Obama didn’t pay anyone.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:26 pmGo to Hello, chat… flagged for spamnation…
March 19th, 2009 at 7:31 pmum… what do you mean “just”… ?
that’s at least 7 million too much…
March 19th, 2009 at 7:34 pmWhen will he have time to write a book when he’s busy dodging the angry mobs across the nation?
March 19th, 2009 at 7:37 pmSeven million?
That’ll work out to about $70,000 per word. Not bad.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:39 pmoh, and, yer gonna catch hell for using th…
March 19th, 2009 at 7:44 pmnah… let’s just see…
That’s a shitload of goat petting.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:45 pmJust $7 million?
Hell, I could live the rest of my life on that — and no death toll.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:46 pmLook for pallets of these in dumpsters near your local Christian bookstores soon. They’ll make great woodstove lighting materials, may last a whole season.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:46 pmI don’t know, depends on how he skews it. If he goes with the “I was a drunken war criminal” it might be interesting.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:54 pmHis ghost writer should be Mark Twain.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:58 pmyaaiaall gona needa reedneek dicksonary 2 reed dis buok.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pmChapters III, IV, V and VI ~ Brush cutting, cutting brush, clearin brush and brushin clear. And vodka.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:01 pmdixie blood, GW can’t find his own azz with either hand, llet alone write a coherent sentence. He’s going to need the ghost of Shakespeare to produce a book.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:03 pmOr My Gut.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:09 pmI bet he would get a lot more if it wasn’t going to be a work of pure FICTION.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:12 pm#43,
Last time I checked the ghost of Shakespeare is a Democrat like the rest of the world. So good look with that, right?
If he is going to write the book himself then everyone should stock up on crayons for your children as there surely will be a shortage soon.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:16 pmIt’s $5 million less than Bill Clinton’s advance for My Life, $1 million less than Hillary Clinton got for Living History, and $2 million less than the advance for the memoirs of Tony Friggin’ Blair.
Don’t worry. There will be a dagger by the NYT rankings indicating bulk sales by the RW behind-the-scenes moneybags, and freebies of remaindered copies in conservative BotM clubs to pump the numbers.
Cheers,
March 19th, 2009 at 8:17 pmThat’s only about, what 1% of what he cost us in Iraq in a week? Fck!
Is there an Idiot’s Guide to the White House?
March 19th, 2009 at 8:22 pmRichard Mellon Scaife, one of the biggest reich-wing scumbags on earth, will buy enough to make it a best seller regardless. If he falls short the Wal-Mart scumbag owners will pick up the slack.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:22 pmThe comparison to the other books is the wrong comparison.
You need to calculate the value of the deal divided by the number of words in the book.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:27 pmpastcaring Says:
joe cantwell Says:
it was a compliment. don’t get mean.
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sorry, my wife just left me.
not your fault.
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everybody laugh!
:)
March 19th, 2009 at 8:32 pmSeems like they offered $ 6,999,999.98 too much.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:33 pmJust my two cents . . .
Here’s my title suggestion…
Dubya for Dummies
March 19th, 2009 at 8:36 pmI wonder if his book, as in the photo, must be read by holding it upside down.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:45 pmHe’s holding it upside down to look at the pop-ups ‘upskirt’.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:50 pmC’mon people…we can do lots better! Here’s Hanshiro’s dirty dozen bush dope-slaps…
1.) Crayola is kicking in 6 million of that to include a free box of crayons..
2.) A better title would be, “George and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Presidency….”
3.) How about highlighting bush’s ‘achievements’ and call it, “Derision Points…”
4.) “The Bush Years: America’s Syphilis.”
5.) The book comes with a “Rold Gold” coupon/bookmark…
6.) The entire print run will be in large type to simulate a longer book.
7.) Bring your book receipt in and get 50% off at Payless Shoes…
8.) The book jacket doubles as a rain hat for those unexpected downpours and levy failures….and when it stops, turn the jacket over to find the handy “HELP US!” printed inside…
9.) For an extra $100.00, bush will both autograph and include a commemorative signing statement…
10.) The paperback run will be published by ‘Highlights,’ and include a puzzle page depicting a map of Iraq entitled, “How Many WMD Can You Find Now That They’ve All Been Smuggled To Syria?”
11.) The book pages are printed on the recycled paper of thousands of shredded documents from Dick Cheney’s house.
12.) It has a very unhappy ending…middle…and beginning…
March 19th, 2009 at 9:01 pmWho the hell wants to read a book by a lying pompous egomaniac with no word being more than 2 syllables and the phrase “what don’t you understand” or “I understand” being quoted over 900 times?
March 19th, 2009 at 9:06 pmThe only remaining question is: How many TIMES more will Obama’s newly-signed book deal be worth?
rofl
March 19th, 2009 at 9:10 pmWhoever came up with that photo should get the day off. Excellent!
The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com
March 19th, 2009 at 9:21 pmI guess the rumor that Bush is writing a sequel to My Pet Goat is true. Who is going to help with the spelling? He won’t need help with the lying of course. Remember that song. Nobody Does it Better? It leaps to mind when you think about liars.
This book will be one of the most self serving, rationalizations of history. The smoke coming from the re-writing of history will be seen from outer space.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:22 pm$7 million is $8 million too much. He should have to pay a vanity press to get it published.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:11 pmPeople, just be patient. Bu$h is decideratin’
March 19th, 2009 at 10:34 pmStay tuned
“In summer 2001, the first year of George W. Bush’s presidency, The New York Post reported: “Bush never, ever leaves home without his trusty copy of the children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’”
March 19th, 2009 at 11:03 pmOh, c’mon, y’all ain’t even a-tryin’….
13.) The 7 million price is because it’s a scratch-n-sniff…you’ll find out what ’stupid’ really smells like…(I hear ‘incompetence’ smells a lot like the GOP headquarters…)
14.) All the chapters are labeled “Chapter One,” cuz George couldn’t decide which of his accomplishments was the most bestest…
15.) Librarians already can’t decide if it will go in the ‘fiction’ section or go straight to ‘horror.’
16.) One title that made it to the final three was, “Kindling.”
17.) The hard backs will sport ’saliva-resistant’ dust jackets.
18.) The advance-promotional urine-cakes with George’s face are expected to be wildly popular.
19.) Another title that made the final three was, “Skeet.”
20.) It’s the first title in history that Nazis won’t want to burn, and Americans will…
21.) bush’s publisher wanted to try a mad-libs version, but test subjects kept filling in all the blanks with, “@sshole!”
22.) There is no page 10…bush wanted the reader to go from 8 to 9-11.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:12 pm“Klatu”, you can’t even spell your own name!
March 19th, 2009 at 11:14 pmGort’s acting performance was better than yours in the latest film.
I hope that was 7 million Zimbabwe dollars. That’s about what it’s worth.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:10 amFiled under “fiction.” Written in blood.
http://jackrabbitcafe.blogspot.com/2009/03/this-item-from-thinkprogress.html
March 20th, 2009 at 12:50 amThere’s more:
23.) The paperback rights were awarded to Charmin…
24.) George’s first draft submission was a rewritten script to “Air Force One.”
25.) One rejected title that George submitted was, “Saddam-Me.”
26.) Schwarzenegger was tapped to do the audiobook version because the publishers felt his english was more understandable than George’s.
27.) Amazon is launching a pilot program in honor of bush’s memoir: books by the pound…
28.) Josias Kumpf is writing the dedication.
29.) The GOP has already issued their positive reviews….
30.) The book jacket will contain a warning: ‘Caution, Gagging Hazard.’
March 20th, 2009 at 1:06 amPROSECUTION NOW!
March 20th, 2009 at 7:48 am
71.barack obomber Says: keep making our country proud cracking special olympics jokes
To be fair, Obama should refer to it as the former administration…
March 20th, 2009 at 8:35 amLook at the book he’s got in his hands. It’s upside down. Maybe it’s a pop-up! Wonder if that’s what his book is going to be.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:14 amDubya’s deal is only $1 million more than Tina Fey’s. Heh.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:40 amgood job last night by the way obama on leno.
Well said my man. He really did look good. Intellligent, warm, knowledgeable. A true leader and 180 degrees from the worthless POS that is the topic of the thread.
March 20th, 2009 at 11:06 amWith credos to Frank Zappa…a book written by someone who
March 20th, 2009 at 1:40 pmcan’t write for people who can’t read.
hanshiro #56—that racket coming from the Left Coast is me, standing and applauding.
What I REALLY want to see is the parodies that will follow–or precede—this magnum opus.
You’ve begun smashingly–more, more!
March 20th, 2009 at 4:48 pmhanshiro, you are outdoing yourself. More!
March 20th, 2009 at 4:51 pmContinuing hanshiro’s ideas:
March 20th, 2009 at 5:01 pm31) Comes with a free pass for two to the new Shrub Library and Pig Waller.
32) Deluxe edition includes mesquite trimmings.
33. The hardback features a tasteful fold-out shrine for your living room.
34) The deluxe version includes an industrial strength crying towel.
35) A handy Rebpubliscum lexicon at the front of the book will define such terms as “heck of a job” and “misunderestimate,” as well as providing a necesasary glossary of pubbie definitions for these topics and other: legal, Constitutional, fair, honest, truthful, freedom, Bill of Rights, Christian, religious, success, legacy, international relations, national security, loyalty, fidelity, civil rights, separation of church and state, checks and balances, and other frequently misunderstood terms.
that pictures seems on september 11/01, he doesn’t even know how to hold on the book, will love to see how he can write.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:44 pmI love that picture of lilaWol protecting the American people while holding a child’s book UPSIDE DOWN….it’s priceless…….
Yes, I know he’s probably turning it over while showing it to the class, but still, the illusion of it seems to fit him and his regime to a T, eh?
March 21st, 2009 at 9:11 am