{"id":7891,"date":"2006-07-10T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T15:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7891.html"},"modified":"2006-07-10T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T15:10:04","slug":"george-w-bush-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/george-w-bush-author\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush, author"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to be kidding me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To the list of those penning books about the prez add the most authoritative source of all: [tag]President[\/tag] [tag]Bush[\/tag]. Insiders say that he’s been working on the project for a year. “He’s doing a [tag]memoir[\/tag],” one insider says. “He’s keenly interested in it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As U.S. News explained, our alleged [tag]author[\/tag]-in-chief hasn’t actually started [tag]writing[\/tag] yet, but “he and his aides have been packaging the stuff he wants to reference so that he’ll be ready to write when the project moves into that stage.” That may not come until after Bush leaves office.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s hard to resist the cheap, easy joke here. [tag]Bush[\/tag] isn’t known for having, shall we say, a way with words. He also hasn’t shown any real predilection for introspection, analysis, details, research, or even reading much. When Stephen Colbert jokes, “I don’t trust books; they’re all fact, no heart,” he seems to convey a Bush-like view of the world.<\/p>\n

And yet, the White House has leaked word to U.S. News that Bush is “keenly interested” in a book project. As long as his ghost writers don’t expect too much guidance along the way, the process should go relatively smoothly.<\/p>\n

Here’s a thought: anyone have any guesses as to what the book should be called?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to be kidding me. To the list of those penning books about the prez add the most authoritative source of all: [tag]President[\/tag] [tag]Bush[\/tag]. Insiders say that he’s been working on the project for a year. “He’s doing a [tag]memoir[\/tag],” one insider says. “He’s keenly interested in it.” As U.S. News explained, our alleged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}