George AWOL Bush's new book inspires T-shirt fad that will sweep the Republicon Homeland

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1. Report on Bush' s Plagiarism

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

Source: HuffingtonPost.com

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.

Instead, Crown 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 job illuminates something shallower and less surprising about Bush's character: He's too lazy to write his own memoir.

Bush, on his book tour, makes much of the fact that he largely wrote the book himself, guffawing that critics who suspected he didn't know how to read are now getting a comeuppance. Not only does Bush know how to read, it turns out, he knows how to Google, too. Or his assistant does. Bush notes in his acknowledgments that "(m)uch of the research for this book was conducted by the brilliant and tireless Peter Rough. Peter spent the past 18 months digging through archives, searching the internet(s), and sifting through reams of paper." Bush also collaborated on the book with his former speechwriter, Christopher Michel.

Many of Bush's literary misdemeanors exemplify pedestrian sloth, but others are higher crimes against the craft of memoir. In one prime instance, Bush relates a poignant meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a Tajik warlord on Karzai's Inauguration Day. It's the kind of scene that offers a glimpse of a hopeful future for the beleaguered nation. Witnessing such an exchange could color a president's outlook, could explain perhaps Bush's more optimistic outlook and give insight into his future decisions. Except Bush didn't witness it. Because he wasn't at Karzai's inauguration.

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4. Well, you can't expect his interviewers to have read his book, can you?

Gee whiz, you'd have to have somebody read the book, have a memory of anything that happened in the past 10 years, and have a bullshit detector slightly more sophisticated than that of a cocker spaniel puppy. How could you possibly expect NBC, The Today Show, Matt Lauer or Oprah Winfrey to be able to delve that deeply into researching stuff?

You want the impossible!

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2. Kick and R Numero Uno

Proudly, at that, for the little turd from Crawford hass still yet to perform a single day's work in his entire, miserable, wasted life.

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3. K & R. n/t

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5. does anyone actually believe...

that fans of "W" actually care?

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6. Alas, RepubliBaggers have scant interest in truth

as they have proved repeatedly.

With this boner, they will revert to type: praising their own special, twice-crowned AWOL frat boy for once again finding a way to avoid doing any work -- for cutting corners -- and for filching others work and claiming it as his own.

That's the kind of lameass, wide-stance republicon Family Value Work Ethic that cost America so dearly on 9/11.