Ok, someone educate me on Kitty Kelly and her new book

[TryingToWarnYou]

Whats the deal? On the surface it sounds like unsupported BS. Where are the facts and the truth? Or are we supposed to believe what she says on faith?

[Webster Green]

1. I've heard she does her homework.....

Thats about all I know, I've never read one of her books. I will probably read this one though.

[murielm99]

18. The only time I ever read one of her books was when

Sinatra tried to prevent her from publishing.

I don't like censorship.

Actually, there was nothing in the Sinatra book that I had not seen or heard before. I seem to remember that it was well documented, too.

And, Sinatra did not sue her. I think he might have if she had told out and out lies.

[jdj]

2. It depends.

You only need facts and truth if you are a democrat writing about republicans. Republicans writing about democrats only require rumor and innuendo. If Kelly is an independent, she can use both. There you go!

[Cleita]

3. No you are supposed to listen to everything Rush Limbaugh,

Jonah Goldberg and Ann Coulter tells you on faith. Kitty Kelley does gossip. Accept it or reject it. Incidentally, Kitty Kelley documents her sources, in this case Sharon, former wife of Neill Bush. Now the real question is gonna be if you think Sharon knows sumthin.

[barb162]

5. which Bush is it

who said the woman just come to his hotel door and wanted to have sex with him. I mean, he had NO IDEA what this gorgeous babe was doing at his door as he never saw her before. Was that Jeb or Neil. Ahhhh, the Bush family and their lines

[jdj]

6. That's herpes simplex Neil and there is an excellent Vanity

Fair interview with his wife called "The Inconvenient Sharon Bush" where she talks about this stuff, I think it was in the April issue (or March) and there is a great interveiw in there with Bev Harris, too, same issue.

[TXDemGal]

7. I'm willing to bet that Sharon Bush

was one of Kitty Kelley's main sources.

[TryingToWarnYou]

12. Ok, but doesnt that make her POV suspect?

I mean, its not like Sharon Bush doesnt have an axe to grind or anything. I think her contributions will be dismissed outright because of her situation, sadly.

[LibDemAlways]

17. I read the Vanity Fair article, too.

She and her kids were treated like shit by Poppy and Babs. This is payback time.

[goclark]

13. Excellent Pt. they quote Russ and Ann

all day long.
What ever he says they believe and they repeat it over and over until it becomes FACT in the minds of Americans.

So, what ever Kitty says I will believe and I will quote.
Remember the meme they use,"some people say" and remember that it is a winning political strategy for the 21st Century.

I have read her other books and I enjoyed them.

This one is going to be "compelling" I am sure.

Why do I have to examine the work of a popular writer with a fine tooth comb? I'm not Columbo.

Onward and Upward to Victory in November.


:eyes:

[justgamma]

4. No, you're supposed to just enjoy the read. n/t

[TryingToWarnYou]

11. Hmm, well with all due respect, I dont really want to waste my time on

claptrap rumor. If it is something factual, it would be worth reading, but if its just muckraking, well hell, I can just read the tabloids for that.

[LisaL]

8. Prove doesn't mean a thing.

All that matters is that some people have made these allegations.
LOL.

[Kazak]

10. Scotty's gonna have to answer some tough questions.

Suppose they just outright lie on this?

[Generic Other]

9. kitty kelly stalked them, sifted their trash, bribed their hairdressers

and anyone else who ever dealt with the scummy family. The dirt will fly.

[EST]

14. Some of the stories on advance blurbs

that I have seen actually come from, or as in one case, parallel research done right here on DU! A couple of duers pursueing it from a different angle came up with the scenario of GW getting sent to Ala. because he was a poor little rich, spoiled, drunken and stoned boy who was such a painful embarassment to the bush mafia that he had to be removed from the Houston area. Apparently Ms Kelly just went straight to the widow of said bush operative and got pretty much the same story. There have been lots of threads here in the last week covering lots and lots of good reading. Have fun!

[umtalal]

15. Here is a biography on Kitty Kelly from Amazon.

Kitty Kelley is the internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Jackie Oh!; Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star; His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra; Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography; and The Royals. The last three titles were all #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Ms. Kelley has been honored by her peers with such awards as the Outstanding Author Award from the American Society of Jouranlists and Authors, the Philip M. Stern Award, and the Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club of New York City. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, People, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her physician husband, Jonathan Zucker.

[genius]

16. Jim Hatfield said Karl Rove personally told him Bush was arrested

in 1982 in Harris County for cocaine. Of course, he's dead - like most others who speak negatively about Bush.