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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 03:10 AM
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Huge Bush “Real Dirt” Books to Hit Stores!!
These two upcoming books are getting lots of attention. Unlike O’Neill and KKK Corsi, both writers are highly recognized with Hersh a Pulitzer Prize winner.

1. Award winning and best selling author Kitty Kelley points poison pen at Bushes:

A new book on the Bush dynastyis set for release just six weeks before November's knife-edge presidential election. The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty by Kitty Kelley will have an initial print run of 500,000, and the main source is believed to be Sharon Bush, the ex-wife of Neil, President George W Bush's wayward brother.

Kelley, whose unauthorised biographies of Frank Sinatra, Jackie Onassis and the British Royal Family have told tales of affairs, electric-shock treatment and more affairs, has turned her attention to America's first family.

The book could be the most damaging yet for the President, with the publishers, Random House, promising it will "cause controversy".
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Author Kitty Kelley is touting her latest title in enemy territory. A full-page ad for “The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty” is appearing in today’s Republican National Convention Guide, which is distributed to 20,000 conventioneers, staff and others. Kelley's book, which will be published Sept. 14, contains over 700 pages of Bush dirt and scandals. - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5868734/
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Talk about moxie! Controversial tell-all biographer Kitty Kelley is now touting her upcoming biography of the Bush family at the Republican National Convention in New York. The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty is being advertised in the Republican National Convention Guide -- distributed to 20,000 delegates and staff members at the GOP confab! - http://www.suntimes.com/output/zwecker/cst-ftr-zp01.html
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BaaaWaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More Book Info:
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
Hardcover: 736 pages
Publisher: Doubleday;
Release Date: September 14, 2004
ISBN: 0385503245
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385503245/103-0703718-6275856?v=glance#product-details

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2. As previously posted, Seymour Hersh’s new Bush-Cheney torpedo comes out 9/13/04. See Here:

The 9/16/04 Torpedo that Sinks Bush-Cheney - Let the Election War Begin!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x721322

"Chain of Command”
By Seymour Hersh
Imprint: HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060195916;
On Sale: 09/13/2004;
Format: Hardcover; Subformat: ;
Length: ; Trimsize: 6 x 9; Pages: 416; $25.95; $36.95(CAN)
http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006019591...

Email comments from a D.C. Republican Associate - I have reviewed an advanced copy and it will clearly sink the Bush-Cheney White House! George Bush should have never called Seymour Hersh a liar and a phony, in a White House press conference, when Hersh broke the Iraq Abu Ghraid prisoner abuse scandel.

COMMENT: Seys napped a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering the 1969 Vietnam War My Lai village Massacre, that then Major Colin Powell cover-up for the Army. Maybe this will be his second one!
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Plenty More Bush Bashing Books to Hit Fall Shelves:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5798089/

No signs of a cease-fire in written war on Bush
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20040804/d_bushbk04.art.htm

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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 04:46 AM
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1. Sharon better watch her back...
...I think Kitty can take care of herself, though. Kitty Kelly's book could do some good for Kerry because so many people actually read her for juicy gossip about the high and mighty.

Hersh's book is the one I'm waiting for -- and I hope it becomes a best-seller.

Hekate
:kick:
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 10:41 AM
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2. Yelp 2 Great Books To Shove Down The Media's Throat!
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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:11 PM
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12. Bush to Sharon:
PRESIDENT OFFERS ADVANCE CONGRATULATIONS TO SOON-TO-BE-FORMER SISTER-IN-LAW SHARON BUSH ON DECIDING TO KEEP HER FESTERING CRAP-TRAP SHUT IF SHE WANTS TO LIVE TO SEE CHRISTMAS

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today, amidst my grueling schedule of delivering speeches to convince the war-flushed Joe Sixpack set that they benefit from tax cuts for Donald Trump, I wanted to take a minute to say a few words to my used-up sister-in-law Sharon, who is at this very moment entertaining the suicidal idea of profiting from a tell-all book about my proud, salt-of-the-earth family of petrochemical millionaires.

Sharon, I know you and I have never been particularly close. When our kids were growing up together, and we'd all convene in Washington or Kennebunkport for the holidays, most of the time I was much more interested in getting to the bottom of a fifth of Cuervo than listening to you prattle on about God knows whatever worthlessness you think defines you as a person. Besides, you were always so sour, like you were convinced that just because you've got that brassy bottle-blonde hair, that my mom couldn't order you to help Jeb's Mexi-bimbo wife Columba pick up Millie's messes off the lawn. But that's all in the past now, and I'm confident that you've forgiven me personally for that New Years Eve I vomited on you.

http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2003/041603.asp
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 08:11 PM
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3. * * Bombs Away After Labor Day * *
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 08:31 PM
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4. I hate to burst anyone's bubble
The neocons aren't going to read a book slamming Bush and the truly undecided are too moronic to read a book. How on earth can anyone be undecided in all this mess?

The only way the neocons or the undecideds will know anything about these books if they run ads during Faux News or make "The Apprentice" bunch do a book report.:eyes:
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 08:34 PM
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5. Doesn't matter who reads it. What matters is 20/20, Dateline, Larry King
They'll eat this up and it will be good and juicy.
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 08:52 PM
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7. I truly hope you are right....
20/20, Dateline and Larry King have had more than enough fodder for the last five years. From the time Bush announced he was running, straight through the election fiasco and into three and half of unmitigated hell since Jan. 20, 2001.

I'm hoping someone in the media will grow some brass ones in the next couple of months.

It is all there - the media has just worn blinders provided by their mega rich bosses.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 10:09 PM
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18. The shelf life of the authors on the talk show circuit will be key.
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redstateblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 10:08 AM
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36. If It's On TV It Must Be True
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HootieMcBoob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-04 04:03 PM
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44. And Entertainment Tonight and Oprah
and those other shows like entertainment tonight...who's names I can't think of the tabloidy kind of shows on around 7ish. Those shows need to go with the Kitty Kelly book. Run the hell out of it and then maybe it can be picked up by the hardballs and olbermans of the world. Of course they will be bashed by the O'Rielly's and Hannity and Scarborough types. Unfortunately we don't have anything like them to churn this stuff up the way the swiftboaters did. We're going to have to count on the 60 minutes for the barnes thing and hope that something sticks to the wall...anything!
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:28 PM
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15. YOU MISSED THE POINT, GOING TO SHOVE IT DOWN THE MEDIA'S THROAT!!!
Because of what they did on the SBVT totally excess coverage!
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 07:10 AM
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33. the media will not be playing this book up --- I hope I'm wrong
there are two standards...you've seen this.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 08:41 PM
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6. If the movie makes the Bushies look bad then why
would it be advertised at the convention?
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:01 PM
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8. $
did I mention the Pukkkes are greedy f*ers who would sell advert=ising to Saddam Hussein if he paid 5% above scale?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:03 PM
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10. I know the book will be bad but that whole movie thing smells.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 12:55 AM
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29. GOP DIDN"T KNOW THE AD WOULD BE IN THE RNC BROCHURE!!!!!
The GOP Is Not The Only Ones That Know How to Play Real Dirty!!

Come on people, this is anything go, no holds barred, last man alive -politics


You think the GOP knew that full page ad was going to be in their RNConvention brochure before they has 20,000 copies of it,....BaaWaaaaaa!

Ya know most print shops are Union Democrat run, not that I'm saying anything of course ;-0

Too late for the GOP to get them reprinted, and what are they going to do, cry to the media and "market the book" even more before its released. ROFLOL!

That’s why Bush-Cheney-GOP retaliated today with the bogus Time poll showing Bush had the new magical 11 point lead now, and put out half a dozen totally fraudulent news articles on various subjects against Kerry and supporting Bush through main stream news sources.

Gee as this pace it’s going to be a wild two more months!


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Darby Donating Member (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:02 PM
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9. Are you for real?
or are you full of sh*t? I hear a lot of talk and promises from you but no action.


You didn't respond to me on your prior O'Neill, O'Quinn topic. I'm ready to roll up my sleeves if there is work to be done.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 12:14 AM
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22. We did respond to you! We've had PI's & Criminal Lawyers 6 wks on SBVT
Our lead criminal attorney's law Firm is in Houston right around the corner from O'Neill's Firm, he knows him well, and is a ranking officer and two Tour Vietnam Vet.

Instead of being a insulting jerk, go back and find the treads where we posted all this information, all the info on O'Quinn's law office and contacts, et. al., or have the courtesy to send us a PM if you don't understand.

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canuckybee Donating Member (382 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:11 PM
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11. The Kelly book will sell
as soon as excerpts begin to get publicized, it will sell. It is bound to be full of so much juicy dirt that people will be unable to resist it. Didn't the book on the Reagans say something about Nancy's expertise at giving BJs in the back seat?
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:15 PM
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13. Well I tried, I went into barnes and nobles and there and
behold, the first book that your eyes attach to is one against Kerry called Unfit for command or something like that, I said outloud when I walked in, "I don't think so and promptly put other books in front of the three rows of them standing out so vividly...

Twice I had to do that cause someone readjusted the books ;-) If I hadn't spent so much money in that store this eve, they might have told me not to come back..

Barnes and Nobles, Shame On you for being so blantant, who owns that store anyway?
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 12:17 AM
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23. SBVT are paying B&N a Big "Shelfing Fee" to Fully Market the Book
That is what's going on here and why they did that.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 12:28 AM
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25. Just put liberal books in the book jackets for the Swift Boat Liars tripe
a wonderful idea posted by another DU-er a few weeks back
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 12:32 AM
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26. I heard somehow they were ending up in the trash in the B&N's bathrooms!
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 12:34 AM
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28. Thanks for that wonderful news/idea!
:)
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 01:38 AM
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30. I ALSO HEARD
or read on a forum, or something...Amazon book buyers paid with CCard, then refused delivery and returned the book to sender no postage added, then wrote their credit card company to deny the charges on this disgusting book they never ordered, or was ordered in error by their spouse, causing issues and large restocking problems for Amazon.com, who O'Neill's SBVT fraud's are paying a big fat fee to really market the fraudulent piece of garbage.

I also heard, or read on a forum, or something...people where going to Barnes and Noble stores, found the book “mysteriously” out of stock, and then asked B & N to order a bunch more for a “Republican book reading party they were going to have”, (which B&N will order for anyone free of charge), then never showed back up to get the books, and for some reason the telephone contact number they gave B & N was wrong. Then another person would go into Barnes and Noble a week or two later and the books would be ”mysteriously” out of stock again.

I also heard, or read on a forum, or something...that people were going to B& N and ordering like 100 or 200 SVBT books for the local Republican office headquarters, or other Republican related entities or groups, and having all the books shipped to the headquarter’s/office address COD. (all of which B & N is happy to do for free)

I just cannot imagine anyone doing “things” like this. I bet it’s actually those lunatic Free Republic “Nazi Youths” doing all this just to make the Democrats look bad! Probably that KKK Corsi is the ringleader of the whole deal since I heard O'Neill screwed him out of his cut of the "funny money" from the GOP ops for doing the fraudulent book deal.
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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 08:15 AM
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35. That was a book reseller's article-they were getting stiffed
when they ordered, so were forced to require a credit card payment before ordering. In one case, the person ordering did so from numerous bookstores, using the call back number from one bookstore at the next-so that when bookstore #1 called to tell said customer his/her books were in, they'd really be calling another bookstore, which had the same scam pulled on them.

Makes sense, really, if you're a scam artist and you want to get your book up high on the best seller list-you have to get it sold in bulk as quickly as possible to numerous places. That pesky little matter of being a FAKE customer was temporarily solved by fake phone numbers and names, till the bookstores wised up and required pre-payment.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 05:15 PM
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37. Depends On Store-Most Still Don't Req Anything But Nice Suit, Smile &
impressive "business card" and title.

O'Neill-Rove-SBVT fraud scam is paying both Amazon and Barnes & Noble $15,000 to pump and aggressively market the book through their channels.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:25 PM
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14. We've got to read the books first to know exactly what's in them
so that we can defend them (like we did with F 911) and then blitz every radio talk show, blitz the e-mail of every newspaper writer, and every e-mail of every TV talking head. In other words, we have to spend as much or more time getting the truth out and making noise as we spend on DU preaching to the choir. I don't think the book of a major print journalist and past recipient of the Pulitzer Prize will quite go unnoticed.
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ItsMyParty Donating Member (835 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:31 PM
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16. I heard that Kelley's book is more about the sins of the old man
You can bet the Bushes already know what is in both books. I've lowered my expectations for Kitty's book because I think the stuff about junior may be puff ball and something they can chalk up to "those terrible party years" (just read the cover of Newsweek on line---and it's all about how he partied hard but sobered up, etc. and all sorts of nauseating shit which is probably intended to cover up any of those little drunk/coke party animal stories that may emerge from Kitty. He's now strong and resolved according to them---jeusus I can't take the shit any longer)!
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:38 PM
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17. Why Do These Blurbs Keep Touting Sharon BUSH???
The KELLEY book is about the WHOLE B.F.E.E.!!!!!!!!

According to another gossip PROFESSSIONAL ("Cindy"), there are FIVE (5), count-em-FIVE BOMBSHELLS in the KELLEY book, PLUS, the real truth about Shrub's "missing year".

This book is the "fun" side of "American Dynasty". It's about ONE HUNDRED YEARS of the B.F.E.E. being WAR PROFITEERS and MILITARY-INTELLIGENCE-INDUSTRIAL complex.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 12:25 AM
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24. I doubt Sharon Bush had a great input
From everything I've read, she had one lunch with Kitty Kelley at a time when she was wavering on whether to write her own book, because of her financial negotiations with the Bush family. I'm sure she gave her a bit of inside information, but I doubt she was a major contributor. The book was well along when her divorce occurred.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 06:07 AM
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31. Cool!, I read somewhere that Vanity Fair Had A Bush Bashing Article
that is coming out. They have some very good investigative reporters, and did an excellent article on Rebecca Marks of Enron fame years back, after the collaspe.

It got my attention because everyone knows that Enron was a Bush Family business front operation. They had several comments in the article that tied some dots together that few people on the outside knew about the Bush Family dealings at Enron.

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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 10:12 PM
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19. Will Hersh Bring Up The US Helicopters That Flew Al-Qaeda?
Out of Tora Bora?
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 10:29 PM
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20. Another few books won't help, this asshole is like a cat with nine lives!
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 10:38 PM
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21. F911 out on DVD in October still...
...too, isn't it?
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 12:33 AM
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27. I believe Kevin Phillips already did that subject
The book is "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush".
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bushwakker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 07:07 AM
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32. The media isn't gonna do Kerry's dirty work for him
JK needs to roll up his sleeves and put AWOL on the defensive every day for the next 60 days.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 06:19 PM
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38. Nobody said they were-DNC to lean hard on media- for our articles/guests
A lot of the labor unions back the DNC and that is there leverage on the media.
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dumpster_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 08:07 AM
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34. John Sayles also has an Anti-Bush Movie (Silver City) out very soon
It is an account of a politician who bears a great deal of resemblance to Bush
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-04 06:20 PM
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39. Thanks will check it out!
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Beltway and Texas Republicans
Against Bush-Cheney ’04, Inc.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-04 11:56 AM
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40. KITTY KELLY TOURS TEXAS TO PROMOTE HER NEW BUSH BASH BOOK-HAA!!
Starts with Karl Rove's city (Austin), then hit's BushTown Houston, then on to Dallas where the rest of the Bush Mafia clan live..BaaWaaa!!!!
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Email Rec’d-09.04.04

I hope it's trashy...Real scum!! That would make a good balance to the crap the "Dixie Cup Captains for Fascism" wrote about John Kerry.

===REPLY===

You see this -

"The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty”
Home Page: http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/thefamily/

First stop for Kitty, after her book release, is Karl Rove’s home city of Austin Texas, for media exposure, a book signing reception, and an interview with the highly acclaimed and Nationally awarded Texas Monthly magazine. Also remember six months ago Texas Monthly turned negative on Bush, after ten years of nothing but positive articles and comments.

After Austin, Kitty will do the same gigs in Houston and Dallas, but her agent will not disclose the dates presently.

Gotta to love it, light-em up, Go Girl! – J.A.L.

Texas Monthly Author Series – Kitty Kelly
http://www.texasmonthly.com/authorseries/



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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-04 12:02 PM
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41. Graham book will also be devestating, in Oct we get F911 which will add
to wood to the burning house of bush.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-04 02:58 PM
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42. Gee & People Thought the "Campaign" was not doing anything the last month!
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liberal_in_GA Donating Member (439 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-04 09:26 AM
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48. The Graham book is now #21...
on amazon.com. If we can get it to #1, the media will *have* to cover it.

Has anyone heard any follow-up regarding Kerry's statement about forming an independent commission to investigate Graham's charges? I was hoping he'd keep hammering away at that...
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Rageneau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-04 03:57 PM
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43. I watched the media trash Kitty Kelly after her 'Nancy' book.
The book started off strong; Kelly was making noise with interviews and TV appearances, then a furious Nancy started calling her personal friends (most of the major talking heads) and they quickly shut up about it. Kelly became a pariah and the 'Nancy' book dropped out of sight.

If this book is anything like that one, I fully expect the Bush Family Evil Empire to successfully suppress it -- with the cheerful assistance of their toadies in the 'liberal' press.

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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-04 04:05 PM
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45. Rightttt!! - She sold 1.1 million "Nancy Books" so probably not too upset!
about it. Of course the arse kissing media is going to slam her. The more they slam her the more books she sells! It's one of those reverse negative games.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-04 04:09 PM
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46. My understanding is that now 600,000, not 500,000 books are being printed.
Edited on Sun Sep-05-04 04:10 PM by GOPAgainstGW
and they will have them in over 50 companies outlets.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-04 08:29 AM
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47. About Kitty Kelly's Book - From the Publisher
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
Written by Kitty Kelley
Biography & Autobiography - Political | Doubleday | Hardcover | September 2004 | $29.95 | 0-385-50324-5

About this Book

They have wielded enormous financial power and dominated world politics for more than half a century. They have been appointed to positions of great power and have been elected as governors, congressmen, senators and presidents. They have shaped our past and, with our country at war under the leadership of their number one son, they are, more critically than ever, shaping our future.

As the Bush family has risen to dominance, so too they have been master orchestrators of their own public image, acting and operating under the shield of privacy their money and status have always afforded them. Until now.

Number One bestselling author and investigative biographer Kitty Kelley has closely examined the lives of Jacqueline Onassis, Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, and the British Royal family. Now the First Lady of unauthorized biography reckons with the first family of the United States—and the result is at once a rich and shocking history and a very human portrait of the world’s most powerful dynasty.

An important work on wealth, power, and class in America, The Family is rich in texture, probing in its psychological insight, revealing in its political and financial detail, and stunning in the patterns that emerge and expose the Bush dynasty as it has never before been exposed. Ms. Kelley takes us back to the origins of the family fortune in the Ohio steel industry at the turn of the last century, through the oil deals and international business associations that have maintained and increased their wealth over the past hundred years. The book leads us through Prescott Bush’s first entrée into government at the state level in 1950s’ Connecticut, to George Herbert Walker Bush’s long and winding road to the White House, to his son’s quick sweep into the same office. Along the way, we see the complex relationships the Bushes have had with the giants of the century—Eisenhower, Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Kissinger, Reagan, Clinton—as well as the often ruthless methods used to realize their goals.

Perhaps most impressive—and surprising—is the way the book delves behind the obsessively protected public image into the family’s intimate private lives: the matriarchs, the mistresses, the marriages, the divorces, the jealousies, the hypocrisies, the golden children, and the black sheep.

At a crucial point in American history, Kitty Kelley is the one person to finally tell all about the family that has, perhaps more than any other, defined our role in the modern world. This is the book the Bushes don’t want you to read. This is The Family.

About the Author

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.


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