The Onion publishes "unauthorized" Bush biography "Destined for Destiny"

[Human Torch]

Next week, 166 new pages of Bush-bashing will arrive in stores. “Destined for Destiny, the Unauthorized Autobiography of George W. Bush” was co-written by Peter Hilleren and Scott Dikkers, editor-in-chief of The Onion, www.theonion.com which should tell you everything you need to know about the book. “Destined for Destiny” certainly looks and feels like the real deal, an actual memoir, thanks to the cover’s straightforward presidential design . But a closer look reveals that the badge on the upper-left corner of the jacket reads: WINNER OF THE SUPER SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHIZING. And with that, the opening shot is fired.

As they do when they send up the commander-in-chief on their weekly web radio address, the book’s authors mock key moments in the president’s life in his own voice, uncannily imitating his speech patterns and mercilessly lampooning his famous malapropisms. A sample passage, on the decision to invade Iraq: “There were many good reasons to go to war with Iraq. The first one I proposed was that I was the Commander-in-Chief, and I was ordering it. “When I was told this would not be a good enough reason, more ideas were generated.

“One excellent reason, for the moment, was to find Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, which we had sold to him in the 1980s. I believed strongly that the evil dictator had those weapons, because my Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, still had carbon copies of the receipts.”

And so on. Chapter titles include “No Bush Child Left Behind,” “Then I Ran Some Companies into the Ground” “I Won! Or Lost, Whatever” and “The Greatest Love of my Life: Jesus.” (Indeed, in an inspired send-up of the memoir staple-the life-in-photos at the book’s center-the authors have Photoshopped Jesus into the background of every iconic Bush photo you’ve ever seen. A photo montage has already been making the rounds on YouTube as part of a viral marketing campaign.)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15263753/site/newsweek/

[Downtown Hound]

1. How much do I love The Onion?

I have to get this book.

[chat_noir]

2. lol..listen to the audio clips

Speaking from the heart, not from the brain, this legendary Commander-in-Chief takes us on a journey through his momentous life. The great man we hear here displays his mother's steely resolve and vindictive temper, his father's keen mastery of language, and his own unique gift of deciding.


http://www.simonsays.com/extras/html/eCards/DforD/DforD.html


Audio clips: http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=32&pid=521550&agid=32&DCMP=EMC-DforD092806

[truthisfreedom]

3. well if that isn't being timed to influence the election, i'll eat my

dinner.