Book publishers (ALL OF THEM) say,"Thanks, but no thanks" to Bush memoir

[rvablue]

Just saw it on my local news, so I don't have a link, but Bush was shopping around a memoir to be written after he leaves office and EVERYONE said no.

Even the conservative publishing houses, who said even they didn't think their readership would be interested in reading about the Bush administration.

Shrub is leaving office in such low esteem and disgrace he can't even sell a book which every departing president has been able to do.....what a loser.

[valerief]

1. He can self-publish at Lulu.com. Bwahahahahaha!

[Call Me Wesley]

10. You think he'll be able to

upload nice page layouts? Nothing against Lulu.com, but I'm sure he'll even fail this one ... ;)

[valerief]

17. Yeah, I guess not, despite their moron-proof publishing wizard. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Good! I had predicted this a few days ago, that we won't be seeing a great big

book deal for Shrubbie. Nor, I predicted, would we even see a book deal at all, excepting perhaps one of the rightwing Jesus Crispy publishing houses.

[kimmerspixelated]

3. OMG!

I almost feel sorry for him! NOT! That's the one thing he probably counted on, and now it's like...he's like some kind of bizarre, mutated short shit OJ SImpson, and no one wants to have anything to do with him whatsoever!

[FVZA_Colonel]

4. Not even Regnery?

[Spinzonner]

5. Maybe Crayola can give him an advance on writing materials

[WinkyDink]

30. Don't you be mentioning my Crayola in the same sentence! ;) Easton, PA!

[blm]

6. Because everyone knows it will all be lies. Bush1and2, the most dishonest administrations in history

.

[Bryn]

7. He probably will sell it if he admits that he drink in the White House

and admits he lied to get us in the war with Iraq because he wanted to finish what his father didn't or that he just wanted to be a war President.

He looks terrible now. Not so smirky anymore.

[galaxy21]

8. Fox news will give him his own show

[graywarrior]

9. He can't read! How in the fuck can he write anything?????

[hvn_nbr_2]

11. Editors hate manuscripts written in crayon. nt

[Blackhatjack]

12. He ought to be able to do a Pop-Up "My Pet Goat" book.

OR maybe a "Where in the world is George?" book.

[theothersnippywshrub]

13. Here is the proposed title and cover art.

[damntexdem]

14. Has he tried the comic book publishers?

Coloring book publishers?

Hey, maybe Charmin would publish it on rolls of toilet paper.

;-)

[Orsino]

15. He's done quite enough rewriting of history.

I wouldn't have enough patience--or crayons--to make it through a book by *.

[ReadTomPaine]

16. He should just do it as a Chick Tract.

That shoe will fit perfectly.

[SoonerPride]

37. I wonder how many here know of which you speak.

As a gay waiter in red red Oklahomophobia I got literally dozens of those fuckign things as "tips"

I wanted to mail those to the electric company with note "Sorry, I can't pay the light bill this month, I got these Chick tracts instead of dollar bills."

[ReadTomPaine]

41. They are the essence of the conservative movement distilled into hate than anyone can understand.

No decoding required. It's a crystal clear view into the mindset. Using them as tips? That takes the cake. It's a perfect storm of arrogance, ignorance and hate.

[Lil Missy]

18. No shit?

:rofl:

[Hawkeye-X]

19. Chimpo should scrap plans for the Chimp Libarry.

And put his shit in his dad's library. Noone'd care.

Hawkeye-X

[A-Schwarzenegger]

20. Not believable.

Believe me.

[Blasphemer]

21. I agree

No way he would be turned down and I do think his memoir will be a bestseller.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

24. "Just saw it on my local news"

Must be true.

[ContinentalOp]

36. Yeah, that sounds a little weird. I mean from a strictly business point of view, might as well...

publish it because somebody would buy it.

[Essene]

22. can somebody PLEASE find sources for this? this is historic

historically FUNNY that is.

[Dem2theMax]

23. "they didn't think their readership would be interested in reading about the Bush administration. "

No shit, publishers.

We lived through the hell of the * years. We don't want, or need, to read about it.

Now if they want to put some of his funnier, mangled quotes on toilet paper and sell that, I might be interested. :evilgrin:
(But only if the money goes to charity.)

[donheld]

25. Nobody want's to publish a book

Written with Crayons.

[onager]

26. And Sarah Palin stole his last book title

A Charge To Keep.

:rofl:

[democrattotheend]

27. As crazy as it sounds, I'd be kind of interested in reading Bush's memoirs

I'd love to know what actually goes on inside his head. Although the book would probably be ghostwritten, so it probably would not be of much value.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

28. It would be like "A Charge To Keep"

Ghostwritten by Karen Hughes with a bunch of mindless cliches and platitudes

[WinkyDink]

29. People won't pay good money for the lies of a psychopath.

[olegramps]

31. His writing materials will consists of a Big Chief Tablet and Crayola.

[Pharlo]

32. I'm waiting to see how the 'speech trail' accepts him.....

Will he actually have the possibility of a large money making speech tour, or will they have to book him in small comedy clubs with the marquee reading "George Bush English: Or, how not to speak"

[Honeycombe8]

33. You know, I find that hard to believe. Because I think there must be a market...

for the memoirs of every President. And I would think there would be a huge market for Bush's memoirs precisely BECAUSE he was the worst one in history; I think a lot of people would want to read it to try to get inside his head to figure out what the hell happened, how it happened, and is there a brain in that head of his. I think historians would hang on every word, psychiatrists would analyze it, and anti-Bush (like myself) would read it looking for some valid reason he did the horrible things he did, and there is always a core of Bush lovers out there.

I guess there isn't a market. But I would've thought there would be. Unless he proposed some glossy memoir (by an adoring ghost writer) that merely gives dates and events or something dry like that.

[azmouse]

34. This was mentioned on MSNBC last night too.

HA... He's getting what he deserves. Absolutely nothing.

[crossroads]

35. hahahahahaaaaa

[sofa king]

38. Can he read and write?

[No Elephants]

39. Hard to believe that the book wouldn't sell. I mean, people tie up traffic to look at train wrecks.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

40. Not quite:::

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008360756_webbushmemoirs.html