The Bush Restoration Project

[Emit]

:wtf: A little revisionist history, anyone?

The Bush Restoration Project
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is on a mission to rehabilitate the former president's reputation.
By Jordan Michael Smith
Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at 3:01 PM ET

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro talks about George W. Bush the way Buddhists talk about the Dalai Lama. "He stands for truth, compassion and freedom," he says. "Bush instinctively sees the global picture that every living person has the right to be free." It's hardly surprising, then, that Shapiro founded Honor Freedom, an organization devoted to restoring Bush's reputation. And Shapiro may actually succeed—especially since Bush, too, will be working on the same project, if not the same organization.

On its Web site, Honor Freedom proclaims its three-part mission: "UNITE BUSH SUPPORTERS by building a national network" of supporters; "CORRECT THE HISTORICAL RECORD by dispelling fallacies about President Bush"; and "TEACH AMERICA the truth about the Bush foreign policy doctrine" (all capitalization in original). Through a nationwide public education program consisting of op-eds, media appearances, and free public seminars, the nonprofit group intends to teach Americans that George W. Bush was actually a great president and an even better man.

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Shapiro also claims the support of Bush, though the former president is not involved in Honor Freedom. Shapiro recently stayed for a week at the ranch of Bush's nephew, Pierce, who introduced the two. "You're doing good work," Shapiro says the former president told him. Shapiro says he regularly exchanges e-mail with Karl Rove, and Blakeman says he's had conversations with other former members of Bush's staff who are excited about Honor Freedom.

Shapiro's views of the media were shaped by experience. After covering the JonBenét Ramsey case for the Globe tabloid as a reporter, he voluntarily reported his editors to the FBI for criminal violations and testified against them in a grand jury as a key witness. Shapiro says his coverage of the Ramsey case and the Chandra Levy case led him to resent the media's abuse of the First Amendment, which "probably led to my feelings about the media lies told about President Bush." After leaving the media, Shapiro went to law school and worked for Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election—and then worked for the Bush administration as a federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia.

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http://www.slate.com/id/2251517/

[Gman2]

1. Fuck you Jeb, it aint gonna work.

[HillbillyBob]

2. Skkkum

nt

[JuniperLea]

3. What a joke...

It's not going to fly with anyone who lived through his blasted administration. Not in the least.

[freesqueeze]

4. RETCH!

I will count on the historians to get it right.

Worse Prez of my life....and I'm pretty old.

[Lasher]

5. Straight from Saint Ronnie's playbook.

Like everything else.

[gratuitous]

6. He resents the media's abuse of the First Amendment?

Since First Amendment is concerned solely with limiting the power of Congress to make laws, it's pretty unclear what Mr. Shapiro means by the media abusing the First Amendment. Are the media passing laws that we don't know about?

[political_Dem]

7. How are they going to conceal the utter criminality and debasement during the Bush Administration?

That's a colossal task.

But, I would rather this be taken out of their hands and placed into the World Court.

In the end, the only legacy that fits Bush (and by extension his family) right now is a war criminal.