'course, nobody in the cable chattering ilk wanted to know in 2000, what Shrub was KNOWN to be like. All they had to do was read Molly IVINS. Or earn their bucks by doing just a wee bit of actual reaporting.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/06042008/gossip/cindy/tell_alls_coming_about_dubya_113818.htm?page=0TELL-ALLS COMING ABOUT DUBYA
June 4, 2008 -- YOU maybe read maybe that Dick Cheney said maybe he'll do a book down the line. Let mother tell you, kiddies, a lavatoryful of Washington's current gang is, as we speak, plotting some half-arsed memoir about working with W. in DC.
Ask not how I know. I know.
Last week, Los Angeles, was the book trade convention. Following Scott McClellan's literary success (he fits both the fiction and nonfiction categories), the hills are alive with the sound of proposals. This wasn't happening even 30 days ago. Now, suddenly, all sorts of mouths are speaking, all sorts of publishers are listening. Even those who are very close, who swear they'd never never never write about the handouts that fed them, are floating ideas. The only one you're sure isn't knocking out a book is Miss Beasley the dog. Although it is possible she is pouring over notes.
Remember, you heard it here first. Next year at this time we'll be up to our eyeballs in Inside the Bush Administration.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06042008/gossip/pagesix/karls_shadow_113794.htmKARL'S 'SHADOW'
June 4, 2008 -- KARL Rove was manipulating presidential political moves for George W. Bush as far back as 1996, according to a new book, "Machiavelli's Shadow," by Paul Alexander. Bob Dole considered approaching the then-Texas governor to form a Dole-Bush ticket. "I called Rove in the late spring or early summer after we had won the nomination to see if W. would be interested in being considered to be on the ticket as vice president," Dole campaign manager Scott Reed reveals for the first time. "We ended up vetting five or six guys, and they have to cooperate to be vetted by filling out papers and things. Karl's reaction was to take a pass because W. wasn't really ready for national politics," Reed is quoted in the book: "Now, they may have concluded we were going to lose and they didn't want to be included in it. Fast-forward to 1999 and W. made his first move into national politics when he traveled outside of Texas to give a major speech, and it was a disaster . . . Rove was right."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06042008/gossip/pagesix/sharon_bush_memoir_due_post_election_113799.htmSHARON BUSH MEMOIR DUE POST-ELECTION
June 4, 2008 -- AT the '21' club launch for Dr. Robert Schwalbe's book "Sixty, Sexy, and Successful," Sharon Bush told pals she heard a rumor the Bush family paid her $10 million to prevent her from writing a book about her life with the president's brother, Neil Bush. She laughed, saying she wished it was true, but she only got $30,000 a year for four years in the divorce after three children and 23 years of marriage. Sharon revealed she still has her diaries and plans to write a memoir, but not until George W. Bush is out of the White House. She bought family members six copies of Schwalbe's book, which deals with men's midlife and late-life crises. She told the doctor she wished Neil Bush had laid down on the psychoanalyst's couch before he started cheating. Schwalbe agreed, and as the crowd nodded and laughed, he added that Eliot Spitzer should have done the same before he destroyed his political career.
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