We're less than a month away from the release of the official memoirs of former President George Walker Bush, called Decision Points. The way the MSM has been covering the upcoming midterm elections, you'd think they would be clamoring to give breathless previews of the upcoming book and explain how it ties in to the whole tea party movement. Yet when it comes to hype of the former President, all I've heard recently has been crickets.
I was in a Barnes and Noble store yesterday, and I saw an in-store poster indicating the release of George W. Bush's Decision Points on November 9, 2010. As far as I know, this is the only information I've seen showing the book being released anytime soon. When Bill Clinton released his Presidential memoirs, it was hyped up the wazoo and previewed breathlessly not only on all of the Sunday political TV talks shows but all over CNN and Fox News for a month prior to its release, not to mention having miles of print in all the major U.S. newspapers. Yet you have a former two-term President who the investor classes clamored to be with, and there's nary a peep about his memoirs being released in the media.
If the GOP is poised to make massive gains in the House and Senate in the upcoming midterm elections, wouldn't the MSM frame that as a repudiation of President Obama's liberal agenda? And if this is the case, then why isn't the media hyping up the former President's memoirs in conjunction with the midterm elections? In fact, why isn't Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck prominently hyping the release of this book, especially since we are just a few weeks away from it's release? Could it be because reminding voters how closely tied the current GOP candidates are to the former President might make them vote for Democrats in the next two weeks?
Hey, maybe we can use it as a campaign issue. Just ask any GOP candidate what they think about former President Dubya and whether they are excited to read his memoirs.