Cocaine-use charges send Bush book soaring up bestseller lists

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=10&u=/afp/20040914/ts_afp/us_vote_bush_book_040914175814

NEW YORK (AFP) - Allegations that US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) snorted cocaine at Camp David while his father was in office have fuelled sales of a new, gossip-filled book about the Bush family by controversial celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley.


"The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty" hit bookshelves across the United States on Tuesday, with advance orders already placing it at the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list.


The 733-page tome is heavy with the author's trademark mix of scandal and sexual innuendo, and paints a deeply unflattering portrait of the Bush dynasty that has been condemned by the White House as a politically motivated smear job ahead of November's presidential election.


The book asserts that Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, went on "alcoholic binges," explores an alleged affair between former president George H.W. Bush and a longtime aide, and cites sources that describe First Lady Laura Bush as a "go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana" during her college days in the 1960s.


Most advance publicity, however, has focused on the allegation that Bush used cocaine with one of his brothers at Camp David when their father was president.

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[Maddy McCall]

1. Bought mine a few minutes ago. :-)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Bought mine this morning.

They are flying off the shelves at Barnes & Noble. The first chapter is chilling because it describes how difficult it was to get information because the BFEE is so secretive and vindictive. I hope Kitty has bodyguards and that she's carefully safeguarded all the material that didn't make it into the book. The really important thing about this book isn't the gossipy stuff -- whether Poppy had a mistress or Shrub was a drunk and a cokehead. It's that she shows how the Bushes are nothing more than a preppy version of the Gambinos; they are just as ruthless and dangerous. The book isn't tittilating; it's scary.

[jdj]

24. RATE THIS STORY!!!

happy day, happy day.

[Florida_Geek]

2. Mines in the mail from amazon. nt

[tjdee]

3. Won't someone think of the CHILDREN!

I think these are the sort of things that will unsettle the hearts of the more conservative folks. Cocaine is big nuts. They'll still vote for him, though.

[SquireJons]

25. Yeah, but will they actually vote this time around?

I'm hoping many pugs will stay home this year.

[Carolab]

5. Laughing at Matt Lauer

On the Today Show getting all uppity about the cocaine charges. Remember when Matt had his own 'lil problem with substance abuse?

[Stew225]

6. Matt Lauer, another classic example of someone

who badly needs his ass kicked.

[demoman123]

19. He and his bosses gave Kitty 3 days on MSNBC.

His questions were probing, but the publicity is unprecedented. Three days of interviews. I'll bet that humped up book sales significantly.

[goclark]

7. Kitty needs to throw that right in his face

Rove doesn't care. He is so cock sure of every move,has all the power and the media is at his feet.
It is so sick!

To think that they would use Matt,knowing that he had the cocaine stuff in the tabloids a few years ago.

Maybe KKKKarl is his supplier??

[Papa]

11. maybe they have other stuff on Matt that we don't know about

I wouldn't be surprised if they are blackmailing a lot of media folks. Would explain alot of this madness.

[plcdude]

32. Have not heard anything about this

what problems did Matt Laurer have?

[Carolab]

38. THIS little problem

MATT LAUER'S COCAINE DEALER TELLS ALL!

HIS SECRET DRUG PAST EXPOSED




A drug dealer's account of Matt Lauer's secret drug past has been exposed by The ENQUIRER.

In a blockbuster interview, a former close friend of the respected Today show star says he was Lauer���s dealer and that the newsman bought cocaine from me five to six times. The dealer -- who passed a polygraph exam required by The ENQUIRER -- says he also gave the dangerous drug to Lauer and snorted it with him.

In the world-exclusive story, you'll learn the dealer's own eyewitness account of Lauer's descent into the seedy world of cocaine, how his TV boss confronted him over his drug use, how he finally got his life back on track, and much, much more.

Don't miss it!

Published on: October 23, 2003

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/feature.cfm?instanceid=59687

[Ol Sugar Coat]

8. About friggin' time somebody centralized the ugly truth into one fat tome

Now squirm, ShrubCo. ... SQUIRM!!! So, does anyone know which Bush brat was rumored to be Dubya's coke buddy at Camp David? And is the Victor Ashe stuff in there as well? Is there any evidence Dubya ever dropped acid? And if so, why was his consciousness not expanded?

[onager]

9. Flying out of my local Borders, too (Woodland Hills, CA)

I stopped at a Borders today during lunch (Woodland Hills, CA--a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley). Kitty's book was front-and-center in a big display, the first thing you saw as you came in the door. All the books on the display were almost gone.

[Carolab]

20. Good year for the booksellers

Who owns Borders?

[newyawker99]

31. Hi onager!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[starroute]

14. Marvin

"Now, the most attention so far has been focused on this charge by Sharon Bush, who is a former sister-in-law of the president. She's quoted in the book as saying that Marvin Bush, another one of the Bush brothers, and George W. Bush, 'did coke' -- cocaine -- at Camp David when their father was president. And not just once, either. This was a family of alcoholism, drug addiction, and even schizophrenia."

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/12/ips.00.html

[newyawker99]

30. Hi Ol Sugar Coat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Spazito]

10. I LOVE that headline!

It looks positively awesome sitting up there!

[MissB]

12. Which brother??? Jeb? Neil? Marvin? (nt)

[SayitAintSo]

13. The REAL beauty here is .....

Hundreds of THOUSANDS of folks will read Kitty Kelly - despite her reputation, because it's a fun easy read. Only a fraction of those will initially read a Kevin Philips or other authors on the Bush family. BUT, because of Kitty's book ... many will then move on to 'chain read' to some of the other Bush 'truth-out' books and many will really come to see the light. The JIGS UP !!!!

Don't you LOVE it ? :bounce:

[JoFerret]

27. What if they (many voters) don't care?

The family has no shame. W has no shame. He becomes the lovable rascal whose rigidy and narcissism are seen as redemption and resolve. (It could happen.) For the Smirk to slime at the Guard meeting yesterday and get away with it and for any single person to applause....it makes you shake your head.

[KamaAina]

15. Are they sure it was the cocaine use?

What makes them think it's not because of the gay sex?

Sex, drugs... is there any way Kelly could have tied Bush* to rock 'n' roll? :-)

[goclark]

17. The Bush family is the real ghetto

It makes me upset that these rich thugs are starving the poor people in America.

They have everything that life could ever offer and they go around like bullies.

I wish they would have to go and live in the ghetto for about 6 months so some of the brothers and sisters could teach them how to live. They wouldn't last 5 minutes.

I'd love to see their "Little Behinds Left Behind."

[ugarte]

21. What you said

How many brothers are doing a life bit for using coke?

And they say the system doesn't work. Works just fine for rich folks.

[JoFerret]

28. Is the Victor Ashe story in the book?

It can't be - if it were I think we would be hearing more about it. Surely sex that starts in a coffin at Yale trumps snorting at Coke David. And the abortion?

[Just Me]

16. "Blowback" hee hee hee,...

,...if only these revelations of character could compensate for the damage that this pResident (and his family tree) has inflicted upon humanity,...

,...if only,...

,...but, I have the capacity to dream,...something the "love of money" people cannot control or possess,...

[struggle4progress]

18. *SNORT* (as the President has so often said). eom

[Radical Liberal]

33. Just a sad chapter in a sad man's life.

This is just one more nail in the coffin that is the Bush Ascendency.

[JSJ]

22. 41 nearly had his ass shot off while vp

It seems that while Bush 41 was engaged in a dalliance with a woman of notable reputation in her fashionable Georgetown home, her husband came in and found her and 41 in a compromizing sutra. Said husband pulled his piece and as 41 was leaping out the second floor window, squeezed off a shot that nailed 41 in one of his buttocks. Dining nearby, in a fancy DC eatery, were Al Haig, Dick Cheney, and a couple other Republican fixers. Momentarily, a Secret Service agent assigned to 41's detail came bounding over to their table and explained what happened and breathlessly asked what should he do?

I don't know, specifically, what happened after that- spose it's anybody's guess. Same old, same old, probably.

[shawn703]

34. Is this Jennifer Fitzgerald?

I heard it was rumored he had an affair with a staffer, but didn't know she was married at the time and that he was shot over her. Is this the same woman?

[jdj]

23. HOT DAMN! That's the kind of headline I like to see!!!

Thank you yahoo! That is all it takes to sell the idea. Woohoo!

[Disturbed]

26. A real investigaive reporter ...

should dig in and research W's Community Service, the Court Expunge of an arrest and why he changed his driver's license #. This book is mostly innuendo, a thril read but no hard evidence.

[0007]

29. The hard evidence is what junior has accomplished while in the

White House. Nothing more need be said!

How would Norman Rockwell paint the cover picture for a "Saturday Evening Post" of junior and his past?

[Catfight]

35. Pickles the pusher! LOL

[cliss]

36. At this point, there is a whole section

devoted to "Bash Bush" books. I haven't been in my bookstore lately, but I've read that there are now SO many anti-Bush books that have come out, that they've devoted whole sections in the book stores.

Imagine that.....Barnes & Noble has a hanging sign that directs you to the Headings: "Cooking", "Baby Care" "Gardening" ,and "Bush".

heh he

[Zen Democrat]

37. If she sold lids at SMU, maybe she's "Liddie Bush"? n/t

[DemFromMem]

39. Audio version

I downloaded the unabridged version of the book at Audible.com. I'm four hours into the 28 hour narration. Up to the section on GHWB going into the armed forces.

Either Lauer had not read any of the book or was just lying when he suggested that she was completely negative in the book. I've been surprised that the book is not nearly as negative as I expected (though I understand that the theme is that the family deteriorates as time goes along).

One example - she goes out of her way to dismiss the story that has been circulating on the web that Prescott Bush's company supported the Nazis after the US barred economic relations with Germany. That would have been a good comeback to Lauer.

Can't wait to get to the juicy parts.

[goforit]

40. Yet those damn polls say Bush is winning in a land slide!!!

Funny thing this is!!!

[ArnoldLayne]

41. kick

:kick: