Posted on 02/23/2005 12:28:41 PM PST by ArmyBratproud
President Bush is reportedly furious after being betrayed by author Doug Wead, who tape-recorded their private phone conversations, then played the tapes, first for his publisher, then for the New York Times.
"Dubya's become a Burning Bush over it," reports the New York Post's Cindy Adams. "And rightly so. With pals like Friend Wead, who needs enemies?"
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"Around publishing water coolers it's being whispered and rewhispered that Friend Wead played them for his publisher as a marketing tool," the Post columnist reports. "Marketing for himself, that is."
It was Wead's "financial ploy," she says. "The tapes are what got Friend Wead an extra few quid in his contract."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Mark did not offer up any softball questions either.
He hit Wead with some tough questions...and realities.
Wead tried to play himself as a guy have a rough couple of days....hoping for sympathy I guess.
Well, he did not find it. After Mark's tough questions...callers phoned into the show and hammered Wead. Nobody is buying Weads excuses.
Isn't it illegal to ape a phone conversation without the permission of both parties? (Excepting court-approved wire-taps, of course...)
ape = tape, of course.
I believe Wead has cancelled his other Screaming Face appearances.
He says he did it in states where consent was not needed by the party being taped.
Still, just the snippets I heard make Bush sound in private just like he does in public. I think that's why the MSM hasn't made a bigger deal out of the tapes - they help Bush. I especially liked the story about his dad being disappointed in him and when he said he wouldn't discriminate. Who can argue with stuff like that? But I hope this guy's book is a big flop!
Isn't this the man who was fired from a White House position by GHWB in the summer of 1990? Then he ran for Congress in AZ in 1992 and lost, after BMG endorsed his Democrat opponent, Karan English.
Bush couldn't care less.
I'd be really p*ssed of if I was the Prez....isnt it true that it is illegal to phone tape someone without their permission....I would have him busted....well not the prez, but whatever agency handles that.....the prez should steer clear of any entanglements....
I suspect that Doub Wead shouldn't hold his breath waiting for the next White House Christmas Card...
Hopefully Mr. Wead meets with an untimely and very painful demise and maybe it would serve notice to others not to be so stupid.
WEll that is how bill clinton would have handled it.
we use to call someone like that a D*ck Weed. sort of fits don't it...
Doug Wead - well known as an Amway motivational speaker.
Amway, another endeavor where one uses one's friends to their detriment -- so one can make money for one's self.
I guess Wead just "upped" the ante.
It depends on the jurisdiction.
You got it. Bush is more and more like Teflon Ron. This incident went no where with the MSM and bounced off Bush from the get go. He moved on days ago.
Doug Wead and Linda Tripp... morally equivalent?
The MSM should either give Wead the Linda Tripp treatment...or give her the biggest apology on the planet.
Ah Cindy, did you pick up this little tidbit while traveling recently in Brussels or Mainz?
Wead's an opportunistic scumbag.
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