Posted on 09/22/2009 10:29:13 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
When the sun rises over our capital city this morning, its denizens will awake to a truly novel tale: The aggrieved ex-staffer—wait for it!—disillusioned by Washington. The tome out today is by former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer, who describes the White House as "less like Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing and more like The Office." In Mr. Latimer's hands, it reads more like "The Princess Diaries," full of hurt feelings and high-schoolish drama.
Like all kiss and tells, "Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor" is thick with atmospherics intended to suggest the author's importance: a West Wing office, meetings in the Oval, rides on Air Force One, etc. Like most kiss and tells too, it's divided between heroes (Mr. Latimer and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld) and idiots (pretty much everyone else). And like so many kiss and tells, the tale of failure, foolishness and vanity it reveals is not necessarily the one the author intends.
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Dana Perino recommends this piece.
I’m amazed we didn’t get dozens of these after the Clinton administration. That must have been some severance agreement - probably had a literal severance clause.
When people say Bush made idiotic speeches, now we can point to the reason why- the idiot who wrote them. And he wrote a book to prove it.
Maybe they all got to keep their souvenir keyboard W key
LOL! As my college Soph. son would say, "Sick burn!"
more likely they were afraid of winding up in Ft. Marcy Park or Mena, Ark.
Such an excellent smackdown of the worm, Matt Latimer.
I just posted the link below of Brian and Judge interviewing Dana Perino about this. A good interview.
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