There's a lot of back and forth blather about the Quisling Flavor of the Day, Dick Clarke (the failed bureaucrat, not the entertainer), but of all the whys and whats, the real reason behind this current tour-de-face on the buy my book circuit is summed up best by Roger Simon
They say authors are like hookers and will go anywhere and do anything to sell their books. (Who me? Look right!) The latest to shake his booty is Richard Clarke, the "terrorism expert" [What does that mean?--ed. He reads more than one newspaper a day.] who is flogging his new tome called Against All Enemies. Now as any fool who knows the Coulter/Moore Theorem of Basic Book Promotion understands, don't be reasonable, always be as extreme as possible, so Clarke says:Simon, because he is a sane man, blames neither Clinton or Bush for 911. If only the the government and the prating pundits of plutocracy would do the same. But no chance, no chance at all."FRANKLY, I FIND IT OUTRAGEOUS that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know."
As for Bush "ignoring terrorism for months," well, even if true we'd say he's more than made up for it at this point. Which, of course, is something else that irritates the Clark cadre.
Posted by Vanderleun at March 22, 2004 12:48 PM | TrackBack