Tuesday, January 07, 2003

"Missed You At Bible Study"

So I was in the bookstore today and saw a copy of David Frum's book, "What I Saw Was Deevolution" ...um ... "The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George Bush" marked down to $13.00 (damaged). Having skimmed it for a good two minutes, I can offer the following review:

"Missed you at Bible study" is the first sentence of the book and reportedly the first thing Frum heard someone say at the White House.

The book has 286 pages, not including the index.

I'm not listed in the index.

Neither is Mickey Kaus.

Sully is mentioned at page 159, quoted as calling some Bush speechwriter named Fonte as Bush's "Catholic Ghostwriter." There's a bunch of stuff about Crazy Davey Horowitz in that chapter.

It's got wide margins.

There's a whole chapter on the "Axis of Evil" credit flap, with Frum whining about how Slate quoted his wife's forwarded e-mail. But he was already planning to leave, and Novak lied on CNN when he said Frum got shit-canned.

Roger's Rating: Zero stars.

UPDATED (1/8) with multiple changes and corrections. See the Comments section for the original text. (Hey, I said it was two minutes.)

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