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"Examine a sampling of the often hysterical titles: Worse than Watergate: the Secret Presidency of George Bush (John Dean); Big Lies, (Joe Conason); The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (David Corn); Big Bush Lies: the 20 most telling lies of George W. Bush (Jerry Barrett); Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush (John Bonifaz); The I Hate George Bush Reader: Why Dubya is Wrong About Absolutely Everything (Clint Willis); American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush (Kevin Phillips); Bushwhacked: Life in George Bush’s America (Molly Ivins); Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy (Robert Kennedy Jr.);Cruel and Unusual: Bush and Cheney’s New World Order (Mark Crispin Miller).*

* Cf. also Is Our Children Learning: The Case against George W. Bush (Paul Begala); The Dirty Truth: the Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush (Rick Abraham); The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush (Peter Singer); The Book on Bush: How George W. Bush is (Mis)leading America (Eric Alterman and Mark Green); The Bush Hater’s Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency in the Past 100 years (Jack Huberman); Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them (Al Franken); Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney/Bush Junta (Gore Vidal); Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America (Ariana Huffington); The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Chrstopher Scheer, Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry); Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (Maureen Dowd); Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and The Stifling of Democracy (Lewis Lapham); Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and It’s Time to Take it Back (Jim Hightower)."

Sweet merciful crap! That many titles?! And have any of them made any profit for the publisher? Well, let's look at the silver lining. Ever since the bubble economy popped I've been hearing about the depression in the ad business. What with all these 527's and campaign ad buys they must be undergoing a rennaissance of sorts.