Tina Brown: Bush Library To Be "Halloween Shop Of Horrors," Presidency "A Chapter Of Hideous Accidents"

The Daily Beast founder and editor-in-chief Tina Brown appeared on "The Rachel Maddow Show" (guest-hosted by Alison Stewart, wife of executive producer Bill Wolff) Tuesday night. Brown's segment was focused on the 62 days remaining in the Bush presidency, and she did not mince words in dissecting the lame duck.

"One of the things that I'm told at the moment is that Bush is entirely focused right now on his legacy, on his library," she said. "That's all he really wants to talk about is his library. Because he's trying to build a legacy. But quite honestly, one can only think that that library is a Halloween House of Horrors. From the Guantanamo room to the Abu Ghraib room to the Hurricane Katrina room, this is going to be a very interesting library when it is built."

Brown also said that Bush's presidency has had "so many disasters" that, unlike previous lame duck Presidents, he is not "looking back in a mellow fashion on his Presidency, or even feeling that he has busy things to do so much as a President who is kind of punch-drunk with a series of debacles which even he — in his great denial and refusal to accept his own failures — has to accept at this point has been a chapter of hideous accidents, if you want to be charitable about it."

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Before Tina went up to 30 Rock, she celebrated the launch of The Daily Beast at New York's Pop Burger (she ducked out at 8:41 PM, says the New York Observer's John Koblin). Read his party report here.

Comments

[Artos]

The Bush Presidential Library already exists. It is located right outside his fathers Library. You can find it by looking for the little Out House with the moon cut out at the top of the door. On the outside of the Door it says Dubyas Liberry and the Christian Science Reading room underneath that. The "Books" are conveniently rolled up and kept in a holder from which they can be read, Patrons of the Liberry have a lovely white seat with a hole it to sit on and which is useful for getting rid of the reading material after it's been well "read". On one wall near the seat is a bowl into which you all can spit your chaw. Unfortunately you do have to use a flashlight if you decide to visit the Liberry at night.

[hortonhearsawho]

Gee, will they have the "Internets" and the "googles".

[Vyvjala]

George Carlin is credited with the seven words you cannot say on tv or radio. Make that eight words with the addition of bush......­..........­.

[clcmm36]

I’m sure historians and authors will be very unkind and critical of the Lame W. Duck administration. The only legacy is the one he fabricates so 99.9% of the books in his library will be fiction.

[cactusgal]

Sounds like a good place for GW to curl up with the Bible and bag of pretzels

[zendem1]

Better be the CD version cos he can't read.

[thestargazer]

I like the idea of a Crawford, TX outhouse being converted into his library. By the time they are done shredding everything, what's left should fit easily.

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/the-new-bush-presidential-library-bunkers-crosses-and-outhouses/

[OkieMon]

the obama presidency will be a sociology test to see if a smart bl*ack man can perform better than a stupid white man....mon­ey is on the former....­.

[ArdentV]

I suppose I am only speaking the obvious but, to me, the tragedy of Bush is, he was one of those people who, when he got into trouble, was always bailed out. He never seemed to take any responsibility for his actions and would only accept yes men (or women) in his entourage. There is an adage (sorry, I do not remember the source) that states, "Show me a man who has never made a mistake and I will show you someone who has likely not made anything,.­....except a lot of trouble. And my greatest fear is, even out of office, he will be a troublemaker of some sort.

[arspar183]

As I said before folks,
the Bush Library will be B.Y.O.C.
Bring Your Own Crayons!

[JoeBlough]

The library will give him a place to sleep during the day and a bathroom to use. No coffee can for him.

[joewalters]

Ouch.

[violimo]

The first book in it should be the new Palin 'book.' OR maybe that kids book he couldn't pull himself away from as 9/11 happened. Flashback. Do you remember that no-one could find W after the second tower went down?

Honestly, if he just made it into a comic book library it will be a great contribution.

[mergina]

And they should have a full size statue of him dancing out front of it, dancing to the horrors he knowingly created. I hope they spend a fortune on it and no one comes to it.

[Loisebby]

Since when does ANYONE care about what Tina Brown says! Please....­....... Can you say media failure!!!!!!!!!!

[rabiddog6708]

When you have no intelligent retorts, attack the messenger. Can you blogger failure!!!!!!!!

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