spiker Cinemax Bush documentary - 02/18/04 Wed Feb 18 14:17:45 2004 64.140.158.23 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Cinemax Bush documentary - 02/18/04 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:25:51 -0700 From: spiker spiker77@intergate.com On Wednesday Feb. 18, once only, will be shown on Cinemax cable channel the documentary film "Horns and Halos" http://tinyurl.com/2wrfx about the book "Fortunate Son" http://tinyurl.com/3fzgo by James H Hatfield. This book details George W Bush's cocaine arrest, AWOL episode from the National Guard, crooked financial dealings, etc. Hatfield was murdered for writing the book, and the least you can do is videotape the movie, and then show it to everyone you can drag in front of your TV. The main Cinemax channel has a West Coast feed and an East Coast feed. They show the same films, but 3 hours later on the West than the East. Your cable system may get either or both. If you're on the West Coast (Pacific Time), the broadcast times on the two feeds will be 4:00PM (East feed) and 7:00PM (West feed). If you're on the East Coast (Eastern Time), the times will be 7:00PM (East feed) and 10:00PM (West feed). If you're on the East Coast watching the East Coast feed, or if you're on the West Coast watching the West Coast feed, the film will be shown at 7:00PM local time. In any case check the schedule for your cable system. ============================== http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/1887128506/reviews/104-2218573-4167941#18871285064000 Amazon.com = http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1887128506/102-8344177-4164937/104-2218573-4167941?v=glance Let's cut to the chase: yes, J.H. Hatfield alleges that, in 1972, George W. Bush was arrested for possession of cocaine and, with the help of his father, got the charges erased in exchange for performing community service. Other than that, however, Fortunate Son is a standard quickie biography of the Texas governor and frontrunner for the Republican nomination in the 2000 presidential race--and useful primarily because few people outside of Texas (for that matter, few people within Texas) know much about Bush's history and political record. It's all about connections, Hatfield says: if he'd had a different father, Bush "could be just another Texan who failed in the oil business and now operates a shrimp boat in the Gulf of Mexico." The bombshell doesn't even come until a short afterword, tacked onto the already completed manuscript at the last minute, complete with a "Deep Throat" within Bush's inner circle. (Said informant throws in an almost too perfectly worded attack on the governor's hypocrisy in vigorously fighting the war on drugs: "I've known George for several years and he has never accepted youth and irresponsibility as legitimate excuses for illegal behavior--except when it comes to himself.") Bush has denied the allegations, however, and it seems that Hatfield has a few dark secrets in his past. Shortly after the publication of Fortunate Son, The Dallas Morning News reported that Hatfield was a paroled felon who had attempted to hire a hit man to kill his boss. The online magazine Salon went on to add that he may have lied about his history as a freelance journalist and invented a fictitious award for a previous book. Throw in the skepticism of many journalists at the afterword's heavy reliance on anonymous sources, and Hatfield's credibility is in serious jeopardy. For his part, the author maintains that the paroled felon is a different James H. Hatfield, born the same month and year and living in the same part of the country, and if public records say otherwise, he argues: "Doesn't it sound a little bit weird to you that all of a sudden, the guy that's accusing potentially the next president of the United States of having his record expunged, all of a sudden miraculously has a record himself in the state of Texas?" It should perhaps be noted that among Hatfield's previous books is an unauthorized guide to The X-Files. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the Publisher Why was this book burned? What is in it that warrants censure? Despite a spectacular thrashing in public after Fortunate Son was first released by St. Martin's Press, author J.H. Hatfield has retracted nothing. He stands by his three sources that allege Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. Underneath heavy fire in the media, the former publisher panicked. But as Jenny Lyn Bader points out in The New York Times, "If he's merely a convicted felon...that doesn't preclude him from...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/1887128506/reviews/104-2218573-4167941#18871285064000 Amazon.com = http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1887128506/102-8344177-4164937/104-2218573-4167941?v=glance Let's cut to the chase: yes, J.H. Hatfield alleges that, in 1972, George W. Bush was arrested for possession of cocaine and, with the help of his father, got the charges erased in exchange for performing community service. Other than that, however, Fortunate Son is a standard quickie biography of the Texas governor and frontrunner for the Republican nomination in the 2000 presidential race--and useful primarily because few people outside of Texas (for that matter, few people within Texas) know much about Bush's history and political record. It's all about connections, Hatfield says: if he'd had a different father, Bush "could be just another Texan who failed in the oil business and now operates a shrimp boat in the Gulf of Mexico." The bombshell doesn't even come until a short afterword, tacked onto the already completed manuscript at the last minute, complete with a "Deep Throat" within Bush's inner circle. (Said informant throws in an almost too perfectly worded attack on the governor's hypocrisy in vigorously fighting the war on drugs: "I've known George for several years and he has never accepted youth and irresponsibility as legitimate excuses for illegal behavior--except when it comes to himself.") Bush has denied the allegations, however, and it seems that Hatfield has a few dark secrets in his past. Shortly after the publication of Fortunate Son, The Dallas Morning News reported that Hatfield was a paroled felon who had attempted to hire a hit man to kill his boss. The online magazine Salon went on to add that he may have lied about his history as a freelance journalist and invented a fictitious award for a previous book. Throw in the skepticism of many journalists at the afterword's heavy reliance on anonymous sources, and Hatfield's credibility is in serious jeopardy. For his part, the author maintains that the paroled felon is a different James H. Hatfield, born the same month and year and living in the same part of the country, and if public records say otherwise, he argues: "Doesn't it sound a little bit weird to you that all of a sudden, the guy that's accusing potentially the next president of the United States of having his record expunged, all of a sudden miraculously has a record himself in the state of Texas?" It should perhaps be noted that among Hatfield's previous books is an unauthorized guide to The X-Files. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the Publisher Why was this book burned? What is in it that warrants censure? Despite a spectacular thrashing in public after Fortunate Son was first released by St. Martin's Press, author J.H. Hatfield has retracted nothing. He stands by his three sources that allege Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. Underneath heavy fire in the media, the former publisher panicked. But as Jenny Lyn Bader points out in The New York Times, "If he's merely a convicted felon...that doesn't preclude him from...
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