(2008-08-23) — While President George Bush today condemned TV ads by ‘outside groups’ like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as “bad for the system,” the Bush campaign remained strangely silent about the forthcoming book “Axis of Weasels,” by ScrappleFace.com editor-in-chief Scott Ott.
When asked at a news conference to specifically denounce the ScrappleFace book, Mr. Bush cupped his hand to his ear and said, “I think I miscomprehandled the question, but let me just say: Dick Cheney could be president. Next question.”
An unnamed spokesman for MacMenamin Press, the publisher of “Axis of Weasels,” denied any direct links to the Bush-Cheney campaign and said MacMenamin would continue to sell Mr. Ott’s book “even if President Bush signs an executive order to halt sales.”
According to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, ScrappleFace.com is a division of the ScrappleFace Enterprise Institute, a non-527 group which receives its funding through the National Endowment for the Otts, with no apparent links to wealthy, Texas-based Republican donors.
