Goodnight Bush > General Discussion

Posted: 7/9/2008 1:45:37 PM EDT

Leave it to a couple of Bush-haters to bastardize a classic children's favorite...

www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/16goodnight.html?ex=1371355200&en=99b9570d062b8109&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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The manuscript — unsolicited and addressed simply to “Editor in Chief, Little, Brown” — arrived at its destination in a clear envelope, “which was very clever,” said Geoff Shandler, the Little, Brown editor in chief who received the package. “Without opening it, I could see some of the cover image they had designed.”

Such was Mr. Shandler’s introduction to “Goodnight Bush,” an unauthorized parody of the 1947 children’s bedtime classic “Goodnight Moon,” written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd.

For generations, weary parents have intoned: “Goodnight room. Goodnight moon. Goodnight cow jumping over the moon. Goodnight light, and the red balloon.” And who can forget the bowl of mush and the quiet old lady who endlessly whispers “hush”?

The cover of “Goodnight Bush” looks almost exactly like “Goodnight Moon — green and orange, with an image of a window and fireplace — and uses a similar rhyme scheme. But there the thematic similarities end.

The authors, Erich Origen and Gan Golan, set their story in “a situation room.” There is no bunny snuggling into bed, but rather George W. Bush, grinning and wearing a “Mission Accomplished” flight suit. Instead of three little bears sitting on chairs, there are “war profiteers giving three cheers.”

Subsequent pages tell of “A grand old party to war in a rush/And a quiet Dick Cheney whispering hush.” The vice president is illustrated seated in a rocking chair — with a shotgun in his lap and bunny slippers on his feet.

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While the authors’ considerations were largely political, the publisher worried more about sales potential. At 48 pages, “Goodnight Bush” is the sort of short read that publishers fear will be quickly digested in stores and thus will not make it to the cash register.

“But this had so many brilliant gags,” Mr. Shandler said. “You could spend so much time looking page by page.”

For example, the mouse that flits about the pages of “Goodnight Moon” has been replaced by a tiny scurrying Osama bin Laden. At the beginning of the book, a pristine Constitution hangs on a wall; by book’s end, it is full of crayoned redactions.

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I heard about this on the radio on my way home last night and was just...

Posted: 7/9/2008 1:50:43 PM EDT

[#1]

An NPR review of the same book, with some images from it:

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92325702

(Not nearly as fawning over the book and its authors as the radio story was...

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Posted: 7/9/2008 1:54:14 PM EDT

[#2]

Well, it does appeal to the metal capacity of those with Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Posted: 7/9/2008 1:55:20 PM EDT

[#3]

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Well, it does appeal to the metal capacity of those with Bush Derangement Syndrome.

+100

Posted: 7/9/2008 1:55:22 PM EDT

[#4]

I guess commissioning a rendition of Goodnight Obama would be out of the question for the liberal media and publishers?

There is no end to how far a liberal will take something and hide behind the Constitution while setting fire to it at the same time.

Posted: 7/9/2008 1:56:30 PM EDT

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I guess commissioning a rendition of Goodnight Obama would be out of the question for the liberal media and publishers?

There is no end to how far a liberal will take something and hide behind the Constitution while setting fire to it at the same time.

Well said Sir.

Posted: 7/9/2008 1:57:00 PM EDT

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Quoted:
An NPR review of the same book, with some images from it:

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92325702

(Not nearly as fawning over the book and its authors as the radio story was...

)

NPR got pounded with negative responses, even from liberals, from that disgusting, fawning interview.

Posted: 7/9/2008 1:57:26 PM EDT

[#7]

Liberalism really IS a mental illness.

That's not even well done.

Posted: 7/9/2008 2:08:45 PM EDT

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NPR got pounded with negative responses, even from liberals, from that disgusting, fawning interview.

Glad to hear that. Thanks!

Posted: 7/9/2008 2:17:14 PM EDT

[#9]

nuthin but tards, i despise liberals. Some one should have a story goin bout obama bin laden reading a nighty night story from the quaran (who gives a shit how its spelled) to children from his favorite madrassa (again, who gives a shit)

Posted: 7/9/2008 2:22:15 PM EDT

[#10]

FWIW, my objection/disgust wasn't so much that it was done in the form a children's book/parody (that's been done before, by both sides) but that it was patterned after a specific, real children's book, one beloved by families all over the world (mine included).

Posted: 7/10/2008 5:32:43 AM EDT

[#11]

BTT for one more day, just because it irritated me so...

Posted: 7/10/2008 5:35:31 AM EDT

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Liberals are more than willing to crap over the 2nd amendment, the 1st amendment (*fairness doctrine) and yet have the audacity to proclaim Bush is shitting on the constitution.

Fuck you and your donkey.

Posted: 7/10/2008 5:03:15 PM EDT

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Liberals are more than willing to crap over the 2nd amendment, the 1st amendment (*fairness doctrine) and yet have the audacity to proclaim Bush is shitting on the constitution.

Fuck you and your donkey.

They're both wrong. Both sides have torn the constitution in two. Both sides are only concerned with the parts the opposite party is wiping their butt with.

Wouldn't it be great to have a party that wanted the whole thing intact?

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