affair. These charades are peddled to a very credulous public by operatives whose task
goes beyond mere damage control to mind control-- the "MK" in the government's MK
Ultra operation.
Part of the free ride enjoyed by George Bush during the 1988 elections is reflected in the
fact that at no point in the campaign was there any serious effort by any of the so-called
news organizations to provide the public with something approaching an accurate and
complete account of his political career. At least two biographies of Dukakis appeared
which, although hardly critical, were not uniformly laudatory either. But in the case of
Bush, all the public could turn to was Bush's old 1980 campaign biography and a newer
campaign autobiography, both of them a tissue of lies.
Early in the course of our research for the present volume it became apparent that all
books and most longer articles dealing with the life of George Bush had been generated
from a single print-out of thoroughly sanitized, approved and canonically admitted
"facts" about Bush and his family. We learned that during 1979-1980, Bush aide Pete
Russell attempted to recruit biographers to prepare a life of Bush based on a collection of
press releases, news summaries, and similar pre-digested material. Most biographical
writing about Bush consists merely of the points from this printout, strung out
chronologically and made into a narrative through the interpretation of comments,
anecdotes, embellishments, or special stylistic devices.
The canonical Bush-approved printout is readily identified. One dead giveaway that
became a joke among the authors of the present study was the inevitability with which
the hacks out to cover up the substance of Bush's life refer to a 1947 red Studebaker
which George Bush allegedly drove into Odessa, Texas in 1948. This is the sort of detail
with which such hacks attempt to humanize their subject, in the same way that
horseshoes, pork rinds, and country and western music have been introduced into Bush's
real life in a deliberate and deceptive attempt to humanize his image. It has been our
experience that any text that features a reference to Bush's red Studebaker has probably
been derived from Bush's list of approved facts, and is therefore practically worthless for
serious research into Bush's life. We therefore assign such texts to the "red Studebaker
school" of cover-up and falsification.
Some examples? His aide Vic Gold from Bush’s campaign autobiography, Looking
Forward, ghostwrites this:
Heading into Texas in my Studebaker, all I knew about the state's landscape was what I'd
seen from the cockpit of a Vultee Vibrator during my training days in the Navy. [fn 1]
Here is the same moment as recaptured by Bush's crony Fitzhugh Green, a friend of the
Malthusian financier Russell Train, in his George Bush: An Intimate Portrait, published
after Bush had won the presidency:
He [Bush] gassed up his 1948 Studebaker, arranged for his wife and son to follow, and
headed for Odessa, Texas. [fn 2]