Bush family tips on frugality and ethics
So Laura Bush has begun a recurring segment on CBS’ “The Early Show” promoting children’s literacy and including an Early Reader’s Club with a featured book. The first was Book! Book! Book!, which she read from on the show. One of her staffers had bought that copy at A Likely Story, an Alexandria, VA independent bookstore.
To the dismay of independent booksellers, though, the segment promoted Amazon, alone, as where to buy books.
Afterwards, the staffer returned the book to A Likely Story .
(Via Moby Lives )
That is disgusting. That is such a cheap and arrogant thing to do. An ordinary American does Laura Bush a service and gets slapped in the face for it.
But doesn't it just figure. If there's a Bush involved, it stands to reason that the only real motive is to increase some corporation's profits.
Posted by Scott on July 2 2003 10:55