Former President George W. Bush — who has largely shunned media appearances in favor of a bit of post-presidency privacy — is poised to appear as a guest next week on “The Tonight Show.”
The ex-commander-in-chief will sit down with host Jay Leno on Nov. 19.
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” To receive the former president’s wisdom?”[George W.] Bush will address the [Jews for Jesus] annual fundraising gala on Thursday of this week, although the group has now scrubbed all mention of that fact from its promotional materials. Attendees are paying up to $100,000 a plate to receive the former president’s wisdom, funds that the group will use to forward its aim of hastening the apocalypse.
“The de facto job of being an ex-president,” Maddow said, “generally speaking, is to do relatively non-controversial good works. Or, if you’re George W. Bush, you could spend that time trying to convert the Jews to Christianity so we can have the Second Coming of Christ on Earth and therefore the apocalypse.”
Rabbi David Wolpe of the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles wrote about Bush’s appearance at the banquet on Twitter, saying, “This is infuriating.”
The Anti-Defamation League was softer on the former president, merely saying in a statement, “We were disappointed to learn that former President George W. Bush has decided to move ahead with his plan to speak at a fundraising event for an evangelical proselytizing group whose stated goal is to convert Jews to Christianity.”
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