You might think cable news networks, morning gab shows, and Comedy Central's unique offering of satire soapboxes might be interested in the new book from Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles county prosecutor who put Charles Manson behind bars, who's now promoting The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, which has sold a quite remarkable 130,000 copies.

You would be wrong.

Bugliosi and his publicity team can't get him booked on Today or Good Morning America, let alone Countdown or The Colbert Report. Book review publications, so far including the New York Times (it's "under consideration"), won't write up his manuscript. Don Imus won't even accept his advertising. Don Imus! (Bugliosi has, however, conducted some 100 radio interviews.)

Perhaps it has to do with the book's central premise: That President Bush could, and should, be held criminally accountable for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. And while Newsweek editor Jon Meacham says "Bush bashing fatigue" may be to blame, there are a few other plausible scenarios.

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