We're seeing all sorts of hooplah raised by conservatives regarding how 60 Minutes didn't readily disclose that it has a monetary interest in the success of Richard Clarke's book about 9/11/01.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--corporatecousins0411apr11,0,6821884,print.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

Has our [predictable] lack of success in space really made space such a nonissue that it's somehow NOT objectionable that the co-author of the following book about current president George Bush's Lunar goals:

http://www.cgpublishing.com/newmoon.htm

gets preferential access to the Bush Administration even as his employer [SpaceX] seeks launch-related government contracts [not competitive prizes] from Bush during a hotly contested election year? Why is the media giving our president a free pass even as it bashes Richard Clarke?