Ex-presidents are normally treated with exaggerated respect: Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter were both transformed from the butts of jokes to fonts of wisdom. Yet a recent sketch on "Saturday Night Live" features George Bush trying to make a presidential broadcast, only to be interrupted, every few seconds, by his publicity-obsessed predecessor, offering advice, soliciting gifts and distributing presidential pardons (including one for "the man known as the Gentleman Rapist, a serial sex offender who stalked and fondled hundreds of women in the Little Rock area between 1976 and 1992").
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