Brian Fairbanks (born June 16, 1981 in Hartford, Connecticut) is the Washington, DC and White House Correspondent for Billionaires for Bush. He is also the New York City Director of Public Relations.

He appears on Free Speech Television's Weekly "Big Business Minute," the Billionaires TV show, as Buddy O'Bush. He is also featured in the upcoming mockumentary film Get on the Limo, to premiere in 2006. The film follows Fairbanks, as his alter ego O'Bush, and colleagues as they disinform the masses in the swing states during the 2004 Presidential Campaign (his trusty sign "Repeal The First Amendment," printed over an official Bush-Cheney '04 poster board, is seen throughout.)

Fairbanks first ignited controversy with the book "Spraypaint the Town," which was due to be released by Utah and Colorado's Northwest Publishing in 1999. The novel was removed after the Columbine shootings, which drew striking parallels to "Spraypaint the Town." The book has never been issued, although media reports in April 1999 mentioned that a staff member of Northwest Publishing feared one of his children had taken the uncorrected proofs to Columbine High School and loaned it to one of the killers.

His regular Sunday column for the Hartford Courant newspaper, which ran in the Sunday Arts & Entertainment section from 1995 to 1999, was the subject of great acclaim and featured out-of-left-field interviews with Mick Jagger and other notables. The paper received a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1999 for Excellence in Reporting.

He has worked on several bestselling nonfiction books, including two for Dr. Stephen E. Ambrose's World War II series. He was an assistant editor on Fear and Loathing in America, the second volume of Hunter S. Thompson's letters, and on The Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954, both edited by Douglas Brinkley.

Fairbanks lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a relative of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Daniel Boone, and Dr. Livingstone.

External links

Time article

Billionaires for Bush blog

Billionaires for Bush "Big Business Minute"