Interview with Webb coming on NOW

WTOP ^ | 10/27/2006 | WTOP

[steadcom]

Live radio interview with Webb.

[steadcom]

Caller asks about his view of women in the mitilary...

[johniegrad]

Jim has written six best-selling novels: Fields of Fire (1978), considered by many to be the classic novel of the Vietnam war, A Sense of Honor (l981), A Country Such As This (1983), Something To Die For (1991), The Emperor's General (1999) and Lost Soldiers (2001). He taught literature at the Naval Academy as their first visiting writer, has traveled worldwide as a journalist, and his PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut earned him an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Jim has traveled extensively, particularly in Asia, as a journalist, business consultant and screenwriter-producer. He speaks Vietnamese and has done extensive pro bono work with the Vietnamese community dating from the late l970's. In 1989 he met with key Japanese government and industrial officials as a featured guest of the Japanese Foreign Ministry. He has worked on feature film projects with many of Hollywood's top producers. His original story “Rules of Engagement”, which he also executive-produced, was released in April 2000 and starred Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. It was the number one film in the US for two weeks. His fifth novel The Emperor's General was purchased by Paramount pictures as the largest book-to-film deal of 1998. His book Born Fighting, which is his first commercial non-fiction effort, was published in October 2004 by Broadway Books.

From his campaign website.

[RedCell]

And "contract abuse" in Iraq (i.e. cost overruns)

[tiger-one]

thanks

[WakeUpAndVote]

[steadcom]

Caller nails him on the pediophilia...

[Suzy Quzy]

Does Jim Webb have any children??

[RoseofTexas]

Hehehehhe....this pix comes in many languages...LOL!!

[RedCell]

Second caller asks why Webb had to include sexual content in his book. Webb says I saw it, it happened, author has a duty to write about it, there was nothing sexual about it.

[hawkaw]

Good. What did the caller say?

[hawkaw]

So we have gone from the fictional defence to it actually happened defence?

[RedCell]

Now he's getting into class/wage warfare.

[Risha]

Webb had a "duty" to write about a father putting his son's genitals in his mouth?

Keep digging buddy, keep digging...

[A Citizen Reporter]

Several months ago I read Webb's non-fiction work "Born Fighting" about the Scots Irish. I don't remember a writer ever quoting himself (as a character from one of his novels) the way Webb did.

I thought he was a bit touched in the head back then. That was before I knew what was in the novels he did publish. He is a sick puppy.

[WakeUpAndVote]

This guys is sounding like a nut case, I hope he keeps talking.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

I missed the whole thing. Can you please add me to your ping list.

[Darnright]

>Webb decided to through stones at Allen. <

I think the Webb campaign, knowing they were backing such a flawed candidate, were desperate to bring Allen down to Webb's level. This is why they jumped on the "macaca" thing so hard (just how many people had heard that word, prior to this summer?), and then began frantically insinuating that Allen is a "racist".

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Webb says I saw it, it happened, author has a duty to write about it, there was nothing sexual about it."

Pure unadulterated horse hockey. Webb does not have a "duty" to write a novel.

He really thinks a lot of himself.

[johniegrad]

Here's the campaign website

He has some pretty impressive credentials.

[RedCell]

Webb is now denying class warefare. Corporations have to "pay their fair share"... too many loopholes, this is not class warefare.

Yeah, Jim, whatever.