Posted on 06/29/2004 8:06:24 PM PDT by Mo1
In Nicholson Baker's new novella, "Checkpoint," a man sits in a Washington hotel room with a friend and talks about assassinating President Bush.
It's a work of the imagination and no attempts on the president's life are actually made, but the novel is likely to be incendiary, as with Michael Moore's documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Flush with the headline-generating success of "My Life," by Bill Clinton, Alfred A. Knopf is planning to publish Baker's work Aug. 24, on the eve of the Republican National Convention. "Checkpoint" is 115 pages long and will sell for $18.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
These people are sick and this is going too far
The hinges came off of the Democratic party a looooooooong time ago.
Yes, I believe this goes too far.
But, what to do?
I have a feeling you ain't seen noth'n yet.
This bunch is really going for the whole reenacting of the Viet Nam syndrome. Seems they want a blood letting in this land.
This deviant author wrote a book called Fermata or Firmata. The plot of it concerns some kind of device that stops time (if you have ever seen The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything you are familiar with the concept). Once he stops time, he molests women who are helpless to stop him.
I believe he is a pervert and a psychopath.
Sadly you're right
The left is coming unglued ...
Amazon description of Fermata:
Amazon.com
The Fermata is the most risky of Nicholson Baker's emotional histories. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography. "It's harder than I thought!" he admits. His "Fold-powers" are easier; he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions--always, in his view, with respect and love. Anyone who can stop time and refer in self-delight to his "chronanisms" can't be all bad! Like Baker's other books, The Fermata gains little from synopsis. The pleasure is literally in the text. What's memorable is less the sex and the sex toys (including the "Monasticon," in the shape of a monk holding a vibrating manuscript) than Arno's wistful recollections of intimacy: the noise, for instance, of his ex-girlfriend's nail clipper, "which I listened to in bed as some listen to real birdsong."
Another of his books, Vox, is about phone sex.
Leftists ... no engine, no engineer, no tracks, no direction... just a caboose and some old cars full of dead freight.
I agree .. I heard about this on the radio tonight and my jaw just dropped .. UNBELIEVABLE
Now a novel that you couldn't give away will be a bestseller thanks to the slobbering Michael Moore sychophants.
I have read so many novels containing assassination and terrorist scenarios that I'm amazed none of them have actually been carried out.
I mean, there are point-by-point instructions. Sheesh.
Here are just a few titles:
THE FINAL JIHAD by Martin Keating (this one is really, really scary)
THE DEVIL'S TEARDROP by Jeffrey Deaver
MEMORIAL DAY by Vince Flynn
MARK OF THE ASSASSIN by Daniel Silva
About four years ago I started writing a thriller novel of my own, the hero being an Israeli ZAKA volunteer. The first scene took place in Jerusalem, with a terrorist bombing of a popular tourist restaurant. I wrote this in Feb. or March 2001. Then in August that same year, the Sbarro's terror attack happened. I put this manuscript away and haven't looked at it since because it scares me too much to read it. (And I never showed it to anyone)
So...is he saying it is alright for discontented Americans to entertain these thoughts?
I thought the left could get any crazier,but now I am adding extremely dangerous to that.
They are their own worst enemies. They p!ss off some right leaning democrat voter with this. I just hope they don't put any ideas in some fragile mind out there. Look at McVeigh and the "Turner Diaries" and some of the other assassin/book links. What p!sses me off worst is that the reasons given for justifying assassinating Bish are all lies spewed by the top Dems like Kennedy, Gore, ect. If this is the last straw for some crazy bastard, and the list of reasons for killing Bush fire him up enough to do it, there's going to be HELL TO PAY.
115 pages for 18 dollars????
These are the scumbags who wanted to ban "right wing extremist" books like the Turner Diaries because of their incitement. TYPICAL DAMN double-standard - it's OK if you're inciting violence against a "sham president" who "lied us into war". Just like they (top Dems) incite the enemy against us, they may be inciting a potential presidential assassin with their LIES against Bush. I'M PISSED NOW!
Another left wing nut case like Moore. Are these kooks perfect poster boys for the left, or what? They fit right in.
Kennedy, Kerry, Gore and the rest will ignore it or claim they never did anything wrong ..
I'm still waiting a reporter to ask Kennedy what he thinks of Al Sadar was quoting him
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