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CUT AND RUN KERRY
Posted on 07/03/2004 5:00:41 PM PDT by Checkers
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 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.
In the book, two men -- Ben and Jay -- meet at the fictional Adele Hotel and Suites in Washington. It is midday. They eat a bag of bagel chips and order lunch from room service. They talk into a tape recorder.
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
What liberals can't do with reasoned arguments, they try to do with fiction. Knopf also has a novel coming out about some charming illegal aliens.
All newspapers do not have to be excerpted and it's a royal pain to have to register with The Contra Costa Times just to get the last few lines of this article.
It may also be against the law to draw mustaches and black eyes and broken-out teeth on clinton on his book at Walmart, but it can be done.
...Try bugmenot.com. They might have a way around the registration.
...Naaaaa, not yet, IIAC. Mark Twain said, "It's against the law to kill a river boat pilot, on duty, but, it's not against the law to kill him in my mind". Sorry, no solace...
DV, I had a complaint on that pic, so asked for it to be removed. Just fyi.I wouldn't want to be banned for a TRUE and actual Reuters picture.
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"The Contra Costa Times", more commonly known as "The Communist Times"!
If something happens to the President, couldn't we RIGHTFULLY blame liberals for it? After all, don't they claim that Christians "create the environment for (so-called) 'homophobia'" when we preach against it? Didn't they try to blame "right-wing talk shows (specifically, Rush Limbaugh)" for the Oklahoma City bombing? So, if ANY HARM comes to this President, we need to hit the talk-shows, placing blame on ALL anti-Bush, leftists for "creating the environment" for this hatred.
If they can claim such, then so can we!
I sincerely hope this book's author can be prosecuted and jailed.
If an author plays games with the idea of harming a president, then that is close enough to warrant the conclusion that he is advocating the same.
It is isn't enough for the author to say "it's art," "it's a character's stream-of-consciousness," or whatever other lame excuse they can muster.
The topic itself should be off limits, and authors that cross the line should be prosecuted and jailed.
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