Posted on 07/15/2005 10:25:17 PM PDT by Williams
Well the new Harry Potter book has arrived and I can report the first page of the first chapter contains an obvious jab at our president. The book begins with the British Prime Minister awaiting a phone call from the "President" of an unnamed distant country, and wondering when the "wretched man" would call.
As a fan of the books and for that matter of Rowling's personal story and success, I'm saddened that liberal madness had to invade this children's classic. The first chapter was otherwise perfectly enjoyable.
I'm not saying anything else in the chapter was intentionally connected to current events, but I had to draw the comparison with what has ended up in British headlines at the same time as the book release. In the book, the Prime Minister is dealing with unexplained events, at least some of which could be terrorist like. Indeed, they are the work of sinister forces. Whereas I'm sure in this book series, ultimate help will come from the wizarding world, in reality Britain needs the support of the leader J.K. Rowling refers to as that "wretched man." How sadly misguided.
But since this is fiction, she hasn't named Tony Blair either, and I am assuming that neither some unnamed PM and president of a far off land are even the slightest bit involved in the rest of the story, all of this hyperventilating, is just silly beyond words.
It relates the tale of a young charismatic Yale student who is bought by the dark side, married off to a Russian handler who makes sure he's only philandering with the right type of women - ones who won't be believed, and then groomed for the presidency. His tendency of letting the little head think for the big head prooves his undoing on the eve of the election however.
So klinton stole this plot for "MY LIFE" ?
I thought it was a woman, but yes, she was sued and won the case. The person who brought the suit, was full of hot air.
Thanks for the caution, Williams. I love Gilmore Girls and must ignore the weekly obligatory bashing of things I hold dear. Seems that the witty, creative types tend to be uneducated although they would disagree.
LOL!
Rumor has it that Hitlary's book was stolen from the exorcist.
But she is stealing from 3 other authors?
That's good too.
Always look on the bright side of life :)
All she's done it take some from here and some from there and a little bit from that one and a bit more form this one,mixed it all together, thrown in a wee bit of new stuff of her own and BAM, she has her book.
Think that living/talking paintings is something new and clever? Well, it was about 120 or so years ago, when William S. Gilbert put it in "RUDDIGORE or the Witches Curse", but was a bit long in the tooth, by the time the same thing was inserted into "ME AND MY GIRL", in the late 1930s...and neither of those things are children's books; just a very well known English operetta and a musical comedy. "ME AND MY GIRL" was revived, BTW, in 1985,or '86 and ran for years and years in London's West End and also on Broadway.
And that's just one wee thing...I can names 100s of others.
I always LOVE when you come onto a thread with Monty Python quotes! :-)
please do not interject facts into this thread.
I wrote a Harry Potter novel. It is titled "The Death of Harry Potter" It is only 1 page long, and here's a spoiler: Harry dies. (a happy ending)
yeah but on page 2 it turns out it's the president of Ecuador.
yep, wonder which left wing idiot on air america will be talking about this thread next week?
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