[Petronski]

This is equivalent to showing clips of Ronald Reagan playing an organized crime boss in The Killers and suggesting that this indicates that Reagan was a crook.

No, it's not. Reagan's contribution in your example is acting, not creating it. Webb's the one dreaming up sordid tales about strippers slicing bananas with their anatomy.

[steve-b]

Michelle Malkin: Politics and pulp fiction:

Remember how pathetic it was when the Left tried to make scandals out of books written by Lynne Cheney and Scooter Libby?

Cheney wrote a pulpy novel, "Sisters," about a frontier woman that included graphic sexual passages and lesbian lovers. (A conservative-bashing site reprinted excerpts here.)

Libby wrote a pulpy novel, "The Apprentice," a "story of innocence and temptation" set in turn-of-the-century Japan that included graphic sexual passages--including bestiality and a scene in which the brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter.

Both were works of fiction. You know, stuff that's made up.....