Posted on 10/27/2006 5:44:03 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
WASHINGTON - Several conservative web sites are reporting a potentially explosive development in the campaign for the Virginia Senate seat.
Sites, including The Drudge Report, have pointed out several sexually graphic excerpts found in some of Webb's novels, including "Lost Soldiers." The sites are raising concerns about Webb's own character and his attitude toward women.
Drudge claims the information came from a news release, as provided by George Allen's campaign. WTOP has not been able to independently verify that the Allen camp sent the release.
Webb joins WTOP's Mark Plotkin this morning at 10 a.m. on the Politic's Program on Washington Post Radio at 107.7 FM and 1500 AM.
Choose one: Because Webb wrote this passage, he's (a) a homosexual incestuous pedophile, or (b) an artist trying to make a dramatic point.
or (c) retelling an actual event he saw in Southeast Asia during his tour of duty during the Vietnam War.
Lost Soldiers: A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boys penis in his mouth. ......... Bantam Books, NY, 1st Edition, 2001, (hard cover), page 333. Quote is from para. 10,.Chap. 34.
When you are in the service, you see really strange stuff in Third World countries and even in First World countries.
When I was stationed in Naples, Italy, U.S. Navy sailors were warned about Italian transvestite prostitutes. It was a real problem since a drunken sailor would pick up a good looking prostitute, get a blow job, find out that he was living the lyrics of the song "Lola" in real life, beat the crap out of the transvestite and then end up in an Italian jail charged with assault and battery and his Chief and Divison Officer would then have to try to get him released to Navy authorities.
Now, if I were to write a novel about such a duty station and later ran for office....
Yes
Mark Furhman was an advisor to a writer....gave advice about criminal characters' dialog as I remember. Of course, working w/criminals as a detective, Furhman was an authority of the way THEY talked. The N-word was uttered by Furhman in that context. When O.J.'s attorneys' dragged in that long-ago activity and word use, Furhman was pilloried as a racist, and thus the O.J. trial was off and running to disqualify Furhman's testimony about the glove found at the murder scene and to O.J.'s acquittal.
Jimski's wrong as usual.
as usual...
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