Posted on 10/27/2006 8:19:01 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Webb Says His Novels 'Inappropriate' for News Radio By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Staff Writer October 27, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - In an interview on Washington Post Radio Friday morning, Jim Webb, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, said excerpts of his novels are "a little bit inappropriate" to be read on news radio.
"I don't know why you're reading that on WTOP," Webb told host Mark Plotkin. "I think it's a little bit inappropriate."
Plotkin was reading an excerpt from Webb's novel "Something to Die For," in which Webb describes a female stripper performing sexual acts with a banana.
"I don't think that's appropriate for you to read on WTOP," Webb said again as Plotkin finished the excerpt. (Washington Post Radio is WTOP's sister station.)
The campaign of Republican Sen. George Allen on Thursday released excerpts from some of the war novels Webb wrote between 1978 and 2002. The books include some graphic sexual passages, as well as frequent uses of a racial slur for blacks and descriptions of Vietnamese women as "monkey-faced."
Among the excerpts is a scene from the 2002 novel "Lost Soldiers," in which a man embraces his four-year-old son and places the boy's penis in his mouth.
Webb said the release of the excerpts was "a Karl Rove campaign tactic" and a "classic example of the way this campaign has worked. It's smear after smear."
He defended his fiction as "illuminative."
"It's not a sexual act," Webb told Plotkin regarding the "Lost Soldiers" excerpt. "I actually saw this happen in a slum in Bangkok when I was there as a journalist."
"The duty of a writer is to illuminate his surroundings," he added.
Coincidentally, a Cambodian woman in Las Vegas is facing sexual assault charges for performing a similar act on her young son, according to an Oct. 14 report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The article quotes an office manager for the Cambodian Association of America, who described the act as a sign of respect or love. Webb criticized the Allen campaign for focusing on excerpts from his novels.
"The most important issue facing the country, he hasn't got a statement to make on it," Webb said of the Iraq war. "This country's been breaking into pieces economically ... they've got no position on that.
I see the whole point of this not so much for the shock value, but a matter of if he would write this kind of crap to sell books, what would he do to become a Senator???
Liberals have customs like putting crucifixes in urine and supporting anal intercourse too, but I don't want to read about it. Nor do I want to elect the artists who provide this filth.
Not that there's anything wrong with donkey shows; it's a custom in some parts of the world, after all. Let's just grow up and realize these are travel guides that Webb has written. Sarcasm...off.
Yup--Dems will create a whole new category of victims--bananas!
I won't be able to mash them up in my blender anymore to make a Banana Power Drink.
I really hate to get in the middle of this, but didn't Bill (I never had sex with that woman) Clinton already establish that Democrats don't believe heterosexual fellatio is really sex. So what does this prove?
Besides the fact they still haven't figured out the definition of is, it proves Democrats don't know sex from Shinola, that's what.
ROFL! Very good!
Doug, we need your creative talent to do a rewrite on this oldie, for Jim Webb's new campaign song:
Folk Song written By: Frank Silver and Irving Cohn (1923)
There's a fruit store on our street
It's run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak!
When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".
He just "yes"es you to death,
And as he takes your dough, he tells you...
"Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!!
We have string beans and onions, cabBAges and scallions
And all kinds of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned toMAHto
A Long Island poTAHto, but
Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!"
Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.
Someone asked for "sparrow grass"
and then the whole quartet
All answered:
"Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.
Just try those coconuts
Those wall-nuts and doughnuts
There ain't many nuts like they.
We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
Dark brown, and ball-bearing.
But yes, we have no bananas
We have no bananas today."
I agree. Where is his soul? Where is his sense of decency? The Democrats form nearly all of their arguments in moralistic ways, but then you get this guy who writes weird slime type novels and takes money from pornographers. How can we believe the Democrats were truly outraged by Foley?
...in a heathen nation, in a region known worldwide for it's acceptance of the rape of children.
You could go to the brothels and find little kids too. An "artist" like Webb could write about it and say he's just reporting the things he saw. But it's sick.
Was he a Republican when he wrote it? They didn't bring it up then.
That one really doesn't inspire me.
It would b a waste of time anyway, because Banana Jim is now TOAST.
In what universe (other than Jim Webb's) is pedophiliac sodomy a sign of "respect and love"?
That's what gets me. How did they ever let this guy through as NavSec?
I'd love to hear what Ollie North thinks of him. Ollie was Webb's classmate at Annapolis, and beat the crap out of him in a boxing match back then.
exactly....great thought!!!
Seems like there's another perv in the democratic party to add to the list
http://www.cafenetamerica.com
I'm sure Jim Webb would make an excellent Senator - in Massachusetts. He'd also be a character model for Harry Reed and the Vegas gang, or Nancy Pelosi and the San Francisco "progressives". But the Commonwealth of Virginia? I think not.
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