Webb Says His Novels 'Inappropriate' for News Radio

CNSNews.com ^ | October 27, 2006 | Nathan Burchfiel

[FreedomCalls]

I don't know about Vietnam, but this is a pretty common (and non-sexual) way of greeting children in parts of India..

And stoning to death is a pretty common way of dealing with marital infidelity in Iran. So is chopping off the hands of teenagers caught shoplifting. Just because it's common somewhere don't make it right or acceptable.

I'm reminded of how the British stamped out suttee, the practice of burning a living widow on the funeral pyre of her dead husband. A local Raj explained to a British officer that it was a long-standing Indian custom and that they would have to proceed with it. The British officer replied that it was a long-standing custom in Britain that they hung people who did such deeds and therefore the Raj was free to build the funeral pyre for the widow, but the British soldiers would construct a gallows alongside it to ensure their long-standing custom was fulfilled as well.

[petitfour]

Have you ever read a graphic account of a stoning? Would you consider such an account shocking? Would you want it read on the radio or on 24-hour tv news? I would turn off the tv or the radio if such were occurring. And if I were an author, I would tell a radio talk show host that the subject is inappropriate for reading over the airwaves. It's fine for an adult to buy a book and read it. In general, folks have an idea about what they are purchasing.

[FatherofFive]

Democraps are an ungodly menagerie of com/symp socialist crooks, sex perverts, baby killers, child molesters, homosexuals, treasonous unpatriotic cut and run weak kneed enemy coddler's, trial lawyers, satanist/atheists, and imbeciles.

Yes, but they are a compassionate ungodly menagerie of com/symp socialist crooks, sex perverts, baby killers, child molesters, homosexuals, treasonous unpatriotic cut and run weak kneed enemy coddler's, trial lawyers, satanist/atheists, and imbeciles.

So let's elect them.

[Michamilton]

I'm reminded of how the British stamped out suttee, the practice of burning a living widow on the funeral pyre of her dead husband. A local Raj explained to a British officer that it was a long-standing Indian custom and that they would have to proceed with it. The British officer replied that it was a long-standing custom in Britain that they hung people who did such deeds and therefore the Raj was free to build the funeral pyre for the widow, but the British soldiers would construct a gallows alongside it to ensure their long-standing custom was fulfilled as well.

And Rudyard Kipling mentioned suttee in his writings - did that make him a bad person?