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.
See this for the running commentary:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726942/posts
Thanks, I've been on some of the threads.
Just backing you up with some additional info for readers of your post. Cheers!
I think he got the idea for the book from a former prsident and his intern...I always wondered why Bubba wanted a brass pole installed in the Blue Room......
Meadow Muffin
WTF? That's supposed to be "illuminative"? Did Webb witness this as well?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiZNGOMqw5U
OMG!! WHy would ANYONE write about that horrible scene??? He SHOULD have tried to talk with the Ambassadors to get them to STOP that kind of thing....if it really happened!! It's disgusting.
Yeah, and Gerry Studds. And the Democrats were shocked by Foley? Give me a break. Now, they'll say it's no different than Twain or some other great novelist. Nonsense.
Maybe he's just a Democrat being a Democrat. They're nonjudgmental, you know.
More like inappropriate for human consumption!
Try to imagine what the coverage of this would be if a REPUBLICAN had written a story like that?
The hypocrisy is absolutely shameless.
This race is now over, nothing left to do but count the votes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiZNGOMqw5U
Democrats are low class.
He's never going to babysit my kids.
| October 27, 2006 | Nathan Burchfiel
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."
Geesh! I got it....I got it!
This one could kill all hopes for the Dems if the Republicans use it right. I am sure Rush and Sean will talk about it and once the "everyday" American hears about it, they will be disgusted.
I think we should have a petition for Webb to quit the race. That is the most sickening stuff I have ever read!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.