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.
Oh, I have zero concern that you'll change a single mind on this or any non-perverse web site on the planet earth.
I'm just enjoying watching a person defend a Democrat who said that homosexual fellatio isn't really sex. I can't stop picturing pretzels.
"Get bent. "
Like to use that insult, don't you Peach? Don't you have any more?
You are taking the man's words out of context and you know it. You need to expand your understanding of the cultural traditions that exist outside the borders of the United States.
Or not. Live under a rock for the rest of your life, I don't care.
I dont know whats creepier, Webbs novels or Don Imus
That's a cute little "monkey" there that Webb has for his THIRD wife.
I guess the other two couldn't slice up the fruit salad the way he liked it!
Oh, this from the person who was offended on another thread that I was offended by Webb's comments. That's rich.
Keep supporting Webb's statement that homosexual fellatio isn't really sex. It's telling us just about everything we need to know about you.
Criminy!! You are the reincarnation of Margaret Mead.
Watch out, Peach! It sounds like agooga wants to slice you up for Jim Webb's fruit salad.
Oh, and by the way: If get bent insults your precious sensibilities so much, perhaps you should have considered more carefully before calling me a holider-than-thou. Oh, and telling me how offended you were on another thread by my post about Webb's comments today.
You offend a little easily for someone who thinks that Webb's remarks are actually defensible.
No, but I think that makes the point well. It's appropriate if no one finds out about it when he's running for office, I suppose.
True.
Just a new nut picked up along the way. LOL
Oh, and let's not forget Webb's little racial slurs in his books. Those are just precious too.
What was the context in Webbs novel for including this little bit of cultural depravity?
I've got work to do. Peace.
I thought muzzies were opposed to associating with pervs.
I see a whole new future for Webb. He and Michael J. Fox can do a series of Chiquita Banana commercials.
Fox can shake the maracas, while Webb wears the big fruit hat.
I don't buy your argument, period. Ergo, how can I feel "shame" by your attempts to use a "shaming stick"? ;>
Webb is inappropriate to hold political office...Webb should be working for Larry Flynt...
Well, if you're going to allow us Philistine imperfect conservatives to state opinions on art...
Why this example? I'm not sure this is such a common practise. I've never heard of it.
Nonetheless, are there no other differences a normal person might use to illustrate the gap between the cultures?
So why did he choose this one for his novel? This is not a report on what he saw in Bangkok that day. (If that statement is even true.)
I don't see this one example of his weird art to be conclusive of his unsuitablility. But it fits a pattern in his art and it fits with reports of his personality from people who know him
"Artistic temperament" is fine for artists, even when extreme. For a politician there's a limit to how much of it is acceptable. Even to "real conservatives".
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