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Michelle Malkin: Politics and pulp fiction (Webb's book just sexual fiction. Move on)
michellemalkin.com ^ | 10/27/06

Posted on 10/27/2006 8:29:35 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside

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To: elhombrelibre
Yeah, great point. If a woman in a political ad mentions that Ford goes to parties at the Playboy mansion, and asks a 36 year old handsome bachelor to call her, that is obvious racism, but if a guy writes graphic pedophilia into a novel, that shouldn't tell us anything.

Webb is just another guy like Murtha who thinks he can act like any kind of scum and stay clean just because he was in the USMC. Well Jim, so was Lee Harvey Oswald, what's your point?

61 posted on 10/27/2006 10:30:05 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (People who say there are jobs Americans won't do haven't seen "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: trisham

"I usually agree with Malkin. This time, I think she's wrong."


Agreed. Even writing voyeuristic *fiction* about children having sex is not appropriate (to say the least) especially for those seeking our nations highest offices.


62 posted on 10/27/2006 10:30:40 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: ilovew

I'd bet 99% of Virginians didn't know what macaca meant in January. I'd also bet 99% know that what Webb has written is creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy.


63 posted on 10/27/2006 10:35:18 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (People who say there are jobs Americans won't do haven't seen "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Mr. Silverback

Lol definitely. I certainly didn't know what macaca meant. I bet 99% of the country didn't, including the libs that claimed to be offended by it.


64 posted on 10/27/2006 10:38:13 AM PDT by ilovew (I love being a DoD intern...)
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To: Mr. Brightside
What people outside of the Commonweath don't know is that Allen tried to make this campaign about ideas and leadership. It wasn't until this stupid macaca or whatever he said hype that the Allen side of the campaign decided it had to expose Webb as the ass that he is.

This is all about the Democrats and the MSM scheming together to keep actual issues off of the table nationwide. Democrats can't win if the discourse centers on policy and leadership. If Republicans don't play dirty pool they will not be heard. It's a shame, but that's the way things are and will be until the media becomes a level paying field where all voices can be heard.

65 posted on 10/27/2006 10:38:31 AM PDT by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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To: traderrob6
This "above the fray" attitude is as naive as it is self righteous in it's concept.

Reminds me of Wilson telling the European powers, in his prim manner, that Americans were "too proud to fight."

66 posted on 10/27/2006 10:38:46 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (People who say there are jobs Americans won't do haven't seen "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: F.J. Mitchell

Michelles right on the money this time, IMO. And I tend to disagree with her a fair amount. But we all can agree that she is one fine looking babe.


67 posted on 10/27/2006 10:40:47 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Names Ash Housewares
And from whence comes the scenario, characters and details of events in a fiction writer's story? From fantasy, experience, or other? If from other sources, what other sources?
68 posted on 10/27/2006 10:41:01 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (I predict a Rep victory so painful to dims, that we are charged with animal cruelty to jackasses.)
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To: Doohickey
This is all about the Democrats and the MSM scheming together to keep actual issues off of the table nationwide

Yep. That's why we're discussing the exact dose Michael J. Fox took instead of talking about how many lies Fox told, or how his disaease will never be cured by either type of stem cells, or how any chimp can figure out embryonic stem cell research is a waste of time and money...

69 posted on 10/27/2006 10:41:26 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (People who say there are jobs Americans won't do haven't seen "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Huck

" Apparantly it's a "normal" practice in that part of the world."

I have some wonderful Vietnamese friends and they are aghast that Webb is claiming that this is normal behavior for them.


70 posted on 10/27/2006 10:42:19 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: RKBA Democrat

I do not know if you realize that Republicans are winning much more elections than democrats. We are Winners, the democrats are losers. If you are looking for delusional fake mental orgasms where you see yourself all powerful then stay with the democrat party, they are only powerful in their own delusional world but the bitter reality is that they are utterly defeated.


71 posted on 10/27/2006 10:46:13 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: pissant

I would agree with you and Michelle this time, if we ever gained anything by taking the high ground, but it's not gonna happen. There fore IMHO we should always go for the Jugular.


72 posted on 10/27/2006 10:46:33 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (I predict a Rep victory so painful to dims, that we are charged with animal cruelty to jackasses.)
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
Dig this:

A guy goes to the Playboy Mansion for parties. He is a 36 year old, handsome, bachelor. A woman is depicted saying she would like him to call her. This is obviously racist and an appeal to Southern fears of race-mixing.

A guy portrays a whole nation of people, who have produced some fine Americans, as a culture of habitual pedophiles. This is obviously not racism, because he's a Democrat. His misogynistic comments don't mean he has a problem with women, either.

Make sense to you?

73 posted on 10/27/2006 10:50:38 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (People who say there are jobs Americans won't do haven't seen "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

I didn't mean normal in Vietnam. I meant normal in DC! ;-P


74 posted on 10/27/2006 10:52:22 AM PDT by Huck (There is a $2.00 service charge for this tagline---do you still wish to proceed?)
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To: Mr. Silverback

You're right.


75 posted on 10/27/2006 10:59:23 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

"If he could control himself, he wouldn't have written that crap. He will screech until the voters hear him, and then he will lose."

I respectfully disagree. Well, I partly disagree. I think Mr. Webb is going to lose. But not because he opens his mouth on this. He simply hasn't given Virginians much of a reason to vote for him. And his organization doesn't look particularly efficient.

Mr. Webb might well be inclined to open his mouth on this, but I have to think that he has staffers who are smart enough to convince him not to.


76 posted on 10/27/2006 11:11:03 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Mr. Brightside
I don't think, however, that the Allen campaign--couldn't they leave this to surrogates?--should be trafficking in this late October muck. It is beneath them and there's plenty else about Webb that is damning.

Like Webb's lying about leading the "fight" to include an African-American soldier in the Vietnam War soldier's memorial.

Or his non-fiction writing about women in the military.

And what happened to focusing on Webb's stance on taxes, as fiscal conservatives in Virginia have been urging?

I am going to do something I rarely do, and that's disagree with Michelle Malkin. The best candidate in this race was knocked back on his heels by a racial conflict created from whole cloth. The Washington Post is determined to ruin Allen, splashing "macaca" all over their front page time and time again and then obscured the issues by saying Allen couldn't make his points over the media's obsession with "macaca"!

The Demos set themselves up with their crusade against the GOP at large due to Foley, with Pelosi making her nauseating statements about how when the Dems run the House, the gavel will be in the hand's of America's children. Well, let's see how Ms. "America's children" responds to a colleague who wrote about a father gobbling his kid's junk for no narrative reason.

Barbara Boxer got more votes in the 2004 election than any other non-Presidential candidate. She got there by a legendary dirty trick against Republican Bruce Herschensohn. Anybody on the left care about that now? Heck, one of the Demo apologists for the smear against Herschensohn is running Shrivernegger's staff now!

Discrimination against women in uniform? That ain't half as bad as Bill Clinton's personal treatment of women, and no less a leftist than Gloria Steinem gave Slick a pass for exposing himself to Paula Jones because he's pro-choice.

Lying about "leading the fight" for a black soldier at the 'nam Memorial? Gimme a break! Hillary is just now owning up to not being named after Sir Edmund Hillary a decade and a half after she told that lie! There are probably people who still buy her being a Yankee fan all her life!

Taxes? Look, I believe anyone who will decide based on taxes won't be affected by "macaca." Being better on taxes than the blank slate that is Webb is something that should take care of itself. I don't believe the narrowing of the gap has to do with Webb's stand on taxes.

Nope, Michelle, I can't agree on this one. Speaking as someone who cringes every time he has to see Boxer on TV, and wonders if Herschensohn could have been an effective voice for the GOP by now, I think this is too explosive to leave on the sidelines in a race this close and this important. It's not enough to take punches this time, someone's gotta throw them.

In the words of Alice Cooper -- a Republican:

No more Mr. Nice Guy!
No more Mr. Cle-he-he-he-ean!
No more Mr. Nice Guy, they say
You're sick!! You're obsce-he-he-heene!"

77 posted on 10/27/2006 11:14:28 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Dixie Chicks: "We're Not Ready To Make Sense!")
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To: Mr. Brightside

The left stinks. When it suits them, they say "it's only a movie, it's only a novel".
When they can slime a conservative, they say "look how perverted!"


78 posted on 10/27/2006 11:17:25 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (5. Leftists can hold contradictory opinions in their mind at the same time.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

I seldom disagree with Ms Malkin's take on issues but I do disagree on this one. Webb has penned quite a number of scatological passages in books he has authored. He also expresses a very degrading opinion of women in his books along with using the offensive "n" word to describe blacks. Would a conservative get away with this? Why shouldn't team Allen use these character traits of Mr. Webb to their advantage? Every writer of fiction knows you write from the wealth of your own philosophy,character,experiences, notions and beliefs etc. I think it is fair game to question from what source Mr. Webb gets the material for his books. I for one wouldn't vote for a person who continually writes this type of perversion.


79 posted on 10/27/2006 11:27:21 AM PDT by conservative blonde (Conservative Blonde)
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To: jveritas

"I do not know if you realize that Republicans are winning much more elections than democrats.

Yes, and it's sad that Republican party has done little to forward conservative principles for having won all of those elections. Or perhaps I missed the news where the Federal budget was balanced, Roe v Wade was overturned, or the borders were secured. If this is what "winning" means for the GOP, then I guess I'm missing why I should be celebrating.

"If you are looking for delusional fake mental orgasms where you see yourself all powerful then stay with the democrat party"

I'm sorry if you're a bit touchy today. Been getting enough sleep?

"They are only powerful in their own delusional world but the bitter reality is that they are utterly defeated."

Well, for a political party that has been so utterly defeated, the Democrats sure seem to vex the Republicans at every turn.

You'd think that a political party that has control of most legislatures, most governorships, both houses of Congress, the Presidency, and has appointed most seats on the Supreme court would be able to actually move forward with it's stated (conservative)agenda. However, it would appear that this is not the case.

I see two possible explanations for this. First, the Democratic opposition is much more effective than your post would indicate. The second explanation is that the GOP is not much interested in forwarding a conservative political agenda.

Which do you think is the less delusional explanation?


80 posted on 10/27/2006 11:32:19 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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