Posted on 10/27/2006 12:56:51 PM PDT by hawkaw
RICHMOND, Virginia (CNN) -- A bitter Senate campaign entering its final stretch turned uglier Friday, as a Republican incumbent pulled up sexual passages from novels written by his Democratic opponent, who called the move baseless character assassination.
In a news release and list of quotes posted Friday on the Drudge Report Web site, Sen. George Allen, R-Virginia, accused his opponent, former Navy Secretary Jim Webb, of "demeaning women" and "dehumanizing women, men and even children" through his fiction writings. At least two of the listed passages include children in sexual situations.
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Webb is one sick puppie. Does Al Goldstein need an Editor for Screw Magazine? Webb would be a perfect fit.
These guys wrote about normal heterosexual acts with women.
Nothing like Webb's pedophilia and homosexuality.
Cautionary, my foot! These were the things that turned on "Banana Jim".
If they were, then I condemn him as you do. I have no way of knowing, I'd have to read his book and possibly be psychic.
What's with the banana story?? I haven't seen the passgae.
--"How unfair it is to quote an artist, whose books enlighten us to the unusual customs of the world..."
Unless the novelist has asked Mark Fuhrman's help for realism with street-cop jargon.--
Excellent point. If it was OK to discredit Fuhrman to the point of destroying the OJ case, then it's just as OK to discredit Webb.
If Webb is merely an artist for using the N-word and describing Vietnamese women as monkey-faced, then why isn't OJ rotting in the slammer like he should?
It is also common practice in many Arab countries to marry relatives (or kill females for "honor"). Doesn't make it right.
If it's true, and it is, is it a smear? It might or might not be important, but it's not a smear. Unlike forged documents or false allegations of being AWOL.
what's good for the elephant, is good for the donkey...
can we say macaca?
It's been thinking about this one all day, to be honest.
Understand my background - I sell I.T. hardware, but prior to this I was a Lit major with a focus on Creative Writing.
I think there does need to be a certain degree of "artistic liberty". People should be able to write about thier fears, thier experiances, thier hopes and dreams. A good author will show several sides of a situation.
But this isn't about censorship, it's about a person being called out on what they have produced, which is argueably to a degree an extension of thier personal character.
The problem with that? The fact that fiction writers write, well, fiction. It would be like going after Stephen King and using the events from his imagination to reflect on his character.
Flip side of the coin is that Steven King isn't running for public office.
"Mr King? Mr King? We see hear that you wrote about a community of Almish type folks where the young slaughter the old... Why do you hate the Almish, Mr. King?"
Maybe I'm baised because I write from time to time, but I really don't think people should be jumping to conculsions about assessing people's charcter by reading thier fictional writings.
Oh trust me, O'Reilly doesn't want to go there. His own novel, "Those Who Trespass," has several passages that are as steamy as they are badly written.
Never said they should. However, I will reserve judgment until, if ever, I read the stuff. Erotic is one thing, explicit porn, fictional or not (and in a sense, ALL porn is fiction) is quite another.
Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love" is pretty erotic in places, but it's never explicit, not even in the scene where Lazarus Long (aka Woodrow Wilson Smith) goes back the time of his youth and has a fling with his mother. The "follow on" "To Sail Beyond the Sunset, which is about the mother, is a bit more risque, but still not especially explicit, IIRC. (I've only read it once, and didn't like it all that much, in contrast to "Time Enough" and it's predecessor short story "Methuselah's Children.)
Agreed. I wouldn't think O'Reilly would touch this. Hannity maybe...
Yes, that image shouted out at me too.
Dear razorback-bert,
Yeah, when you read language like that, you gotta wonder whether Mr. Webb's macho image is a bit of a case of "the lady doth protest too much." And I DO mean "lady." LOL!
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Hannity touched on this today during his radio program.
"I don't trust the MSM because you know as well as I, they will spin it to make Allen look bad, and God forbid, Webb look like a victim!"
You know it...plus PMSnbcnnbcBS etc has massive post-Katrina and more Foleygate "coverage" to spew yet. I won't watch any of it. The dims won't win with their outdated tactics. The dims continue to play by the "the electorate is dumbed down and not paying attention so we can get away with our BS" rules.
Yawn, is all I have to say. But Webb is a freaking looza who must drop out. We don't need someone like him in the senate.
Is this how the pedophiles intend to gain legitimization?
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