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.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
So quoting what someone wrote is now a "smear."
You are so right! It sure is different when the shoe is on their foot, hypocrits they all are!
O'Reilly? He'll defend Webb to the last pornographic turn of the phrase.
They're both "artistes" when it comes to painting smut with words.
It's a ___________________ lie!
" However, the overtly homoerotic nature of the narrative is tougher to explain."
You ain't seen nothing, yet. Some of Webb's passages read like a gay version of a romance novel-not a bodice ripper, but, a zipper ripper.
A Country Such as This: ( Chapter 24)
“[He] could see Jawbone and Ashley Asthmatic [two guards at a Vietnamese prison camp] napping together in the grass. They faced inward, their arms entwined.
It looked like they were masturbating each other.
It didn’t surprise him. …
It was common to see men holding hands, embracing, playing with each other.
Some of them [the guards] had wanted him.
He could tell in those evanescent moments between his bao cao bow, the obligatory deference when a guard entered his cell, and the first word or blow that followed it…
Quick, grinding voices,
turgid with repressed passion.
An exploratory reaching of the hand near his groin…”
NewsMax and stoptheaclu.com have lots of excerpts.
Dear Wild Irish Rogue,
Yes, I saw that, and others. I still don't get the one about the banana. I can only figure out THREE parts, not four!! LOL!!!
This guy is a complete SICKO!!
I pity his three wives.
sitetest
Here is the quote:
Something to Die For: "Fogarty . . . watch[ed] a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana. She stood back up, her face smiling proudly and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar, and left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina."
Where this would be a "cultural tradition" I have no idea.
OK. Good clarification.
if cnn thinks it/s a smear job let them read some of his books to most decent people would think the trash he writes should come with softer paper so at least it would have a use in the bathroom
Re: your post
"Stick a fork in it.... all done!
Not if the MSM continues to ignore the story. I haven't yet seen a reference to this in the Wash Post or Richmond Times Dispatch, or the network affiliates in NoVa.
Plenty of Bush-bashing and non-news analysis articles on things like "what shaped Webb" on the front page, however."
1. Your fork metaphor was the snap judgment by many this morning, but very premature
2. It isn't just the big bad MSM that is ridiculing George Allen's Hail Mary Pass to Drudge, but some of the leading lights of the right are disappointed once again in Allen's total failure both in the present campaign and as a self-proclaimed 2008 presidential campaigner. Examples?
http://www.nationalreview.com/ The Webb Excerpts [John Podhoretz at National Review
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be on the Right. The outbreak of cynical Babbitry on the part of the George Allen campaign in using sentences from novels written by James Webb against Webb makes this day one of those days
http://www.slate.com/id/2152408 Review of leading conservative blogs:
"Are the passages in Webb's 'Lost Soldiers' bizarre and perverted? Yes," writes popular conservative blogger Michelle Malkin. "But they are no more proof of Webb's immorality and unfitness for office than the passages in 'Sisters' are proof that Lynne Cheney hates men or that the passages in 'The Apprentice' are proof that Scooter Libby endorses sex between children and bears."
Kathryn Jean Lopez at the National Review's The Corner finds the Allen salvo against fiction "lame and unbecoming," though she also wonders how graphic the excerpts would have been in the Washington Post [note: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.] had a Republican penned them. As it happens, a prominent Republican didn't mind reading them: "Would this be a bad time to mention that John McCain wrote a blurb for [Lost Soldiers]?" Lopez adds.
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Fellow righty Allah Pundit at Hot Air sees using a candidate's literature against him as the nadir of a particularly nasty election year: "The story's about Vietnam; maybe he's describing some obscure cultural practice that he encountered there. Or, just maybe, he made it up. Have we actually reached the point where Senate seats now turn on the sex scandals of fictional characters?"
But this is one that is going to hurt when Allen looks in the mirror tonight, one of many to point it out:
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/10/27/enough-is-enough-2/ Rick Moran at conservative Rightwing Nuthouse: "There must be limits beyond which a candidate is penalized for exceeding. The absolutely disgusting nature of the passages quoted in the Allen press release fills that bill. The fact that they are quoting pieces of fiction obviates only slightly Webb's startling and disturbing imaginative wanderings into the sexual dark side of the human mind as it also reveals the depths to which Allen's honor and integrity have sunk." Congratulations, George Allen. You’ve hit the jackpot... I don’t link to porn.), Allen may very well have sealed his victory by “outing” Webb’s fictional day dreams but he has lost his soul in the process.
You damn dems have been the smearing machine too long. You have had the full and free support of the media machine for too long. You don't like it when you get a taste of your own medecine. Damn you libs!
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