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Webb Defends Novels Against Attacks (cleaning off the fan in Virginia)
The Washington Post ^ | October 29, 2006 | Tim Craig and Michael D. Shear

Posted on 10/29/2006 11:49:41 AM PST by Clintonfatigued

Virginia U.S. Senate candidate James Webb yesterday delivered his strongest criticism of incumbent Sen. George Allen of the fall campaign, vigorously defending himself against Allen's charges that he wrote sex-laced passages in his fiction novels.

He called on voters to reject what he called the "smear tactics" of Allen and his campaign, who released excerpts Thursday from Webb's novels to the Drudge Report Web site and said the writings were lurid and inappropriate for a man seeking to serve in the Senate.

"The fish rots from the head down," Webb (D) said, referring to his belief that Allen (R) is responsible for his campaign staff's tactics and has now shown his true character. "Our government should no longer be in the hands of a group of unprincipled, small-minded, power-hungry character assassins."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2006; dirtyjim; monkeyface; pervalert; senatorfellatio; weewillywebb
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To: Siena Dreaming

now, his political activities where he openly insulted women while in a position of authority, like the whole gaffe about how girls only wanted to go to the Naval Academy because they are horny, that is an issue


21 posted on 10/29/2006 12:16:03 PM PST by ChurtleDawg (Go Mike Steele!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

two wrongs don't make a right

just because Webb's campaign is vile doesn't mean Allen should stoop to his level


22 posted on 10/29/2006 12:16:58 PM PST by ChurtleDawg (Go Mike Steele!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

he talks as if Allen wrote the books - and claimed Webb wrote them.

Mr Webb - YOU WROTE THIS STUFF.


23 posted on 10/29/2006 12:18:47 PM PST by oceanview
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To: ChurtleDawg

I don't know about Scooter and Newt... but Lynn's book was tame in the extreme. A dem website found the worst thing in it and it was nothing. Stop believing everything Webb and the MSM tells you.


24 posted on 10/29/2006 12:19:42 PM PST by altura (Bushbot No. 1 - get in line.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

How is pointing out Webb's own words an Allen campaign "smear tactic?" If I write a post, and later another FReeper quotes my words back at me, that is not a smear. Those were my own words and I am responsible for them.

If Webb believes what he wrote was perfectly okay, he should stop screaming like a vampire exposed to light. If he doesn't think his words were okay, he needs to disavow them and apologize. So which is it?

Webb, like a typical Democrat, is trying to have it both ways.


25 posted on 10/29/2006 12:23:54 PM PST by LadyNavyVet
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To: altura; ChurtleDawg
Stop believing everything Webb and the MSM tells you.

Failing that, at least stop SPREADING everything Webb and the MSM tells you.

26 posted on 10/29/2006 12:24:25 PM PST by Petronski (CNN is an insidiously treasonous, enemy propaganda organ.)
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To: linda_22003
Allen's siblings have commented at various times over the years that he was something of a bully toward them. This is not news in Virginia.

As the youngest of 4, my brothers are very lucky that I never wrote a book about how they used me as target practice when my parents bought them bb guns, or how they shot bottle rockets at me, again using me as target practice.

Allen's sister has alterior motives....much like Patty Davis when she wrote her book about her father, Ronaldus Maximus.
27 posted on 10/29/2006 12:26:42 PM PST by submarinerswife
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To: ChurtleDawg
two wrongs don't make a right

just because Webb's campaign is vile doesn't mean Allen should stoop to his level

Allen didn't stoop to Webb's level. He just quoted from his book. But as Ann Coulter reminds us, merely quoting a Democrat is enough to piss them off. Democrats don't like their own writing either.

28 posted on 10/29/2006 12:27:25 PM PST by TimSkalaBim
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To: Clintonfatigued

I don't see any "defense" of the passage in which an adult male puts the penis of a small boy in his mouth in that excerpt of the WaPoo article.

All I see there is an attack on the messenger.

Meanwhile I don't recall him ever coming to Foley's defense when he was wrongly accused of being a child molester and hounded out of office by a partisan coordinated campaign together with the media. Stuff it, crybaby.


29 posted on 10/29/2006 12:29:45 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: ChurtleDawg

None of this has anything to do with 'Fields of Fire'. The main excerpt is from 'Lost Soldiers'. The Webb campaign keeps saying this, hoping the average person won't see the real texts at issue.


30 posted on 10/29/2006 12:30:22 PM PST by gb63
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To: Clintonfatigued
"The fish rots from the head down," Webb (D) said

In this instance, "head down" is an unfortunate choice of words from the pedophile porn peddlar senator wannabe.

31 posted on 10/29/2006 12:32:35 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: linda_22003

The media has only seized upon it in the last week but the story has been out there longer than this.

Meanwhile the Dems were in possession of the Foley IMs and sat on them until October. What makes that so absurd is that those same critics are saying that Republicans "knew" (they did NOT know about the IMs) and "did nothing" while the Democrats DID KNOW all along.


32 posted on 10/29/2006 12:32:44 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: ChurtleDawg
"two wrongs don't make a right just because Webb's campaign is vile doesn't mean Allen should stoop to his level"

You signed up today to defend a smarmy democrat? I doubt you'll be around here for long. If you want to defend pedophiles maybe you should go back to DU.

33 posted on 10/29/2006 12:34:00 PM PST by Godebert
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To: ChurtleDawg
two wrongs don't make a right

On the other hand, a negative multiplied by a negative equals a positive.

Poor Webb can sure dish out the macaca but cries to mommy when his own vile words get served back up to him.

34 posted on 10/29/2006 12:37:06 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: submarinerswife
"As the youngest of 4, my brothers are very lucky that I never wrote a book about how they used me as target practice when my parents bought them bb guns, or how they shot bottle rockets at me, again using me as target practice."

Lol....you sound like my younger sister. She always like to remind me of the time (she claims) I shot her with an arrow on purpose.

35 posted on 10/29/2006 12:37:38 PM PST by Godebert
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To: ChurtleDawg

> just because Webb's campaign is vile doesn't mean Allen should stoop to his level <

In what sense is it "stooping" to point out writings of an opponent that have been in the open, on the public record so to speak, for many years? And is the information in any way false?

In any event, should the citizenry of the Commonwealth be deprived of this information? Should Webb's naughty prose be hidden from public view? Moreover, if the WaPo is too prudish to tell the voter about Webb's take on Asian pedophilic fellatio, what's wrong with the Drudge Report's having done so?

Methinks the Old Dominion's voters are amply qualified to sift the chaff from the wheat, and to decide whether Webb's strange writings should disqualify him from a post of high trust in the U.S. Senate.

And since Virginia most certainly ain't Hollywood or Manhattan, it ain't hard to predict how a majority of Virginia voters will view the issue.


36 posted on 10/29/2006 12:39:25 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Clintonfatigued

Jim Webb admitted under oath that he was a member of the Cosmos Club.The Cosmos Club refused to allow Blacks membership and until 1988 they refused to allow women to become members..


37 posted on 10/29/2006 12:39:51 PM PST by Beth528
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To: Siena Dreaming

He sure does have women problems. Someone should interview his first TWO wives.

Current wife is of Vietnamese extraction. Wonder how she likes the passages in his books about Asian women chopping up bananas with their private parts. Or where he calls them "Monkeyfaces".


38 posted on 10/29/2006 12:44:48 PM PST by Palladin (Vote for Rick Santorum, a true prolife conservative!)
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To: Beth528
Jim Webb admitted under oath that he was a member of the Cosmos Club.The Cosmos Club refused to allow Blacks membership and until 1988 they refused to allow women to become members.

That's okay. He was just experiencing "real life."

Or, is it: "It was tolerated in that culture at the time"?

Whatever it was. Webb isn't responsible for any of it.

We'll have to get the latest excuse from Webb's MommyStreamMedia.

39 posted on 10/29/2006 12:45:51 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: Clintonfatigued
Virginia U.S. Senate candidate James Webb yesterday delivered his strongest criticism of incumbent Sen. George Allen of the fall campaign, vigorously defending himself against Allen's charges that he wrote sex-laced passages in his fiction novels.

Yeah. He said that all of these scenes were necessary for the flow of the plot. However, I cannot imagine even one single plot whose flow is predicated on pedophilic fellatio.

He called on voters to reject what he called the "smear tactics" of Allen and his campaign, who released excerpts Thursday from Webb's novels to the Drudge Report Web site and said the writings were lurid and inappropriate for a man seeking to serve in the Senate.

"The fish rots from the head down," Webb (D) said, referring to his belief that Allen (R) is responsible for his campaign staff's tactics and has now shown his true character. "Our government should no longer be in the hands of a group of unprincipled, small-minded, power-hungry character assassins."


Of course, Webb is also referring to a certain Virginia Senatorial Campaign that (falsely) accused Senator Allen of racism, right?

We Virginians know the truth behind that one and Webb cannot get away from it. He rang that bell too loudly.
40 posted on 10/29/2006 12:48:03 PM PST by 84rules ( Ooh-Rah! Semper Fi!)
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