Blair Book Proposal Lashes Out at Paper ("Burning Down My Master's House" working title)

Washington Post ^ | Saturday, May 24, 2003 | Howard Kurtz

[Liz]

In a racially charged book proposal bristling with anger at the New York Times, Jayson Blair likens himself to teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo and rages at the newspaper he calls "my tormentor, my other drug, my slavemaster."

The proposed book, which some literary agents say could bring the disgraced former reporter a six-figure advance, is titled "Burning Down My Master's House."

Blair says of Malvo, the alleged triggerman in some of the Washington-area sniper murders last fall: "The moment I began to see parallels between his life and mine was the moment things began falling apart." He writes of "how the frustrations of black men in this world can explode, crescendo into a huge rage that can manifest itself in some odd and sometimes unclear ways."

[archy]

My opinion of Blair has gone up. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I just wouldn't want him working on my newspaper, is all.

-archy-/-

[Vetnet]

This just in:
THE NEW YORK TIMES has found a replacement that guarantees to bring them to an EVEN HIGHER LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE than they were known for, before all this trouble occurred:

"YES SIR MR RAINES, I'LL GET RIGHT ON IT!!!"

[Petronski]

Au contraire! I love the title and I hope it is a runaway bestseller. A black liberal scorning the racial quotas of his limosine-liberal publisher? Calling the libs his "master?"

I think it perfectly conveys justifiable contempt for life on the liberal plantation.

I won't buy it, but I'll root for the embarrassment it might cause the Old Grey Whore.

[Liz]

....."hey, Pinch, where's my moose?".......