So everyone who makes money is a whore?
Look out! He's starting the energy sucking with his lies! It's a trap. Don't let him do it! You won't be able to escape! Do not respond! You will only get sucked in further!
Posted on 09/02/2003 7:42:46 AM PDT by kattracks
NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Lynch, the former prisoner of war whose capture and rescue from an Iraqi hospital made her a national hero, has agreed to a $1 million book deal with publisher Alfred A. Knopf."Many folks have written, expressing their support for me and for the thousands of other soldiers who serve their country," Lynch said in a statement issued Tuesday by Knopf.
"I feel I owe them all this story, which will be about more than a girl going off to war and fighting alongside her fellow soldiers. It will be a story about growing up in America."
"I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," co-written by Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, is scheduled to come out in mid-November with a first printing of around 500,000 copies, Knopf spokesman Paul Bogaards said.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but a source close to the negotiations said Lynch and Bragg will divide a $1 million advance. The source spoke on condition of anonymity.
"I feel a kinship with Jessica and her family, and am thrilled at the prospect of bringing this story to the wider world," Bragg said in the statement issued by Knopf. He has been granted exclusive access to Lynch and her family.
Lynch received a medical discharge last week from the Army, making her eligible to pursue book or movie deals.
Lynch, 20, suffered multiple broken bones and other injuries when her 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on March 23.
Her rescue on April 1 made her a celebrity. She joined the Army to get an education and become a kindergarten teacher.
She returned home to Palestine, W.Va., in July to a hero's welcome after a long stay at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
"I am feeling better every day, and all the good wishes of the many who have written have certainly kept my spirits up," Lynch said. "I am walking with crutches, but my doctors tell me that as I gain strength I will be able to walk on my own again soon. I am looking forward to those first steps."
Bragg has written several books, including the memoir "All Over but the Shoutin'," and won the feature-writing Pulitzer in 1996, two years after he began working for The New York Times. He resigned from the Times in May after the newspaper suspended him over a story that carried his byline but was reported largely by a freelancer.
You guys are on his side, why should I be a slave to you? I know he said it, I told you he said it, if you think I was lying you can go looking for it. You been against everything I've said on these threads so your opinion makes no difference to me. As we saw, it didn't matter when you did see the post because you just dismissed it or used it to say that I said the same thing. You call good evil, and evil good.
but now... whoa, we had better release the hounds and go both barrels on the poster. Consistency?
I'm not your slave and you are against me. So I'm not going to do your work for you.
You don't want boundaries. You post about me more than I post to you.
Let's stick to Je$$y on this thread. Franks may be some sort of whore for all I know, I know nothing about him. This thread is about Je$$y. Her actions speak louder than her (or your) words.
No. See, that's where you are wrong - well, one of places you are wrong. There's so many, it's hard to keep track of them all, but I digress...
See, I'm not on anyone's "side" in this debate. I, unlike you, recognize that others will hold opinions about things, and no amount of arguing and attacking will change it - so whay bother? YOu, on the other hand, seem to feel that only your opinion is worth anything, and will auto-attack anyone else who doesn't worship your opinion as if Moses just brought it down from the mountaintop...
Testing your consistency.
I don't follow the guy personally. I don't really care.
Exactly. That's my point. You don't apply the same standards to others in the military.
Why don't you start a thread about him? I would like to see you stick up for the guy the same way you seem to want to protect Je$$y. Or do you just have a double standard?
I'm all for Franks writing a book just like I am with Lynch. It's you guys that are inconsistent. You don't want Lynch writing a book but you don't care if Franks does.
Let's stick to Je$$y on this thread. Franks may be some sort of whore for all I know, I know nothing about him. This thread is about Je$$y. Her actions speak louder than her (or your) words.
You sure don't want to talk about Franks do you. So every military person that writes a book is a whore?
Well, you posted to me first on these threads. At any rate, I'm not attacking most people, just checking their consistency. There's a big lack of consistency on these threads.
I don't care about Franks. Man, I don't read up on every military guy who publishes a book. Excuse me. Little Je$$y the whore was pushed onto the front pages so I could not avoid her. She is a whore. There are lots of whores in the world. All people who write books do it for the money. Some's stories are based on the suffering of others, some aren't. In some extreme cases, someone's entire story is based on the murder and torture of her closest friends. If such a person writes a book for million dollars, then that person is a WHORE. I apply the same principle to Je$$y as I do to anyone. I have nothing against her personally, or against any whores for that matter. I just call it like it is. There are WHORES in the world. Get over it. Je$$y is one of them. So what. Franks may be one too, I don't know and I'm not about to research the guy just to find out.
Have a nice day lawyer.
Exactly my point. You are inconsistent.
Excuse me. Little Je$$y the whore was pushed onto the front pages so I could not avoid her. She is a whore. There are lots of whores in the world. All people who write books do it for the money.
So everyone who makes money is a whore? Are you a socialist?
Some's stories are based on the suffering of others, some aren't. In some extreme cases, someone's entire story is based on the murder and torture of her closest friends. If such a person writes a book for million dollars, then that person is a WHORE.
Her entire story is not about her friends being murdered. It's not like she's a stateside friend that just happens to know all the details. She went through a lot more than just losing friends, she was separated from her friends for most of the ordeal. In any case, word has it that a lot of the book will be about what she did before she signed up.
I apply the same principle to Je$$y as I do to anyone. I have nothing against her personally, or against any whores for that matter.
You are a two-faced jerk.
I just call it like it is. There are WHORES in the world. Get over it. Je$$y is one of them. So what. Franks may be one too, I don't know and I'm not about to research the guy just to find out. Have a nice day lawyer.
Your posts are handy in showing how depraved your side can be.
It is clear that you are a woman who identifies strongly with Je$$y and is actually jealous of her fame and victim status. You are her soulmate and therefore you are taking these accurate characterisations of 'whore' very personally. The fact that you wish you were in her shoes and could sell it all out for the $$$ and fame -- that is your problem. Good luck with all of your issues. I hope for your sake you are a lawyer - of course, there is always the other profession which seems to hit a nerve with you. Good-bye Number 3 Loser.
Wrong, man.
...who identifies strongly with Je$$y and is actually jealous of her fame and victim status.
No, I'm not the one complaining of her lot, you guys are.
You are her soulmate and therefore you are taking these accurate characterisations of 'whore' very personally. The fact that you wish you were in her shoes and could sell it all out for the $$$ and fame -- that is your problem.
You have no judgment abilities. I'm all for the book.
Good luck with all of your issues. I hope for your sake you are a lawyer - of course, there is always the other profession which seems to hit a nerve with you. Good-bye Number 3 Loser.
I despise the ungrateful.
"Most"? Interesting usage. So you admit to attacking SOME.
Like Silas, yes.
So everyone who makes money is a whore?
Look out! He's starting the energy sucking with his lies! It's a trap. Don't let him do it! You won't be able to escape! Do not respond! You will only get sucked in further!
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