[denydenydeny]

Mailer has always loved murderers.

[wideawake]

Yep. He even helped get a murderer a reduced sentence - enabling that murderer to kill again, I believe.

[headsonpikes]

Maybe he can rewrite "The Naked and the Dead" as a description of the defeated Taliban. ;^)

[AmericanVictory]

The combination of too many drugs and too much boxing to show that you're tough is not a happy one. That first novel was promising, although it does not stand up as well as the critics thought it would, but it's definitely been down hill ever since -- all promise, celebrity, and no work product.

[samtheman]

There's nothing more cowardly than an "intellectual" working in service to thugs. His hidden message is this: "please don't kill me, I'm on your side, and I'll say anything to prove it". His nose is so caked in brown that he has to breath with his mouth open.

[Asclepius]

"The WTC was not just an architectural monstrosity, but also terrible for people who didn't work there, for it said to all those people: 'If you can't work up here, boy, you're out of it.'"

A "dick thing" indeed. Apparently the twin towers made little Norman feel all, well, inadequate. The man is as flaccid as his prose.

[Jhensy]

Wow, thanks Norman! Your superior intellect has once again pointed out to us proles the real truth behind the veil of our simple reality. How I wish I had your powers of perception, asswipe!

[dead]

In addition to the myriad other ways in which he is an idiot, he's also a poor and delusional architectural critic.

The World Trade Center towers were gorgeous buildings. In addition, they didn't hurl insults on the downtrodden masses. They were inanimate.

[Alouette]

"Americans can't admit that you need courage to do such a thing.

Whose courage, what courage? These cowardly lowlife dirtbags smuggled razor blades onto a commercial aircraft, fully expecting no resistance from the unarmed civilian passengers. Mr. Mailer please note: the same courage that you find in a man who beats his wife to death and then eats the end of his own shotgun.

True courage was manifested by the passengers of Flight 93.

[veronica]

Mailer has always loved murderers.

And he stabbed one of his wives a few times too, several years back.

[moyden]

Why be surprised to learn that the modern liberal is a violent thug?

The evidence is everwhere.

[Revolting cat!]

"But what if those perpetrators were right and we were not? We have long ago lost the capability to take a calm look at the enormity of our enemy's position."

This is the same kind of sophomoric pseudo-profundities that Krintong is spewing out these days. I haven't read this idiot, won't and don't believe that he is anything other than a "brilliant writer" to the pretentious bourgeois Renaissance Weekend crowd. (Check out Tom Wolfe's take on Mailer and a couple of other literary icons in Wolfe's recent collection of essays "Hooking Up".)

[aculeus]

As a young man Mailer (and Arthur Miller) attended an infamous pro-Stalin rally at the Waldorf-Astoria; they were cheer-leading the purge trials.

Mary McCarthy and Sidney Hook -- leftwingers! -- were so outraged they organized a concurrent anti-Stalin conference.

Mailer shows his ignorance -- or his willfull lying -- by claiming the WTC was some sort of a rich-man's work place.

Read the NYTimes obits you wife-stabbing scumsack and learn something about the kind of people who worked there.

[xm177e2]

Most guys don't have the guts to stab a woman, but not him. Normal Mailer is a real man. </sarcasm>

[Clinton's a rapist]

I thought Norman Mailer died a couple of years ago. Or was that Truman Capote?