Posted on 10/27/2006 12:56:51 PM PDT by hawkaw
I read "Born Fighting" by Webb. It was agood book - but non-fiction. I had no idea the author and the candidtate. were the same guy.
oh, yes: "the quaint custom known as pedophilia". What a poor excuse that Webb has come up with!
They are talking about this at DU now.
I ABSOLUTELY DARE THEM TO DO THIS AS THIS WOULD BE THE END OF THE DNC AS WE KNOW IT.
I assumed CNN would be the one of the media to trot out a Democrat Asian spokesman to say this is normal behavior for fathers in Asian cultures...
(I looked through the liberal blogs and none of them could find a reference to this as normal for Asian fathers to do to their four year old sons. They tried very hard too.)
Oh, yes: and Jesse Jackson is Nathan and Bill Clinton is King David - not!
Actually, George Allen first used the word "macaca" in a novel he wrote that was never published, so, using the Webb criteria, it's OK. "Macaca" in Thailand is a normal word.
MSM/DBM morons.
I think it was Newt's (in)famous "Diana The Huntress" novel (1945, iirc was the title),a fictional ,soft core sci fi piece he wrote before going into politics. Badly written, and not very titilating, better he stuck to politics and not "romance writing". Wasn't the line in question "She knelt athwart her lover's shoulders"?
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Nothing negative about a great American song :)
Frankly, more upsetting than the actual acts described was the language Mr. Webb employed in his descriptions.
Take this passage:
“A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.”
The sex act committed here is outrageous, but if the novelist has observed this type of phenomenon, it might be barely justified to put it into the narrative. The worse problem, at least for me, is the overall tenor of the passage (and many of the passages from Mr. Webb's books). The man is shirtless. His muscles are "young and hard." My gosh, the imagery is so blatantly homoerotic that it's practically screaming!
In describing acts by different characters, Mr. Webb has some cover. However, the overtly homoerotic nature of the narrative is tougher to explain. If I were reading these passages without knowing the author, I'd guess that the man is either overtly homosexual, or a latent homosexual.
If Mr. Webb is an unadmitted latent homosexual, he really should deal with his sexual orientation problems before running for high office. If he has any doubts about that, he should ask Mr. Foley.
No, just a Clintonian definition of "wasn't".
The Democrat Candidate for the Senate, former Navy Secretary Jim Webb requests Mark Foley's IM Buddy list!!
Who knew that a lot of the "sex on the web"...
would be BY WEBB!?
It is also common practice in many Arab countries to marry relatives (or kill females for "honor"). Doesn't make it right.
I love it when we fight back.
I'm more concerned with his being an active pedophile. I'd like to look in his computers!
the passages i've seen speak for themselves. this guy is one sick b**t*** and should withdraw from the race...
I've never read Webb's book, nor have I looked into the context. For me, though, it does depend on context. I'd never fault Aldous Huxley for writing Brave New World; nor Anthony Burgess for writing A Clockwork Orange or The Wanting Seed. All of those contain dystopian accounts of decadent sexual morals. They were cautionary tales.
Don't know enough about Webb's book to say whether or not his was also a cautionary tale. There's a difference between promoting sexual decadence and warning against it. If his book promotes it, he obviously deserves this "smearing."
96? I thought it was older than that. My bad.
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