Maurice Sendak Said Killing Bush Would Have Been 'Wonderful'

ABC News via Yahoo! News ^ | June 25, 2012 | Amy Bingham

[DogByte6RER]

Maurice Sendak Said Killing Bush Would Have Been 'Wonderful'

Maurice Sendak may have been even wilder than his "wild things."

In one of the children's book author's last interviews before he died of a stroke in May, Sendak said he thought about trying to assassinate former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney.

"Bush was president, I thought, 'Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House. And I want to have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the president, and his wife, and anybody else that can fit into the love hug,'" Sendak told The Comics Journal's founder Gary Groth in an interview that will be published in the magazine's next edition.

"And then we'll blow ourselves up, and I'd be a hero," Sendak continued.

"It would have been a very brave and wonderful thing," said Sendak, who wrote the whimsical "Where the Wild Things Are."

Sendak has had his share of unorthodox comments, although none perhaps as violent as pondering a presidential assassination.

He called former GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich "an idiot of great renown."

"There is something so hopelessly gross and vile about him that it's hard to take him seriously," Sendak told comedian Stephen Colbert in January.

And in 2008, shortly after his 80 th birthday, Sendak told the New York Times, "I hate people," adding that he would rather spend time with his dog Herman.

[EEGator]

Let me rephrase, it’s against the law to threaten the president. Wishing he was dead isn’t.

[DogByte6RER]

I’m not really trying to psychoanalyze Sendak ... but, a Freudian might suggest that Sendak was still steeped in his id. After 80 years of life he was probably no more mature than the spoiled brat Max who was sent to bed without his supper in his most well known book.

[Secret Agent Man]

Just a big liberal pussy. Just wrote about being a jihadi.

[Lonely Bull]

I opened this thread largely because of the opening line of the article.

Again: "Maurice Sendak may have been even wilder than his 'wild things.'"

Why did I notice it? No, it's not the most clever or insightful line; instead, it's oddly light, as if we were in some universe where we actually discovered that he hated chicken soup with rice.

In other words, try to imagine if post #22 were literally true

Maurice sounds like a very tolerant, creative, artisitic individual...

...unlike those evil, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, nativist Tea Partiers.

/s

and this article were about beloved children's author Eciruam Kadnes, who turned out to have had regrettable political views, topped off by secret fantasies of giving [insert your favorite left-leaning ex-president here] incurable, uncontrollable explosive diarrhea.

Would this article probably begin "Eciruam Kadnes may have been even more untamed than his 'untamed entities'"?

[buffaloguy]

Sooo. He wanted Dick Cheney as Prez?

Moonbat with Oak Leaf Clusters.......