Libby's Strange Book

[chiggerbit]

How odd that so many connected to the Re-pubic-ans have this thing about ....emm, alternative sexual appetites. What IS all that repression hiding? Allye, allye oxen free!<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2005-11-07T224926Z_01_SCH782084_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIBBY.xml">today.reuters.com/news/ne...-LIBBY.xml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A steamy novel by Lewis "Scooter" Libby has become a hot item now that Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff is under indictment.<br><br>An inscribed copy of "The Apprentice: A Novel," which Libby wrote in 1996 when he was a relative unknown outside Washington, was on sale on online bookseller Amazon.com on Monday for $2,400. Unsigned hardcover copies were going for $700.<br><br>Now out of print, the novel tells the story of an innkeeper apprentice in a bizarre coming-of-age story set in Japan in 1903. It is littered with edgy sexual material and strong language.<br><br>"Wow, who would have thought that clean living, family values man Scooter Libby was capable of writing such filth," said one reviewer on Amazon. Another Amazon reviewer noted its "lavish dollops of voyeurism, bestiality, pedophilia and corpse robbery."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[AnnaLivia]

chigger, jeff's post about that book was startling news to me, and i figured it ALONE would shock the bejeebers out of the republican voters i know...mostly little old ladies...providing an opening to letting them know more of the shocking facts they are totally unaware of.<br><br>so i went, that very day, to both borders and barnes and noble, and was really going to purchase a copy so i could stick a physical piece of evidence in their hands. no denying it that way. great "conversation starter"...even though it sickens me so much i'd hate to have the damn thing in my hands.<br><br>well, it isn't even in either of their computer databases. i asked about a couple of other books i didn't think they'd have, and they didn't have them, but those were in their database.<br><br>the lady at borders was shocked to hear about the book when i told her, but believed me. the lady at B and N? she said disdainfully that it was probably an internet conspiracy, an untrue story. even after i told her the new yorker magazine had printed excerpts and i'd seen a photo of the book.<br><br>you know: you can't believe anything on the net.<br><br>if ever i get a copy of it, i'm ready to go door-to-door around here with it. and guess who i'd show it to FIRST... <p></p><i></i>

[albion]

I saw it for like $2 on amazon the day after the "turning aspens" letter.<br><br>I shoulda bought 20, had myself a twisted little investment... <p></p><i></i>

[israelirealities]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/0312284535?&PID=30079">www.powells.com/biblio/03...&PID=30079</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312284535/104-2703796-6001555?v=glance">www.amazon.com/exec/obido...5?v=glance</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>there...its real. (well, not really, cause these are just internet links..).<br><br>Strange thing that nobody noticed it before this scandal. After all, he was supposed to be a "big shot" in government, who wrote a novel...strange. <p></p><i></i>

[israelirealities]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20051107/sc_space/giganticapescoexistedwithearlyhumansstudyfinds">news.yahoo.com/s/space/20...studyfinds</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>biological explanations and background to certain republican preferences. <p></p><i></i>

[Ferry Fey]

It was mentioned a year or two ago on various political forums, but mostly as a sideshow to Mrs Cheney's lesbian western potboiler. The discussion was more in the "Scooter WHO?" vein, and "Oh, he wrote a bad book too."<br><br>Masturbating a rapacious bear with a stick didn't come up at that point, though we hadn't had Laura talking about Dubya masturbating a horse either back in those more innocent times. While I'm not sure offhand if the New Yorker article had come out at the time, it certainly<br>wasn't being passed around the Net like it is now.<br><br>You could print up copies of the New Yorker article (do it in such a fashion that it fits on a single sheet), and then hand them out, or tack them up on bulletin boards all over town (bring both thumbtacks and scotch tape).<br>Let a thousand copies bloom.<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[israelirealities]

yes, I found reference to early mentioning of this book, even a LArry King CNN transcript, in 2002, when LIbby's book went on softcover. <br>I think <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>nobody actually read it from</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> page 1 to the end, and so nobody ever stumbled on those paragraphs... <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

....for that tripe?<br><br>I wouldn't wipe me arse with it. <p></p><i></i>

[israelirealities]

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[AnnaLivia]

thanks for all the links, IR! you're a peach. Great idea, Ferry Fey, to flyer it. (sure can't afford the book now.) I just can't help but think this is one of those "damn! what else don't i know about these guys" incidents, and it should be exploited to the hilt. i KNOW mrs. neighbor of mine will be, shall we say, MOST unapproving. and then i bring up the Franklin Credit Union and Larry King, and we go from there. (i like her, but she needs to wake UP.) i don't give a care what consenting adults do at all, but this sick child predation just has to be countered with everything we've got. not just in general. linking this shit to its perpetrators in high places. show how children the world over are victimized every hour. spread it neighbor-to-neighbor. (i'd rather hand them out than tack them up, really.) i think that makes far more impact than just another story on the TV.<br><br>when i think of the children suffering right this minute, i want to go enroll in sniper school. it's hard to look at the johnny gosch photo in Jeff's montage every day. my son was a tyke when that happened.<br><br>so back to work trying to end ANYONE having the kind of power that lets this organized travesty continue...hidden right under our noses. (the backside of my flyer to include the ridding our species of the idea of having extremes of wealthpower. yes i do think it's the ROOT of our troubles, but ya'll already know i think that.)<br><br>i don't presume we'll eliminate individual cases, but gawd we could surely shrink this monstrosity.<br> <p></p><i></i>

[dbeach]

so traitors do their crimes for profit write smut and profit again <br><br>now watch the herculean effort to elevate scootie the cootie to CULT HERO of the right swingers<br><br>Cheny is not gonna take this easy..he is already busy invading Syria and killin off sadams attorneys <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

I'm trying to think how to explain what niggles in the back of my brain on this. What I find interesting is that both parties have an "aura" that attracts different populations of voters. The Dem/left one is kinder, more nurturing of the people, more accepting of racial and gender differences and gender sexual orientations, for instance. This one is more feminine, it could be said. The Republican right is more hard-nosed, meaner, rigid/frigid, and supposedly excludes the idea of anything other than the missionary position between a male and his wife. I THINK that most people would say this one is more "masculine". BUT......there seems to be this pattern of the right attracting the types who are outside of even mainstream lefties as far as unusual sexual proclivities. I'm thinking of the Gannon event, and how so many of the pedophiles seem to hide within the moralist Republican party. Somehow it seems illogical to me. <p></p><i></i>

[professorpan]

I think it's fair to criticize Libby's book in regards to his public persona, and to point out rethuglican hypocrisy of being the party of Ozzie and Harriet-style family values while producing trashy fiction.<br><br>As far as the content, though, I don't know enough about it -- because I haven't read it -- to condemn the content.<br><br>I'm nearly finished with a novel I'm writing. I deal with some rather disturbing issues, and some of the scenes were very unpleasant to write. But it's art -- fiction -- a novel. If I write a scene about someone being tortured, does that make me a torturer? Of course not.<br><br>Fiction, and art in general, often digs into things that make people uncomfortable. I don't fault Libby for writing about perverse or bizarre things. He is guilty of enough serious crimes -- and the blood of tens of thousands is on his hands. That is where we need to focus our attention. <br><br>Not that it doesn't make for an interesting, speculative peek inside his head -- but we can't draw conclusions about someone's behavior from their art, no matter how perverse or unsettling. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

...but you can sure as hell draw conclusions about what's swimming around in someone's brain. And given a choice, I would prefer NOT to have someone who gives 'brain air time' to bear rape seated next to me at a dinner party, or even on the bus, thanks very much. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :x --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/sick.gif ALT=":x"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>