[Reagan79]

The media will just say he is really a Republican.

[Rembrandt_fan]

I read Webb's 'Fields of Fire' which, while not a great book and entirely too derivative of Norman Mailer's and James Jones' works, was a solid, well-written novel, and certainly one of the better Vietnam war novels. A published, award-winning fiction writer myself--and no fan of Webb's political views--I resent this attack on his character by way of his fictional works. One of my short stories is about an acquitted child molester; another centers around four people who killed for money. Does that mean I sympathize or empathize with or secretly fantasize about their crimes? Emphatically, no.

Webb has plenty of weaknesses insofar as his political and philosophical views are concerned, all legitimate targets in a political campaign. This article was shoddy and below-the-belt.

[Williams]

Here's my theory, I believe passages like this are added to books to make them acceptable to the liberal left media and its constituents.

I read three books recently: Charlie Wilson's War (Afghanistan), The Kite Runner (Afghanistan), and Empires at War (French & Indian War). Especially in the first two, you have some liberal craziness inserted even though the topics lend themselves totally to anti-communism, pro Reaganism. In the third, you have tons of extra concern for the Native Americans.

It's like you're reading an all out gung ho conservative treatise and suddenly a giant liberal shiv is stuck in the page and twisted. In The Kite Runner, the anti-Reagan passsage is so glaringly and inaccurately thrown in the purpose is obvious - to make the book acceptable to the New York Times.

[sitetest]

Yikes! I read what was "below the fold." Wish I hadn't!

Too bizarre for words!

Frankly, the descriptions in those passages are nearly as alarming as the gratuitous sex act, including:

"His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devasted with wrinkles."

and:

"Young men with hard bellies and shattered faces and wild tatoos were waiting for the hogs."

I think Mr. Webb may have some unresolved... "orientation" issues with which to deal.

[MEGoody]

women slicing up fruit with their private parts

If a woman can do this with her private parts, seems like it would be a good reason for a man to stay away from her.

[Dante3]

Can you imagine the hysteria if Allen had written that stuff? That scene sounds demented.

[sandbar]

Where is that funny looking cat with the WTF on it???

It sounds like he put that passage in there just for the fun of writing it out.

The pervert.

[wagglebee]

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[trisham]

After all, the WAPO has been trying to make the fact that George Allen said the word, "Macaca," which about 3 people had ever heard of before Allen said it, into the biggest story of the election cycle. Meanwhile, James Webb's books feature N-bombs galore and women slicing up fruit with their private parts. But that, the MSM doesn't want to go into detail about.

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I'm not sure I can blame them after reading some of the excerpts.

[SoldierDad]

There are some really ill people in this world.

[little jeremiah]

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[Flora McDonald]

Good grief. James H. Webb, Jr. is absolutely freakin' nuts.

I'm wondering if he didn't go to a seminar for blue romance writers where they tell writer wannabees the formula for inserting sex at strategic places throughout the book.

If his target audience is males one has to wonder what's up with that pedophile stuff.

[HitmanLV]

I loved him on Dragnet.

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It's like Webb was sitting around one day and said, "You know what this book needs? A father performing a sex act on his child while people act like it's an everyday occurrence. That will really throw people for a loop!"

This man is really, really sick!

[Hoodat]

ALLEN'S REVENGE: EXPOSES UNDERAGE SEX SCENES IN OPPONENT'S NOVELS

[surfatsixty]

You, sir, are an ignorant a$$hole.