Posted on 10/26/2006 4:36:18 PM PDT by cdnerds
Drudge Siren: ALLEN'S REVENGE: EXPOSES RIVAL'S NOVEL WRITINGS; UNDERAGE SEX SCENES
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yup...this is almost as much fun as watchin their heads explode on election night is gonna be..:-)
LOL!
Aren't you the guy who went after Hastert because you thought his handling of the Foley thing was corrupt and a cover-up.
Now, you criticize Allen of going in the gutter because he makes a public statement on his opponent's perverse novel.
Plus it seems like ALL of his books had something like that original quote. Webb is gone.
Webb's writings are far worse than the creepy things Foley said. This is going to riun Webb and could hurt the donk party as a whole with social voters that may have stayed home.
Its a bit like the WOT, we are fighting people who dont care who they kill, and here we worry about one civilian ending up in the middle of a fire fight. We are fighting with one hand tied behind our backs.
Webb was put up by the Clinton's too. This could have a major rippling effect back aginst the donks, like Foley stopped the momentum at the time for the GOP.
We will see what the MSM does with this.
I haven't read the book.
I can't imagine an appropriate context, can you?
Well, I for one never saw/heard it. And I'm sure that goes for hundreds of thousands who have now heard it because of Drudge.
This will definitely have an impact. A tectonic one.
I had never heard about it.
Its not "out there" until its been on Drudge.:)
HAR! Nothing!
Can anybody tell me if Mr. Webb belongs to NAMBLA?
Webb is going to have a hard time explaining this one
When you write a book (and, yes, I write; I'm working on my second), you have to write for your audience and your genre. My genre is fantasy, and when I consider my audience I think very carefully of how old I was when I started reading fantasy. I was a teenager when I got bitten by the fanstasy bug, and so I'm very careful to validate what I write to make sure it's acceptable for someone like me. Killing monsters is ok, but I keep it from getting too graphic. It's fantasy, after all, and in that sense I consider the heroism, character development, and especially the epic plot elements to hold much greater significance.
What really disturbs me is not only the motifs in the text (and how much he must like using them since he uses them so much), but what he obviously thought to be acceptable for his audience. It's possible, I suppose, that he was deliberately attempting to shock his audience, but then I would expect the acts he describes to be tied exclusively to villians, as the only effective villian is one the reader has grown to truly despise. That doesn't seem to be the case here, which makes me wonder what goes on in his mind. I surely hope his protagonists aren't doing these things...could they all be conflicted, anti-heroes? Even if that was so, it seems to me that there are limits to how dark an anti-hero can get before one thinks of him as villian rather than hero. Something just isn't right here, my instincts tell me, and I don't think I'm alone here.
Once again...timing is everything and all politics is local-sort-of.
Talk radio and the bloggers will knock this one out of the park. How can the donks condem Foley when Webb's writings are far worse. Webb is a very ill man.
So writing about incestuous, homosexual, underage love scenes doesn't raise flags?
Where did I say Allen's a "bad guy"? My point was that it's a dumb move politically at this point in the race to dredge up this sort of stuff. And I don't appreciate being called "you people" as if I'm part of some kind of cabal. For the record, if I lived in Virginia I'd vote for Allen because I agree more with his positions and I think Webb is a kooky loose cannon.
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