Scooter Libby wrote *what*?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/goss...p-307363c.html

Now, I'm all for freedom of speech.. but do you really want someone who
writes *that* kind of book in the upper regions of government?

Jasper

Jasper Janssen wrote:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/goss...p-307363c.html

Now, I'm all for freedom of speech.. but do you really want someone who
writes *that* kind of book in the upper regions of government?

I'd rather they write trash than DO trash in the Oval Office...

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

Jasper Janssen wrote:
Now, I'm all for freedom of speech..

I saw no references to bicycles in that article.

--
Dave
dvt at psu dot edu

dvt writes:

I saw no references to bicycles in that article.

Well, a scooter has two wheels...

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:09:57 -0700, Mark Hickey
wrote:
Jasper Janssen wrote:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/goss...p-307363c.html

Now, I'm all for freedom of speech.. but do you really want someone who
writes *that* kind of book in the upper regions of government?

I'd rather they write trash than DO trash in the Oval Office...

You did notice the pre-pubescent girls being raped by *bear*s on a
continuous basis mentioned in that article, didn't you? Things that
actually took place in the oval office were at least limited to oral sex
between at least semi-consenting adults.

Jasper

snippage of Hickey-ism trash

Speaking of trash:

Have you seen what Lynn Cheney has authored? Why doesn't she just get
it over with and come out of the closet like the daughter did?

Can't be all that wonderful living with the Father of Lies, although
I'm sure, with his heart condition, she doesn't have to put up with any
unwelcome advances.

D'ohBoy

Jasper Janssen wrote:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/goss...p-307363c.html

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In literary style, Libby's guilt is an open-&-smut case

The last time I saw Scooter Libby, he was trying to persuade Maureen
Dowd to join him in doing tequila shots at the celebstudded Bloomberg
party after the 2003 White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

A few days later, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff sent me an
inscribed copy of "The Apprentice," his 1996 novel of early
20th-century Japan. I never got past the second page.

Luckily, in the latest New Yorker, Lauren Collins summarizes the
novel's sex scenes.
------------------------------------

CLOSE READING DEPT.
SCOOTER'S SEX SHOCKER
by Lauren Collins
Lauren Collins on Libby's lurid novel.
The New Yorker Magazine
Issue of 2005-11-07 Posted 2005-10-31



Of all the scribbled sentences that have converged to create the
Valerie Plame affair, the most remarkable, in literary terms, may
belong to Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's recently deposed chief of staff.
"Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They
turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to
work-and life," he wrote in a jailhouse note to Judith Miller. Meant
as a waiver of confidentiality, the letter touched off the sort of
fevered exegesis more often associated with readings of "The Waste
Land" than of legal correspondence. For even more difficult prose,
however, one must revisit an earlier work. "The Apprentice"-Libby's
1996 entry in the long and distinguished annals of the right-wing dirty
novel-tells the tale of Setsuo, a courageous virgin innkeeper who
finds himself on the brink of love and war.

Libby has a lot to live up to as a conservative author of erotic
fiction. As an article in SPY magazine pointed out in 1988, from Safire
("[She] finally came to him in the bed and shouted 'Arragghrrorwr!' in
his ear, bit his neck, plunged her head between his legs and devoured
him") to Buckley ("I'd rather do this with you than play cards") to
Liddy ("T'sa Li froze, her lips still enclosing Rand's glans . . .") to
Ehrlichman (" 'It felt like a little tongue' ") to O'Reilly ("Okay,
Shannon Michaels, off with those pants"), extracurricular creative
writing has long been an outlet for ideas that might not fly at, say,
the National Prayer Breakfast. In one of Lynne Cheney's books, a
Republican vice-president dies of a heart attack while having sex with
his mistress.

It took Libby more than twenty years to write "The Apprentice," which
is set in a remote Japanese province in the winter of 1903. The book is
brimming with quasi-political intrigue and antique locutions-"The
girl who wore the cloak of yellow fur"; "one wore backward a European
hat"-that make the phrase a "former Hill staffer," by comparison,
seem straightforward.

Like his predecessors, Libby does not shy from the scatological. The
narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad
breath, torture, urine, "turds," armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic
hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes,
"At length he walked around to the deer's head and, reaching into his
pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his penis. He began
to **** in the snow just in front of the deer's nostrils."

Homoeroticism and incest also figure as themes. The main female
character, Yukiko, draws hair on the "mound" of a little girl. The
brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter. Many things
glisten (mouths, hair, evergreens), quiver (a "pink underlip," arm
muscles, legs), and are sniffed (floorboards, sheets, fingers). The
cast includes a dwarf, and an "assistant headman" who comes to restore
order after a crime at the inn. (Might this character be
autobiographical? And, if so, would that have made Libby the assistant
headman or the assistant headman's assistant?)

When it comes to depicting scenes of romance, however, Libby can evoke
a sort of musty sweetness; while one critic deemed "The Apprentice"
"reminiscent of Rembrandt," certain passages can better be described as
reminiscent of Penthouse Forum. There is, for example, Yukiko's
seduction of the inexperienced apprentice:

He could feel her heart beneath his hands. He moved his hands slowly
lower still and she arched her back to help him and her lower leg came
against his. He held her breasts in his hands. Oddly, he thought, the
lower one might be larger. . . . One of her breasts now hung loosely in
his hand near his face and he knew not how best to touch her.

Other sex scenes are less conventional. Where his Republican
predecessors can seem embarrassingly awkward-the written equivalent
of trying to cop a feel while pinning on a corsage-Libby is
unabashed:

At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to
couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in
love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the
bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.

And, finally:

He asked if they should **** the deer.

The answer, reader, is yes.

So, how does Libby stack up against the competition? This question was
put to Nancy Sladek, the editor of Britain's Literary Review, which,
each year, holds a contest for bad sex writing in fiction. (In 1998,
someone nominated the Starr Report.) Sladek agreed to review a few
passages from Libby. "That's a bit depraved, isn't it, this kind of
thing about bears and young girls? That's particularly nasty, and the
other ones are just boring," she said. "God, they're an odd bunch,
these Republicans." Unlike their American counterparts, she said,
Tories haven't taken much to sex writing. "They usually just get
caught," she said.

"D'ohBoy" wrote:

snippage of Hickey-ism trash

Speaking of trash:

Have you seen what Lynn Cheney has authored? Why doesn't she just get
it over with and come out of the closet like the daughter did?

Boy, first you guys complain that all conservatives are a bunch of
prudes, now you've got your knickers all in a twist when it turns out
they're not.

BTW, are you against literature that references non-missionary style
sex?

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

snip
Boy, first you guys complain that all conservatives are a bunch of
prudes, now you've got your knickers all in a twist when it turns out
they're not.
snip

Where did I (or anyone else in this forum) ever complain about that?
More Hickey-isms.

The less sexual conservatives are, the less likely they are to
reproduce. That, as Ms. Stewart says, is a good thing.

D'ohBoy

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:07:51 -0700, Mark Hickey
wrote:

are you against literature that references non-missionary style
sex?

Do you defend anything and everything bad done by the current
administration by pointing to foibles of the Clinton admistration?

Wait, actually there is no need to answer that -- we know you do.

JT

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