Webb Says His Novels 'Inappropriate' for News Radio

[highwayman]

Inappropriate?
Irrelevant considering how sick the bastard is and should not be elected to any office...




http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200610/POL20061027c.html

(CNSNews.com) - In an interview on Washington Post Radio Friday morning, Jim Webb, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, said excerpts of his novels are "a little bit inappropriate" to be read on news radio.

"I don't know why you're reading that on WTOP," Webb told host Mark Plotkin. "I think it's a little bit inappropriate."

 

[unclehobart]

I love his statement as to how a father sucking on his sons cock is nonsexual.

 

[Gonz]

He saw it in SE Asia & is just reporting the facts as a journalist! we won't mention that it's a fictional novel

 

[spike]

I don't know what his fiction novel has to do with his qualifications for office.

 

[Gonz]

Exactly as much as his claim that Allen is a racist. One gets brought up, they both see light. Turn about is fair game.

 

[spike]

Allen being a racist actually would be more important than Webb writing some fiction. That has a much higher probability of affecting the people he represents.

"Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'" said Dr. Ken Shelton, a white radiologist in North Carolina who played tight end for the University of Virginia football team when Allen was quarterback. "He used the N-word on a regular basis back then."

A second white teammate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retribution from the Allen campaign, separately claimed that Allen used the word "nigger" to describe blacks. "It was so common with George when he was among his white friends. This is the terminology he used," the teammate said.

Last month, Allen was videotaped calling an Indian-American college student "macaca," an obscure word for monkey that is also used as a racial epithet in some parts of the world.

Shelton said he also remembers a disturbing deer hunting trip with Allen on land that was owned by the family of Billy Lanahan, a wide receiver on the team. After they had killed a deer, Shelton said he remembers Allen asking Lanahan where the local black residents lived. Shelton said Allen then drove the three of them to that neighborhood with the severed head of the deer. "He proceeded to take the doe's head and stuff it into a mailbox," Shelton said.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/24/allen_football/

 

[Cerise]

I don't know what his fiction novel has to do with his qualifications for office.

All depends on what your definition of 'qualification' is, ya know?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701585_3.html

"I'm of the realist school of writing," Webb says. "You have a duty to portray things as they really are."

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaw.htm:

Many excellent books about the United States military and wartime service accomplish their purposes, and even win awards, without systematically demeaning women, and without dehumanizing women, men and even children.

Some of Webb’s writings are very disturbing for a candidate hoping to represent the families of Virginians in the U.S. Senate.

Webb’s novels disturbingly and consistently – indeed, almost uniformly – portray women as servile, subordinate, inept, incompetent, promiscuous, perverted, or some combination of these. In novel after novel, Webb assigns his female characters base, negative characteristics. In thousands of pages of fiction penned by Webb, there are few if any strong, admirable women or positive female role models.

Why does Jim Webb refuse to portray women in a respectful, positive light, whether in his non-fiction concerning their role in the military, or in his provocative novels? How can women trust him to represent their views in the Senate when chauvinistic attitudes and sexually exploitive references run throughout his fiction and non-fiction writings?

http://www.allenhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/womencantfight.pdf

 

[Cerise]

Allen being a racist actually would be more important than Webb writing some fiction. That has a much higher probability of affecting the people he represents.

Hmmm......"I'm of the realist school of writing," Webb says. "You have a duty to portray things as they really are."

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200610/POL20061027c.html
The campaign of Republican Sen. George Allen on Thursday released excerpts from some of the war novels Webb wrote between 1978 and 2002. The books include some graphic sexual passages, as well as frequent uses of a racial slur for blacks and descriptions of Vietnamese women as "monkey-faced."

 

[spike]

Hmmm......"I'm of the realist school of writing," Webb says. "You have a duty to portray things as they really are."

Interesting, maybe some of the soldiers in Vietnam had sex and made racial slurs.

 

[Gonz]

Allen being a racist actually would be more important than Webb writing some fiction. That has a much higher probability of affecting the people he represents.

If those things are true, where have those people been for the last 20 years or so?

 

[spike]

Some of Webb’s writings are very disturbing for a candidate hoping to represent the families of Virginians in the U.S. Senate.

Stephen King writes some messed up shit. Does it mean he's a bad guy? No.

Allens racist remarks weren't made in a fiction book by a character.

 

[Gonz]

Allens racist remarks weren't made in a fiction book by a character.

If those things are true, where have those people been for the last 20 years or so?

 

[spike]

About four months ago, when he heard that Allen was a possible candidate for president in 2008, Shelton began to write down some of the negative memories of his former teammate.

You'd probably have to ask the other people.

 

[Gonz]

Alright, so it's okay to fuck over Virginians by making him Governor but the Presidency is just a little over the line?

Horseshit.

 

[Cerise]

Interesting, maybe some of the soldiers in Vietnam had sex and made racial slurs.

Had sex with their sons???

Webb says he believes that slurs are appropriate to describe certain races of people; that he is portraying them as they "really are."

And he features the women in his writings as promiscuous second-class citizens.

He had plenty of time while writing, surely months, to consider the words he was using. Someone that dwells on such things, writes about them and publishes them shouldn't to be in a position to make decisions for the people of this nation.

Stephen King writes some messed up shit. Does it mean he's a bad guy? No.

I didn't realize he was trying to get himself elected.

 

[spike]

Had sex with their sons???

Webb says he believes that slurs are appropriate to describe certain races of people; that he is portraying them as they "really are."

And he features the women in his writings as promiscuous second-class citizens.

He had plenty of time while writing, surely months, to consider the words he was using. Someone that dwells on such things, writes about them and publishes them shouldn't to be in a position to make decisions for the people of this nation.

Surely he considred the words he was writing in a novel. Should he have wrote some happy love stories to please you? Characters kill people in horrible ways in Stephen King's books, does that mean Stephen King kills people? No.

Would it mean King shouldn't run for office? No. It means nothing.

However Allen is a racist in real life. Big difference. He's the one that shouldn't be in office.

 

[Gonz]

However Allen is a racist in real life. Big difference. He's the one that shouldn't be in office.

You know him?

 

[spike]

How many politicians that you complain about do you know personally?

 

[spike]

Alright, so it's okay to fuck over Virginians by making him Governor but the Presidency is just a little over the line?

Horseshit.

There's lots of reasons they could have waited. Do you know them or something?

 

[Gonz]

How many politicians that you complain about do you know personally?

With only one source, you say, definitively, that Allen is a racist. I don't know him-knew his dad & he wasn't & in the business Allen is in, it's likely he's quiet about his thoughts & since there has been no previous complaint, even though he is the former Governor & a current Senator of the Commonweath of Virginia, it seems like more (D) bs.

Had there been an established history of complaints about Gov Allens past, that would lend more creedence. As it sits...

For all I know, he may be. However, if someone has information & holds it until it's politically expedient to release it, it's suspect to begin with.