This is not a political blog.
While I have opinions like everyone else, I try to avoid spouting them off here. First off, political rants tend to invite equally-venomous responses, and as some of you may know, it's pretty easy to drag me into a full-out internet flame war, and that's not something I want to do here. Secondly, I'm married to a person with a polar-opposite political compass as myself, and even though she has a nice ass, she also reads this and likes to comment on it when I'm trying to sleep.
But I am going to risk being prematurely woken up tomorrow because I have to say something about this whole George Allen/Jim Webb thing.
George Allen and the back of Jim Webb's head
In case you haven't heard about it already, Allen and Webb are running against each other for one of Virginia's Senate seats. The race has been pretty heated, and it began with accusations of racism against Allen, especially after the now-famous
'Macaca' incident. But that's not what I'm all riled up about now.
A couple days ago George Allen's campaign and then Drudge gleefully began to point out
passages in a novel Jim Webb wrote in 2001 called
Lost Soldiers. Most notably this one:
Drudge also goes on to say things like:
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.
CNN has a
cover story tonight about the whole thing.
I've been trying to ignore this. I really have, but I was flipping through the radio dial on the way to work tonight, and I came across the
Tammy Bruce show, and she was talking about it. She said, to paraphrase, that authors of fiction who write this sort of stuff can't just be making it up. There has to be something in their psyche that is horrible and evil. As a result, Mr. Webb must be a monster. A monster!
I don't have the words. I really don't.
Anybody who believes this... Anybody who thinks the morals of an author of fiction are represented in his work is an idiot beyond comprehension.
Imagine if this were true. Think of all the authors we would need to round up and execute because they must be pedophile ghoul serial killers who hate America and Freedom. Stephen King. Dean Koontz. Anne Rice. James Patterson. Clive Barker. Every Leisure Horror author. I could go on and on.
And for the record, the same thing recently happened
in Texas as well, this time the other way around with a Democrat accusing a Republican of being a porn monger for writing a romance novel. Idiot.
I can not freakin' wait for November 7th to come. My wife and I will happily cancel each other's votes out, the commercials will cease, and it will be over. For now.
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