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." Plotkin was reading an excerpt from Webb's novel "Something to Die For," in which Webb describes a female stripper performing sexual acts with a banana.
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." Among the excerpts is a scene from the 2002 novel "Lost Soldiers," in which a man embraces his four-year-old son and places the boy's penis in his mouth.
Webb said the release of the excerpts was "a Karl Rove campaign tactic... It's smear after smear."
Well, Webb DID write these words and he did publish these words, did he not? What is he ashamed of? And he calls this a smear - right! Webb, a journalist (great - just what we need is a journalist in office), seems to be backing away from the truth here. So what would he do as a politician representing your district in a difficult situation?
Senator Dodd thinks Webb is a great guy and a great writer - figures. But then again, there are wild wild stories from the bars about Sen. Dodd and Sen. Kennedy's behavior with women. So... go figure. Personally, I think they're all scum, and Webb is not suited to make decisions about your children - regardless of party affiliation.
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