George Allen Takes Senate Race From Macaca Quicksand To Gutter
Robert Paul Reyes
October 28, 2006
Sen. George Allen, still wiping the Macaca stain from his cowboy boots, took the bitterly contested Virginia Senate race to the gutter.
In a news release and list of X-rated quotes posted on the Drudge Report, Allen accused his opponent, former Navy Secretary Jim Webb of "demeaning women" and "dehumanizing women, men and even children, through his fiction writings". Some of the passages include children in sexually compromising situations.
James Webb, a decorated war hero, called the move baseless character assassination. He has written six best-seling novels influenced by his Vietnam experience
A novel depicting the horrors of war is not likely to include characters like "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm". War is hell and it brings out the best in a few and the worst in most.
A supporter of George Allen commented on a blog: "Let's see how the voters of Virginia stack up Allen's racial bigotry' against the violent misogyny, violent pedophilia, sexual brutality, drunken adultery, intoxicated sexuality, homosexual incest, religious intolerance, foul mouthed coarseness, and we'll-just-see-what-else."
That sounds like a description of the Old Testament, although that holy book not only describes atrocities but condones them as well.
The Bible chronicles how the tribal deity of the Israelites commanded them to completely wipe out their neighbors. Jehovah also gave the Jews permission to rape the females of their vanquished foes.
The point is that great literature, like the King James Version of the Bible, often contains disturbing passages.
I must admit that I cringed when I read some of the excerpts from Webb's novels, but that's a literary criticism, not an indictment of the moral character of Webb.
But I cringed even more at the spectacle of Sen. George Allen sinking so low to hang on to his Senate seat.
I implore all good citizens of Virginia not to reelect this master of dirty tricks to the Senate.
In a news release and list of X-rated quotes posted on the Drudge Report, Allen accused his opponent, former Navy Secretary Jim Webb of "demeaning women" and "dehumanizing women, men and even children, through his fiction writings". Some of the passages include children in sexually compromising situations.
James Webb, a decorated war hero, called the move baseless character assassination. He has written six best-seling novels influenced by his Vietnam experience
A novel depicting the horrors of war is not likely to include characters like "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm". War is hell and it brings out the best in a few and the worst in most.
A supporter of George Allen commented on a blog: "Let's see how the voters of Virginia stack up Allen's racial bigotry' against the violent misogyny, violent pedophilia, sexual brutality, drunken adultery, intoxicated sexuality, homosexual incest, religious intolerance, foul mouthed coarseness, and we'll-just-see-what-else."
That sounds like a description of the Old Testament, although that holy book not only describes atrocities but condones them as well.
The Bible chronicles how the tribal deity of the Israelites commanded them to completely wipe out their neighbors. Jehovah also gave the Jews permission to rape the females of their vanquished foes.
The point is that great literature, like the King James Version of the Bible, often contains disturbing passages.
I must admit that I cringed when I read some of the excerpts from Webb's novels, but that's a literary criticism, not an indictment of the moral character of Webb.
But I cringed even more at the spectacle of Sen. George Allen sinking so low to hang on to his Senate seat.
I implore all good citizens of Virginia not to reelect this master of dirty tricks to the Senate.
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