Jim Webb Drops Out of Dem Primary Race

Ex-Marine Jim Webb learns that the Democratic party now belongs to Pajama Boy. https://t.co/nZ68urjQW3 #tcot pic.twitter.com/vv9A7hFJxk

— John Merline (@IBD_JMerline) October 20, 2015

Jim Webb: 'Every Life Matters'

Webb: Every life in this country matters. This guy is in the wrong party. #DemDebate

— Bernard Goldberg (@BernardGoldberg) October 14, 2015

#WebbNation #DemDebate http://t.co/RtPImgXaUr pic.twitter.com/sTG0C0XG4J

— Jim Webb (@JimWebbUSA) October 14, 2015

Webb is a weird guy, but Bernie Sanders is a self-proclaimed socialist and Hillary is untrustworthy and corrupt.

Yes, the bar is set extremely low, but Webb seemed to be the most reasonable of the candidates.

Jim Webb 2016

Jim Webb thinks he has what it takes to be the Democrat nominee for president in 2016.

Check out his campaign/exploratory committee website.

Check out his campaign logo:



With all due respect, I don't think Webb can provide "leadership you can trust."

True, Webb is no Hillary Clinton when it comes to trustworthiness or untrustworthiness.

New poll shows 57% of Americans do not believe @HillaryClinton is trustworthy. #OReillyFactor pic.twitter.com/e0PupA9CUS

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 3, 2015

The sleaze and scandal and downright incompetence that Hillary brings to the table is truly breathtaking.

But, Webb brings a sleaze factor of his own that is quite remarkable.

The Webb weirdness was unearthed during his run for the Senate in 2006.

Here's a post from 2006, detailing aspects of Webb's colorful character that you won't find on his 2016 campaign website:

Why is Jim Webb running for the Senate?

Instead of following a "Mr. Webb Goes to Washington" path, I think heading to Hollywood would be much more lucrative for him.

I would think that Webb would be extremely successful writing for TV and movies.

If his novels are any indication, the man's imagination runs wild with ideas that Hollywood would surely love to lap up.

I hope his works are purely products of his imagination and aren't based in his real life experiences.

Assuming that they are only creations from Webb's head, they are still weird enough to be of serious concern.

No, they're beyond weird. They're downright creepy, especially the passages that border on child porn and incest.

George Allen brought Webb's little known writing talents to light late yesterday.

From Drudge:

The press release, as provided by the Allen Campaign:

WEBB’S WEIRD WORLD

The Author’s Disturbing Writings Show a Continued Pattern of Demeaning Women

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

· 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.

· 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?

· Most Virginians and Americans would find passages such as those below shocking, especially coming from the pen of someone who seeks the privilege of serving in the United States Senate, one of the highest offices in the land:

– Lost Soldiers: “A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.”

Bantam Books, NY, 1st Edition, 2001, (hard cover), page 333.
Quote is from para. 10,.Chap. 34.

– Something to Die For: "Fogarty . . . watch[ed] a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana. She stood back up, her face smiling proudly and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar, and left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina."

William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 36.
Avon Books, New York, 1992 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 35
Quote is from para. 29, Chap. 2 “The South China Sea,”, Section 2

– A Country Such as This: "[He] could see Jawbone and Ashley Asthmatic [two guards at a Vietnamese prison camp] napping together in the grass. They faced inward, their arms entwined. It looked like they were masturbating each other. It didn't surprise him. … It was common to see men holding hands, embracing, playing with each other. Some of them [the guards] had wanted him. He could tell in those evanescent moments between his bao cao bow, the obligatory deference when a guard entered his cell, and the first word or blow that followed it… Quick, grinding voices, turgid with repressed passion. An exploratory reaching of the hand near his groin…”

Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1983 (hardcover); page 396.
Bluejacket Books, 2001 (Trade paperback edition), page 396
Page numbers are the same in the Naval Institute Press (paperback) edition, 1983.
Quote is from fifth para, Part 5 “A Country Such As This,” Chap. 24, Section 1

It goes on with many more passages, but I think that's enough. You get the idea.

(There's more here if you're interested.)

Eye-opening, isn't it?

Maybe jaw-dropping is a better word.

The libs are already crying, "Foul," over this and trying to prop up Webb.

Read this utterly lame article from The Washington Post.

It is a lengthy probe into the "real" Webb, the reluctant candidate.

His imperfections are romanticized. He's a brooding artist, uncomfortable in a crowd, kind of an outsider, a maverick.

The article mentions his novels. Of course, it doesn't mention that they include some really sicko stuff.

James Webb will tell you that he is first a writer, with several best-selling novels to his name.

...Jim Webb did better with his fists than his schoolbooks, but he also wrote poetry and short stories. Although Webb later embraced such 20th-century masters as Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, the writers who spoke to him early on were journalistic observers such as John Steinbeck and James A. Michener. The latter's "Hawaii," in particular, captured his imagination as a teenager.

...After Webb's wounds forced him from the Marines, he went to Georgetown University's law school. There he felt the sting of contempt from antiwar classmates and faculty. He also began to write.

His first novel, "Fields of Fire," appeared in 1978, featuring as the protagonist Lt. Robert E. Lee Hodges Jr., who was a Kentuckian like Webb's grandfather and shared his name. The book went against the current of the times, offering a slap at the era of malaise and pacifism that some called the "Vietnam Syndrome." Webb's novel, for all its cautionary asides on bloodshed, teaches that no other experience is as terribly profound as combat.

I don't understand how The Post could run this article "as is" after the disgusting passages from Webb's novels are flooding the New Media.

There is absolutely no mention of the luridness of his writing.

I suppose the Left will say that Webb isn't a creepy guy. He's an artist, a storyteller extraordinaire. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the sicko passages have served to solidify the Left's support for Webb and energized the extremists.

He speaks their language.

With these passages out there, it will be nearly impossible for the Dems to sell Webb as a man beyond reproach to mainstream Virginians.

Wholesomeness doesn't seem to be very near and dear to Webb's heart.

I do think that it's legitimate for Allen to criticize Webb's writings.

They are a reflection of what's going on in Webb's head.

I don't think he's Senate material, certainly not if the Dems really care about the children.

I wouldn't trust Webb around the pages; and we know that the safety of the pages is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Right?

Also in today's Post, there's a discussion of smear tactics being used this political season.

Entitled "The Year Of Playing Dirtier," the article focuses on negative ads and decries the sorry state of politics.

Excuse me?

The Post is one massive negative ad campaign meant to attack Republicans.

Speaking of playing dirty, The Post staged an all-out assault on George Allen because he said "macaca." Unsubstantiated reports of Allen's allegedly racist behavior were seized upon by The Post and published as truth.

And now, The Post tries to pull off this holier-than-thou stance.

How hypocritical!

The Post's complaints about the dirty tactics of this campaign season are so ridiculous because The Post is part of the problem, one of the main offenders.

It's just as disingenuous as Webb making a claim that he respect's women or vows to uphold family values.

What's crazy is that the bizarre Webb was elected to the U.S. Senate!

While in Washington, he conducted himself like a nut.

The man is not exactly stable, definitely a bit nutty.

He served one term, and did not seek reelection.

But now, Webb thinks we should take him seriously as a presidential candidate.

He doesn't stand a chance.

Pruden: Franken Official U.S. Senate Pornographer

I have to take issue with Wesley Pruden's statement in today's Washington Times.

Discussing Al Franken, now a U.S. senator, Pruden writes:

We've never had an Official U.S. Senate Pornographer before, though pornographic behavior is frequently the entertainment provided to the public by the world's oldest deliberative body. So Al Franken, the answer to Harry Reid's prayer, should fit right in.

In my view, we already have a pornographer in the Senate -- Democrat Jim Webb.

Here is a glimpse into the mind of novelist and Sen. Jim Webb:

(Warning -- Not for the faint of heart)

– Lost Soldiers: “A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.”

Bantam Books, NY, 1st Edition, 2001, (hard cover), page 333.
Quote is from para. 10,.Chap. 34.

– Something to Die For: "Fogarty . . . watch[ed] a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana. She stood back up, her face smiling proudly and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar, and left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina."

William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 36.
Avon Books, New York, 1992 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 35
Quote is from para. 29, Chap. 2 “The South China Sea,”, Section 2

– A Country Such as This: "[He] could see Jawbone and Ashley Asthmatic [two guards at a Vietnamese prison camp] napping together in the grass. They faced inward, their arms entwined. It looked like they were masturbating each other. It didn't surprise him. … It was common to see men holding hands, embracing, playing with each other. Some of them [the guards] had wanted him. He could tell in those evanescent moments between his bao cao bow, the obligatory deference when a guard entered his cell, and the first word or blow that followed it… Quick, grinding voices, turgid with repressed passion. An exploratory reaching of the hand near his groin…”

Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1983 (hardcover); page 396.
Bluejacket Books, 2001 (Trade paperback edition), page 396
Page numbers are the same in the Naval Institute Press (paperback) edition, 1983.
Quote is from fifth para, Part 5 “A Country Such As This,” Chap. 24, Section 1

– A Sense of Honor: “Nurse Goodbody, dark and voluptuous (Lenahan had forgotten her actual name, it was something long and Italian), was a bedtime friend to many of the doctors in Bethesda. She had hinted to Lenahan that she simply could not contain herself. Doctors tending to patients, she explained, aroused her. Morphine Mary (again Lenahan could not remember her exact name) was a thin, nervous drill sergeant type, a disciplinarian who did not allow her patients even to complain. Lenahan was convinced that Morphine Mary did not even sleep with her husband. She wasn’t bad looking, he mused again, staring at her thin frame. If she’d just get laid every now and then she’d mellow out and stop being such a damn witch.” (p. 164) (Lenahan brings Goodbody home with him and has sex, pp. 188-190)

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1981 (hardcover)
Bantam, New York, 1982 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 164
Trade paperback edition, Bluejacket Books, 1995, p. 164
Quote is from fourth para in Part 3, “Chapter 4:1600”

– Something to Die For: "[Fogarty] has been thinking of the firm, springy skin and the sweet smells of a young Filipina woman named Maria in whose bed he had spent three nights almost twenty years ago. . . . She was a deliciously bad young woman. . . . On the second night, he had brought her a box of Godiva chocolates . . . . he had awakened to find her in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet with her knees underneath her chin, eating chocolates and counting her rosary beads as she prayed."

William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 32.
Avon Books New York, 1992 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 30
Quote is from third para in Chapter 2 “South China Sea,”, Part 2

– Something to Die For: "We're on our way to becoming the world's recreational center, a nation [USA] not to be taken seriously. Where are we still the undisputed leader? Music. Movies. Fast food. Drugs. . . . the billboards fifty years from now as you come over the bridge and stop at the tollbooths outside Manhattan: A smiling beautiful naked woman, and the sign saying AMERICAN ASS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT."

William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 199.
Avon Books New York, 1992 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 237
Quote is from para. 38, Chap. 13, Part 1, (five paras before Part 2).

– Fields of Fire: Snake (the protagonist) sees his mother on the bed: "She looked as if she were carefully attempting to re-create a picture from some long-forgotten men's magazine . . . . She was naked underneath the robe . . . . and the robe fell loosely away, revealing her. Snake shrugged resignedly."

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1978 (Hardcover, 1st edition), p. 8
Bantam Books "mass market [paperback] edition" published in Sept. 2001. p. 9.
Quote is from paragraphs 18-23, Part 1 “The Best We Have”, Section 1
(NOTE: Part 1 is after the Prologue)

– Fields of Fire: "He saw the invitation with every bouncing breast and curved hip. . . . He was thirteen. . . . She was fifteen . . . . In a few moments she drew him to her and he murmured in his quiet voice, 'I am still small.' 'You are large enough,' she answered. And he found he was."

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1978 (Hardcover, 1st edition), pp. 211-212
Bantam Books "mass market [paperback] ed." published in Sept. 2001, pp. 280-81.
Quote is from paragraphs 8-20, Part 2 “The End of the Pipeline,” Chapter 24

– A Sense of Honor: “… that is, if you knew who your sister was, Brustein, and if she’d been born with anything between her legs except an asshole, I’d be happy to bring some class to your low-rent name by knocking the bitch up.” (p. 223)

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1981 (hardcover)
Bantam, New York, 1982 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 223
Trade paperback edition, Bluejacket Books, 1995, p. 223
Quote is from 17th para in Part 4, “Chapter 7:1930”

– A Sense of Honor: “You wouldn’t have believed it, Swede. She just dropped her britches and lifted up her skirt and pissed like a man. Didn’t lose a drop, either. Not a drop.” (p. 183)

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1981 (hardcover)
Bantam, New York, 1982 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 183
Trade paperback edition, Bluejacket Books, 1995, p. 183
Quote is from 23rd para in Part 3, “Chapter 8: 2300”

(Source: Drudge Report)

Pruden should give Webb his due.

Franken joins his Dem colleague Webb as an official U.S. Senate pornographer. He's not the first.

Daisy - A Guantanamo Interpretation

From the RNC:

Jim Webb and Lindsey Graham on Meet the Press

Jim Webb in need of sedative

Sunday's Meet the Press with Jim Webb and Lindsey Grahan should have taken place in the ring at a WWE event.

Tim Russert played his role well. He was about as effective as one of those clueless referees.

He was a disaster.

I'm not a big fan of Graham, but Webb really creeps me out.

He's been interviewed by Tim Russert a number of times, but I've never seen Russert challenge him about the bizarre content of his extremely graphic novels nor the state of his mind.

Read some of Webb's literary work here. It's really weird stuff.

If his writings provide a glimpse of the real Webb, he is one frightening guy.

But I digress.

On Sunday's Meet the Press, Democrat pistol packin' Webb and Republican Graham squared off on Iraq.

Transcript

From the start, Webb had trouble maintaining control and speaking coherently.

Same old, same old. Even though it was typical Webb, I still found it disturbing to watch.

He seems like such a powder keg, ready to explode.

I don't know why the people of Virginia elected this guy to represent them in the Senate.

MR. RUSSERT: Gentlemen, welcome both. Let me begin by showing, one more time, the president’s comments on Thursday at his news conference. Let’s watch.

(Videotape, Thursday)

PRES. BUSH: I don’t think Congress ought to be running the war. I think they ought to be funding our troops.

(End videotape)

MR. RUSSERT: Senator Webb, are you trying to run the war?

SEN. WEBB: No, I don’t think that there is a war, to start off with. I think that this has been a botched occupation. It’s been going on for four years after the purely military part of it was done. This administration has failed in terms of bringing the right diplomatic formula to the table. We—all of the things that people like myself were predicting would happen if we went into Iraq are the—exactly the sorts of things that the president and the small group of people who have sort of rallied around him are saying will happen if we leave. We were saying that Iran would be empowered, we were saying that international terrorism would be empowered, we were saying that the reputation of the United States would be diminished around the world, and we were saying the region would become more unstable. So we’ve reached the point, and I see, with what Senator Warner and Senator Lugar have introduced, that there’s a good, strong feeling among the Republicans as well, we’ve reached the point where we have to come together as a Congress and attempt to bring some order into this.

MR. RUSSERT: Are you trying to wrest control of the war from the President, in effect, along with the Republicans?

SEN. WEBB: No. I, I think that any administrative discretion, any executive power, has its limits. And the Congress has the authority, not only to appropriate, but to put conditions on, for instance, how our troops are being used.... Four years into a war you have to be able to put some rational limits on how our troops are being used.

That was just the beginning of Webb's stupidity.

"I don’t think that there is a war, to start off with."

That's odd. If there's no war, what's Webb doing on Meet the Press talking about the war?

Webb says there's no war, but then he says that we're "four years into a war."

What a genius!

Things didn't really get heated between Webb and Graham until later in the segment.

Here's a sample:

SEN. GRAHAM: When General Petraeus comes back, he will tell us these things. I want to leave. No American wants to occupy Iraq. But history will judge us, my friend, not when we left, but what we left behind. Do we leave a resurgent al-Qaeda that will kill every moderate who helped us? Do we empower Iran? Do they control the south of Iraq? Nobody ever asks the consequences, polls the consequences of this idea, just wash your hands of Iraq.

SEN. WEBB: It’s been, it’s been a hard, it’s been a hard month Lindsey. You need to calm down my friend.

SEN. GRAHAM: I’m going to listen to this general, and I’m not going to let any politician take the place of the general.

MR. RUSSERT: I’ll give you a chance to respond.

SEN. WEBB: Lindsey’s had a hard month. You know, these people who have, you know, gathered around...

SEN. GRAHAM: I don’t know about Lindsey having a hard month.

SEN. WEBB: ...gathered around the president, you know, on the immigration bill, on this bill. I know it’s, I know it’s been tough.

Webb is so condescending and disrespectful.

SEN. GRAHAM: It’s about the next 20 and 30 years.

SEN. WEBB: We got to, we got to bring people together, and you know, get a diplomatic solution in place here that’s in consonance with this. When the president announced the surge in January, he said that, by the end of this year, all of the provinces in Iraq would be under the control of Iraqis. That’s clearly not going to happen. And the bottom line here is whether you want to stay for 10 years or whether you want to stay for six months...

SEN. GRAHAM: I want to, I want to beat extremism.

SEN. WEBB: Excuse me. Excuse me, friend. We need to find a formula that takes care of the well-being of our soldiers and our Marines. And there is no...

SEN. GRAHAM: That we can agree on.

SEN. WEBB: There is no operational policy...

SEN. GRAHAM: That we can agree on.

Graham tried to get Webb to conduct himself in a manner more befitting a U.S. senator but Webb would have no part of it.

He wanted to do battle with Graham, not be civil, not show Americans that representatives of the two parties are capable of working together to achieve what's best for the country.

SEN. WEBB: ...that justifies what we’ve been doing. But the tradition...

MR. RUSSERT: But do you...

SEN. WEBB: The traditional operational policy has been if you’ve been gone for a year, you get two years back. We’re now in a situation where the soldiers and the Marines are having less than a one to one ratio, and somebody needs to speak up for them rather than simply defending what this president’s been doing.

SEN. GRAHAM: When they re-enlist in the highest numbers anywhere else in the military, they’re speaking...

SEN. WEBB: You know, this is one thing I really—this is one thing I really take objection to...

SEN. GRAHAM: ...the soldiers are speaking, my friend. Let them win.

SEN. WEBB: ...is politicians who—at the...

SEN. GRAHAM: Let them win.

SEN. WEBB: Politicians who—may I speak?

SEN. GRAHAM: They want to win, let them win.

SEN. WEBB: Is politicians who try to put their political views into the mouths of soldiers. You can look at poll after poll, and the political views of the United States military are no different than the country at large. Go take a look at The New York Times today.

At this point, Webb looked like he wanted to pull out one of his guns and pistol-whip Graham.

SEN. GRAHAM: The soldiers...

SEN. WEBB: Less than half of the military believes that we should be in Iraq in the first place.

SEN. GRAHAM: Have you been to Iraq? Have you ever been and talked to them? I’ve been seven times.

SEN. WEBB: You know, have you ever been to these—I’ve been—I’ve covered two wars as a correspondent...

SEN. GRAHAM: Have you been to Iraq?

SEN. WEBB: I have been to Afghanistan as a journalist.

SEN. GRAHAM: Have you been to Iraq and—have you been to Iraq and talked to the soldiers?

SEN. WEBB: You know, you haven’t been to Iraq.

SEN. GRAHAM: I’ve been to—I’ve been there seven times.

SEN. WEBB: You know, you go see the dog and pony shows.

SEN. GRAHAM: I’ve been there as a reservist, I have been there and I’m going back in August.

SEN. WEBB: That’s what congressmen do. Yeah, I have, I have—I’ve been a member of the military when the senators come in.

Webb wouldn't answer a simple question. He kept dodging and weaving.

SEN. GRAHAM: Well, all—listen, something we can agree on, we both admire the men and women in uniform. I don’t doubt your patriotism.

SEN. WEBB: Don’t put political words in their mouth.

SEN. GRAHAM: You know, my election...

SEN. WEBB: You do it—you’ve been doing it ever since I’ve been in Congress.

SEN. GRAHAM: I’m up for re-election. Every Republican who’s supporting this position is doing it against the polls.

SEN. WEBB: You know, you said on the floor, “Let them win. They want it.”

SEN. GRAHAM: This is not about my election, my friend...

SEN. WEBB: They want it, my friend.

"My friend."

I don't buy that.

SEN. GRAHAM: ...this is about the next generation.

SEN. WEBB: No, you said on the floor this week, “Let them win.”

SEN. GRAHAM: The troops are not the problem. The troops can win. I...

SEN. WEBB: Thirty-five percent of the United States military agrees with the policy of this president.

SEN. GRAHAM: Well, why do they keep...

SEN. WEBB: By poll. By poll.

SEN. GRAHAM: ...re-enlisting? Why do they go back?

SEN. WEBB: Because they love their country.

SEN. GRAHAM: That’s not the problem. No, because...

SEN. WEBB: Because they love their country, they do not do it for political reasons.

SEN. GRAHAM: And they...

SEN. WEBB: My family’s been doing this since the Revolutionary war.

SEN. GRAHAM: Yeah, well, so, so has my family.

Watch the netcast.

You need to see the veins start popping out in Webb's ample forehead to get the full effect.

I don't care what either of their families have done since the Revolutionary war.

Although both Webb and Graham have reason to regret how the Meet the Press discussion played out, Webb certainly came off as deranged.

Webb behaves like an adult version of a schoolyard bully.

He's a creepy, porn-writing, gun-toting, hothead always looking for a fight.

I would not want to cross paths with Webb in a dark alley or anywhere else for that matter.

Jim Webb Scares Me

What can I say?

Senator Jim Webb is scary.

He seems to be out of touch with reality. It's like he treats his life as if he's acting out scenes for an as yet unwritten novel.

Yesterday, the word from Webb's office was this: "To our knowledge, this incident was an oversight."

Today, things have changed.

Webb denies giving his gun to his aide Philip Thompson.

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) said Tuesday that he did not give staffer Philip Thompson the pistol whose possession got the aide arrested Monday when he tried to enter the Russell Senate office building.

“I have never carried a gun in the Capitol complex and I did not give the weapon to Phillip Thompson, and that’s all that I think I’ll say,” Webb told reporters.

“I think this is one of those very unfortunate situations where, completely inadvertently, he took the weapon into the Senate yesterday,” Webb added. The senator noted that he was in New Orleans from Friday until Monday. He speculated that the incident happened because three of his cars were moved because of the trip.

...“Everyone here knows that I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, that I have had a permit to carry a weapon in Virginia for a long time, and I believe that it’s important — it’s important for me, personally, and for a lot of people in the situation that I’m in, to be able to defend myself and my family.”

Webb is parsing words; and it sounds like Thompson is agreeing to take a bullet for Webb. Slimy Webb is wiping his hands of the matter.

He says he didn't give the gun to Thompson. Who cares?

It certainly was Webb's gun and it certainly was in Thompson's possession.

Why should Webb and Thompson be treated any differently than any other citizen in D.C.?

Would a tourist who inadvertently brought a loaded gun to a Senate office building be let off the hook?

Furthemore, Webb is trying to paint himself as a victim of a conspiracy, as though he has enemies interested in assassinating him or harming his family.

Are the libs in the media getting on Webb's case for being a gun-toting cowboy?

Nooooo.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim Webb turned an awkward episode — the arrest of one of his aides for carrying a gun into one of the Senate office buildings — into a political opportunity Tuesday, giving a spirited defense of his and other Americans’ right to carry firearms to defend themselves.

While Webb, D-Va., did not specifically say he’d support a change in the law in the District of Columbia that bans most residents and visitors from carrying or even possessing guns, he did defend the right of people to use guns in self-defense.

I wouldn't refer to this as an awkward episode.

That's being awfully easy on him.

Would the reaction of the lib media be the same if a Republican senator's aide inadvertently tried to bring a loaded gun into a Capitol Hill office building?

Can you imagine if someone working for Karl Rove did that?

There would be hearings. Chuckie Schumer would be on the Sunday talk shows demanding that this violent administration be investigated.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, he said, “it’s a more dangerous time” for those serving in government. “I’m not going to comment with great specificity about how I defend myself, but I do feel I have that right,” he added.

Webb, a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War and former secretary of the Navy, said members of Congress did not have the high level of protection that the president and executive branch officials have. As a result, he said, “We are required to defend ourselves.”

When a reporter asked Webb if he considered himself “above Washington D.C.’s gun law,” the Virginian replied that he would not comment on “how I provide for my own security.”

Since 9/11?

Does Webb think that he might need a gun to battle some terrorists?

Talk about promoting a "culture of fear!"

Webb is exploiting the terrorist attacks as an excuse for disregarding D.C.'s gun laws.

He claims that he doesn't feel safe enough. The U.S. government doesn't provide enough security for senators.

Webb has the right to defend himself, but he doesn't have the right to break the law.

Wild, Wild Webb

Renaissance man Jim Webb is a real piece of work.

Virginia voters chose the heat-packing Webb to represent them in the Senate, sending George Allen packing.

Are you proud of yourselves, Webb supporters?

It was no secret that Webb wrote novels with pornographic scenes.

Even before he was sworn in, Webb made waves in Washington by dissing President Bush.
Webb boasted that he was "tempted to slug the commander-in-chief."

Yes, Webb is a colorful character.

Today, another bizarre chapter was added to "Jim Webb's Excellent Washington Adventure."

WASHINGTON -- An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was arrested Monday when he entered a Senate office building with a loaded pistol belonging to the senator.

Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the aide was charged with carrying a pistol without a license and possessing an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition.

The office of Webb, D-Va., identified the aide as Phillip Thompson and said he was "a former Marine, a long-term friend and trusted employee of the senator."

Is that supposed to make it OK?

It sounds like Webb believes that former Marines, good friends, and trusted employees should be considered above the law.

What was Webb doing handing over a loaded gun to Thompson?

A congressional official briefed on the incident said Webb gave the gun to Thompson when the assistant drove him to an airport earlier in the day. Thompson, upon entering the Senate building, forgot he was carrying the weapon.

"To our knowledge, this incident was an oversight," Webb's office said in a statement. It said it had no other details.

The weapon was revealed when the aide went through an X-ray machine at an entrance of the Russell Senate Office Building, Schneider said. She said the man had a loaded pistol with two additional loaded magazines.

According to Webb's office, the gun incident was an "oversight."

What kind of "oversight"?

Oops! Thompson forgot he was bringing a loaded gun into the Senate Office Building!

I've always thought that there was something odd about Webb. I didn't realize he would turn out to be this odd. Eccentric is too kind a word. He's creepy.

Earlier this month, Webb put out a press release referring to Iran, telling President Bush to "holster his guns before he leads America into another unprovoked war."

"This presidency has shot from the hip too many times for us to be able to trust it to act on its own," Webb said.

It appears that Webb likes to be ready to shoot from the hip, doesn't it?

There's something very, very strange about this Dem senator.

Jim Webb Responds

Random thoughts on the Dems' response to President Bush's State of the Union address:

I had trouble listening to Jim Webb’s response.

I kept thinking about his creepy novels and his weird altercation with President Bush.

For someone so explosive, I was surprised that Webb’s delivery was so dry.

It was odd the way he spoke in profile. It made him appear shifty. He had trouble looking directly into the camera.

It was awkward the way Webb pulled out the photo of his father. He pointed his dad out with all the smoothness of a clueless Weather Channel personality discussing a storm in the east while pointing at the Rockies.

For all of Webb’s blather, it was without substance.

He said that the Dems will not cooperate with Bush’s strategy for Iraq, but he didn’t say what they would do other than end the war.

Webb never uttered the word “victory.”
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Here's the transcript.
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Apparently, Webb played with the facts about the military in his response.

What did he think he was doing? Writing a novel?

Fiction.

Jim Webb's Rebuttal

Newly-elected Senator Jim Webb has been chosen by the Dems to give the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address tonight.

Surprised?

I'm not.

From The Washington Times:

On the Virginia campaign trail last fall, someone close to Senate candidate James H. Webb Jr. suggested that the Democrat wants to be president.

The Virginian went on to unseat Sen. George Allen, a Republican, have a confrontation with President Bush in the White House over the Iraq war and be chosen by his party to deliver a rebuttal to Mr. Bush's State of the Union address tonight.

If Mr. Webb, 60, does have presidential ambitions, they are far from public knowledge. Still, the decorated Vietnam veteran has emerged as a leading voice on the Iraq war, especially since his own son is a lance corporal stationed in Ramadi.

The senator declined to speak about Lance Cpl. Jimmy Webb's service, but said his response will have an emphasis on Iraq.

"My speech will highlight areas where Democrats in Congress have different priorities," Mr. Webb said yesterday.

"I will be speaking for the Democratic Party ... but I do not intend to deliver a particularly partisan speech," he said. "That part of the campaign is over. Now is the time for governing."

Not partisan???

Isn't the point of the Dem response to be partisan, to give the party not occupying the executive branch a voice?

"I do not intend to deliver a particularly partisan speech. "

How lame!

No doubt, the main reason the Dems picked Webb to deliver the response is because he has what Maureen Dowd called "absolute moral authority." She was referring to Cindy Sheehan when she used the phrase.

Supposedly, because Sheehan's son died serving in Iraq, she spoke the truth and was not to be questioned or doubted.

Similarly, the Dems probably think Webb should command the same sort of authority because his son is a Marine serving in Iraq.

Typical nonsensical, touchy, feely Dem stuff.

It'll be interesting to see if Webb evokes his Marine son during his address. The guy refused to say even a few words about him to the President, insisting it was too personal. Remember?

Webb was so mad that he wanted to slug the President.

Do you think he'll be as tight-lipped about his son on national TV as he was privately with President Bush?

If he does use his son in his remarks, he'll certainly come off pretty hypocritical.

These rebuttals are always so boring.

If Webb wants to get the attention of Americans watching at home, he really should toss out the partisan politics and read from one of his novels.

Samples of Webb's writing can be found here.

Yikes!

Jim Webb Disses Bush

Jim Webb, noted author and Virginia's SENATOR-ELECT, hasn't even been sworn in yet and he's making waves in Washington.

RICHMOND, Va. -- Democratic Sen.-elect Jim Webb avoided the receiving line during a recent White House reception for new members of Congress and had a chilly exchange with President Bush over the Iraq war and his Marine son.

"How's your boy?" Webb, in an interview Wednesday, recalled Bush asking during the reception two weeks ago.

"I told him I'd like to get them out of Iraq," Webb said.

"That's not what I asked. How's your boy?" the president replied, according to Webb.

At that point, Webb said, Bush got a response similar to what reporters and others who had asked Webb about Lance Cpl. Jimmy Webb, 24, have received since the young man left for Iraq around Labor Day: "I told him that was between my boy and me."

Webb, a leading critic of the Iraq war, said that he had avoided the receiving line and photo op with Bush, but that the president found him.

How childish!

Webb was trying to avoid the President?

Doesn't this genius realize that he needs to work with the President?

And Webb can't bring himself to exchange a few words with Bush socially.

Yeah, the Dems intend to change the tone in Washington.

What a crock!

Webb is really strange. He certainly could have given a very generic response to the President's inquiry.

...He said he meant no disrespect to the presidency during the reception, but "I've always made a distinction about not speaking personally about my son."

In interviews during the campaign, Webb said it was wrong to elevate the role of one Marine over others. Webb also expressed concern that a high profile could subject a Marine to greater peril.

He wore his son's buff-colored desert boots throughout the campaign, but refused to speak extensively about his son's service or allow it to be used in campaign ads.

In other words, he readily exploited his son's service to dupe the people of Virginia into electing him; yet he refuses to give a simple response to questions about his son.

President Bush wasn't asking for an in-depth account of Webb's relationship with Jimmy Webb.

The President was showing concern and acknowledging Jimmy's service.

Webb, on the other hand, showed that he's extremely disrespectful and socially awkward.

He also has a violent streak.

Webb should stick to writing those creepy novels. He doesn't relate very well with others.

Jim Webb's Writings

Tim Russert is still positively giddy over the Dems' House and Senate victories.

On yesterday's Meet the Press, he interviewed Senator-elect Jim Webb of Virginia and Senator-elect Jon Tester of Montana.

This wasn't a Russert "gotcha" interview. I wouldn't call it a softball interview. It was a Nerf Ball interview.

Did Russert ask Webb about his career as a novelist and the content of his writings?

No.

Read a sampling of Webb's work.

Russert completely dodged the matter.

The only time Russert touched on Webb's sleazy books was when he joked about them, and very vaguely at that.

Transcript excerpt

MR. RUSSERT: Jim Webb, you had this comment in The Washington Post which caught my attention. “Webb said he will model himself after former New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D), whom he described as someone ‘who had government experience that was shaped by the intellectual world.’” A man I knew well, described as independent, maverick, iconoclastic. Do you see yourself along those lines?

SEN.-ELECT WEBB: You know, when this campaign started and people were saying I didn’t know how to do soundbites and debates and this sort of thing. And I sat down one day and I said, “Well, who is my prototype here?” And it would be Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Someone who had government experience, but who was shaped through the intellectual world and who cared about where you measure society, which is at the base, rather than at the top. Where is the health of society. And yeah, very much look forward to, in many ways, following in his footsteps.

MR. RUSSERT: And sometimes got in trouble for his writings.

SEN.-ELECT WEBB: And I, you know, it’s—I—I’m really looking forward to, to trying to do the—some of the same things that he did in terms of putting, putting my experience in the intellectual world onto the problems, the practical problems of today.

MR. RUSSERT: Jim Webb and Jon Tester, congratulations to both and we look forward to covering your tenures in the Senate.

You could tell that Webb was really uncomfortable at the mere mention of his writings. He started stuttering and stumbling.

I don't know why he lost his composure. He should have known that Russert wasn't going to put up any of Webb's pornographic passages on the screen and expect him to respond.

I do think it's odd that Russert drew a parallel between what Moynihan wrote and the sort of trash that Webb has peddled.

Clearly, Russert is thrilled that Webb defeated George Allen. He wouldn't embarrass him like that.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting him.

Maybe it isn't the Dems' victory that has brought a new sparkle to Russert eyes. Maybe he's been enjoying one of Webb's novels.

Senator-Elect Blue Jim Webb

The U.S. Senate has gone Blue.

It's not official yet, but the Associated Press declared Jim Webb to be the winner of the Virginia race On Wednesday night, giving the Democrats the majority.

According to the AP, Webb defeated George Allen by a mere 7,236 votes.

RICHMOND, Nov. 8 -- Virginia's Democratic Senate candidate, James Webb, claimed the title of senator-elect Wednesday and began organizing his congressional staff, while Republican incumbent George Allen declined to concede but was described as "realistic" about the outcome if he seeks a recount challenging Webb's thin lead.

With control of the U.S. Senate hanging in the balance, Allen dispatched teams of lawyers and operatives across Virginia in search of the votes he would need to win. Early in the day, Allen did not appear ready to relinquish his claim to an office he once saw as a springboard to the White House.

"Let the process play itself out in a dignified manner," said Ed Gillespie, a former national Republican Party chairman, speaking for the Allen campaign in front of the Virginia party headquarters. "The votes need to be accurately counted. Only at the end of that process is a winner declared."

But Webb continued to lead by approximately 7,300 votes with virtually all of Virginia's 2.3 million ballots counted Wednesday evening, and Republicans said there appeared to be little hope that glitches or math errors might uncover new GOP votes. Gillespie said Allen was "realistic," and an e-mail sent late Wednesday said the senator would make a statement "at the conclusion" of the statewide canvass of votes. The e-mail said "more details will follow from the campaign" early Thursday.

Can you imagine if Allen held a 7,200 vote lead?

Dem leaders would insist that the results were tainted.

They would claim that voting machines either malfunctioned or were rigged.

Jesse Jackson would parachute in and charge voter suppression.

There would be reports of dogs being used to intimidate voters -- all the usual Dem accusations.

But the GOP doesn't operate that way. In general, Republicans show more respect for the electoral process than that. They respect the will of the people.

So, Webb has declared himself to be victorious. Although Allen hasn't conceded, he isn't vowing to fight Webb or whip his supporters into a frenzy ala Al Gore in 2000.

If Webb was trailing by 7,200 votes, I doubt that he would have the class being exhibited by Allen.

That's not a stretch.

Webb is not exactly a classy guy.

Here is a glimpse into the mind of Senator-elect Webb:

(Warning -- Not for the faint of heart)

– Lost Soldiers: “A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.”

Bantam Books, NY, 1st Edition, 2001, (hard cover), page 333.
Quote is from para. 10,.Chap. 34.

– Something to Die For: "Fogarty . . . watch[ed] a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana. She stood back up, her face smiling proudly and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar, and left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina."

William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 36.
Avon Books, New York, 1992 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 35
Quote is from para. 29, Chap. 2 “The South China Sea,”, Section 2

– A Country Such as This: "[He] could see Jawbone and Ashley Asthmatic [two guards at a Vietnamese prison camp] napping together in the grass. They faced inward, their arms entwined. It looked like they were masturbating each other. It didn't surprise him. … It was common to see men holding hands, embracing, playing with each other. Some of them [the guards] had wanted him. He could tell in those evanescent moments between his bao cao bow, the obligatory deference when a guard entered his cell, and the first word or blow that followed it… Quick, grinding voices, turgid with repressed passion. An exploratory reaching of the hand near his groin…”

Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1983 (hardcover); page 396.
Bluejacket Books, 2001 (Trade paperback edition), page 396
Page numbers are the same in the Naval Institute Press (paperback) edition, 1983.
Quote is from fifth para, Part 5 “A Country Such As This,” Chap. 24, Section 1

– A Sense of Honor: “Nurse Goodbody, dark and voluptuous (Lenahan had forgotten her actual name, it was something long and Italian), was a bedtime friend to many of the doctors in Bethesda. She had hinted to Lenahan that she simply could not contain herself. Doctors tending to patients, she explained, aroused her. Morphine Mary (again Lenahan could not remember her exact name) was a thin, nervous drill sergeant type, a disciplinarian who did not allow her patients even to complain. Lenahan was convinced that Morphine Mary did not even sleep with her husband. She wasn’t bad looking, he mused again, staring at her thin frame. If she’d just get laid every now and then she’d mellow out and stop being such a damn witch.” (p. 164) (Lenahan brings Goodbody home with him and has sex, pp. 188-190)

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1981 (hardcover)
Bantam, New York, 1982 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 164
Trade paperback edition, Bluejacket Books, 1995, p. 164
Quote is from fourth para in Part 3, “Chapter 4:1600”

– Something to Die For: "[Fogarty] has been thinking of the firm, springy skin and the sweet smells of a young Filipina woman named Maria in whose bed he had spent three nights almost twenty years ago. . . . She was a deliciously bad young woman. . . . On the second night, he had brought her a box of Godiva chocolates . . . . he had awakened to find her in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet with her knees underneath her chin, eating chocolates and counting her rosary beads as she prayed."

William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 32.
Avon Books New York, 1992 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 30
Quote is from third para in Chapter 2 “South China Sea,”, Part 2

– Something to Die For: "We're on our way to becoming the world's recreational center, a nation [USA] not to be taken seriously. Where are we still the undisputed leader? Music. Movies. Fast food. Drugs. . . . the billboards fifty years from now as you come over the bridge and stop at the tollbooths outside Manhattan: A smiling beautiful naked woman, and the sign saying AMERICAN ASS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT."

William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 199.
Avon Books New York, 1992 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 237
Quote is from para. 38, Chap. 13, Part 1, (five paras before Part 2).

– Fields of Fire: Snake (the protagonist) sees his mother on the bed: "She looked as if she were carefully attempting to re-create a picture from some long-forgotten men's magazine . . . . She was naked underneath the robe . . . . and the robe fell loosely away, revealing her. Snake shrugged resignedly."

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1978 (Hardcover, 1st edition), p. 8
Bantam Books "mass market [paperback] edition" published in Sept. 2001. p. 9.
Quote is from paragraphs 18-23, Part 1 “The Best We Have”, Section 1
(NOTE: Part 1 is after the Prologue)

– Fields of Fire: "He saw the invitation with every bouncing breast and curved hip. . . . He was thirteen. . . . She was fifteen . . . . In a few moments she drew him to her and he murmured in his quiet voice, 'I am still small.' 'You are large enough,' she answered. And he found he was."

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1978 (Hardcover, 1st edition), pp. 211-212
Bantam Books "mass market [paperback] ed." published in Sept. 2001, pp. 280-81.
Quote is from paragraphs 8-20, Part 2 “The End of the Pipeline,” Chapter 24

– A Sense of Honor: “… that is, if you knew who your sister was, Brustein, and if she’d been born with anything between her legs except an asshole, I’d be happy to bring some class to your low-rent name by knocking the bitch up.” (p. 223)

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1981 (hardcover)
Bantam, New York, 1982 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 223
Trade paperback edition, Bluejacket Books, 1995, p. 223
Quote is from 17th para in Part 4, “Chapter 7:1930”

– A Sense of Honor: “You wouldn’t have believed it, Swede. She just dropped her britches and lifted up her skirt and pissed like a man. Didn’t lose a drop, either. Not a drop.” (p. 183)

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1981 (hardcover)
Bantam, New York, 1982 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 183
Trade paperback edition, Bluejacket Books, 1995, p. 183
Quote is from 23rd para in Part 3, “Chapter 8: 2300”

I know these are passages of Webb's novels, works of fiction, but I do think they are revealing.

I think they're worth reading. After all, Webb is soon to be a U.S. Senator.

Can you imagine the field day that the lib media would have had if a Republican had written this stuff?

If Virginians were looking for a senator who would stand up for family values and treat women with respect, they made a mistake by electing Jim Webb.

Jim Webb's Imagination

Why is Jim Webb running for the Senate?

Instead of following a "Mr. Webb Goes to Washington" path, I think heading to Hollywood would be much more lucrative for him.

I would think that Webb would be extremely successful writing for TV and movies.

If his novels are any indication, the man's imagination runs wild with ideas that Hollywood would surely love to lap up.

I hope his works are purely products of his imagination and aren't based in his real life experiences.

Assuming that they are only creations from Webb's head, they are still weird enough to be of serious concern.

No, they're beyond weird. They're downright creepy, especially the passages that border on child porn and incest.

George Allen brought Webb's little known writing talents to light late yesterday.

From Drudge:

The press release, as provided by the Allen Campaign:

WEBB’S WEIRD WORLD

The Author’s Disturbing Writings Show a Continued Pattern of Demeaning Women

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

· 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.

· 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?

· Most Virginians and Americans would find passages such as those below shocking, especially coming from the pen of someone who seeks the privilege of serving in the United States Senate, one of the highest offices in the land:

– Lost Soldiers: “A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.”

Bantam Books, NY, 1st Edition, 2001, (hard cover), page 333.
Quote is from para. 10,.Chap. 34.

– Something to Die For: "Fogarty . . . watch[ed] a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana. She stood back up, her face smiling proudly and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar, and left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina."

William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 36.
Avon Books, New York, 1992 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 35
Quote is from para. 29, Chap. 2 “The South China Sea,”, Section 2

– A Country Such as This: "[He] could see Jawbone and Ashley Asthmatic [two guards at a Vietnamese prison camp] napping together in the grass. They faced inward, their arms entwined. It looked like they were masturbating each other. It didn't surprise him. … It was common to see men holding hands, embracing, playing with each other. Some of them [the guards] had wanted him. He could tell in those evanescent moments between his bao cao bow, the obligatory deference when a guard entered his cell, and the first word or blow that followed it… Quick, grinding voices, turgid with repressed passion. An exploratory reaching of the hand near his groin…”

Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1983 (hardcover); page 396.
Bluejacket Books, 2001 (Trade paperback edition), page 396
Page numbers are the same in the Naval Institute Press (paperback) edition, 1983.
Quote is from fifth para, Part 5 “A Country Such As This,” Chap. 24, Section 1

It goes on with many more passages, but I think that's enough. You get the idea.

(There's more here if you're interested.)

Eye-opening, isn't it?

Maybe jaw-dropping is a better word.

The libs are already crying, "Foul," over this and trying to prop up Webb.

Read this utterly lame article from The Washington Post.

It is a lengthy probe into the "real" Webb, the reluctant candidate.

His imperfections are romanticized. He's a brooding artist, uncomfortable in a crowd, kind of an outsider, a maverick.

The article mentions his novels. Of course, it doesn't mention that they include some really sicko stuff.

James Webb will tell you that he is first a writer, with several best-selling novels to his name.

...Jim Webb did better with his fists than his schoolbooks, but he also wrote poetry and short stories. Although Webb later embraced such 20th-century masters as Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, the writers who spoke to him early on were journalistic observers such as John Steinbeck and James A. Michener. The latter's "Hawaii," in particular, captured his imagination as a teenager.

...After Webb's wounds forced him from the Marines, he went to Georgetown University's law school. There he felt the sting of contempt from antiwar classmates and faculty. He also began to write.

His first novel, "Fields of Fire," appeared in 1978, featuring as the protagonist Lt. Robert E. Lee Hodges Jr., who was a Kentuckian like Webb's grandfather and shared his name. The book went against the current of the times, offering a slap at the era of malaise and pacifism that some called the "Vietnam Syndrome." Webb's novel, for all its cautionary asides on bloodshed, teaches that no other experience is as terribly profound as combat.

I don't understand how The Post could run this article "as is" after the disgusting passages from Webb's novels are flooding the New Media.

There is absolutely no mention of the luridness of his writing.

I suppose the Left will say that Webb isn't a creepy guy. He's an artist, a storyteller extraordinaire. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the sicko passages have served to solidify the Left's support for Webb and energized the extremists.

He speaks their language.

With these passages out there, it will be nearly impossible for the Dems to sell Webb as a man beyond reproach to mainstream Virginians.

Wholesomeness doesn't seem to be very near and dear to Webb's heart.

I do think that it's legitimate for Allen to criticize Webb's writings.

They are a reflection of what's going on in Webb's head.

I don't think he's Senate material, certainly not if the Dems really care about the children.

I wouldn't trust Webb around the pages; and we know that the safety of the pages is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Right?

Also in today's Post, there's a discussion of smear tactics being used this political season.

Entitled "The Year Of Playing Dirtier," the article focuses on negative ads and decries the sorry state of politics.

Excuse me?

The Post is one massive negative ad campaign meant to attack Republicans.

Speaking of playing dirty, The Post staged an all-out assault on George Allen because he said "macaca." Unsubstantiated reports of Allen's allegedly racist behavior were seized upon by The Post and published as truth.

And now, The Post tries to pull off this holier-than-thou stance.

How hypocritical!

The Post's complaints about the dirty tactics of this campaign season are so ridiculous because The Post is part of the problem, one of the main offenders.

It's just as disengenuous as Webb making a claim that he respect's women or vows to uphold family values.

Jim Webb

The Democrats and their lib media mouthpieces are ruthless people.

They will stop at nothing to bring down a Republican. I thought campaigning would get ugly after Labor Day, but I didn't envision something as vicious as the George Allen LIBERAL HIT JOB.

However, in their attacks on George Allen's integrity, the Dems and the lib media may have gone a bridge too far.

They pushed the macaca thing to the limit. Then, they foamed at the mouth over Allen's "hidden" Jewish heritage. The past couple of days, it's been Allen's alleged use of the N-word.

The New York Times offers the story of the latest person to come forward and reveal the "truth" about that racist monster George Allen.

Another acquaintance of Senator George Allen said Tuesday that she heard him use a racial slur in 1976, contradicting a statement he made Monday in an effort to tamp down similar accusations.

Mr. Allen’s campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, called the account by the woman, Ellen G. Hawkins, “another false accusation.”

...Mrs. Hawkins, who described herself as a rural Virginia housewife and an active Democrat, said in an interview Tuesday that she heard Mr. Allen use the slur repeatedly at a party on election night in 1976. She said Mr. Allen used the term while deprecating the intelligence of the black players on the Washington Redskins football team, which Mr. Allen’s father coached. Recalling remarks about its star running back, Larry Brown, Mrs. Hawkins said that Mr. Allen “started in effect bad-mouthing him, saying what a shiftless you-know-what” he was.

She said she remembered the conversation because she was a big fan of the team and was shocked. She said Mr. Allen’s statement on Monday was “just plain a lie.”

She described her recollections in an e-mail message forwarded to The New York Times. Her former husband, who she said was at the party, did not return a call for comment.

Exactly who sent this information to The New York Times?

Hawkins e-mail was forwarded. Forwarded by whom? Who was the original recipient of the e-mail?

Who solicited Hawkins to tell her story? Who prompted her to write the e-mail? Anyone?

...Mrs. Hawkins is the third acquaintance in two days to recount hearing Mr. Allen use racist slurs.

...A college football teammate, Dr. Ken Shelton, has said Mr. Allen used racial slurs and engaged in a racist prank in college in the early 70’s.

An anthropology professor, Christopher Taylor, said that as a graduate student at the University of Virginia he heard Mr. Allen use the epithet.

Mr. Allen’s campaign issued former teammates’ statements saying they did not remember his using the term. The campaign also issued a statement from his former wife, Anne Waddell, who confirmed meeting Mr. Taylor but disputed his recollection. She said Mr. Allen “would never utter such a word.”

As Hawkins basks in the spotlight for being the George Allen accuser of the day, Jim Webb, Allen's Dem challenger, is finally being pressed to address his vocabulary.

Democratic Senate challenger Jim Webb declined to say definitively Tuesday whether he had ever used a common derogatory term to describe blacks, stepping carefully after watching his campaign rival confront charges of racism.

"I don't think that there's anyone who grew up around the South that hasn't had the word pass through their lips at one time or another in their life," Webb told reporters.

Webb referred to his novel, "Fields of Fire," which aides said includes occurrences of the n-word as part of character dialogue. But he added: "I have never issued a racial or ethnic slur."

Asked for clarification of his original answer, spokeswoman Jessica Smith quoted Webb as saying, "I have never used that word in my general vocabulary or in any derogatory way."

She declined to say whether he had ever used the word apart from when he wrote his book.

Has Webb been taking flip-flopping lessons from his supporter, John Kerry?

He implied that he has used the N-word in the past; but then he backed off.

Did he use the N-word before he decided not to?

It certainly seems like Webb has some things to hide.

When he said, "I don't think that there's anyone who grew up around the South that hasn't had the word pass through their lips at one time or another in their life," Webb seemed to be acknowledging his own behavior. There's really no other interpretation.

Webb's spokeswoman is equally slippery in her responses on the matter.

She quotes Webb as saying that he NEVER used the N-word in his "general vocabulary" or in any "derogatory way." Then the spokeswoman turns around and doesn't answer whether or not Webb had used racial slurs apart from his writing.

Is Webb parsing his words here? Has he used the N-word but just doesn't consider it to be part of what he defines as his "general vocabulary"?

It seems that Webb is leaving himself some wiggle room, in the event that a "classmate" from college might surface with some damaging information on him.

If Webb was running on strong ideas, he wouldn't need to be dragging the campaign into the gutter.

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Riehl World View uncovers some interesting connections between Allen's accusers and the Webb campaign.

Read about them.