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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 08:46 AM
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The New Yorker article on Scooter Libby's novel "The Apprentice"


Sick, sick, sick stuff. So sick that if I tried to paraphrase it here I'd probably get the thread locked.

BUT...if you're curious about the kind of novel Libby would write and want an excruciatingly detailed review, read the New Yorker article:

CLOSE READING DEPT.
SCOOTER’S SEX SHOCKER
Issue of 2005-11-07
Posted 2005-10-31

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/051107ta_talk_collins
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elfin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 08:49 AM
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1. Read the article last night
Hilarious - yet another Rethug obsessed with strange and perverted sex.
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triguy46 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 08:49 AM
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2. a Prince of 'family values.'
The tolerance of the fundies for their ilk is only exceeded by their hypocrisy.
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 08:51 AM
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3. Everything about Libby makes me sick nt
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 08:51 AM
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4. Wonder what Scooter and Cheney discussed on their ride to work...
...together every day?

Don
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Theres-a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 10:34 AM
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12. Family values?
Evil bastards.
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Halliburton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 08:54 AM
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5. his sales have gone up
http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/index.cfm?story=20051028053815

guess being indicted isn't always a bad thing. :shrug:
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 08:57 AM
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6. Young girls and deer and bears?
Oh my.
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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 08:59 AM
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7. Holy crap.
Bestiality, child sexual abuse, detailed description of all manner of body fluids.

What is with these people???

Excuse me, I need to go :puke: now.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 09:00 AM
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8. ‘Arragghrrorwr!’
Edited on Wed Nov-02-05 09:02 AM by Hubert Flottz
Check out www.arragghrrorwr.com

Edit: For a good time go to 1600, Pa, Ave.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 10:30 AM
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11. It means "Yarn?"
:shrug:
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 10:27 AM
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9. Amazon.com has a "Look Inside This Book" thingy for it -- first few pages
worth a look for a laugh

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0312284535/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-3408439-1940905#reader-link

Note also

<snip>

Customers who bought this book also bought
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir by Joseph C. Wilson

<snip>
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 10:29 AM
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10. My favorite part:
Like his predecessors, Libby does not shy from the scatological.

:rofl:
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smartvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-05 10:36 AM
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13. Stopped at "draws hair on the 'mound' of a little girl." WTF? WTF? WTF?nt
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