Reply #125: It's unsurprising, really. [View All]

[reichstag911]

I saw John Irving last year, and he told a funny anecdote about having been invited to some White House dinner by VP Dan Quayle during the Poppy Bush administration. Being an ardent admirer of Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, which includes blistering indictments of the Reagan/Bush administration's patronage of the Iran-Contra scandal, I had to ask him if he thought any of those Repub idiots had ever read any of his stridently (subtextually) liberal books. That elicited a laugh and his supposition that no, none of them were probably at all familiar with his novels.

These Repub douchebags merely want to latch onto truly talented people, knowing virtually no one who subscribes to their political agenda has any talent whatsoever (Kid Rock, Britney Spears, Toby Keith, etc.) -- except perhaps for self-promotion, theft, dissembling and cowardice.