[BiseCreesia]

Libby has a lot to live up to as a conservative author of erotic fiction. As an article in SPY magazine pointed out in 1988, from Safire (“[She] finally came to him in the bed and shouted ‘Arragghrrorwr!’ in his ear, bit his neck, plunged her head between his legs and devoured him”) to Buckley (“I’d rather do this with you than play cards”) to Liddy (“T’sa Li froze, her lips still enclosing Rand’s glans . . .”) to Ehrlichman (“ ‘It felt like a little tongue’ ”) to O’Reilly (“Okay, Shannon Michaels, off with those pants”), extracurricular creative writing has long been an outlet for ideas that might not fly at, say, the National Prayer Breakfast. In one of Lynne Cheney’s books, a Republican vice-president dies of a heart attack while having sex with his mistress.

It took Libby more than twenty years to write “The Apprentice,” which is set in a remote Japanese province in the winter of 1903. The book is brimming with quasi-political intrigue and antique locutions—“The girl who wore the cloak of yellow fur”; “one wore backward a European hat”—that make the phrase a “former Hill staffer,” by comparison, seem straightforward.

Like his predecessors, Libby does not shy from the scatological. The narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad breath, torture, urine, “turds,” armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes, “At length he walked around to the deer’s head and, reaching into his pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his penis. He began to piss in the snow just in front of the deer’s nostrils.”

Homoeroticism and incest also figure as themes. The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the “mound” of a little girl. The brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter. Many things glisten (mouths, hair, evergreens), quiver (a “pink underlip,” arm muscles, legs), and are sniffed (floorboards, sheets, fingers). The cast includes a dwarf, and an “assistant headman” who comes to restore order after a crime at the inn. (Might this character be autobiographical? And, if so, would that have made Libby the assistant headman or the assistant headman’s assistant?)

When it comes to depicting scenes of romance, however, Libby can evoke a sort of musty sweetness; while one critic deemed “The Apprentice” “reminiscent of Rembrandt,” certain passages can better be described as reminiscent of Penthouse Forum. There is, for example, Yukiko’s seduction of the inexperienced apprentice:

He could feel her heart beneath his hands. He moved his hands slowly lower still and she arched her back to help him and her lower leg came against his. He held her breasts in his hands. Oddly, he thought, the lower one might be larger. . . . One of her breasts now hung loosely in his hand near his face and he knew not how best to touch her.


Other sex scenes are less conventional. Where his Republican predecessors can seem embarrassingly awkward—the written equivalent of trying to cop a feel while pinning on a corsage—Libby is unabashed:

At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.

And, finally:

He asked if they should fuck the deer.

The answer, reader, is yes.
The Apprentice by Scooter Libby

And this is one of the guys that want to put FBI agents on porn investigations. One of the moral right wingers, Christians, who said they would bring morality back to the White House, and he writes novels about child porn. These guys make me sick.

[jarsbars]

Nice work Scooter.

Rape, murder, forced prostitution, bestiality......

And these are the people who revel against "godless Hollywood."

Ah hypocrisy, they name is Republican.

[Tumarimmicdak]

The Apprentice by Scooter Libby

And this is one of the guys that want to put FBI agents on porn investigations. One of the moral right wingers, Christians, who said they would bring morality back to the White House, and he writes novels about child porn. These guys make me sick.

What. The. Fuck.

Scooter Libby is a sick bastard! Wow, I had no idea.

[Polopolop]

I know! And no one will know because this thread is here

[Soolfelpecelf]

Pretty pathetic.

Most in the GOP don't really believe all that "family values" crap. They just use the fanatics on the right wing to get into power to get cash for themselves and their friends.

They are smart. The religious right will believe anything spoken to them in a southern accent.

Consider one memo highlighted in a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, sent the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to describe his strategy for protecting the tribe's gambling business. In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives.

"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them." The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious "wackos" could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.

[XVzrlWIv]

Pretty pathetic.

Most in the GOP don't really believe all that "family values" crap. They just use the fanatics on the right wing to get into power to get cash for themselves and their friends.

They are smart. The religious right will believe anything spoken to them in a southern accent.

Consider one memo highlighted in a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, sent the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to describe his strategy for protecting the tribe's gambling business. In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives.

"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them." The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious "wackos" could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.

There hetero Sexual Bertx. And that at least they have that going for them.

[treawittelf]

I know! And no one will know because this thread is here

On the contrary. I have only read this thread because it is outside that partisan cesspool that constitutes the 'Today in Politics' section - a section of this site that serious thinkers generally avoid.

Question, does this alleged book violate US law?

If not, are you not attempting to 'convict' Mr. Libby of a thought crime here?

The man is indicted on felony charges, that is a matter for the courts. But how does one address the accusation of a thought crime?

[Dweplyododo]

On the contrary. I have only read this thread because it is outside that partisan cesspool that constitutes the 'Today in Politics' section - a section of this site that serious thinkers generally avoid.

Question, does this alleged book violate US law?

If not, are you not attempting to 'convict' Mr. Libby of a thought crime here?

The man is indicted on felony charges, that is a matter for the courts. But how does one address the accusation of a thought crime?

I think what the point is, is that the GOP doesn't really share the "values" of the fanatical religious right, but instead, they are using them to get into power.

In a word, hypocrisy.

In another duplicity.

[Kristoferson]

On the contrary. I have only read this thread because it is outside that partisan cesspool that constitutes the 'Today in Politics' section - a section of this site that serious thinkers generally avoid.

Question, does this alleged book violate US law?

If not, are you not attempting to 'convict' Mr. Libby of a thought crime here?

The man is indicted on felony charges, that is a matter for the courts. But how does one address the accusation of a thought crime?

she does not intend to answer....so forget the matter.

By the way Samantha - have you even read the book?

Do you own a copy?

what is your source for the bullshit material you are posting on the other weblog site that you have linked?

How do we know this is a source that has acurately portrayed the contents of the book?

[FrassyLap]

The Apprentice by Scooter Libby

And this is one of the guys that want to put FBI agents on porn investigations. One of the moral right wingers, Christians, who said they would bring morality back to the White House, and he writes novels about child porn. These guys make me sick.

Right wing has more than nothing to do with religion. That has been revised for the populace, and is a complete lie. Traditional Conservativism has more than nothing to do with religion, period.

We are all spoonfed our propaganda, and most of you eat it, and say than you. Other's have the ability to maintain their individuality, not many though, and certainly not enough.