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This isn't about Libby enjoying the same rights as Henry Miller--it's about the fact that he's a hypocrite. If Al Gore's chief of staff had written this garbage back in the 90s the GOP would have plastered it all over the news as Democratic paganism and an example of the morals of the entire liberal wing. No one has done that to Libby in this regard. He can write as much sick stuff as he wants to, anyone can, I won't read it. But don't go around saying you're morally superior when you do it. While I don't know if Libby has ever said that he is, he is certainly a part of a political wing who claims that for its entire memberhsip and vision. Why aren't the evangelicals up in arms? Because truly being "moral" is not their agenda--power is, and they get that from the GOP.
--SRD
03/19

For this perverted "Jewish" art of Scooter Libowitz, he should be locked away in a mental institution. I wonder whether some weird sexual abuse cases exists in Libby's vicinity. Get him! Root this pervert out!
--G.M.
03/10

Dick Cheney is going down. You read it here first.
--dg
11/13

Bill O'Reilly--Scooter Libby--Turd (Karl Rove) Blossom. Ewww...what a creepy threesome that would be. (I run screaming from my computer at the mere thought of this)
--sage
11/09

Do you suppose the old leather bar fat ass, Turd Blossom, has read this? Yeah, he probably helped this freak write the damn thing. Sounds like something right out of a typical day with old Turd!!!
--mb
11/09

THE ONLY PEOPLE THESE GOPS HAVE FOOLED ABOUT "FAMILY VALUE" ARE THE LITTLE OLD WIVES. A RAPPER CANT DO A SODA COMMERICAL (HINT BILL OREILEY- FOXNEWS -ANOTHER FREAK) BUT A FREAK LIKE LIBBY CAN GET A JOB AT THE WHITE HOUSE
--MBW
11/08

It's called freedom. If we don't wish to read something, we have that choice.
--am
11/08

This is so sick! What a hypocrit!!!
--SR
11/08

Ted, I'm going to have to disagree slightly that the story excerpt posted proves that Libby "likes thinking about" that kind of thing (did Joseph Conrad like thinking about cannibalism? I mean, it's possible, but you've got to draw the line between expression and implicit approval somewhere,) but you're absolutely right about Libby, and I'm not defending him in the slightest. Just his right to the same literary consideration all other authors enjoy, regardless of his politics.
--AJS
11/07

i think AJS has a point -- you can't laud henry miller or dennis cooper in one breadth and call scooter a sicko in the next. and though i am bordeline rabid democrat, i do think the new neoconservative nutcases make powell, mccain guiliani and the like seem eminently reasonable. HOWEVER, AJS, Libby is part of the nutcase neocon clan --he is not exactly a libertarian. and its relevant, frankly, that the guy likes thinking about bears fucking little hairless asian schoolgirls at night given the moralizing and saber rattling he and his evil cohorts have been doing by day. i'd like to see the aforementioned bear sodomizing libby rove and chenney, and the risk of stooping ;)
--ted
11/07

I'm sorry, do you read Nerve regularly? This is not by any stretch the first story about bestiality or pedophelia, and it's not remotely eroticising either of them. If you want to censor or call "sick" literature that covers the dark aspects of humanity well then, fuck, that's half the modern literary canon right there. Enjoy your Annie Dillard. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm boring you? Partisan hackery bores me, on both sides of the spectrum, and I'm not the only person who's a little sick of people throwing around the words "Democrat" and "Republican" like they throw around the term "gay," as if it could encompass your entire personality or moral beliefs. And no, "the republican party" didn't as a whole decide to do a 180 on it's formerly small-government ideals; a bunch of neo-cons and the religious right hijacked what had previously been a pretty legitimate difference of opinion on the role of government, removing the opportunity for fiscally conservative and socially liberal people to be represented. If you can't be arsed to look past your empty "liberal" rhetoric into actual politics, then do democracy a favor and don't involve yourself in them at all. And "PHK," you might want to re-read my original post and then look up the definition of "non-sequitur."
--AJS
11/07

sick sick sick. Does this man have pedohelia fantasies or what?
--cjo
11/05

AJS' you're killing us. We don't care about your political standing; Furthermore, stories about beastiaility and incest are taboo no matter how you stand politically. You should change your initials to BTT---Bore us to tears.
--AJS
11/05

Having a bear rape a girl to train her to become a prostitute?... Oh my god, I think I have died of sorrow and disgust. With a sick mind like this no wonder the Republicans are destroying the world.
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11/04

The Democrats didn't turn the Republicans into the party of sexual repression, social conservatism, and impinging one's (supposedly "impeccable") personal morality onto a political agenda. They did that all by themselves. The Republicans, whether by design or proxy, have fashioned this identity for themselves--and if they don't conform to the narrow limits there own party (and their money) has set, they are in essence, hypocrites. I'd be only too happy for Republicans to loosen up on the social issues--unfortunately, they have turned said social issues into political capital and that effects all of us. And besides, you have to admit, these excerpts are pretty fucking funny when you picture them pouring furtively from the mind of Dick Cheney's better half.
--RS
11/04

Sexual liberation and taboo breaking - that is what the previous writer compared the rape of a young girl as described in Libby's novel to. This is okay but mutually consentual gay relationships and the like are not?
--PHK
11/04

Wow, fantastic. So you guys support sexual liberty, expression, taboo-breaking, and literature, but when it comes from a republican, it's humiliating, nasty dirt you've dug up? Ever thought about, I dunno, encouraging Republicans who dare to stray from the GOP status quo? In a two party system it's impossible for a politician to be enfranchised as anything but a Democrat or Republican, so it should follow that not everyone who isn't a Democrat is necessarily all up on ""family values," abortion restrictions and opposition to gay marriage," just like everyone who isn't a Republican isn't automatically for state healthcare or gasp! even gay marriage (like the recent Democratic presidental candidate, to name one.) I'm hardly defending Scooter Libby; if he was actually immoral enough to compromise the identity of a CIA agent for political reasons and then lie about it, by all means let 'im fry. But your head might not explode if you took a second to consider the fact that maybe some of us think that other facets of governance are more immediately important than social issues. Maybe some of us just plain don't like the welfare state or believe in judicial conservatism, and think it's a little more important to focus our voting and activism on that. I vote Republican (in local elections, never national) by-candidate because the traditional party- not the neocons- is more in-line with my ideas about the role of government. That doesn't say a damn thing about my sexual values, and to lump all Republicans into a single category and then blast them for straying from it isn't serving any purpose but making you look like a narrow-minded jackass.
--AJS
11/04

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