Republicans, Hypocrisy and Sex

The title got your attention - right? Well, some of the hypocrisy and threat of the R's goes considerably beyond chickenhawks calling a decorated ex-Marine a coward on the floor of the House of Representatives and right into the bedroom.

Prudish behavior doesn't trouble me until the prudes want to invade other people's privacy or make consentual sex a political issue. Ah - but what about illegal, forced or even bestial sex? Hmmmm.... And what does it mean if you write a book about such activities?

Honestly, I don't know what the meaning or implications are. I suspect "Scooter" didn't engage in what he wrote about, but the thoughts', should I say fantasies, crossing his mind make it an interesting question. And Lynne - I'm surprised. Does "Blue Pill" Bob (Dole) need to counsel Dick?

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Dirty Libby

Richard Bradley, November 17, 2005

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051117/dirty_libby.php

Richard Bradley is the former executive editor of George magazine. He is author of American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World's Most Powerful University.

I don’t normally associate bestiality with Republicans, because they screw poor people more than animals. But in Scooter Libby’s case, one has to make an exception. Consider this excerpt from Libby’s 1996 novel, The Apprentice, which chronicles the depraved training of a Japanese prostitute:

"The young samurai’s mother had the child sold to a brothel, where she swept the floors and oiled the men and watched the secret ways. 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. Groups of men paid to watch. Like other girls who have been trained this way, she learned to handle many men in a single night and her skin turned a milky-white."

This is a curious passage, and not just because of the less-than-obvious connection between milky-white skin and sex with a bear. It’s strange because the author is a conservative Republican, a member (well, until recently) of an administration which considers sex—even sex between two humans—a bad, bad thing. John Ashcroft, for example, clothed a statue’s bare breast; the FCC tried to cover up Janet Jackson’s; and two months ago, the FBI launched an anti-obscenity squad. (Would Scooter Libby’s book fit the bill?) So the fact that Dick Cheney’s closest confidante scripted a work featuring bestiality, rape and general licentiousness would seem to constitute hypocrisy in the GOP’s war against immorality—lashing out against others’ smut and sin while profiting off them yourself.

But then, it’s hardly the only such example. Here are a few more.

· Despite years of speaking out against gambling, Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, recently admitted that he had taken more than $1 million in fees from lobbyists representing Indian casinos.

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· Lynne Cheney is the author of Sisters, a 1981 potboiler described by USA Today as including “brothels, attempted rapes, and a lesbian love affair.” Earlier this year, plans by publisher New American Library to reprint the book were abandoned after Cheney protested; her agent explained that “she did not think the book was her best work.” With lines like “And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl,” let us hope he was telling the truth.
· GOP consultant Roger Stone allegedly advertised himself and his wife in a magazine for swingers. (Stone claimed that he had been framed.)

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