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In a piece about I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, the USA Today reports that in 1996 Libby published a novel set in Japan called “The Apprentice.â€
Previously, Libby revealed that he may want to become a fiction writer after leaving government, which may come sooner rather than later. From the USA Today story:
He told CNN’s Larry King that he considered himself fully on Cheney’s team, “but there’s always a novel kicking around in the back somewhere.” And he told The New York Times, “I do occasionally dream of just becoming a novelist and sitting on Crete and drinking odd-named wines.”
An excerpt from “The Apprentice†shows Libby’s sensitive side:
She remained still. His face inside her kimono was bathed in her warmth and the moisture of her skin…Unwilling to show his discomfort, he kissed her softly as he moved that she would think that was his purpose and he felt her body soften, but she remained frozen as she was, her head above him in the air.
Libby isn’t the first conservative to include “romantic†scenes in a fiction novel. Bill O’Reilly did just that in “Those Who Trespass : A Novel of Television and Murder.†While we’d like to show our readers an example or two, the excerpts would be a little too hot for ThinkProgress.
Note to parents: Right-wing fiction may be unsuitable for children.
UPDATE: Copies of Libby’s book are available for as little as 53 cents.
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Gross.
October 17th, 2005 at 10:52 amI’ve been writing steamy fan fiction for years. Does anyone know why I’m not a pundit or a senior administration official yet?
October 17th, 2005 at 10:53 am#2 Have you comitted a crime?
That might be why if not.
October 17th, 2005 at 11:04 amLibby isn’t the first conservative to include “romantic” scenes in a fiction novel.
Don’t forget about this one either.
October 17th, 2005 at 11:09 amThat sucks. You know you’re losing when you’ve resorted to smearing the VP’s Chief of Staff. This reminds me of what the GOP did to Clinton in the late 90s. We lost seats in 98…..
October 17th, 2005 at 11:12 amThier next 2 books will be: “Looking for a Job…”
October 17th, 2005 at 11:13 amSaddam Hussein, Lynne Cheney: two more romance novelists. We need a box set.
October 17th, 2005 at 11:15 amSo his job at the White House is Fiction Creation too right? I mean, these are the guys who said they create new reality right? No WMD? Just say there are some and everyone will believe you!
He stinks at fiction and at foreign affairs. just resign already, Scooter!
October 17th, 2005 at 11:16 am#5 What are you, high on crystal meth? This guy stinks like month old gym socks and you’re irked that we point out he’d rather be a bad novelist than a political hack? He’s gonna have lots of time to write once they ship him off to prison.
October 17th, 2005 at 11:18 am#9 – you hope. You might be wrong. AND then what? Then, who do you desperate lowlives go after. When you have no ideas on policy, smear your opponent. Liberal family values.
October 17th, 2005 at 11:21 amNeD’s spin is pretty silly lately.
October 17th, 2005 at 11:27 amTalking about 1998? Who cares?
BTW, What is it with wingers and bad
“romance” fiction?
Are you guys all repressed or something?
Oh, that’s right, they are wingers, and
by definition are repressed.
Lynn Cheyney’s Literary Masterpiece? This coming from a woman who wants to “brighten up” American history in schools so children wouldn’t be learning much about the realities of slavery and the fight for civil rights? You’ve GOT to be kidding me!
October 17th, 2005 at 11:28 amNED, you are always wrong, let’s review:
October 17th, 2005 at 11:30 amSteely Dan is not a person,
We get fringe benefits, not french benefits,
James Dean was an actor, Jimmy Dean makes sausage,
and NED, it’s not the leaning tower of peetzah.
I note that the New York Times Book Review did a review of this stating:
… delicate prose and stirring descriptive passages … Mr. Libby’s storytelling skill neatly mixes…. conspiratorial murmurs with the boy’s emotional turmoil.–
Could this review have been ghost-wrtitten by Judy Miller? You make the call…..
October 17th, 2005 at 11:34 am#13 – Too funny.
Re the fiction exerpt — Huh? That doesn’t seem romantic, it seems scary & creepy.
October 17th, 2005 at 11:37 amWhat is it with these neocon fascists? I suppose it takes a pretty wildly creative imagination to think that every ficticious thing out of your mouth sounds believable.
Don’t you just love that O’Reilly wrote a hot steamy romance novel and George Dubya was a cheerleader at Andover. The biggest bullies are always the ones with the most to hide. Frauds!
October 17th, 2005 at 11:39 amKeith H., thanks for the morning laugh…I needed that. Some folks need a giant dose of reality, well done.
October 17th, 2005 at 11:41 amDon’t forget Lynne Cheney’s book, Sisters -”a steamy bodice-ripper set in the 19th-century American West, featuring vivid tales of whorehouses, attempted rapes, a suspicious murder and several lesbian love affairs, of which Cheney writes approvingly.”
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4615911/
October 17th, 2005 at 11:43 amIt’s not smearing if it’s true.
October 17th, 2005 at 12:10 pmthis lends credence to the notion that neocons are repressed, sex-obsessed people… Libby and Hussein have much in common – sex novelists who are about to be put on trial…
October 17th, 2005 at 12:19 pmWe’re not really smearing the guy. Not in this post anyway. We just think he’s a bad writer and a criminal. Once he’s in the slammer we’ll find other corrupt traitors to bring down.
October 17th, 2005 at 12:21 pm53 cents – that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all day!!
October 17th, 2005 at 12:22 pmI think the “Son of Sam” law will prevent him from receiving the proceeds of a book published while in prison. Maybe he can donate the profits to the Judy Miller foundation for fallen journalists.
Ha!
New on EWM, you just won’t believe it: DeLay Releases “Earle’s Gone Wild†Video
October 17th, 2005 at 12:33 pmIts funny how touchy some members of the right wing can be. If this book had been written by John Kerry last year it would have made top story on Fox news.
October 17th, 2005 at 12:33 pmSteely Dan – Progressive rock band featuring Walter Becker & Donald Fagan who took the name from a umm…”Marital Aid” in The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.
I’m Just Sayin.
October 17th, 2005 at 12:46 pmCarlton, Thanks for the tid bit. Always wondered where the name Steely Dan came from but didn’t wonder enough to find out! BTW These guys are good in or out of Steely Dan.
October 17th, 2005 at 1:07 pmThis is the worst written bunch of crap I’ve read in a long time! Libby Don’t Quit Your Day Job. Ahh. Oops.
Libby writes:
She remained still. His face inside her kimono was bathed in her warmth and the moisture of her skin…Unwilling to show his discomfort, he kissed her softly as he moved that she would think that was his purpose and he felt her body soften, but she remained frozen as she was, her head above him in the air.
I Edit:
Though taught, her body remained still. Inside her kimono, his face bathed in her warmth and he became lost in the mositure of her skin. He kissed her softly, unwilling to give in to his discomfort as he moved about her. Feeling her body soften as he looked into her eyes, she reamained frozen; her head above him.
Cut me some slack here. Look what I had to work with!
October 17th, 2005 at 2:24 pmDon’t quit your day job either, A.P., unless you are an English teacher or an editor, in which case, please quit immediately.
The word is taut.
While this stuff is amusing it’s ultimately petty crap. These people are liars and probably guilty of treason. Who cares about some junk they wrote?
October 17th, 2005 at 3:16 pmRight-wing fiction has a name … it’s SCOTTY!
October 17th, 2005 at 4:14 pmHow about mositure and reamained, it’s kind of tough without spell checker, isn’t it?. I think loser is right. You better leave this editing stuff in the hands of experts.
October 17th, 2005 at 4:22 pmI edit – here’s what Scooter would have written if he had any guts:
She remained still. His face inside her kimono was bathed in her warmth and the moisture of her skin. Unwilling to show discomfort, he kissed her softly as he moved so she would think that was his purpose. He felt her body soften, but she remained frozen, her head above him. Then, as he stood, she slowly turned and raised the blue fabric of her kimono to reveal a black thong. Her forefinger curled gently into the black strap covering her nether region – she abruptly leaned forward snapped the thong at him. Taking his hand, she led him to the small room off of the Oval Office..
October 17th, 2005 at 4:26 pmOh, yeah. It’s so easy. Write a novel or two and spend your days on Crete, drinking odd-named wines.
There are a lot of us who’ve published quite a few novels and still are a long way from Crete. Although I’d choose British Columbia.
October 17th, 2005 at 4:35 pmOh, yeah. It’s so easy. Write a novel or two and spend your days on Crete, drinking odd-named wines.
Would that mean that Libby is a cretin?
October 17th, 2005 at 4:46 pmCould what may best be described as Amerikanischer Heimatroman (”American Regional Novels”) be in the same league as “right-wing fiction”?
(This notwithstanding where the whole concept of Amerikanischer Heimatroman is just, for the moment, hypothetical.
(Besides, the Heimatroman is a popular German literary genre, tending @ times to the nostalgic and sentimental.)
October 17th, 2005 at 5:19 pmWhat’s with these conservtives and their writing about lust? Lynn Cheney wrote hot and heavy novels about lesbian affairs. O’Lielly wrote of hot and steamy affairs in the shower with loofahs. Libby is writing about dreams and “sensitive” sex. The conservatives are by and large obsessed with sex, who does it, how, why, when and they want to dole out punishment for it, restricting birth control, sex education, and then refusing financial aid and other supports for mothers and their children.
October 17th, 2005 at 9:31 pmThey ARE all repressed, suffering from their strict and Puritan upbringing.
A woman on Hardball tonight said she had read Libby’s book, and it made no sense at all.
October 17th, 2005 at 10:00 pmConservatives have always lived lives of self-delusion, contradiction and hippocracy.
October 18th, 2005 at 2:58 pmYou really would not expect anything like this from the so-called “MORAL RIGHT WING”, would you? You know it’s obvious that the things they write about are the things they wish would be happening to them. Maybe it’s because nothing even close to those stories has ever happened in their boring lives. Those MORAL RIGHT WINGERS are a bunch of Hypocritical delusional degenerates.
My favorite quote: “You’re doin’ a heck of a job Brownie”
October 18th, 2005 at 3:57 pmI edit again based on an idea a friend gave me:
She remained still. His face inside her kimono was bathed in her warmth and the moisture of her skin. Unwilling to show discomfort, he kissed her softly as he moved so she would think that was his purpose. He felt her body soften, but she remained frozen, her head above him. Then, as he stood, she slowly turned and faced him … and he realized he’d been stroking JEFF GANNON. NOOOO – GET IT OFF OF ME! AAAHHHHHHHHH!
October 18th, 2005 at 5:32 pmThe article and his statements exposes how committed this guy is to governing well. And it reflects on the whole Bush team, because that suspicion of “padding their nests” while they’re in office lingers about all of them. (Oil? Halliburton? Cronies in cushy jobs?) While I shouldn’t be, I’m appalled that these greedy, self serving, people can fool so many truly loyal and patriotic (Republican) Americans all at once. Anyone who is in office and still has time to write (trash like that…) with all thats going on, has far too much time on his hands.
October 19th, 2005 at 10:54 am[...] via skippy the bush kangaroo, think progress & usa today: apparently lynne cheney wasn’t the only budding romance novelist (and most certainly not the only creator of fiction) in the bush administration. presenting an excerpt from i. lewis “scooter” libby’s 1996 novel, the apprentice: She remained still. His face inside her kimono was bathed in her warmth and the moisture of her skin… Unwilling to show his discomfort, he kissed her softly as he moved that she would think that was his purpose and he felt her body soften, but she remained frozen as she was, her head above him in the air. [...]
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