Ralph Reed writes a ‘political thriller.’
By on Mar 31st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Ralph Reed writes a ‘political thriller.’
The Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Political Insider writes:
So what, you ask, has Ralph Reed been doing since is unsuccessful ‘06 run for lieutenant governor? Aside from those appearances on Fox and CNN.
Apparently, he’s been at the word processor — moving in the same direction as Newt Gingrich, from large thoughts to fiction. I just got an announcement from the Atlanta Press Club, saying Reed will make a June 12 appearance there.
The communication includes this line:
“He will also sign his first novel, Dark Horse.”
The guess here is that it won’t be a bodice-ripper.
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SHOULD WE CHECK IT FOR PLAGIARISM?
March 31st, 2008 at 5:57 pmThat’s what all these hacks do when they can’t get political traction: write a “blockbuster” Washington novel. And they pretty much all suck at it.
And regardless of Ralph’s history, you can bet money that there will be steamy (maybe kinky) sex. Ask Lynne Cheney.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:01 pmUh, sorry Ralph, but if you do a little searching you’ll find there has already been a political novel with the title “Dark Horse”. I can’t recall the author, but I read it back in high school. Oh well, you can’t expect originality from a conservative.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:06 pmFive Bucks says that it will have some focus on closeted homosexual behavior, at the very least. I would bet that pedophilia and bestiality might surface, as well, similar to O’Reilly’s book, Libby’s book, etc.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:13 pmSorry Gummitch…hadn’t even read your post… Guess we know a sure bet when we see one, eh?!
March 31st, 2008 at 6:14 pmIt will also be a best seller, even if the Heritage Foundation has to buy a million copies. Wingnut Welfare and all…
March 31st, 2008 at 6:16 pmIf Botch is gonna read it, there better be pictures to color…
March 31st, 2008 at 6:18 pmMy nickel says Mr. Reed will steer well clear of any focus on closeted homosexual behavior.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:30 pmThere’s no telling what this mentally twisted, immoral little flake has come up with for novel material. I know I won’t waste my money buying it, or waste my time reading it.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:33 pm11 real impressive= Officer Barbrady from South Park. “Move along,nothing to see here”. Who cares if this scumbag is a hypocritical, right wing criminal. He has also plagurized his work in the past.In a just world he would be in a cell with Rover,libby,bush,cheney and the rest of this traitorous administration.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:57 pmGiven that it poses the ‘what if’ we had an African American president, shouldn’t it be called ‘Darkie Horse’?
March 31st, 2008 at 7:01 pmI hear he got some pointers from Scooter Libby. Ha!
-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
March 31st, 2008 at 7:03 pmAh yeas… Mr P’s flunky is in the house.
Looking for posts to hijack and use out of context at *#$&)-+ Watch?
March 31st, 2008 at 7:08 pmDark Horse Plop…kewl
March 31st, 2008 at 7:09 pmStalin was as batcrap crazy as Hitler
March 31st, 2008 at 7:10 pmEwwwww. Bet it’s a totally clean tale of a white knight who gets born again and cleans up DC before he starts armageddon and gets raptured. So, moralistic, lecturing, and boring-as well as hypocritical.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:10 pmGet the wackos out to vote on something, said Reed, just to obfuscate the issues and slide complex legislation under the peoples noses.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:13 pmI’m flaggin this troll.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:15 pmThis website supports Stalinism. Unlike our site. We allow everyone to post. I will soon be banned here. That’s Stalinism!
You have no idea what your talking about do you?
March 31st, 2008 at 7:15 pmActually, this site doesn’t support Stalinism, but you can pretend whatever you like.
As far as letting anyone post over there, I’ll come by soon and we’ll see just how true that is.
BTW, when the Factor contacted you… by any chance, were there folks giggling in the background?
March 31st, 2008 at 7:16 pmnot after they see you only got 3 hits in 2 weeks…..just pathetic….
March 31st, 2008 at 7:17 pmTell me real progressive what neo-cons are.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:17 pmClearly not, X… clearly not.
Mr P gave him, or her, some recipe cards w/ short sentences written out phonetically, and that’s what we’re getting here.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:17 pmYep,I love mother Russia. Even the 2 years I spent keeping Pershing 2 missles pointed at them.What a DOOFUS!
March 31st, 2008 at 7:18 pmClearly not, X… clearly not -TROS
Can you believe Trajan? He doesnt even realise that hes empowering the radical lefty neo-cons.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:19 pmI feel pretty comfortable calling you a liar on this. I posted there 2 days ago and it never shows up…..all I said was that it looked like no one was home.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:19 pmTrajan [the terrible speller] aka Real Progressive, deleted my posts as well, he must be, by his logic “Stalinist”
March 31st, 2008 at 7:21 pmWhat’s all this Stalin talk. I sort of prefer Sergei Kirov
March 31st, 2008 at 7:25 pmNo comments seems to be the most common comment
March 31st, 2008 at 7:28 pmReal Progressive Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Hey I’ve had 1,000 hits so far today!
Damn what sort of shit weed have you been buying?
March 31st, 2008 at 7:29 pmAnd why do I care, even if that was in fact factual?
March 31st, 2008 at 7:33 pmSo your desire is to hit the big time by chopping off your arms and legs and squiggling around on the ground? Could be worm or snake….
Why don’t you try just doing something honest. You know something you can be proud of and share with your friends and family. Oh yeah
March 31st, 2008 at 7:36 pmMan, criminals like Reed, Tubby McTreason Rove, and so on can write books and get jobs while this country is in a recession.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:38 pmUmm, RP, Hitler, a righty, a fascist, had the alliance with the muslim brotherhood.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:40 pmThat’s funny. You spend far more time here than you do there. What makes you think anyone will go there when they can come here? seriously, I don’t think you have thought this out.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:40 pmExposing what? You’re just being farcical. You bore me. Can we get somebody more amusing in here? Where’s Daryll?
March 31st, 2008 at 7:41 pmHitler’s early 1933 accession to power in Germany was widely cheered by Arabs of all different political persuasions.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK08Ak03.html
Personally I dont have any problems with semites, I think that Israel is able to defend itself and doesnt really need our help anymore.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:42 pmRP, your not exposing anyting as the comments here are not secret..
March 31st, 2008 at 7:44 pmReal Progressive Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Honestly I admire the Leftist-Islamic alliance.
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Actually, hardcore evangelicals have more in common w/ Islamic extremists.
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You guys control the Media, The Entertainment Industry, Internet and Politics. Think Progress is a great Propganda site.
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We do? Then somebody’s bin holdin’ out on me. I want my share of all that gravy NOW!
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But I am exposing it!
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Whoa there, Li’l Feller… TP is a “family-oriented” website. Time to button that trenchcoat back up…
March 31st, 2008 at 7:45 pmDon’t confuse him w/ big words, dbadass… (farcical).
March 31st, 2008 at 7:47 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Don’t confuse him w/ big words, dbadass… (farcical).
Why not? I think it’s funny to watch his little brow furrow while he tries to figure out what it means, and then, failing that, to try to come up with a comment that will hide his ignorance.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:50 pmThis one reminds me of Lt. Tragg from MASH. You guys remember him? He was so paranoid that he wouldn’t let the surgeons give him pain killer because he didn’t trust them not to do things to him while he was under anesthesia.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:52 pmIn other words, from fiction to fiction…
March 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pmHow much will you pay me to come over there and post?
March 31st, 2008 at 7:58 pmJust a guess, since this is the second story I’ve heard today that sounds too “good” to be true: April Fool?
(The first one was this: http://www.felonspy.com/
Perfectly designed to inspire paranoia among parents.)
March 31st, 2008 at 8:18 pmDork Horse…how appropriate.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:49 pmIt sounds a lot like one of those Tony Hillerman titles
March 31st, 2008 at 8:53 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Why not? I think it’s funny to watch his little brow furrow while he tries to figure out what it means, and then, failing that, to try to come up with a comment that will hide his ignorance.
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Hoooaky, Ralphie… go ahead ‘n play wi’t ‘im. But he makes a mess in here, yer gonna clean it up, young llama.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:54 pmZooey Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Dork Horse…how appropriate.
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Snark Horse?
March 31st, 2008 at 8:55 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Hoooaky, Ralphie… go ahead ‘n play wi’t ‘im. But he makes a mess in here, yer gonna clean it up, young llama.
(ralph hangs head) okay… I’m sorry. He started it.
March 31st, 2008 at 9:13 pmRP sounds suspiciously as paranoid and delusional as Bill O’Reilly. Don’t you have anything better to do Bill?
-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
March 31st, 2008 at 9:18 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Snark Horse?
Snark alert!!!
March 31st, 2008 at 9:20 pmSnark???
Where? Where? Where?
March 31st, 2008 at 9:51 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 9:13 pm
(ralph hangs head) okay… I’m sorry. He started it.
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Have we forgotten what happened LAST time you brought one of those into the house? We never did get the stains out of the rug completely…
March 31st, 2008 at 9:52 pmYou guys are absolutely right, there are three books with the same title. Not very creative is he. Here is a small description of the Political Thriller he wrote:
After the Democratic presidential nomination is stolen by Senate Majority Leader Salmon Stanley in a bitter credentials fight at the nominating convention, Bob Long, the moderate Governor of California, shocks the political establishment by launching an independent bid for the Presidency. The FBI and the Justice Department launch a full-blown criminal probe of the credentials dispute, and prosecutors empanel a grand jury that indicts the campaign chairman of Senate Majority Leader Stanley for perjury and obstruction of justice. The Republican candidate, the incumbent vice-president, appears to be coasting to victory in the topsy-turvy three-way presidential race. But the morning after he accepts the presidential nomination in a stirring speech, he is murdered in a violent terrorist attack. David Petty, his lackluster replacement, the first African-American presidential nominee in history, is hobbled by a grassroots rebellion led by a politically savvy and occasionally demagogic television evangelist.
The rest of the book description is on Amazon.com…..
April 1st, 2008 at 7:21 amThe other three Dark Horse books are written by : Tami Hoag, Mike Langan and the third Dark Horse: The Life & Art of George Harrison.
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