Libby Guilty as Sin

So there’s this guy who wrote a book (which you can buy on Amazon.com, no b.s., sir) in which a little girl--a little girl being trained for a life of forced prostitution in 1903 Japan--is forced to have sex with a bear. What kind of a sick bastard would dream that up? The author, as many of you know, is I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the guy who was convicted on federal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice and sentenced today to serve 30 months in federal prison for his crimes.

Libby was the Chief of Staff for Vice-President Dick Cheney who lied his ass off to the FBI and to investigators from the Office of Special Prosecutor and to anyone else, reporters mostly as it turned out, who would listen (the latter, we should note, not being a crime, but the former—lying to the FBI—being a felony) about just how it came to be that the name of a covert CIA Operative, Valarie Plame showed up in a Chicago newspaper column written by right wing death-merchant Robert Novak. Making public the name of an American spy is of course, treason. Now, Libby was not found guilty of committing the treason, but rather he was convicted of lying to investigators about who (Dick Cheney)committed the treason.

The right wants “Scooter” to get a pass on this. I think it was Fred “My Daughter is Four Years Older Than My Wife” Thompson I heard saying the day before yesterday that Libby should get a free and full pardon.

Jeffery Toobin was just on the radio saying he was surprised at the "stiff" sentence given Libby’s status as a “man with a family” and his "lack of a prior criminal history". (Toobin, a reporter and leagal analyst may have been upset about his sentencing prediction being incorrect. He said Libby would get 6 months, putting him 5x off the mark).

I wanted to include for you the bear-on-girl sex scene from Mr. Libby’s novel we mentioned earlier, because I want you to know the kind of person Libby is.

I love me these internet tubes.

It took about a minute to find it. The blog’s author is excerpting an article from The New Yorker which, if you know anything at all about The New Yorker, runs articles, though they tend to be on the "high-brow" side, about bears screwing underage females on a weekly basis, pretty much.

The article from The New Yorker is italicized. The direct quote from “The Apprentence” by Lewis Libby is in bold typeface just like this...

http://patterns.blogspot.com/2007/03/scooter-libby-and-bears-makes-tidy.html

…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 f--- the deer.

The answer, reader, is yes.

So, how does Libby stack up against the competition? This question was put to Nancy Sladek, the editor of Britain’s Literary Review, which, each year, holds a contest for bad sex writing in fiction. (In 1998, someone nominated the Starr Report.) Sladek agreed to review a few passages from Libby. “That’s a bit depraved, isn’t it, this kind of thing about bears and young girls? That’s particularly nasty, and the other ones are just boring,” she said. “God, they’re an odd bunch, these Republicans.”
— Lauren Collins



BTW, If you want to buy Scooter’s book…
http://www.amazon.com/Apprentice-Novel-Lewis-Libby/dp/0312284535

But I think you'd like mine better...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1582616019/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-3874275-5045707#reader-link