I am a strong believer in free speech. I think that censorship is always a slippery slope to walk. I also am a strong believer in avoiding smearing political figures. A new book about to be published has put these two beliefs in direct conflict!
Curtis Sittenfeld is about to publish AMERICAN WIFE, a new novel based "loosely" on the life of Laura Bush. It is not an overly flattering portrait and it is extremely graphic in it's description of the main character's sex life. THE PROBLEM IS...IT'S A NOVEL. (That means it's not all true!) While I might be able to understand if the writer was trying to make some statement as an author....this seems to be nothing more than a cheap trick designed to sell books. So to maintain our committment to free speech I would like to ask everyone to excercise another aspect of our rights. The right of the consumer to ignore a product.
DON'T BUY IT. DON'T PICK IT UP OFF THE SHELF & OPEN IT. PRETEND IT NEVER WAS. IF YOU GET IT AS A GIFT....TAKE IT BACK & EXCHANGE IT.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it"......Mark Twain
"I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count...Provided I like it." Puggy Pearson
T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)....Robert Heinlein
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith
The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. ~David Shoup
"You shouldn't be playing poker if you're afraid to bluff" Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott
"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep thier money" Canada Bill Jones
"If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, 'America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership." Will Rogers
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mahatma Ghandi
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