Web Letters: Scenes From the Crackup

Carnal Knowledge

By JoAnn Wypijewski

This article appeared in the November 3, 2008 edition of The Nation.

October 16, 2008

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  • Bizarre sexual fantasy and lifestyle seems to be an obsession with much of the wealthy Republicans. If they are not soliciting hookers or molesting Congressional pages they are writing "novels" that would have made the Marquis de Sade blush. I was exposed to excerpts of Lynne Cheney's, Scooter Libby's and O'Reilly's on a radio talk show. After being subjected to the weirdest and most lurid trash--none were well written--I had ever heard, I felt like I needed to take a shower and to return to confession, thirty years after renouncing that practice. So much for the party of family values.

    John Giarratana

    jersey City, NJ

    10/17/2008 @ 03:45am


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