Libby: Liar, warmonger, pornographic novelist

'Scooter' Libby's conviction certifies him a liar.

You may also have known he was a warmonger. He was a founding member of the Project For The New American Century, the organization that began promoting a war on Iraq at its inception in 1997. Wikipedia has a thorough article outlining the organization's history, platform, founders and present and former members.

BUT, did you knew Libby was also a published PORNOGRAPAHIC NOVELIST? Seems so.

His 1996 novel, The Apprentice, has been reissued in paper by St. Martin's. If you don't recall, it centers around a group of travellers marooned in northern Japan in 1903 and is -- as the original publisher put it -- "an everyday tale of bestiality and paedophilia in Japan in 1903...packed with sexual perversion, dwelling on prepubescent girls and their training in prostitution." Did I forget to mention that a 10-year-old girl has sex with a bear. In the woods. Where else? You get the picture.

The New Yorker wrote it up in a 2005 'Talk of the Town' piece (which also noted a Lynne Cheney novel where a Republican VP dies while having sex with his mistress). What makes these people so dirty-minded? Where ARE the family values?

Not that you really want to know, but the novel is available on Amazon at $12.95 -- but don't be foolish, skip on over to the used books section, where PT usually trolls; it can be had there as a NEW, REMAINDERED COPY at the amazingly low price of 1¢. That's right, for one cent plain you can get this perfectly filthy and now highly collectible item. Shipping extra. PT ordered his copy. That means you have his permission to indulge. As a piece of Americana, of course.

-- Dan Damon

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