RIGHT-WING ROMANCE

Aww, that's disappointing.

A publisher has cancelled plans to reissue a racy novel by Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, after she said the book did not represent "her best work."

New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Group (U.S.A.), was going to reprint Sisters, an historical romance published in 1981 that includes brothels, attempted rapes and a lesbian love affair.[...]

Liberals have often mocked Sisters, noting Cheney is a longtime conservative and President George W. Bush supports a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

The novel was the subject of a recent satirical performance at the New York Theatre Workshop, with actors reading such passages as: "Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men. There will be only the two of us and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement."

"In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl."

More excerpts can be found here (yeah, whitehouse.org, but it's real). It's too bad Eminem didn't think to stick some of this in the first verse of "Without Me".

On the other hand, Bill O'Reilly was more than happy to witness the paperback reissuing of his magnificent novel Those who Trespass, which includes these classic lines:

"Ashley was now wearing only brief white panties. She had signaled her desire by removing her shirt and skirt, and by leaning back on the couch. She closed her eyes, concentrating on nothing but Shannon's tongue and lips. He gently teased her by licking the areas around her most sensitive erogenous zone. Then he slipped her panties down her legs and, within seconds, his tongue was inside her, moving rapidly."

(I can always count on at least one customer review having that line)

I'm sure most of you know that Those who Trespass probably gained its newfound popularity from its being prominently featured in Al Franken's book. Now wait a minute. O'Reilly, through Fox News, sued Franken about the book's title, knowing full well that doing so would bring significant attention, and sales figures, to Franken's book. The popularity of Franken's book brought O'Reilly's old book back into the spotlight, causing a reissue that made O'Reilly more money. Doesn't this make O'Reilly's suit seem just a tad disingenuous?

Well, to be sure, Bill O'Reilly is looking out for himself.

(lynne cheney link via a Kos diarist)