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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 08:25 PM
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"Spoof of Bush Wins Faux Faulkner Contest"
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A scathing parody that likens President Bush to the "idiot" in William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury" has won this year's Faulkner write-alike contest - and touched off a literary spat.

Organizers of the Faux Faulkner competition are accusing Hemispheres, the United Airlines magazine that has sponsored the contest for six years, of playing politics by not putting Sam Apple's "The Administration and the Fury" in its print edition - only on its Web site.

"One of the things they asked was that we didn't have profanity or any obvious sexual content. We watch for that. But anything else, like a political subject, was funny, it was parody. ... We felt that that shouldn't be censored," said Larry Wells, who organizes the contest with his wife, Dean Faulkner Wells, Faulkner's niece.

The story portrays President Bush in the role of Benjy, the mentally challenged son - or, as Faulkner himself said, the "idiot" - in his 1929 novel about the wreckage of a Southern family.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050724/D8BHO33G0.html
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Zorbuddha Donating Member (822 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 08:45 PM
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1. Bwahhahahahaa...This is spot on...
"'Go and get him Saddam's gun,' Condi said. 'You know how he likes to hold it.'

"Dick went to my desk drawer and took out Saddam's gun. He gave it to me, and it was hot in my hands. Rummy pulled the gun away.

"'Do you want him carrying a gun into the press conference?' Rummy said. 'Cant you think any better than he can?'"


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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 08:46 PM
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2. Priceless
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Zorbuddha Donating Member (822 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 09:10 PM
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4. "...and it was hot in my hands..."
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 10:54 PM
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5. I will NOT think about that
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 08:48 PM
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3. That's type casting
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