Author Tom Clancy: An Alan Keyes Republican

[Ian David]

http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Tom_Clancy.php

[Arkana]

1. Another reason not to read those monstrous quagmires he calls books.

[Dulcinea]

19. His books bore me to death.

All those long techical explanations....who friggin' cares? :boring:

[Cha]

2. And a lazio republican, too..

What a LOSER!

[devilgrrl]

3. I understand that he's yet another chickenhawk as well.

Gotta love those armchair warriors.

[EstimatedProphet]

Huh. Who would have guessed that?

:sarcasm:

[The Witch]

4. I freaking love that site!

what a great resource!

[hatrack]

5. Haven't read any of his excrescences in quite some time

And back in the day, it was only because I was in an area that didn't have many English-language books available.

Yup, he's a :puke: through-and-through.

[Inland]

6. Can't get any nuttier than to reach out to Keyes

from New York with a thousand bucks.

Before, I just thought he's a bulk-pulp author. Now it's personal.

[progressivebydesign]

7. I tried reading on of his books... stopped on the second page.

I just don't find them engaging. He uses 2,000 words where he could have used 1.

[Marr]

8. Ever read a Tom Clancy book?

It definitely comes through.

I personally think Tom Clancy is a Jeff Gannon sort of Republican- if you know what I mean. Seriously- read a couple of his books and take note of his character descriptions. They're vaguely homoerotic.

I remember one where he describes a man as "200 lbs. of lean, hard meat". Now tell me something isn't up with that. I'm not saying he's admitted it to himself or anything, but he definitely seems like a guy who's overcompensating. What one of my gay friends calls "homo-macho".

[sam sarrha]

12. there are Republicans and those that blow republicans for some trickledown

:wow:

[Dogmudgeon]

9. Do ya think?

It isn't exactly a secret. Clancy is the very model of a Republican Chickenhawk.

He's written a few decent military action novels, but I wouldn't put too much importance on him either in literature or politics. I don't get too upset by Yo-Yo Ma's one-time support of Bush, either.

--p!

[Robbins]

11. Jack Ryan

Isn't It funny that all the actors who have played him on film are
Liberal Democrats. Alec Baldwin,Harrison Ford,Ben Affleck

[Dogmudgeon]

17. Tim? Tim Robbins? Is that you?

And have I got a script for you, Bubbeleh!

:evilgrin:

--p!

[sam sarrha]

10. followers are also not taking their medication..just like Keys..what a Nut

the first time i saw him i thought he was a schizophrenic off his Medication.. not to slander or insult schizophrenics.. I used to work in a Mental Hospital doing behavioral profiles on patients.

Keys is a very disturbed and mentally ill man.. he needs help... and so does anyone who votes for him... Id rather Bu$h be in office than Keys.

[Fox Mulder]

13. I kinda sorta liked his book "Rainbow Six"...

and the various video games associated with it.

But the rest of his books sucked. Seriously. I made the mistake of buying the book The Bear and the Dragon four years ago and that was a big mistake.

[TahitiNut]

14. I stopped reading Clancy when I saw one book dedicated to Ronnie Raygun.

Just holding the paperback made my hands feel dirty. Toxic.

[truebrit71]

25. Me too. I told my Dad about it because he is a serious lefty...

...but likes a little brain fluff Clancy once in a while...His reaction was the same as yours....

I believe the dedication was "To the man who ended the Cold War: Ronald Raygun"....bloody good thing I picked it up from the local grocery store in their discount section, cost me all of $5 bucks for the hard-cover version...makes a great door-stop BTW....

[TahitiNut]

29. That's the dedication I read. Vomit-inducing stuff, indeed.

I've been Clancy-free ever since. His stuff is pretty formulaic anyway ... read one and you've read 'em all.

[norml]

15. Birds of a feather flock together, and so will pigs and swine.

Rats and mice will have their choice, and so will I have mine.

On the other hand, see how when asked he names as fave a repub who's never won any elective office.

Could his contempt for Dubya and crew be any more apparent?

[DS1]

16. As Tom click on his SpecOPS issued tactical combat ultraviolet

laser mouse, 14 highly encrypted packets were sent to the Keyes campaigning, instantly informing them of another 50 dollars donated-and the blown wad in Clancy's pants

[hatrack]

18. You made me spit up apple chunks, DS1!

:toast:

[Marr]

23. LMFAO.

[arwalden]

20. Tom Clancy Is An Asshole

At a booksigning I asked him if he would personalize the inscription as a gift to my dad (To John: Tom Clancy).

Instead of spending three extra seconds to scribbling "To John", he chose to get snotty and spend even MORE time telling me something along the lines of "if I did that for you, I'd have to do it for everyone, and we'd be here all day".

Prick!

[yellowcanine]

24. And an adulturous asshole at that......check it out.

Tom Clancy married his first wife, Wanda, in 1970. After having several children together, they divorced in 1998. Wanda was represented by Baltimore lawyer Sheila Sachs (<1>). Divorce papers filed by Wanda in 1996 gave the reason that Tom Clancy had "committed adultery with one Katherine Huang," (<2>) allegedly a New York assistant district attorney he supposedly met on the Internet. An E! Online article further alleges that Ms. Huang used the internet aliases "Bin Bin" and "Ping Ping." Much of the media attention focus on the Clancys' divorce resulted from Tom's then-pending bid to buy the Minnesota Vikings.

[Balbus]

21. Most boringest books ever... eom

[DinahMoeHum]

22. He's a "Paperback Fighter", according to a long-ago piece. . .

by the late, great Scott Shuger of the Washington Monthly:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0206.shuger3.html

(snip)
It's not surprising that Clancy is popular bedtime reading at the White House. In the higher reaches of civilian and military command there is a yearning to believe in something that the Clancy image plays right into: You could call it the Ollie North fantasy. Leaders have a powerful need to believe that when they authorize a military or intelligence operation, it will happen just the way they ordered it. This need--and its seductive power--is simple enough to understand. If you are served by experts in command of magic technologies, then all you have to do is make the "go/no go" decision. Your experts with their magic machines will take care of the rest. That's all there is to leadership! No need to be up at 3 a.m., worrying if your subordinates are doing the right thing and doing it correctly. You just give the word to go, and then it's off to work for your people, and off to Camp David for you. Isn't that wonderful?
(snip)

And here's the author's encounter with Tom Clancy:

(snip)
I've talked to Tom Clancy once. His publicist put me in touch with him in connection with a magazine article I was doing. It was a pretty natural fit: we're both from Baltimore, both write about the military, and I was once a naval intelligence officer. The conversation was going along fine until Clancy found out that I'm not as enthusiastic about aircraft carriers as he is. He dismissed my point of view as a "liberal shibboleth" and quickly declared the interview over. Tom Clancy doesn't have room for maximum questioning.
(snip)

much more...

:nuke:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

26. Real life special forces vet. Stan Goff

called him a fascist and full of shit.

[Douglas Carpenter]

27. He held a fund raiser at his house for Ollie North -- that's where he's

coming from

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. I've read better written cereal boxes then his comic books.

Not just boring but downright stupifying. He's to literature what disco is to music.