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2003-04-29 Fifth Column

We went to war just to boost the white male ego

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Posted by tu3031 2003-04-29 11:43 am|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And this from a guy who once punched Gore Vidal. You GO, girl!

Posted by FormerLiberal 2003-04-29 12:02:47|| 2003-04-29 12:02:47|| Front Page Top

#2 This guy's a pathetic jerkoff. He used to be known for getting drunk and picking fistfights with people, so I guess he'd know all about uncontrolled machismo and senseless aggression. Don't we have an Institute for Horses' Asses where we can put all these people? Didn't Norman Mailer also befriend murderer Gary Gilmore and try to make him look like a victim? If Norman Mailer told me it was raining, I'd have to look out the window and check.

Posted by Joe 2003-04-29 12:08:33|| 2003-04-29 12:08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Mail Mailer somewhere.

Posted by KP 2003-04-29 13:12:51|| 2003-04-29 13:12:51|| Front Page Top

#4 "For those of us who do not like George Bush, we may as well recognise that putting up with him in the Oval Office is like being married to a mate who always says exactly what you know in advance he or she is going to say,..."

This may go a long way towards explaining why he killed his first wife.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-04-29 13:29:57|| 2003-04-29 13:29:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Sheesh, what an @$$h@t

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-04-29 13:32:39|| 2003-04-29 13:32:39|| Front Page Top

#6 When Norman Mailers reputation as a reputable author of renown eroded, he thought he needed to feel he was still good at something. Thats where the keyboard came in. Bashing away at the keyboard, hurling small-minded, indefensible, irrational phrases into the atmosphere boosted his white male ego. I'm glad he feels better now, but for the sane, adult world, we realize what a mean-spirited emotionally-stunted adolescent he is. By the way Norman, you have to earn the right to Mister, if no one has ever pointed this out to you, chronological age has nothing to do with maturity. Your abilty to string sentences together without once coming close to a coherent, reasonable or mature conclusion, gives full credence to that truism.

Posted by Carolyn 2003-04-29 13:56:17|| 2003-04-29 13:56:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Neither amusing nor thought-provoking. Just another pathetic celebrity loser.

Posted by Tom 2003-04-29 14:00:24|| 2003-04-29 14:00:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Norm's always made me think of a prolonged belch, all noise and odor...

Posted by Fred 2003-04-29 14:32:16|| 2003-04-29 14:32:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Hi, I'm Norman Mailer's liver. Yes, I know, you thought I was dead. Well, I ought to be, all the alcohol he's ran through me over the years. But, I got friends and connections, and that helps. Gore Vidal's prostate, good friend. Cell phone's always on. Then there's Helen Thomas's vagina. What can I say? If it can manage, so can I. We cry on eachother's shoulder a LOT, I tell you, a LOT.

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Posted by Chuck 2003-04-29 15:52:25|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-04-29 15:52:25|| Front Page Top

#10 11A5S. Actually, I think the wife tried to kill him. Can't say that I blame her.

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-29 15:59:31|| 2003-04-29 15:59:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Just when I get pissed off at the intolerant wing of the Republican party - e.g., Santorum's comments of last week - I am reminded why I can NEVER vote for liberal Democrats who represent the leading liberal thinkers such as this boob.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-04-29 16:17:24|| 2003-04-29 16:17:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Be It said? Boyo, thats it I am never having another drink in my life...Thanks Norm

Posted by Wills 2003-04-29 17:04:25|| 2003-04-29 17:04:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Mailer himself said it best: "I've made an ass of myself so many times I think I must be one." (Interview with NYT Review of Books, 1991 or so)

Posted by Sofia 2003-04-29 17:39:03|| 2003-04-29 17:39:03|| Front Page Top

#14 tu3031: We're both wrong. It was only attempted homicide. Though it does seem like he definitely knows what it's like to have his white male ego bruised.

In 1960, during a boisterous all-night party at their West 94th Street apartment, Mailer stabbed his second wife Adele with a "dirty three-inch penknife" for calling him a "faggot." From her bed in the Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital, the soon-to-be-ex-Mrs. Mailer declined to press charges. But police arrested Mailer for felonious assault. (The week before, he had been arrested for disorderly conduct after he was refused credit for a $7.60 liquor bill at Birdland, a jazz nightclub.)
Given a suspended sentence, Mailer was committed to Bellevue Hospital for observation. "It's important for me not be sent to a mental hospital," Mailer protested, "because my work will be considered that of a disordered mind. My pride is that I can explore areas of experience that other men are afraid of. I insist I am sane."

Posted by 11A5S 2003-04-29 18:03:04|| 2003-04-29 18:03:04|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm a white male and my ego is just fine, even without the war.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-04-29 20:04:48|| 2003-04-29 20:04:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Is he trying to be like Hunter S Thompson here? He's got the incoherence down, he's got the substance abuse, but it still fails miserably.
Any guesses on what his blood alcohol content was when he wrote this? I'd say about .25. Most of us would have been passed out before we reach that, but considering his history of drinking, I'm sure he was somewhere around that level.

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-04-29 20:49:57|| 2003-04-29 20:49:57|| Front Page Top

#17 This may seem a bit off-topic, and God help me for changing the subject in this manner, but does anyone else get the impression that this guy is doing the "tuck between the legs" dance in front of a mirror in his best lingiere??? For all of his 'white, male ego' talk, he seems ashamed to be a 'white male'?

Last time I checked, being a white male in and of itself was not a crime, for anything to be ashamed of... now, being a white, male dumba%S!@... thats something I have no truck with...

Posted by Steve W. 2003-04-29 22:12:38|| 2003-04-29 22:12:38|| Front Page Top

#18 11A5S.Since you're researching this literary giant, look up the name Jack Henry Abbott. That'll really turn your stomach...

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-29 22:22:58|| 2003-04-29 22:22:58|| Front Page Top

#19 tu3031: Yeah, I know about the Belly of the Beast and its aftermath. I didn't want to bring it up here since I felt that the wife stabbing was damning enough. There must be a special place in hell for narcissitic punks like Mailer. Even scarier than Mailer is the reception he gets from the privilegenstia in this country -- a sociopathic alchoholic being adulated by the jaded elites. Whenever I read about him and his circle, I feel like I've just walked into a room full of decadents watching a snuff film.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-04-29 23:04:08|| 2003-04-29 23:04:08|| Front Page Top

#20 Mailer is now 80 years old, a literary corpse preserved in alcohol, one whose last original thought lies half a century in the past. He is also responsible for one of the most racist screeds of the 1950s, a little essay entitled The White Negro. Of course, Mailer did not realize that it was racist, he was trying to praise what he saw as a lifestyle of indulgence, irresponsibility, and sensuality.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-04-29 23:12:06|| [www.nuclearspace.com] 2003-04-29 23:12:06|| Front Page Top

#21 Is it just me or is anyone else noticing that leftist nuts like this washed up novelist are totally obsessed with sexual issues? It's always there...just wondering.

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-04-30 03:24:38|| 2003-04-30 03:24:38|| Front Page Top

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