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Fox News reports on author Stephen King's latest horror fantasy:
King has a solution for how to prove once and for all whether waterboarding is torture: Have Jenna Bush try it.
The bestselling author offered his unorthodox investigative method in a Time magazine interview during a discussion about the media's coverage of celebrity news.
"I said something to the 'Nightline' guy about waterboarding, and if the Bush administration didn't think it was torture, they ought to do some personal investigation," King recounted to Time. "Someone in the Bush family should actually be waterboarded so they could report on it to George."
"I said, I didn't think he would do it, but I suggested Jenna be waterboarded and then she could talk about whether or not she thought it was torture," King continued.
This reminded us of "Fahrenheit 9/11," in which distended documentarian Michael Moore approached various supporters of Iraq's liberation and demanded that they "send" their own sons to serve in the military there--notwithstanding that in America only adults can join the military, and neither their parents nor anyone else can compel them to do so. In a 2005 Slate article, Christopher Hitchens underscored the creepiness of this rhetorical device (grit your teeth for the obligatory anti-Christian snark):
Oh, Jesus, another barrage of emotional tripe about sons. From every quarter, one hears that the willingness to donate a male child is the only test of integrity. It's as if some primitive Spartan or Roman ritual had been reconstituted, though this time without the patriotism or the physical bravery. Worse, it has a gruesome echo of the human sacrifice that underpins Christian fundamentalism.
It reminded us, as well, of a story that the New York Times reports on today:
Megan Meier died believing that somewhere in this world lived a boy named Josh Evans who hated her. He was 16, owned a pet snake, and she thought he was the cutest boyfriend she ever had.
Josh contacted Megan through her page on MySpace.com, the social networking Web site, said Megan's mother, Tina Meier. They flirted for weeks, but only online--Josh said his family had no phone. On Oct. 15, 2006, Josh suddenly turned mean. He called Megan names, and later they traded insults for an hour.
The next day, in his final message, said Megan's father, Ron Meier, Josh wrote, "The world would be a better place without you."
Sobbing, Megan ran into her bedroom closet. Her mother found her there, hanging from a belt. She was 13.
"Josh Evans" turned out to be a fake. Megan was the victim of a cruel hoax, carried out in retaliation for her having dumped a neighbor girl with whom she had been friends.
What makes this story not just tragic but shocking is that the perpetrator of the hoax, Lori Drew, is the mother of Megan's erstwhile pal. At the time she created "Josh," Mrs. Drew was 47.
We do not pretend to understand what motivates a grown woman to behave so viciously toward a girl barely a third her age. But perhaps it is not insignificant that Lori Drew lives in a society in which famous entertainers feel free to trumpet their fantasies of aggression against other people's children.
S. King's fantasies have made him a lot of money. Maybe now he can begin to keep his perv delusionary ravings to himself.
And the creepy perv "Mom" should be arrested, tried, and hopefully convicted for internet assault---though the publicity from her sick psychosis [wishful thinking] could drive her [or perhaps it's a short putt] mad to the point that she might emulate poor Megan.
AFTERTHOUGHT I was reading Time's latest [11/27] edition on "America by the Numbers" and noted that a creep named Grunwald who claims to have editorial responsibilities in an anti-prayer rant against Georgia Gov. Perdue. The rest of the mag, which should be used as toilet paper, is similarly anti-God [or rather anti-Christian] much like Hitchens above.
Hope its circulation keeps going the same way as its editorial content---spiraling downward.
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