The height of Obot madness. Plus: a "novel" origin of "Whiteygate"?

While tracking links back to this site, I stumbled across this Kos page. The original post is of no small interest, and we shall get to it presently. First, I would ask you to scroll down through the Kossack sewer system, where you will discover a comment which will boggle even the most un-boggle-able mind:

Larry Johnson is a CRIMINAL

I ill say it again...the reason he and Joe Wilson have been such BIG supporters of Clinton and have said such horrendous things about Obama is because...Obama will NOT let the criminality of government remain the status quo.....Clinton would of covered up for Bush and the CIA etc like her husband did, Obama will NOT and Larry and his buddies and Joe and Valeries budddies may just be caught for whatever criminal acts they were part of.....

So. Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson are now criminals, partners with Bush, and thus must be put into prison by Barack Obama. And how do we know this? Simple: Plame and Wilson did not support Obama in the primary election!

Is the Obama movement a new form of Maoism? Or is it simply an online insane asylum?

The idea that Clinton and Bush are "in it together" is laughable. Get a clue, Obots: At the Tony Rezko trial, we had testimony under oath tying Obama's posse of Chicago hoodlums to the Bush administration. Tony felt confident that his pals in the Bush DOJ would can Patrick Fitzgerald. That's why he knew he could get away with helping Obi buy that mansion.

Enough. Let's deal with the fascinating topic of the original Kos post, which recapitulates an interesting catch made by the National Review.

It seems that many details of the "Whiteygate" story parallel the events in a 2006 novel called The Power Broker, by Stephen Frey.

In that book, a black presidential candidate named Jesse Wood faces a problem: His enemies have hold of a tape in which he rails against "whitey."

Hewitt thought for a second. “I’m going to let Jesse win the nomination and let the public get used to him as the Democratic candidate. Give the country some time to get to know Jesse Wood, to start to like him. And they will because he’s a very likeable guy. Then I’m going to drop the bomb, after everyone’s started to like him. That way the clip will have maximum effect and people will be as angry as they can be.

Is this the origin point for the Michelle tape rumor? Perhaps.

But at the risk of sounding like a "coincidence theorist," we should note that history gives us many examples of literature offering eerie forecasts of real-life events.

I'm old enough to recall seeing an exploitative novel called Black Abductor on the paperback racks. (Wish I had bought it!) This quasi-pornographic opus was infamous for presenting a kidnap scenario which mirrored the later abduction of Patty Hearst. In the novel, an extremist left-wing group, led by a black man named after a revolutionary leader, kidnaps an heiress named Patricia.

Both kidnappings take place at night, not far from the campus.

In both abductions, the victim is dragged away half-naked.

Both Patricias are with boyfriends when seized, and both boyfriends survive bad beatings.

Both boyfriends are initially regarded as suspects, but later cleared.

The abductors are a multiracial, ragtag clutch of ideologists, of both sexes, led by an embittered young black man.

Fictional and actual abductors use the mails to communicate with the anguished parents.

Fictional and actual abductors mail Polaroid pictures of their victims along with their messages.

The fictional abduction is described as the United States' "first political kidnapping." That description has frequently been employed to describe the Hearst case.

Both the fictional and the real-life abductors model themselves after Latin American terrorists who have used kidnapping as a revolutionary technique.

The fictional terrorist band includes a woman who is more interested in sex with women than with men. At least two women reputed to be members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the nonfictional guerrillas, are known to have lived together as lovers.

The fictional Patricia, depicted as a political ingenue with fairly conventional sexual experiences, joins the revolutionary cause after submitting--with increasing willingness--to a variety of sexual impositions at the hands of her captors. According to taped communiqués from Patty Hearst and the SLA, her mildly political consciousness has been transformed into revolutionary activism.

The details were so strikingly similar that some conspiracy buffs presumed that "they" -- the CIA, the Illuminati, whoever -- had published the thing as a grand psychological experiment. (Such theorists also theorize that "they" engineered the actual kidnapping.) Even after another publishing house reprinted the work to capitalize on the real-life fulfillment, the pseudonymous author refused to step forward and claim his share of the royalties. To this day, no-one knows who wrote Black Abductor. (I like to think it was Ed Wood. Call me a romantic.)

You probably already know about the numerous literary and artistic (if that is the right word) forecasts of the tragic events of 9/11. The most striking example: An episode of The Lone Gunmen centers on a plot to fly an aircraft into the World Trade Center. If I recall correctly, the infamous neo-Nazi novel The Turner Diaries ends with a zealot flying his plane into the Pentagon. Even this classic WWII-vintage Bugs Bunny cartoon has a brief sequence which carries a 9/11 vibe.

The most striking example of a predictive literary work is, of course, the novel Futility, which describes the sinking of a ship called the Titan on her maiden voyage. The book was published in 1898; the Titanic went down in 1912. Many details of the actual event had an exact parallel in the fictional account.

You may be able to name other instances in which a piece of fiction seemed to offer a prophecy of real life events. So, yes, coincidences of this sort do happen. Indeed, the parallels linking Black Abductor to the Patty Hearst case strike me as far more bizarre than are the parallels linking The Power Broker to "Whiteygate."

The Power Broker makes reference to a "nutjob preacher" whose big mouth and irrepressible speech threaten candidate Wood. Coincidence? Or did author Frey base his character on Barack Obama, and did he do more research into the man than had the national press?

The Power Broker is the third in a line of thrillers centering around a hero named Christian Gillette. Here's the Amazon description:

Murder, global conspiracy, treason, blackmail, sexual infidelity and perversity propel bestseller Frey's entertaining, if highly implausible, third financial thriller starring Christian Gillette (after 2005's The Protégé). Christian, the CEO of Everest Capital, a hugely successful Manhattan-based investment firm, faces a host of adversaries, chief among them the Order, a secret society made up of nine white American businessmen and government leaders whose predecessors have been manipulating financial and historical events since the society's inception in 1839. Led by Jackson Prescott Hewitt, chairman of U.S. Oil, the Order fears that America is falling under the control of minorities whose agendas include statehood for Puerto Rico and Mexico and the election of the nation's first African-American president. Christian comes to the attention of this cabal and, aided by series regulars Allison Wallace and Quentin Stiles, is soon fighting for his very life. The action roars along like a small tsunami, sweeping logic aside and carrying aloft those readers willing to suspend a substantial amount of disbelief.

The customer reviews are mixed. One negative reviewer threatens to toss away his copy. I suggest that he hold onto it; it might be worth money some day. That's why I wish I had purchased an original edition of Black Abductor.

And finally...

For another entertaining bit of nuttiness, check out this Rigorous Intuition board, where my name becomes "Joe Cannonfire," and my post on Cynthia McKinney -- described as my "beloved Cynthia McKinney" (!!) -- is summarized with skull-popping inaccuracy. Once again, Obots display an appalling inability to read. One reader's verdict:

I've come to the conclusion, after careful observation, that he [i.e., me] is a prick or works for the man.

It's the former, bub. And proud of it! Oddly enough, I once again find myself agreeing with RI head honcho Jeff Wells, who says that he too would have voted for Jesse Jackson or Malcolm X, but not Obama. You're a cool dude, Jeff -- so why are your readers so ghastly? Then again: Why are so many of my readers so ghastly?