There was a time when no respectable publisher would touch such a book. There was a time when no respectable retailer would carry such a book. There was a time when no respectable human being would read such a book.

It appears that such days are gone.

A major book publisher is planning to release a sexually provocative, fictionalized novel loosely based on First Lady Laura Bush's life during the first week of September - a date that conveniently coincides with the Republican National Convention.

Radar Magazine said Curtis Sittenfield's latest tome American Wife, to be published by Random House, 'is sure to send the White House into a fury.'

Of course, it is "just fiction" -- but the main character is explicitly based upon the current First Lady. More to the point, an unfortunate interpretation of libel law effectively forbids any legal action to slap down this sort of nonsense casting a woman of high moral values in a most unseemly light.

Seems to me that the time has come to bring back the venerable old practice of a defamed and offended lady's husband thrashing tracking down such a poltroon and thrashing him to within an inch of his life in the street while the public watches justice being served.

UPDATE: Looks like the sluttiest columnist at the New York Times, who publicly expressed her desire to trade places with Monica during the presidency of BJ Billy, thinks that a fictionalized account of incest, lesbianism, and other sexual acts involving the First Lady "a well-researched book that imagines what lies behind that placid facade of the first lady". I'd ask if Dowd had any decency -- but we already know the answer.

Malkin wonders why the standard for Laura Bush is different from teh standard for Michelle Obama

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