George Allen Lies About His Sister's Autobiography
By: Lowell
Published On: 10/28/2006 10:12:51 PM
George Allen is now claiming, falsely and ironically (you think Allen knows what "irony" is? ha!), that his sister's book, "Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter," is "fiction." Yet, according to Random House, it's categorized under "Biography & Autobiography." Uh, George? I know you don't read fiction, or much of anything else for that matter, but last time I checked, "Biography and Autobiography" were usually considered NON-fiction.
Message to George Allen: "Reading is Fundamental!"
Comments
Maybe its time... (James Martin - 10/28/2006 10:26:57 PM)
to revist the contents of that book...
good idea (scarlatagal - 10/28/2006 10:55:47 PM)
lets read it out loud....to the networks....
Lying Sack of (PM - 10/28/2006 10:59:24 PM)
Let's go to the Acknowledgements at the end of the book.
Paul Zimmerman, the all-pro sportswriter, graciously assisted me in fact-checking this manuscript.
--uh, you fact check a novel? Look, I've read the whole thing and it is an autobiography. The scenes are too real.
Mel Durslag, another star writer and close family friend, gave me the keenest advice, insisting that I write only what I saw and what I felt, that anything short of that would be pointless.
And the clincher:
My brother George sat with me for hours by the pool one day, measuring out parcels of his past, all the while reminding me to remain faithful to the facts.
Hahaha! (lwumom - 10/28/2006 10:59:55 PM)
I just tried to go to the Allen for Senate site to send them an email telling them what I thought of their latest and got a message that the site is "temporarily unavailable." Now, it could be that they're just doing site maintenance....and it could be that they've shut it down by popular demand.
He doesn't read books? That;s not all... (Teddy - 10/29/2006 1:51:08 PM)
So Senator Allen doesn't read books. Neither does he read the legislation he votes on, perhaps since any serious piece of legislation has routinely been brought to the floor by the Republican leadership at ungodly hours like 2 AM. Also, hearings on legislation or anything remotely resembling oversight are run as photo op window dressings, quickly closed down once the photos have been made. Such shenanigans are not confined to the miserable House of Representatives. Legislation is generally crafted in secret by the flunkies of the businesses which have an interest in the legislation (like the prescription drug benefit), and no changes or amendments are going to be allowed, anyway, so why waste your time reading the drivel?
Library of Congress proves it's nonfiction (Leaves on the Current - 10/29/2006 7:51:56 PM)
Look up
Fifth Quarter in the Library of Congress online
catalog, and you'll get a bibliographic record (go to the "Full Record") that gives its subject headings--all of them for
nonfiction:
Allen, George Herbert, 1922-1990--Family.
Allen, Jennifer, 1961- --Family.
Allen family.
Football coaches--Family relationships--United States.
By contrast, here's what a fictional "autobiography"--Memoirs of a Geisha--gets as its subject headings:
Women--Japan--Fiction.
Geishas--Fiction.
Japan--History--20th century--Fiction.
The Library's catalogers don't get this kind of thing wrong, because libraries all over the world use the records they create.
Case closed. George Allen is lying.