New novel has would-be Bush assassin
Book an 'argument against violence,' says author
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Bob's Note: What qualifies this as Hate Speech is that the author actually uses President GW Bush's name and has a plot to murder him described in his book. That this book is being published just months ahead of the election along with Michael Moore's horrendous propaganda movie illustrates the wide ranging HATE the left-wing extremist-violence against innocent people loving DEMOCRAPS have created. People who have written credible threatening letters to US Presidents have been arrested and imprisoned for many years, including some against Blow Job Clinton. I feel that this book is a threat in writing against the President's life and that he should be treated just like any of the other weirdo's who've done this in the past.

Friday, July 2, 2004 Posted: 1:38 PM EDT (1738 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Get ready for a new anti-Bush book this summer. Only this time, it's fiction. And this time, the subject is murder.

"Checkpoint" by Nicholson Baker, the author of the best-selling "Vox," imagines a conversation between two old high school friends. One of them is so angry about the war in Iraq that he wants to kill President Bush. His friend tries to talks him out of it.

"I wrote 'Checkpoint' because a lot of people felt a kind of powerless seething fury when President Bush took the country to war," Baker said in a statement Thursday.

"I wanted to capture the specificity of that rage. How do you react to something that you think is hideously wrong? How do you keep it from driving you nuts?"

Baker's publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, said it had received no official complaints so far about the book, which comes out August 10 with a first printing of 75,000 to 100,000 copies.

"Of course I recognize that this is a troubling premise for a novel," Baker said in his statement. "But 'Checkpoint' is an argument against violence, not for it."

Baker is known for such unorthodox narratives as "Vox," which consists entirely of an erotic phone conversation, and "The Mezzanine," set mostly on an office escalator. Baker also wrote the nonfiction "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper," a National Book Critics Circle prize winner in 2002.

"Vox" has its own political history. It was mentioned in the Starr Report as a book given to President Clinton by Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern with whom Clinton had an affair.

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