Because people like Gary Groth let them.
SENDAK: Bush was president, I thought, “Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House. And I wanna have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the president, and his wife, and anybody else that can fit into the love hug.”
GROTH: A group hug.
SENDAK: And then we’ll blow ourselves up, and I’d be a hero. [Groth laughs.] To hell with the kiddie books. He killed Bush. He killed the vice president. Oh my God.
GROTH: I would have been willing to forgo this interview. [Sendak laughs.]
Now, if you’ll excuse me: I have to go throw out my kids’ copy of Where The Wild Things Are. And never, ever tell my mother that one of her favorite children’s authors dreamed of murdering women.
Moe Lane
Sweet merciful crap.
“Where the IED Things Are”.
Never liked the book, the movie is un-watchable.
I will file both next to “Rainbow Fish”…. in the “kindling” box.
Mew
What in the hell is the matter with these people? (Sendak and Groth both!)
And that’s why my kids haven’t read any of his books.
Disgusting.
This saddens me more than anything!
I hate when beloved childhood memories are dashed because people can’t keep politics out of it… Jerks!
Note: They want to kill by treachery not just the President and the Vice- their political opponents- , but their wives too. They fantasize about it.
This is the enemy, folks.
If the libs keep it up, they’ll find out where the wild things are.
Having such a fantasy is perverse. Cheerleading such a fantasy is unimaginable in its perversity. There is a chasm between the left and the right and this defines it.