WOW! What [s.W.S.N.B.N.] said today in a Press Statement will knock your socks off.

Everybody in the industry has been talking about this all morning.

I figure we can also use this thread to discuss tomorrow's Live Internet Interview

which I hear is going to be a doozey!

LINK: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/7/emw406931.htm

Bin Laden's #1 Enemy, [s.W.S.N.B.N.], Shocked by N.Y. Post Story

Fans of Novelist-Poet [s.W.S.N.B.N.] see racial animus in N.Y. Post labeling her "sex slave."

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 6, 2006 -- Fans of the Egyptian-Sudanese-American novelist and poet [s.W.S.N.B.N.] are outraged after the New York Post continued to label her a "sex slave" in the Sunday July 2nd Print Edition of their newspaper -- even after Ms. Boof graciously caved in and granted an interview to the Post's Marianne Garvey, who in emails and phone exchanges, promised that the newspaper would not continue to use such blatantly disrespectful terms to describe the black woman writer. In 1996, [s.W.S.N.B.N.] was the mistress to Osama Bin Laden against her will.

In a press statement released today, [s.W.S.N.B.N.] said: "I have never in my life been anyone's slave--not even Osama's, and yet I was not only referred to as a 'sex slave' after we agreed that I would not be... but no where in the article does it mention that I am a writer with seven books published in eight countries or a freedom fighter for Sudan's SPLA... I am introduced in the article as "A woman who says," which is a bit of nastiness they would never inflict on a white author, and then they go on to trash my work on the television serial, 'Days of Our Lives,' by rearranging my answers to several other questions and forming them into their own quite stupid storyline (and HEADLINE) about me supposedly bringing a 'Bin Laden-like' character to the show, which is non-sense, because Hogan Sheffer is our Head Writer and I have not or ever said that I was creating characters or storyline for this show beyond work I already did in a 'Shadow Bible' written in May. To add scorpions to locusts, they super-imposed Osama's head on a photo of actors Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso.

"I, [s.W.S.N.B.N.] would like to say now... that since the day I have tried to tell my story in this country, I have been unfairly lied on and outrageously maligned by the press. Whether it was Connie Chung's alleged assertion that Bin laden would never have a 'black' mistress... or the New York Times and their hatchet job claiming that I didn't exist... or Black Issues Book Review telling a prominent black author that she could not review my book in their magazine because my books disturb 'middle class blacks'... and now the N.Y. Post constantly referring me to as a 'sex slave'... I have been met only with racism, snobbery and all around privileaged ignorance by the pot-heads who edit and write for the newspapers in the United States, and since we all know that I could give two camel humps about being popular with the mainstream--let me just put them on notice that after everything I've endured and triumphed over in my very unusual life, I'm not about to be summed up as a 'sex slave.'

"I am an African woman. A mother of two. I have been acknowledged by the New York Times itself as a 'talented, groundbreaking' writer and I have given my heart and soul to the work that I did at 'Days of Our Lives,' because I learned English watching that show as a child and I told Stephen Wyman that I wanted to help out. There is no need for people to spit on me -- but if you do -- then I will make it like a memory."

Rumor has it that Boof's upcoming novel, "The Sexy Part of the Bible," will be entered for the National Book Award by Random House. Boof owns a 30 acre ranch in California where she's raising two sons and may soon have her own cooking show. [s.W.S.N.B.N.]'s name joins the end credits of "Days of Our Lives" in August.

Connie Chung was just wrong for that.

Connie Chung is an idiot. I lost what little respect I had for her after that horrible performance she gave on her and Maury's now-cancelled show on msnbc.

Anyway, I feel really bad for how [!@#$%^&*] is being treated in this country. Can't say I'm surprised. I hope people ease off on her and let her live her life.

Um... whoa. Good for her! She really knocked it out of the ballpark. As for the "Osama" character, I had a feeling that was a load of fooey.

This just gets better and better than the show itself!

While we're talking [s.W.S.N.B.N.] should I buy her autobiography? I'm going over to Border's in a few.

While we're talking [s.W.S.N.B.N.] should I buy her autobiography? I'm going over to Border's in a few.

It's a fascinating read IMO.

WOW! Good for her for standing up to the country! You can tell she's not afraid of the press...

Jeez people, let her live a normal life!

That's today's media for you. If they don't want the truth, they make up lies.

It's so bizarre, she's written all these amazing books, but it takes coming to the soaps to get the credit and respect that she deserved. When they say that soap fans are the BEST fans it is 100% true. We are loyal and open minded.

Go, Kola!!!

Its about time someone stood up for themselves, strut your smarts [!@#$%^&*]!

I applaud her for fighting back.

Thanks for posting!

Wow, she's a real !@#$%^&*]!

I love her!

Whether it was Connie Chung's alleged assertion that Bin laden would never have a 'black' mistress...

Connie Chung was just wrong for that.

Doesn't surprise me that Connie Chung would say that. I've also heard she did homophobic pieces on her now-defunct TV Show, EYE TO EYE. Sheesh, I miss her controversy.

On that note, PROPS TO [!@#$%^&*]! Daytime needs you! Don't let the press and crazy fans scare you away!

Connie Chung is an idiot.