"We are going to become a megabanana republic," author Norman Mailer opined earlier this year during a salon gathering at the home of Democratic donor Stanley Sheinbaum in the Los Angeles County neighborhood of Brentwood. "We're in a pre-fascist atmosphere here in America."

Bush phenomenon vexes Democrats Popularity has state liberals scrambling to find a contender
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer Sunday, May 11, 2003
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/11/MN94134.DTL

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has contributed a foreword and Norman Mailer a blurb to "It Takes a Nation," a first-person history of Hurricane Katrina compiled by the liberal activist organization MoveOn.org.

"America is a profoundly divided nation and the two halves have dangerously little in common," writes Mailer, author of "The Naked and the Dead," "The Armies of the Night" and many other books.

Monday, Aug. 21, 2006 4:55 p.m. EDT
MoveOn.org Promotes Hurricane Katrina Book
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/21/165747.shtml