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Gore Vidal Storms the UK
2008-05-25 15:02:00 anthony @13:54 BST A still-vital Vidal says he’s ready to kill! One of my favorite political essayists and commentators, Gore Vidal , is on a brief visit to the UK. I became aware of this on Friday evening, while listening to BBC Radio 4?s Front Row, on which Mark Lawson interviewed him. The BBC website bills this interview thus: The ...
By: Suzie-Q
Welcome to the United States of Amnesia
2008-05-24 18:33:00 anthony @ 17:30 BST Gore Vidal tells Mary Wakefield that America has forgotten its constitutional roots, and explains why Bobby Kennedy was ?the biggest son of a bitch in politics? Mary Wakefield | spectator.co.uk | Wednesday, 21st May 2008 To kill time, as I wait for Gore Vidal by the reception desk in Claridge?s, I leaf through the ...
By: Suzie-Q
London Times: “I knew JFK”, says Gore Vidal, “and believe
2008-05-18 01:43:00 In case you were holding your breath, and your vote, waiting to see what Gore Vidal thinks, (Is he even able to think? Seems a bit of a stretch at the off, given he apparently lost that ability 40 years gone, which was exactly when he figured out what JFK was..) “I never believed in Jack’s charisma,” Vidal says shortly. JFK, he believes, was “one of our worst presidents”; Bobby, his brother, was “a phoney, a little Torquemada”; and their father, Joseph, was “a crook – should have been in jail”. So much for Camelot. “But Jack had great charm,” he adds. “So has Obama. He’s better educated than Jack. And he’s been a working senator. Jack never went to the office – he wanted the presidency and his father bought it for him.” Well, gee… I know I feel better, now, don’t you? (Shudder) There’s no guarantee, of course, that the Democrats will triumph later this year, even if Obama does win the nomination. Does he think Obama can beat John McCa...
By: BitsBlog
Gore Vidal rips R.I.P. Buckley?and the sellout media?a new one
2008-03-28 00:00:00 Gore Vidal speaks seriously ill of the dead by calling the late William F. Buckley the shameless liar and fascist that he was. But he reserves his harshest condemnation for the real root of the problem ? a mainstream media...
Bill Buckley versus Gore Vidal
2008-02-28 04:27:00 Sorry, but this is just too fun. Some points as you watch: 1. The more things change, the more things stay the same: The military-industrial complex. Always the opinion of Western Europe. Big versus small government. 2. The profound wrongness of Gore Vidal: Race riots and revolution- after 1968! 3. The propensity of leftists to call conservatives fascists (crypto or otherwise). Actually, Buckley fought against fascism in WWII. It reminds me yet again of the left's fundamental misunderstanding of the term as Goldberg points out in his book 4. Notice Buckley's prescient 1999 comments on Bush. Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg Vidal calls Buckley a Crypto-fascist. Vidal-Buckley 1 Vidal-Buckley 2 Buckley-Charlie Rose Powered by b2evolution.
By: Asymmetric
Gore Vidal on the Democratic Debate Debacle
2007-12-20 14:55:00 anthony @ 13:55 GMT By Gore Vidal| Truthdig | Posted on Dec18,2007 I don?t know how many of you were as appalled as I was at the way that the presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was totally erased from the last Democratic debate held in Iowa. This was a decision that was made, I can tell, jointly by ...
By: Suzie-Q
Gore Vidal, one of the last living sages
2007-11-28 08:59:00 Gore Vidal sums up the United States with an easy to understand quote for all: I was born 80 years ago in a country called the United States of America and now I live in a Homeland ? an expression we haven’t heard since Hitler. Bookmark to:
By: Turd on a Stick
Norman Mailer Dies at 84
2007-11-10 15:47:00 Norman Mailer Dies at the age of 84 years old. He was best known for his work as a writer and his wild public antics. He also won the PulitzerPrize for his work as a writer. Norman Mailer died from renal failure at a hospital in Manhattan early this morning. He had been hospitalized for the ...
By: TheNewsLeak
Gore Vidal: Bush es un golpista que demolio la Constitucion
2007-11-07 22:18:00 El escritor y legendario activista poltico estadunidense Gore Vidal considera que el estado de esta nacin es tan malo que tal vez ya no tiene remedio. ?Pocos aqu entienden este punto, pero es lo que ha ocurrido con Bush. Hasta hemos perdido el nico regalo que nos dej Inglaterra cuando nos abandon a nuestro individualismo: la Carta Magna y el habeas corpus, todo lo que dio el tono del Siglo de las Luces a Estados Unidos?. Vidal es uno de los escritores y crticos polticos ms influyentes de Estados Unidos y su participacin en los circuitos culturales y polticos de primer nivel durante las ltimas dcadas lo confirma como una de las voces ms lcidas en el debate poltico-intelectual de este pas y en el mundo. Esa voz se ha vuelto cada vez ms feroz despus de que lleg al poder lo que l ha llamado la ?junta Cheney-Bush?. ?Bush es algo nuevo?, dice cuando se le pregunta si el actual gobierno slo es lo peor de lo que ha habido o significa un cambio cualitativo. ?Odia a la...
By: BlogMemes
Gore Vidal - Ditadura
2007-09-15 17:53:00 "The people have no voice because they have no information"
By: O Melhor Amigo
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