Posted on 09/21/2005 2:15:07 PM PDT by forty_years
Vidal is the kind of pseudo-intellectual who refers to the Judeo-Christian Deity as a "tribal sky-god".
Gore Vidal is a senile old queen.
Of course, he was like this before he got old and turned senile, so that's not an excuse.
He did write some pretty decent history/novel; I thought Lincoln was a interesting portrait.
William F. Buckley Jr. to Vidal, Chicago 1968
Why?
It's pretty obvious from his constant mention of McVeigh's appearance that he had a crush on McVeigh.
That was the beginning of the end for intelligence debate on TV (by the way, FC was a great book).
oops, "intelligent"
How sad that he has spent his entire lifetime living in his fantasy.
Wonder what he thinks of Allah? Hmmmmm... Putative "intellectuals" like this make me want to vomit-there are people living in trailers who have barely finished high school, with far more brains and common sense than these gilded elitist twits.
And BTW isn't he a distant relative of Algore?
And BTW isn't he a distant relative of Algore?
Gore and Carter both, though his side of the family were staunch republicans.
The Guardian article does mention his late "partner of 55 years"
It's too bad he didn't do more acting. He cut a fine figure of a villain in the sci-fi movie "Gattacca."
The Left somehow sees the war against Islamo-fascism as an extension of the civil rights movement; as some type of black (e.g., Muslims) against white (e.g., the West) conflict; the usual “rich vs. poor” story.
It's not rich/poor at all. It's "us" vs. "the other" (with "us" as the eternal xenophobic bad guy and "the other" as the pure and righteous downtrodden revolutionaries). In the United States the Black/white divide is the most common one used by the Left (and the "palaeo" Right) for this purpose.
If you want to see how little poverty and wealth have to do with anything, note that wealth Blacks are not reviled but have been encouraged since the days of W.E.B. DuBois' "talented tenth" to contribute their resources for the sake of the Volk (a form of "class collaboration" all liberals decry in the historical example of Mussolini and Italy). Meanwhile, midwestern dirt poor whites who hate the rich, bankers, etc., are attacked as dangerously incipient fascist "rightwing regresso populists" who won't rest until they've hanged every Jew to a lamppost and replaced Federal Reserve notes with Monopoly money.
See? It's not class it all. It's almost an incarnation of a metaphysical concept with "the other" = "the holy" (haqadosh).
It's ironic to consider that just over one hundred years ago the ancestors of today's "dangerous rightwing extremists" were voting for William Jennings Bryan and Eugene V. Debs and the ancestors of today's coastal poofter aristocrats were pouring their considerable wealth into the coffers of William McKinley.
Hey . . . maybe William McKinley was the Secret Ruler of the World back then!
Why?
It's pretty obvious from his constant mention of McVeigh's appearance that he had a crush on McVeigh.
"Alfalfa Gore" Vidal is related somehow to populist Democratic Senator Thomas Gore of Oklahoma, the famous "blind senator."
Hey, maybe American radicalism is returning to its heartland cradle. Will the "blue states" return to their Federalist/Anti-Masonic/Whig/Republican roots as well?
Vidal is almost a poster child for the Left: ineffective, pretentious, effete, queer, irrelevant, yet convinced of his own indispensability. He's the archetypal girly-man. I've got houseplants with more testosterone than that wrinkled old fairy.
At the risk of being not only misunderstood but of whipping a dead horse back to life, I'll ask it again: why don't people like this ever criticize Black Fundamentalists? And why don't they ever criticize people like him?
"Vidal is the kind of pseudo-intellectual who refers to the Judeo-Christian Deity as a "tribal sky-god"."
I forget. Which god does Vidal kneel to? the Iron god of Government. Or the Golden Calve of "Buggery" ?
"Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I?ll sock you in you goddamn face and you?ll stay plastered."
Gotta love that Buckley.
I guess after all these years it is a given? Or, is the thought of a wrinkly old fag sickening to the gay sycophants who adore him?
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