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.
How sad that he has spent his entire lifetime living in his fantasy.
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!
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.
I once wrote to him
to disagree with something,
and he replied [!] with
a pleasant, chatty,
thoughtful hand written reply.
He's strange, but he's nice.
Vidal: "Pinky! Are you pondering what I am pondering?"
Chomsky: "I think so Brain, but where do we get enough suspenders and bras, for *all* the Democrats?"
"Vidal's briefs are so grand"
Like aristocratic Calvin Klein underwear I suppose?
A brilliant, but decadent and morally corrupt old queen.
Makes his cousin, AL GORE seem almost rational by comparison.
The hate-America Left will welcome back and embrace one of their own.