Posted on 06/14/2008 8:18:28 AM PDT by tlb
NEW YORK In an interview for this Sunday's edition of The New York Times Magazine, famed novelist/essayist Gore Vidal appears to question Sen. John McCain's account of being imprisoned by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam war.
Asked what he thinks of McCain, Vidal calls him a "disaster," then tells Deborah Solomon, "Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?"
Solomon replies: "Everyone knows he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam." To which Vidal responds: "That’s what he tells us."
Why would you doubt him? Solomon wonders. "He’s a graduate of Annapolis," Vidal explains. "I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there."
Asked how he felt when he heard about the passing earlier this year of his conservative nemesis, William F. Buckley, Vidal says, "I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred."
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What about the New York Times? Sure Vidal is all you suggest, but has the Times no standards of decency and/or accuracy?
ML/NJ
Wish Buckley was still alive so he could knock his in his face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
Vidal is an ass and the only sound that comes from an ass is better than anything he has ever said or written. He is a worthless waste of oxygen.
The McCain camp ought to see to it that the comments of Vidal, the unrivaled arrogant swine of his generation, get wide distribution. McCain couldn’t buy a better endorsement than Butt Boy Vidal’s ravings against him..
“Vidal calls him a “disaster,” then tells Deborah Solomon, “Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?”
I must admit, the endless retelling of this story has given it just a bit of a Calaveras County color.
You know it is odd that I have never come across any other written statements about McCain or Day’s stays in that POW camp other than what was written by the two of them.
I went actively looking one night but then I am not a super internet sleuth so I may have missed something quite important.
Poor old Gore Vidal.... this senile aging and lifelong Leftist Queer is finally revealing himself as an anal fulfillment freak most of us KNEW him to be...
Where was this skin flute player -— when we were LEGITIMATELY questioning the “military record” of Kerry....
He must have been busy, or otherwise “engaged”...
It appears that ALL substandard “humans” are coming out of their gutters, bath houses, opium dins, ghetto crack houses, welfare brood mare’s bedrooms, prisons, leftist union halls and graves to vote for Obama...
THAT should tell us SOMETHING!
We may be looking at an attempt to hoist our candidate on a modern POGO “stick.”
Vidal is raw sewage. Nothing more, nothing less.
Its obvious McCain has some substantial mental and physical scars from his time in Vietnam. He has difficulty putting coherent thoughts together and his shoulders are a mess. This didn't just “happen”.
These liberals also tend to forget, McCain was there when they needed him. When four Democrat Senators decide to interfere with banking regulators in return for campaign cash, McCain didn’t hesitate to cross the aisle and screw the American tax payer for 3.5 billion dollars. A display of Loyalty across party lines like this is uncommon.
Can we have a little show of appreciation from the liberals now and then? After all, our candidate is blocking drilling in Alaska, while we pay 4.30 a gallon for gas, and it goes up every day. He's willing to let us go bankrupt to please the looney left base, and not a single thank you!
So lay off Mr. Vidal, my friend !!!!! If we win, were going to veto Beer!!!!!
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Excellent graphic post potlatch
*”I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.”*
You know jack shit about nothing, you preening sodomite.
I wish McCain would fly to Italy or wherever this America-hating fudgepacker lives and kick his fucking ass down a flight of stone stairs.
Leni
He just moved another few percentages of independents/undecideds/Democrats to McCain. There are veterans in those voting blocks.
I would have paid good money to see GV and WB go for 1 hour on PPV without a moderator.
Be careful. Wasn’t E. Howard Hunt the one who said he was at home on the day of his assassination and two of his family members said, no he wasn’t.
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