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'NYT' Sunday Preview: Gore Vidal Questions McCain's Time in Prison Camp (He made it up?)
New York Times ^ | June 12, 2008 | Greg Mitchell

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gorevidal; liberaloldcranks; mccain; pow; ragingqueen; vidal
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To: MinuteGal
Gore Vidal is an aged, dried-up, leftist, out-of-the-closet fag.

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

101 posted on 06/14/2008 11:06:46 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: tlb
Bill Buckley knew how to deal with Gore Vidal when Vidal called him a Nazi. Seems Vidal still has not learned.

Wish Buckley was still alive so he could knock his in his face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8

102 posted on 06/14/2008 11:12:30 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, freerepublic.com baby)
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To: BenLurkin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8


103 posted on 06/14/2008 11:13:55 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, freerepublic.com baby)
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To: tlb

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.


104 posted on 06/14/2008 11:37:29 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: tlb

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..


105 posted on 06/14/2008 12:10:45 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.-- Mencken)
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To: tlb
Liberals tend to get nastier with age--see Carter, Thurgood Marshall, Rather, Moyers, now Vidal. I suspect it has something to do with loss of sphincter control.
106 posted on 06/14/2008 12:18:36 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: tlb

“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.


107 posted on 06/14/2008 12:19:42 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: ishabibble

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.


108 posted on 06/14/2008 12:24:29 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: tlb

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!


109 posted on 06/14/2008 12:25:17 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Old Professer

We may be looking at an attempt to hoist our candidate on a modern POGO “stick.”


110 posted on 06/14/2008 12:26:13 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: tlb

Vidal is raw sewage. Nothing more, nothing less.


111 posted on 06/14/2008 12:37:04 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the girly-man population. Have the McCainiacs spayed or neutered.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
They need to lay off my friend, John McCain.

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!!!!!

112 posted on 06/14/2008 1:09:43 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: tlb
If I wanted to know what Gore Vidal thought I would listen to Noam Chomskey’s zipper.
113 posted on 06/14/2008 1:39:15 PM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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To: potlatch

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Excellent graphic post potlatch


114 posted on 06/14/2008 1:50:09 PM PDT by devolve (- Men - I want you all to relax! Let the 101st Airborne try again in 4 years! - Gen. George Patton)
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To: tlb

*”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.


115 posted on 06/14/2008 2:30:42 PM PDT by j-damn
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To: ml/nj
I think you know the answer to your own question, LOL.

Leni

116 posted on 06/14/2008 3:21:31 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Stay Home in Nov. For More Taxation, Regulation, Litigation, Ginsburgization and Obamination)
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To: tlb

He just moved another few percentages of independents/undecideds/Democrats to McCain. There are veterans in those voting blocks.


117 posted on 06/14/2008 3:31:59 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: tlb

I would have paid good money to see GV and WB go for 1 hour on PPV without a moderator.


118 posted on 06/14/2008 3:37:50 PM PDT by purpleraine
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To: PhilDragoo

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.


119 posted on 06/14/2008 3:39:21 PM PDT by purpleraine
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To: henkster
"Now, as to Vidal, I can’t wait for him to bring this one on. I can’t imagine anything that will enrage and energize veterans and patriotic Americans more than this insult."

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120 posted on 06/14/2008 3:41:52 PM PDT by 1035rep
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