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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About like the typical leftist saying "I'm an American".
Oh, and BTW, I don't agree with him about this. The sentence above reflects what I think of his slimy comment.
Vidal is typical of the left. They think that truth is relative and the product of who can fabricate the best lie. Of course, when they get into power, all truth is the state line of propaganda to be enforced by machine aided human management systems.
Doesn't everyone know that he is a raging homo as well?
This is an amazing example of outright, upfront, bare-knuckle goebbelism from one of the media culture’s foremost icons.
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, Vidal’s heroes themselves (the Stalinist butchers in Hanoi) saw McCain as quite a prize and made much of him in their propaganda. Were they lying, too?
Officers are ok, but I wouldn't want my sister to marry one. Of course, I'm just kidding.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO A HUMAN BRAIN WITH AN ADVANCED CASE OF SYPHILIS!
I heard he spent the whole time in a Hilton!
Ever the fictionalist, Vidal accused E. Howard Hunt of serial forgeries concealing CIA complicity in the shootings of JFK and Wallace. [The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt 1973]
To die. In the rain. Of AIDS. Alone.
He’s a distant cousin of Al Gore on his mother’s side. (His mother’s maiden name was Gore.)
Gore Vidal is, and always has been, on the lunatic fringe.
That’s not name calling....just a statement of reality.
"Other members of the World Can't Wait advisory board are James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator, South Dakota; Rosemary Candelario, pro-abortion activist; Warren Hern MD, physician and pro-abortion activist; Mark Leno, California State Assembly; Mark Crispin Miller, professor & writer; Tomas Olmos, attorney; Boots Riley, hip hop performer; Lynne Stewart, attorney; Gore Vidal, writer; and Howard Zinn, historian. Stewart, of course, is the attorney convicted of aiding an Islamic terrorist group."
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/ckincaid/2007/ck_01222.shtml
"Speakers Available for the World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime"
(list includes Gore Vidal)
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=10&Itemid=11
Fact: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement initiated and controlled by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)
*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration
*Organizes college and high-school students
*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
EDAD
I don't agree with McCain on a lot but you ain't fit to be a pimple on his butt. (although I am sure being one is your most cherished fantasy)
He is 82. It could be. But, more likely, he is just being himself, a bitter expatriate Queen long past his time.
Yup.
“applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.”
Such tolerant and loving jerks these phony liberals like Vidal are. The hate that spews from their immature mouths is unmatched.
But then again, what would one expect frrom one with ties to the Kennedys.
What a nasty little man...
The only literary accomplishment Gore Vidal ever earned was a BJ from Jack Kerouac. (true story)
I guess it’s too late to tell Vidal to “Grow up!”, isn’t it?
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