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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: kjenerette
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born.

About like the typical leftist saying "I'm an American".

41 posted on 06/14/2008 8:45:32 AM PDT by SouthTexas (If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!)
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To: tlb
I know we're not supposed to advocate violence, but someone needs to punch this smart ass little weasel Gore Vidal right in the nose.

Oh, and BTW, I don't agree with him about this. The sentence above reflects what I think of his slimy comment.

42 posted on 06/14/2008 8:46:30 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (I have Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance policies.)
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To: tlb

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.


43 posted on 06/14/2008 8:46:48 AM PDT by jonrick46
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To: MinuteGal
Isn't Vidal also related (by marriage?) to Jackie Kennedy Onassis?

Doesn't everyone know that he is a raging homo as well?

44 posted on 06/14/2008 8:46:54 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: tlb

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?


45 posted on 06/14/2008 8:48:38 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: Liberty2007
except the part about them becoming officers

Officers are ok, but I wouldn't want my sister to marry one. Of course, I'm just kidding.

46 posted on 06/14/2008 8:50:51 AM PDT by Rider on the Rain
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To: tlb

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO A HUMAN BRAIN WITH AN ADVANCED CASE OF SYPHILIS!


47 posted on 06/14/2008 8:51:12 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: tlb
"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 heard he spent the whole time in a Hilton!

48 posted on 06/14/2008 8:51:31 AM PDT by OCC
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To: Travis McGee; potlatch; devolve; MeekOneGOP; ntnychik
Yes, Gore Vidal is a bitter old queen.

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.

49 posted on 06/14/2008 8:53:11 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: tlb

He’s a distant cousin of Al Gore on his mother’s side. (His mother’s maiden name was Gore.)


50 posted on 06/14/2008 8:54:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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To: tlb

Gore Vidal is, and always has been, on the lunatic fringe.

That’s not name calling....just a statement of reality.


51 posted on 06/14/2008 8:54:41 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: EggsAckley
Someone should tell Gay Gore Vidal that it's not a sin to be a conservative but it is a sin for two men to have gay sex together. It's not Buckley who is going to hell, it's gay fornicator Gore Vidal who will spend eternity in the fires of hell.
52 posted on 06/14/2008 8:55:17 AM PDT by peeps36 (Politician = Corrupt Degenerate Loser = Ted, Nancy, Barry, Jack and Many More)
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To: tlb; All
Gore Vidal is on the advisory board of the org World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime". WCW is an "anti-war" front for the Revolutionary Communist Party.

"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

53 posted on 06/14/2008 8:55:30 AM PDT by ETL
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To: tlb
Dear Mr. Vidal,

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)

54 posted on 06/14/2008 8:55:51 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.)
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To: EggsAckley

He is 82. It could be. But, more likely, he is just being himself, a bitter expatriate Queen long past his time.


55 posted on 06/14/2008 8:56:47 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Yup.


56 posted on 06/14/2008 8:57:47 AM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: tlb

“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.


57 posted on 06/14/2008 8:58:26 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: tlb
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."

What a nasty little man...

58 posted on 06/14/2008 8:58:43 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: tlb

The only literary accomplishment Gore Vidal ever earned was a BJ from Jack Kerouac. (true story)


59 posted on 06/14/2008 8:59:17 AM PDT by Jagman (Liberalism is a "progressive" disease)
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To: tlb

I guess it’s too late to tell Vidal to “Grow up!”, isn’t it?


60 posted on 06/14/2008 8:59:47 AM PDT by avenir
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