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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Sounds to me like he’s getting a little senile.
I won’t side with Vidal on this one. No matter how much I disagree with McCain on some of his more idiotic policies, I will always respect him for his service to and sacrifice for his country. No one can take that away from him.
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.
That McCain is a disaster? Quite a few. That McCain made up his service record? Not a single one.
what a disgusting piece of human filth. he’s been out to pasture for a while, but clearly it is time to put him out of his misery.
can you imagine what the press would do to someone who made a similar accusation about obama?
Interesting. If one reads this quickly, Vidal seems to say that he is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point. He's not.
Katherine
I read about his father Gene Vidal. The apple sure fell
far from the tree.
I read about his father Gene Vidal. The apple sure fell
far from the tree.
everyone knows Viet Nam never really happened. It was staged on a lot in Hollywood.
please ping with the actualy article...also- when Vidal was whining about the Iraq war I express my distastes for the “essayist” to this guy (link at bottom)...
http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/vidalframe.html
This has left me speechless, because it’s just so stupid. There is so much wrong with his implication that I don’t even know where to start.
I mean, is he TRYING to motivate all vet?
why shouldn’t the left, which props up the lecherous, chancred Kennedy clan prop up this worm eaten intellect as well?
Nothing worse that an old homo bitterly clinging on to a foul mouth.
Exactly. Living in the West Point area and graduating from West Point are two completely different animals.
*vets
need more caffeine.
He's only of importance in the Marxist NYC-DC circuit of political elites and other aging fags.
Leni
I dispise mccain but I am not going to bash his service. ThERE AINT A DAMN THING WRONG WITH BEING AN ANNAPOLIS GRADUATE!!! except the part about them becoming officers :p a little enlisted man ribbing lol
LOL, I wonder if thisd fool would be willing to sit down with Bud Day,(see below a man who spent years in the prison camp along with John McCain.
“Col. George “Bud” Day, 83, is the most decorated service man since Gen. Douglas MacArthur, with more than 70 medals. A living legend”
Follow link to read what this amazing man had to say about the character and bravery of John McCain.
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