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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“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.”
Mr. Vidal’s words may indeed haunt him for eternity. It is my belief that there are many in hell who rejected the Savior for sexual sins. I pray that he may repent before he dies.
McCain will know what “his friends” in the MSM really think of him now as they pull all the stops to see their messiah Oooooooo-baaaaaaaa-maaaaaa as POTUS.
At this point, I might unfortunately have to agree with the old chanker...
the vietnam lives on in public affairs.
“Gore Vidal Questions McCain’s Time in Prison Camp (He made it up?)”
I dislike Juanito intensely but my Dad served in Vietnam and the first person that questions his service (to my face) will immediately afterward experience a significant, life-changing, emotional and physical event.
There's a certain percentage of the lumpen masses that don't know of Gore's true sexual orientation.....probably the same percentage who are unaware of Obama's true religious orientation.
Leni
It was the second reading of this that made me appreciate it.
Unofficially speaking, after this revolting display, some of us just might call in sick.
He was a once only a fringe figure, despite his strong Democrat party ties and his cousins Jimmy Carter and Al Gore.
As the party moves farther left, Vidal seems more mainstream than ever. He would be perfectly at home on MSNBC or preaching at Obama’s church, wouldn’t he?
Nice to see the NYSlimes continue on with their own self immolation.
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Mark Crispin Miller, professor & writer
Tomas Olmos, attorney
Boots Riley, hip hop performer
Lynne Stewart, attorney
Gore Vidal, writer
Sunsara Taylor, writer
Howard Zinn, historian
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=2#com
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
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning. And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
Also from the Revolutionary Communist Party website: "Tearing Up the U.S. Paper Tiger in Korea: How 300,000 Chinese Troops Snuck into Korea and Kicked the Ass of the U.S. Armed Forces" RW #1059, June 18, 2000:
http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1059/korea.htm
Revolution interview with "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan: October 29, 2005:
('Revolution' is the newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party)
http://rwor.org/a/021/cindy-sheehan-interview.htm
I thought Vidal was dead. Sounds like his brain already is.
The Obama supporters in full cry...bringing us together.
I thought Vidal was dead.
“....and calls Italo Calvino the greatest writer in his lifetime while dissing Norman Mailer and Philip Roth.”
Mailer died last November and so is finally unable to get drunk and kick Vidal’s ass for this.
“I thought Vidal was dead.”
He is, but he is so loaded with absinthe, brandy and godknowswhat else it will probably take him several more years to decompose.
In my admittedly brief search of a biography of this painted turd, the closest he ever was to being "West Point" was being born in the West Point Cadet Hospital. Sneaky little bastard trying to polish himself up to the point of being a graduate of a US Military Academy, all to smear the reputation of one who did.
I'm not someone who likes, or would normally vote for McCain. I have NO respect for what he's done as a politician. But the thought that people - no that's far too generous a term - will use their freedom of speech to try to minimize the suffering and sacrifice that he went through in the hell-holes of enemy POW camps - Remember, to a-holes like Vidal, the US was "the bad guys" during Viet Nam, and they will never forget that our fighting men deserved everything they got, and they should have gotten far worse...
I'm not one prone to outright hatred, but Vidal's REALLY pushing me in that direction. This guy's in desperate need for a serious ass-kicking!
Mark
At this point, I might unfortunately have to agree with the old chanker...
The guy's a revolutionary communist.
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
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning. And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
Also from the Revolutionary Communist Party website:
"Tearing Up the U.S. Paper Tiger in Korea: How 300,000 Chinese Troops Snuck into Korea and Kicked the Ass of the U.S. Armed Forces" RW #1059, June 18, 2000:
http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1059/korea.htm
Revolution interview with "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan: October 29, 2005:
('Revolution' is the newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party)
http://rwor.org/a/021/cindy-sheehan-interview.htm
From the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime website...
Advisory Board:
James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator, South Dakota
Rosemary Candelario, pro-choice activist
Warren Hern MD, Physician and pro-choice activist
Mark Leno, CA State Assembly
Mark Crispin Miller, professor & writer
Tomas Olmos, attorney
Boots Riley, hip hop performer
Lynne Stewart, attorney
Gore Vidal, writer
Sunsara Taylor, writer
Howard Zinn, historian
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=2#com
“Drop dead!” will suit just fine...
I am sure he believes every lie from the mouth of John Fraud.
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