Gore Vidal

People named Gore

wtf is it with them?

I'll admit to having enjoyed Gore Vidal's  books about Lincoln and Burr, but then Barbra Streisand has a nice voice.  Otherwise, my opinion of Gore Vidal was cemented at this video moment with Bill Buckley.  Forty years later he's still alive, and the archetypal Liberal;  arrogant, smug,  anti-American,  and ever deserving of a punch in the nose, which Bill Buckley came damned close to delivering. He's on today's radar screen because Drudge hyped Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’    Read it if you want, but this passage  pretty much destroys any specter of  Vidal the sagacious visionary, if one indeed ever existed. “ His voice strengthens. “One thing I have hated all my life are LIARS [he says that with bristling anger] and I live in a nation of them. It was not always the case. I don’t demand honour, that can be lies too. I don’t say there was a golden age, but there was an age of general intelligence. We had a watchdog, the media.” The media is too supine? “Would that it was. They’re busy preparing us for an Iranian war.” He retains some optimism about Obama “because he doesn’t lie. We know the fool from Arizona [as he calls John McCain] is a liar. We never got the real story of how McCain crashed his plane [in 1967 near Hanoi, North Vietnam] and was held captive.” ”