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Why Gore Vidal is Gore Vidal and everybody else is nobody - the great man speaks http://bit.ly/4yfWWP 11/14/2009 |
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A Conversation With Gore Vidal - The Atlantic (October 28, 2009): http://bit.ly/4kUd4N via @addthis 11/14/2009 |
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Gore Vidal is the shit http://bit.ly/4yfWWP 11/9/2009 |
Gore Vidal On Obama: "Experience Mattered"
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
In an interview with author John Meroney, provocateur Gore Vidal has some choice words about politics. In the primaries, he supported Hillary Clinton. Here's what he says about Barack Obama: ...
Gore Vidal's increasingly tenuous grip on reality
Pundits Blog —
... Today in The Atlantic, Vidal said he never should have supported Obama and “experience mattered.” He then went on to suggest that the 13-year-old girl Roman Polanski had sex with was a “young hooker” and that Roman was only persecuted out of anti-Semitism. ...
Gore Vidal's "Vile" Remarks About Obama, Bill Clinton, And Roman Polanski's "Hooker" Victim
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... To mark the recent publication of Gore Vidal's memoir, Snapshots in History's Glare, The Atlantic's John Meroney interviewed the American literary and cultural icon at his house in Hollywood. In the interview, Vidal continues his provocations of recent years, and discusses President Obama's lack of experience, Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, Kennedy's failures, and Roman Polanski's "hooker" victim. ...
Author Gore Vidal Labels Polanski Victim a ‘Young Hooker’
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... In an Oct. 28 interview with The Atlantic's John Meroney about a variety of topics, Vidal claimed he didn't "give a f---" about the Polanski case. "Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?" ...
Ultra-leftie Gore Vidal: Polanski was a victim of anti-Semitism, rape victim was really a “hooker”
Sister Toldjah —
... speak for themselves. So do his repulsive remarks about the ‘conspiracy’ against child rapist Roman Polanski (from an interview Atlantic magazine did with him recently): ...
oxed by his own gore
Knowledge is Power —
... ATLANTIC: In September, director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for leaving the U.S. in 1978 before being sentenced to prison for raping a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson�s house in Hollywood. During the time of the original incident, you were working in the industry, and you and Polanski had a common friend in theater critic and producer Kenneth Tynan. So what�s your take on Polanski, this many years later? ...
Only Connect
Bitch. Ph.D. —
What do you even say about this? You feel ill, mostly. You feel so sad and ill. And possibly one might say that you and you are part of the problem: So what’s your take on Polanski, this many years later? I really don’t give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of? Hmm. “I say that Foer’s ethical charge against animal eating is brave because not only is it unpopular, it has also been characterized as ...
Putting the "Limp" in Palimpsest
Hit & Run —
... Gore Vidal, who is
still alive, is also still giving
insane (and entertaining!) interviews. Some funny
Democrat-bashing from the
latest: ...
Misogynist Crank of the Day
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... I'm surprised Farley -- whose contempt for the man of letters in question might exceed my own -- didn't beat me to this. But via Edroso, academy of the overrated charter member Gore Vidal shares some of his legendary wit on the subject of child rape: In September, director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for leaving the U.S. in 1978 before being sentenced to prison for raping a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson’s house in Hollywood. During the time of the original incident, you were working in the ...
Gary on Gore
LewRockwell.com Blog —
Notes Gary North:
Gore Vidal is asked, “What is Ted Kennedy’s real legacy?” and answers, “It’s nothing.”
Vidal is wrong. The 1965 immigration act was Teddy’s, and it changed the nation forever.
Gore Vidal, Rape Apologist
Shakesville —
[Trigger warning.] In an interview with The Atlantic, "American literary and cultural icon" Gore Vidal offers his take on Polanski: I really don't give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?I don't even know where to begin with that shit. Leaving aside the fact that Polanski's 13-year-old victim was not, in fact, "a hooker," even if she had been, sex workers have the same right to consent as any other person does. Vidal is, of course, a Fauxgressive King, ...
Weird Old Crackpot Novelist: To Me Hell Is the United States of Today
Hit & Run —
... While I listened helplessly, unable to chime in, Vidal argued
that it was presumptuous to say that a child couldn't consent to
being photographed in sexual situations and mumbled something about
the injustice of child pornography laws. No surprise, then, that a
earlier this year Vidal told The
Atlantic this about Roman Polanski's thirteen-year-old
victim: "Look am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker
feels as though she's being taken advantage of?" ...
