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jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 10/28/2009
Gore Vidal, Charmer
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For reasons unknown to me ("above my pay grade" is the expression, I think) the Atlantic website is featuring an interview with Gore Vidal , who is as vile as ever. Here's one small proof: In September, director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for leaving the U.S. in 1978 before ...
theatlantic.com - 10/28/2009
A Conversation With Gore Vidal
— theatlantic.com — At age 83, Gore Vidal remains a sharp provocateur, as irascible and irreverent as ever. Snapshots in... History s Glare, a new memoir by Vidal released this month, renews interest in this American literary and cultural icon offering readers a pictorial ... (more) A Conversation With Gore Vidal

Comments vote down The Atlantic Politics Channel found this 10/28/2009found this
Gore Vidal Describes Polanski’s Victim as ‘Young Hooker’
bighollywood.breitbart.com - 10/28/2009
Gore Vidal Describes Polanski’s Victim as ‘Young Hooker’
— bighollywood.breitbart.com — In an interview published today, The Atlantic describes Gore Vidal as “a sharp provocateur, as irascible and... irreverent as ever.” I’m assuming that’s some kind of internal Atlantic-code for ”twisted old has-been ... (more) Gore Vidal Describes Polanski’s Victim as ‘Young Hooker’

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Gore Vidal: Thirteen-year-old Roman Polanski rape victim was a 'hooker'
entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com - 30 days ago
Gore Vidal: Thirteen-year-old Roman Polanski rape victim was a 'hooker'
— entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com — Author Gore Vidal says he refuses to feel any sympathy for Roman Polanski’s rape victim, whom he... dubs a “hooker.” In an interview with The Atlantic, the controversial 83-year-old author of such books as “Myra Breckinridge” and “1876” says of the ... (more) Gore Vidal: Thirteen-year-old Roman Polanski rape victim ...

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  The Vile Vidal

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Gore Vidal's "Vile" Remarks About Obama, Bill Clinton, And Roman Polanski's "Hooker" Victim
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... also a foreigner. He did not subscribe to American values in the least. To [his persecutors], that seemed vicious and unnatural." In response to the interview, the Huffington Post's Ryan J. Davis asks, "Why does this guy still get interviewed? Can't someone stop him from embarrassing himself? Doesn't someone have power of attorney? Isn't there anyone concerned with this guy's vanishing legacy?" And even The Atlantic's own writers find Vidal's comments vile. To read the whole interview, click here. ...

The Vile Vidal
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Goldblog highlights the writer's latest dreck. Here's the defense of Clinton's perjury about Lewinsky: Have you met President Clinton? Yes – and I like Bill. My family is Southern. I’m used to Bill Clintons. The country apparently wasn’t, though. At the time of his impeachment trial, I wrote a defense of him. When he claimed, “I didn’t have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,” he was totally accurate. You believe him? He was talking Southern. In the South, sex is when you put it in ...

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Gore Vidal, a despicable old fool, defends Roman Polanski, a rapist — The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings Of all the Hollywood and Hollywood-ish celebrities who have come out in defence of Roman Polanski since the director's arrest in Switzerland last month, Gore Vidal is without question the most reprehensible. Or, at least, his defence is the most reprehensible ...
Gore Vidal: Thirteen-year-old Roman Polanski rape victim was a 'hooker' — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Fox News[/b] Author Gore Vidal says he refuses to feel any sympathy for Roman Polanski's rape victim, whom he dubs a “hooker.” In an interview with The Atlantic, the controversial 83-year-old author of such books as “Myra Breckinridge” and “1876” says of the director's sex ...
The Class of the Liberal Elite — Confederate Yankee
Über liberal Gore Vidal takes the disgusting practice of blaming the victim to the extreme, outrageously calling the 13-year-old rape victim that Roman Polanski drugged and brutalized, "a hooker." Quick, someone award him a Nobel Prize for Literature....
Ultra-leftie Gore Vidal: Polanski was a victim of anti-Semitism, rape victim was really a “hooker” — Sister Toldjah
Vidal’s ultra-leftist credentials 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): Atlantic: In September, director Roman Polanski was arrested in ...
Author Gore Vidal Labels Polanski Victim a ‘Young Hooker’ — NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Plenty of celebrities issued crazy statements in their efforts to defend director and rapist Roman Polanski but none went as far as author Gore Vidal did when he labeled Polanski's victim a "young hooker." In an Oct. 28 interview with The Atlantic's John Meroney about a variety of ...