Saturday, June 14, 2008
Self-beclowning
Gore Vidal, who purports to know history but has no historical perspective, said this to a Spanish newspaper:
It will take the United States a century to recover from the damage wreaked by President George. W Bush, US writer Gore Vidal said in an interview published on Saturday.
"The president behaved like a virtual criminal but we didn't have the courage to sack him for fear of violating the American constitution," Vidal told the El Mundo newspaper.
The author, a trenchant critic of the US-led invasion of Iraq, said it would take the United States "100 years to repair the damage" caused by Bush.
"We live in a dictatorship. We have a fascist government ...which controls the media," he said.
Vidal also said presidential aspirant Barack Obama was "intelligent" adding that it would be a "novelty" to have an "intelligent" person in the White House.
Fool.
9 Comments:
By 
, at
Sat Jun 14, 05:24:00 PM:
He topped that load of buffoonery (yes, hard to believe) with this followup about McCain:
Vidal: "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?"
The interviewer (lucky person) replied: "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? the reporter 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."
I guess all of those fellow POWs with McCain also made the whole thing up.
Geezus.
By 
Gary Rosen, at
Sat Jun 14, 07:53:00 PM:
Vidal was beclowned from the moment he was conceived. This talentless buffoon has never contributed anything to public discourse other than bile, frequently enriched with his repellent antisemitism.
By , at
Sun Jun 15, 02:00:00 AM:
The only reason the media listen to this moron is because he's 'controversial' and 'anti-establishment', from which follows that he's 'ooh-soo-brave'.
Well, that particular emperor has no clothes and never has. Every time he opens his mouth, more people start to realize that.
By , at
Sun Jun 15, 10:04:00 AM:
You'd take Vidal much more seriously if he hit you with his purse.
By , at
Sun Jun 15, 11:07:00 AM:
The man is senile and also bitterly disappointed that there is no hereditary aristocracy in America.
Zhombre
By Unknown, at
Sun Jun 15, 05:44:00 PM:
Yea I guess it doesn't take many brains to make note that George Bush is moron.
By , at
Sun Jun 15, 09:04:00 PM:
If Bush is a moron, what does that say about those democrats who claim he "tricked them"?
By , at
Mon Jun 16, 12:41:00 AM:
I have long thought that the future dem excuse for their failures will be, 'Bush screwed up so badly it will take years to undo.' This line will be a sort of get out of jail free card to explain their policy failures.
By Cassandra, at
Mon Jun 16, 03:48:00 AM:
"We live in a dictatorship. We have a fascist government ...which controls the media," he said.
...and then the Secret Service took Mr. Vidal out with a single shot to the forehead....
Not.
Sadly, the American public was never to read his prophetic words, but luckily for them we have Christopher. Mein Gott in Himmel, I just hope those jackbooted fascists never discover his secret hiding place :p
