BBC Today has this touching tribute to vile anti-Semite and left wing fantasist Gore Vidal this morning. Dear Gore, they guy who felt that Bush was behind 9/11 and who declared “that Anti-Semitism got poor Polanski”.
GORE VIDAL…
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I am showing my ignorance , I had heard the name but knew nothing about Gore Vidal. As soon as he was mentioned on BBC R4 and the way they talked about him and James Naughtie fondly quoted some of his writings, was all I needed to know that this Vidal must have been a lefty. When a right winger kicks the bucket the same loving sadness just isn’t there.
I have to profess my ignorance of this guy, as well. Initially, I thought it was the bloke who did the shampoo… then I realised that he died a few months back.
“Washing hair and fighting fascists”
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/41946
also a man who said that the 13 year old girl Polanski drugged and raped was a “hooker”. Nice man, though. Bet he had lovely handwriting.
With Vidal having scripted the Penthouse “Caligula” movie & him having a villa high on the Amalfi Coast, I have always thought of Vidal as Tiberius playing with little boys. Thus making Polanski a mere beginner. The BBC would be looking to crucify him without his anti-American pass
Gore Vidal was being eulogised time and time again on the Today programme.
He is a relatively obscure writer, totally passe, was always superciliously full of himself. Bisexual, extreme-left views. Nasty piece of work he always struck me as. Totally different – studiously and deliberately different – to the decent Americans I had met and knew.
But right up BBC’s alley.
(They did not mention this week that it is Milton Friedman’s centenarary. Now THAT would have been worth a discussion on the Today programme – and timely, too, he predicted from the start that the Euro was doomed. )
I don’t think the BBC will let you hear the notorious Vidal-Buckley “debate” on ABC in the US at the time of the August 1968 Democratic Convention. Wonderful stuff: the two commentators loathed each other personally and politically – and it showed!
But the BBC would not eulogise the great William Buckley ! A REAL political commentator – unlike the BBC lightweights.
Lest we forget, this interview with Gore Vidal backfires brilliantly in David Smug Dimbleby’s face and didn’t go to as planned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_3qFpi4ooU
Always good to see a beeboid humiliated by one of their own…
My first response when I heard that name was like others, Gor-who?…. Never heard of him, and another example of obscure writers, playwrights, whoever that the BBC make headline news. To me it was the reference to his homosexual works that made me realise I wanted nothing to do with him.
Jonathan Miller’s comment encapsulated not only his own attitude but the whole raft of people who work at the high end of the media or in the arts as well as the BBC, towards the lower orders or anyone who doesn’t profess their progresive beliefs:
Mitt Romney was ‘a knuckle dragger that Vidal would never have deigned to talk to.’
Cue giggles from Nockknees.
Pretty much sums up the attitude towards anyone working class…especially if you’re white, or ‘right wing’ what ever that might be exactly.
Johnathan Miller “talking bollocks”.
I never tire of watching Jonathan Miller having one of his hissy fits. A talented but ridiculous figure.
1pm news painted him as conservative. Half brother to Jackie Kennedy-Onasis (a real conservative family) and descendant of early American settlers.
Gore, God bless him, was the chap who, during the height of the cold war, insisted that the Soviets were “secretly” disarming.
“Even Such A Writer As Gore Vidal Is More Interesting”
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/43272
… nevertheless I would commend his doorstop United States: Essays 1952-1992 to anyone.
Relative of Al Gore wouldn’t ya know.
Gore always reminds me of Antonia Fraser: fairly accomplished literary figure (but not as good as the reputation given lustre by a lefty establishment of critics would have you believe), champagne socialist, never short of an inherited bob or two, (despite nod to “equality”) stands on ceremony concerning and demands respect for his/her ancestry, de haut en bas attitude to those outside his/her social/literary circles, voracious sexual appetite.
It was when Guy’s mother found his father reading the City & the Pillar with the original dust jacket that she knew, instantly …
And along with their love for antisemitic lefties goes the Beeboids’ reluctance to see Israel defend itself against Iran. I do not consider this “analysis” even-handed:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17261265
Scrappydoo, George R, Alex and others: you are lucky to have escaped the experience of watching Gore Vidal in full throat. However, watch this clip and make up your own mind.
typical leftie tactic…ad hominem attacks.