Gore Vidal Describes Polanski’s Victim as ‘Young Hooker’
by John Nolte
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 degenerate desperate for attention“:
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?
VIDAL: 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?
Vidal then goes on to blame Polanski’s legal problems on…
“an anti-Semitic and anti-fag thing … The idea that this girl was in her communion dress, a little angel all in white, being raped by this awful Jew, Polacko…”
Oh, it’s because Polanski’s Jewish… Now it all makes sense. We should’ve been looking at his being a Jew not his confession or his drugging and sodomizing a 13 year-old girl who obviously had it coming because she wasn’t wearing a communion dress.
Naturally Vidal will face no real outrage or consequence for describing a 13 year-old rape victim as a “hooker.”
He’s inoculated.
He’s a Leftist.
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What is it with people named Gore? Does Gore mean "lunatic" in Latin or something?
Buckly was right regarding the idiot.
Gore Vidal could be a crypto-asshole if he wasn't a real one. Can I say that?
I've always thought Vidal was a major creep. I see I was right.
And to think I read some of his books and thought he was thought provoking
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but Polanski's not gay, is he? All his victims have been girls, he's married to a woman and has a family with her, right? So how is this an "anti-f*g thing"?
A needy old poof that identifies with Polanski. Lovely. Birds of a feather and all that.
What a repulsive, disgusting pervert. I can't help but think all the Polanski defenders must share the same perversion for children.
I'll just make a mental note of this and vote with my pocketbook and my feet – I'll never buy anything he had anything to do with, see anything he had anything to do with. He's a disgusting old man with no morals whatsoever.
He's 84. /walks off humming "Only the Good Die Young"
Can we lock up all of Polanski's defenders, too? Guilt by association and all that…
Vidal is gay. He's got issues. that's why.
I really don’t give a ****. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of?
1. Whether or not you care does not change the fact that a crime was committed.
2. No you won't weep, because its very probable that you've done the exact same thing as Polanski did, only you haven't been caught. Yet.
3. So you're saying the girl deserves everything that happened to her? Vidal, this is not irreverence, this is degeneracy at its most disgusting and virulent level.
In any event, Vidal also defends Timothy McVeigh for being anti-government. I believe they were pen pals.
Vidal criticized the Bush admin as Fascist while going on to say that Obama needs to force his Statist agenda on us, envoking Lincoln's writ of habeus corpus and such.
He is full of contradictions. That's why the victim is the offender and vice versa.
Time to call out the Atlantic? The fawning and self-importance, the leaden bombast of Andrew Sullivan, the ditzy prose and Lisa Simpson opinionating of Camille Paglia…
And now this evil slop. Does the Atlantic actually have editors, or just celebrity-serving catamites?
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal is just another typical liberal. He's projecting his self perception onto this little girl which leads me to wonder if he bears some guilt from being raped by a homosexual ephebophile when he was young.
What a pathetic old bag of dust. Nobody "circles the wagons" like liberal Hollywood criminals, huh?
Alinski-fy the victim, isolate, degrade and diminish.
Cast Polanski down with the Sodomites at Pelican Bay. Maybe he can make a movie about his ~experiences~!
Damn I wish William F'n Buckley would have socked him in his goddamn face back in 68.
Buckley should had "socked him in his g_oddamn face" when he had the chance.
Just for the palate-cleansing it provides, video here.
Credit where it's due: I'm sure Vidal is quite experienced at spotting hookers. And Gore, when they see you, it's not because you think you're famous that their prices suddenly go up.
Buckley is looking down saying see" I told you he was a creep" though I am sure he says it in more errudite form.
Gore Vidal molests collies. I mean canine hookers.
I don't think I'd want to see it, but I'd love to hear that it was made.
Pure Buckley Gold!
If he reads these comments he will just see it as the reactions of Red Necked Ignorant Americans who live in the worst country in the world. Gore is a pathetic old creep who spends his time spewing hate.
Have a look at the full interview. Quoting Vidal on matters of sexual morality is like quoting Bernie Madoff on fiduciary responsibility, but he makes some good points otherwise, even though not without some disingenuous qualifiers, e.g. : "I was delighted when Obama appeared on the scene. But now it seems as though our original objection to him – that experience mattered – was well-founded." And he nicely dismisses the Democrats' present electoral mandate, saying " …they don’t have a reason."
He's not just another typical liberal. Most liberals don't want to rape underage girls.
Mr. Vidal, please send me your address so that I can send you a nice, big bottle of prune juice. It should help you with the "shit for brains" syndrome you are suffering from. What a despicable individual.
Why oh why isn't William F. Buckley still alive to sock this old windbag in the face? I bet he'd "stay plastered" as WFB famously uttered.
No, Polanski isn't Gay, Gore is.
You are absolutely correct, he is inoculated specifically because he's a leftist.
That is exactly the way they think. Liberal women's organizations are not women's organizations they are liberal organizations. Liberal civil rights organizations are not civil rights organizations, they are liberal organizations.
That is how they play this game. The titles are meaningless, they are meant as camouflage only. After all, how could anyone be against anything the NAACP promotes? Why if you do, you must be a racist.
This is exactly how they do it, and this is where the real political battle is. I'm still trying to figure out why conservatives have been falling for it for as long as I've been paying attention.
My best answer so far is the MSM.
So, I'm guessing that Vidal has to drug his hookers and force them against their will. But it's not rape if you're a homosexual, apparently.
I didn't know he was raped. But I had the feeling that he had issues about being gay and that's why he goes on the attack with the "anti-fag" stuff.
Note: Leftism is the ideology of jealousy and revenge.
Here's the video of Buckley vs. Vidal
http://www.popmodal.com/video/1406/Buckley-Vs-Vid...
Here's the video of Buckley and Vidal.
http://www.popmodal.com/video/1406/Buckley-Vs-Vid...
No, I'm sure he only drugs them when he doesn't have the cash on hand to pay. Look at him again. Clearly anything he did with someone else would be against the other person's will.
Apparently Gore is an old manlover commando, I bet he'd camp out in the brutal Hollywood weather in his Gucci pupu tent with velvet booties, and and Liberace hand-me-down cape just to see it.
"Polanski, oh isn't he just soooo fabulous?" "Best Self-Exiled, Criminal Child Rapist Director of the Year" catagory shoe in at the 2010 Oscars, I tell you, fabulous, just fabulous!" "Where my doggy Todo?" "Excuse me a sec!" "Todoooooooo!"
Just looking at this sneering fools mug I can see why WFB wanted to plaster him. What is really vile about all of the defenders of Polanski is the unspoken reason for their wanting him off. Polanski is a great film maker and the girl well she is just one of us rubes, so Polanski should be let off because he is more valuable then the victim. Think of how much the world would lose if this man was in prision and not making his works of arts for the world (meaning other liberal elitists) to enjoy and praise. If you didn't hate Hollywood before how can you not now knowing what they think of us.
That's like saying, "watch Polanski's movies, he's actually quite brilliant," and perhaps no one will argue the specific point of such an observation, but it remains that the gorge will rise just even to see the man speak.
Would it be wrong to eagerly await his death, so that his grave can be thoroughly pissed on?
A perfect fate for this lemon party reject.
nah, asshole is good enough for this sick son of a b$$$c!
But a great many seem to justify it.
Sorry guys. I was in a flaming frame of mind after I read the Vidal interview. I located Paglia at the Atlantic for some reason. While I don't care for her style of writing, she seems a decent sort and I shouldn't associate her with Vidal's loathsome comments. One hopes that even Sullivan wouldn't tolerate such utterances.
Having cooled down, I still say that the interviewer and his editors should be called to account. Vidal shouldn't be tolerated in any case: he is a preachy bore…not the least bit witty or informative. No-one that nasty can afford to be that dull.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Melissa L. Sutton, Rogelio H.. Rogelio H. said: Ah, to be a shriveled up leftist celebutard: Gore Vidal Describes Polanski’s Victim as ‘Young Hooker’" http://j.mp/tFcHL #tcot [...]
One of the best exchanges from the great sitcom Newsradio:
Phil Hartman as Bill McNeil: "Benedict Arnold slept with George Washington."
Maura Tierney as Lisa Miller: "You should really stop getting your history from Gore Vidal."
Not really relevent to the article but it made me laugh.
The real deal with Bill McNeil! Love that show.
Buckley should have sent Gore to the floor.
Just dwell on the horror of what he just said – 13 year old 'hooker'. Now, I know it's a lie – the girl wasn't – but that's not the point. The point here is that Vidal sneers at a 13 year old being a hooker. Consider what kind of existence it is that he's describing – a 13 year old strips herself naked to have sex with a stranger, gets down on her knees to blow the stranger, bends over and lets him shove in her anus, maybe even has her face punched, her stomach kicked, etc. And when this hell is over, the most that kid gets is $40 or $50 tossed in her face and then, while she's still stinking from what she's just gone through, another stranger comes up to her, unzips his pants and the hell begins all over again for this kid. And yet Vidal is so bored, so unconcerned about this hell that he gives it nothing but a single sentence – and the bulk of the sentence is him sneering and taunting the 13 year old that hell can freeze over before he 'weeps' for her. Folks, how low must you descend when the idea of a 13 year old being a hooker doesn't bother you in the slightest?
Why is such a pathetic person elevated by the liberal establishment? Waiting for the feminist outrage.
Gore Vidal is an intellectual hooker. Apparently he's willing to prostitute out his intellectual honesty and dignity for any scrap of belonging to the corrupt, depraved leftist crowd.
Rape a minor? It's her fault!
How does that fit the feminist agenda? Where are the feminists? Where are the social thought police? Where are the politically correct liberals who have nothing better to do then tell everyone else what to say and how to run their life?
Mr. Nolte is correct, Vidal is innoculated because of what he represents. It doesn't matter what you say if you're a liberal, it only matters that you're a liberal.
[...] Jim Nolte at Big Hollywood responds to Vidal’s remarks: Oh, it’s because Polanski’s Jewish… Now it all makes sense. We should’ve been looking at his being a Jew not his confession or his drugging and sodomizing a 13 year-old girl who obviously had it coming because she wasn’t wearing a communion dress. [...]
Woody Allen reiases his daughter, then marries andd impregnates her. Poalnski drugs, rapes and sodomizes a 13 year old. Hollywood doesnt care. And now this from Vidal. He must want the reaction he's getting here. These remarks are unforgiveable but I doubt he cares about my forgiveness or much else. I read another interview with him; I came away with the impression this is a man who has already moved on from the mortal coil. Reading this make some want to see his demise soon.
Who? How many?
I agree. when Letterman's issues came out I wasnt surprised; i assumed anyone who had sex with him did it for career advancement.
Wow! May he rot in hell along with Polanski.
Good on you! I was going to take you to task for your comment about Camille Paglia, but decided to finish the thread first. Glad I did. While I certainly disagree with Paglia frequently, I think she is very much the decent sort. Although she is definitely not a conservative, she treats conservatives with respect. Heck, she likes Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. I look forward to reading her column every few weeks and am glad she is friends with Matt Drudge so that he links it frequently.
If she decides to comment on Vidal's remarks, it won't be pretty.
Vidal is a douche bag and ceased being relevant 15 years ago. The correct manner in which to deal with the old queen is to ignore him and refuse to give him outlets for his ridiculous opinions.
That sounds anti-Semitic. Criticism of Polaski is based on anti-Semitism, Criticism of Israel is based on anti-Semitism. The Talmud says gentile girls can be raped by Jews. Jews are the Chosen Ones.
If she was a 'young hooker', why did Polanski drug her before he had sex with her?
Hopefully, this kind of talk will influence the woman's mind to testify and testify truthfully, not that its actually needed.
Oh Gore, you ol rascal!
He's like grandpa or great uncle Fred who says improper, homophobic, sexist things because he's old and he's from a different time blah blah blah…
What a miserable old jerk.
It's the old 'what comes first'–mental illness or liberalism?
Nicely done. lol
And we're supposed to sit and weep, or give a f*** when a wrinkly old literary hooker spews foulness? I thought he was already dead.
Even ONE is too many!
No doubt Ms Paglia is a lefty but to read the comments after one of her articles
lambasting a few Dems you would think she is a conservative. They seem to really dislike her.
There is very little middle ground on the left.
If you have to read Gore Vidal and watch Roman Polanski to consider yourself intellectual and well-educated, I think I'll be happy to stay ill-educated and stick to my James Michener.
There's nothing more pathetic than an aging Queen.
If this 13 year old victim of child abuse is a young hooker then what do you call junior senators with zero executive experience holding the Oval Office?
So by Gore Vidals logic we could say that Gore Vidal is not a writer but a frequent contributor to Highlights for Kids.
Huh? Did I miss something — how are Polanski's legal problems an "anti-fag thing"?
And Vidal needs to trim his nose hair.
Please see my apology further on in the thread for locating Paglia at the Atlantic, and for lumping her together with this malignant bore, Vidal. I've never understood the admiration that Paglia attracts as an author, but she's a very decent type. Shouldn't lose my temper online!
Ohhh. I'd nearly forgotten about this one.
The "Nazi = Right Wing " was actually started by the Communist Party, wanting to separate its own socialist agenda from the socialist agendas of Germany and Italy. Fascism is a form of socialism – not Communism – where industry may be privately owned but is controlled by the government, minimizing or suppressing all forms of debate and internal conflict.
The current administration is not Nazi, but imho it comes dangerously close to Fascism.
George Bush, whatever his strengths or failings, never came close to either one. Liberals who scream Nazi or Fascist at conservatives are just loudly proclaiming their ignorance.
Gore Vidal has a really high IQ, but he's an ignorant, narrow minded, vicious bufoon.
Nail, meet Head.
Anything Vidal says, whether it be an expression of opinion or a statement of "fact," just go with he exact opposite and you will be right.
Thank you. It amazes me how there can be two so different Americas.
The differences between conservatives and liberals have been well explored
but it still continues to befuddle me.
vile creep
Thank you. It still amazes me how there can be two so different Americas.
GOPE VIDAL IS A DOUCHBAG OF THE HIGHEST ORDER…. END O' STORY…
WE'LL ALL BE BETTER OFF WHEN HE HAS MET HIS MAKER…
GORE VIDAL? ISN'T THAT LATIN FOR "D!LD0"?
And this guy gets lauded as some sort of intellectual? He should be ignored and allowed to fade into obscurity until he mercifully dies, his legacy tainted by such an ignorant comment.
*Gold star for the lemon party reference.
Yes but one doesn't equal "typical liberal". More like atypical.
Dropped my subscription when they quit publishing fiction. Catamites? Cool. Filter's not gonna catch that one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamite
Actually, I've read on several different sites that they ARE distantly related. Scary isn't it.
Do not forget Ryan O'Neil thinking about hitting on his daughter at a funeral. Plus, didn't we just have the heartwarming story of Mackenzie Phillips and her loving dad? Hollywood is such a groovy place.
Anybody from the National Association of Women care to comment about this statement?
……
Cue the crickets please.
I thought all the liberals were lecturing us all along to promote their welfare state or our 13 year old children would be forced to sell themselves in the street and it would all be the evil conservatives fault.
Evidently once a 13 year old girl is forced into this lifestyle then they are no longer concerned. Liberal logic is very ellusive and complicated isn't it?
Vidal used to be a brilliant intellectual provocateur, even if you disagreed with him. Now he's a senile embarrassment. Please get out of the public eye, Mr. Vidal.
The diseased vermin that populate the Left are truly wretched creatures. So many leftwing bottom feeders deserve to have their asses kicked and noses broken.
If I had 3 wishes one would be to be locked in a room with 100 of these miserable liberal cockroaches; Larry David, Maher, Garofalo, Pelosi, Reid, bring them all.
The old bastard is as vile as the aged lefty artistic community that supports him. They own him and they can have him.
Tom Wolf nailed tha vanities of this repulsive crowd years ago with his classic "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Chic_&_M...
There is a special place in hell for old creeps that would smear a 13 year old in a rape scenerio just because the middle aged rapist had the right artistic credentials. William Buckley trashed Gore decades ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
And if you don't agree with Vidal, then you're probably a racist.
Gore V is an asshole, a 13 year old hooker is a victim of child abuse!!!!!! I guess to him and whoopie it wasn't rape – rape. Why don't this whole Hollywood/liberal/artistic crew move to Cuba and enjoy their public health services
Good grief! Since you didn't understand my original post I'll clue you in. I was speaking about projection and perception being typical and not the raping of little girls, though Vidal shares Whoopi's view that it wasn't rape rape but goes further in attacking the victim.
I'm stealing this from a movie/book..Close your eyes and imagine that the thirteen year old girl is your daughter and the rapist is anyone. doesn't matter whom is the perp. anyone that would give your pink jellybean drinks and drugs and then do horrible things to her. While the woman you call wife allows it to happen just to further the innocent's career. Polanski's the perp, but the arch villian is the guardian of the child.
I'm sorry, but, Mr. Polanski, but you would have not fled if you were in the right. Damn you for being in the wrong. You coulda been a contender.
Looks like I jumped the gun. Sorry. However, I don't know if I agree that a typical liberal projects his/her self perception onto others.
This guy can't die fast enough.
Go to hell you piece of shit.
Can we kick this POS out of the country yet ?
He was an ass 30 yrs ago, He was an ass 15 yrs ago…..and the streak continues….he is still an ass.
Imagine Gore and Polanski sitting around washing quaaludes down with champagne and watching Vidal's greatest cinematic achievement, Caligula.
[...] Roman Polanski & Hollywood’s Warped Support of Another Criminal John Nolte, Big Hollywood: Gore Vidal Describes Polanski’s Victim as ‘Young Hooker’ and My Apology to Leftist Hollywood and The Polanski Culture: Hollywood’s Push to Normalize Sex [...]
[...] [...]
Well, Garbage is garbage. What do you think perverts Polanski and and Vidal would say if we would call their mother whores at 13? Perhaps they would like it as they are so sick that it would love to do it to their mothers as well! Garbage is garbage.
Does Gore have AIDS ?
Man he looks like hell warmed over.
As for " Young Hookers " he should know.
What a piece of shit journalism.
I could watch that Buckley vs Vidal video nonstop for an hour, LOL. Mr. Bill was ON IT.
Brian,It is interesting that you saw a connection with" the people named Gore". I read a while back, when Gore Vidal was being interviewed, he mentioned that the famous Al Gore is related and had superior genes and it was a natural that he was running for president at that time.
So these people from so called high places and wealth, feel a natural ability and desire to be important to run 'things"
It is so easy for them to come to conclusions and call the victim a hooker as if at that age it would not be a crime at all. Didn't Whoopie say after all it wasn't like it was Rape/rape. but rape fake , or rape she deserved it.
BEEP BEEP BEEP Liberal Kook Overload! BEEP BEEP BEEP
I wish Buckley had punched him in his dopey face back in 1968.
Anyone else notice the lack of our usual trolls on this thread? Seems even they would have a hard time defending this.
Somewhere, the ghost of William F. Buckley is waiting to kick this bastard's @$$. What a contemptible waste of space. Never got the big deal over him.
Rather than go back and forth about the ludicrous assertion of whether WE consider the perpetrator's religion before backing up charges of child rape with real action, I instead assert the following:
Gore Vidal is projecting his own biases on the rest of us. He considers other people's beliefs before deciding whether to throw them under the bus for child rape.
Nice Buckley reference.
Silly Gore, Polanski's a non-believer and hasn't identfied as Jewish since childhood.
Once the conscience is seared away and the heart is thoroughly hardened, thinking this way probably comes as naturally as waking up in the morning. After decades of living that way, I imagine the effort of attempting to care about anyone besides oneself must be titanic.
Vidal, is a dispicaple diabolical poofter, nuff said!!
Because he is a living example of the saying, "only the good die youg."
Are they male or female? I wouldn't know what to think if they were female, because that would make him a gay hypocrite against gays.
Gore Vidal is quite an odd individual. These remarks certainly go beyond the pale but like some of the other commenters here I suspect it's a case of an old, forgotten man trying to get back some of the attention that used to be showered on him. There is no doubt that he thinks his comments are largely accurate based on the Hollywood line on the 13 year old is that she was sexually experienced far beyond her years and was a willing participant or it was her Mom's fault, the excuses depend on who is doing the talking. It's a real shame that he's has degenerated to this type of drivel. It's best just to ignore him and let him settle back into obscurity.
HEADLINE: Gore Vidal Says Something Inflammatory!! In Other News… ah, forget it. Fill in your own "duh" non-news for ironic effect.
One day this thread will get a massive dump of later-period traffic whenever "Stuff White People Like" gets around to doing an entry on "Declaring They'll Never Again Read/Watch Stuff They Didn't Read/Watch In The First Place"…
Oh gag me, this old skank is just another liberal, holier then thou reprobate. He thinks that just because he's 400 years old that he can now say whatever he wants. Blech To think I used to like his books.
I'm sure he's an advocate for NAMBLA also. He's nothing but a sorry old candy arse.
Mr. Vidal is a wonderful author. His comments on the rape of a 13 year old girl reflect a much larger issue: moral relativism. If you don't think that an adult male raping a 13 year old girl is a serious crime, as apparently Mr. Gore and Whoopi Goldberg seem to believe, then Mr. Polanski's consequences should be to walk away, promising to "never do this again", apparently. This is moral relativism run amuck, and we can thank the Lib's and the anti-Christian and "remove God from society" movement in large part for this.
See, here's the problem Gore. If I happened to have been raised by an abusive pervert who occasionally killed people, then I don't see anything wrong with those activities, and I am going to do this to you or anyone I want to and feel like, "hey, what's your problem?" This is MY belief system, and you MUST respect that.
I encourage Mr. Vidal, Mz. Goldberg, and the other elite moral relativists to actually READ THE GRAND JURY TESTIMONY of the 13 year old girl, and while you are reading it pretend she is YOUR daughter. If you would shed your Liberal idealogue baggage for just a few minutes, you might actually FEEL some real compassion for another human being – which you all claim to stand for. Funny how that actually works in the real world – when it really matters you Libs would rather support your celebrity friends than stand up for a young innocent girl who was bullied, abused and intimidated by a worldly adult pervert.
Polanski – I hope you rot in jail (after the "brothers" get done stretching out your a-hole for a while, of course). Be sure to have a steady supply of Preparation H available from your rich friends, otherwise you'll be carrying around your hemorroids in a bucket with you.
Good luck with all of that.
I am on the third page of comments and I am specifically looking for the trolls. Haven't found one yet.
In particular, I am looking for "Average Joe" who loves to chastise us for disapproving of folks like Mr. Vidal.
I am going to guess that Mr. Vidal doesn't have any children and definitely does not have any daughters.
And didn't this pathetic old twat write a book on Lincoln? I remember the book being of the shade of yellow and I almost bought it.
I just watched that documentary called "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (how the drugs sex and rock and roll generation saved hollywood)" on TCM. and while it was running it occurred to me that no one really ever gets away with anything. This has been a year of exposures. Phil Spector, OJ, David Carradine, Roman Polanski, and hey, might there be more to come? There's been an awful lot of dirt swept under the rugs of the elitist communes in this country. Time to clean the pantry and dust off the skeletons?
What a piece of crap this has-been is. But is this not typical of elitests who feel that they can do nothing wrong, and that they walk on water. Because he wrote a few terrible books back when, we must bow down and scrape every time he opens his useless trap. May the bluebird of happiness crap on his birthday cake. It is all he deserves.
[...] Gore Vidal Describes Polanski’s Victim as ‘Young Hooker’ Vidal called the 13 year- old girl who was drugged and raped, a hooker. Way to pick your [...]
This low life scumbag is still sucking up air on this planet boring the hell out of us? He has never said anything positive in his entire life. He has made a career out of being an asshole writer.
[...] Gore Vidal Describes Polanski’s Victim As ‘Young Hooker’ Share and Enjoy: [...]
What a friggin' "American Treasure"………..
"as irascible and irreverent as ever.”
The Atlantic failed to mention "irrevelent"
Gore's "anti-fag" comment refers to the girl having been anally raped. Apparently, Gore feels that people are upset about this solely because it reminds them of a sexual practice associated with gays. If Polanski has raped the girl "the straight way," in Gore's view, no one would be upset. Evidently, Gore feels gays are fine with Polasnki having raped a girl. He really needs to get out more.
What "Tales from the Crypt" cancelled? WPB should have kicked his sorry ass!
hear hear!!! that seems to be a fair way to hand out punishment!
Vidal is the only guy William F. Buckley, the consummate gentleman, ever felt like punching in the face on camera during his Firing Line television show. And there were a lot of heated moments on that show over the years, so that should tell you something.
[...] was this…? Poll: Specter in ‘a world of trouble’ Don’t come running to us Gore Vidal Describes Polanski’s Victim as ‘Young Hooker’ Yo Vidal, how should we refer to your “daughter’s” mother? U.S.-China Climate [...]
if they had said he was as irrelevant as ever..that would have been more appropriate
I had the pleasure of seeing that when it happened and thought it was about the funniest thing I had ever seen on TV. Still do.
Gore Vidal: proof in this holiday season of the existence of the undead. Clearly, his brain died years ago, whilst his body just continued to lurch along.
You must have been just a child at the time. I was also around at the time but missed it.
I heard about the incident which made me proud of William. I didn't see it as it happened until
Thomas Talionis forwarded the video.
Yes, and WFB also deeply regretted that show of anger. One of the reasons why it never happened again is because Buckley nevermore allowed his emotions to get the better of him in that way, at least not in public. Which just goes to show you that William F. Buckley had infinitely more class than Gore Vidal.
He's ugly and evil. But he's old and will die soon. So, I guess I'm happy after all!
Gore Vidal is being horrible, nasty, and twisted – but that's not because he's gay. It's because he's Gore Vidal.
I know some very nice aging queens. Gore Vidal, however, is a reprehensible human being.
She seems to be a rarity: "one of them" (an artsy leftist type) who actually thinks for herself instead of parrotting whatever memes happen to be current in her milieu. Of course, she's still an academic. Her obsession with and intellectualizing of pop culture (much adieu about Madonna) is where she frequently loses me.
Everybody does at one time or another. Human nature. People with big egos do it better.
Poor Gore. He'll be dead soon, and that means no more smoke blown up his skirt about what a grand old man of letters he is. Who can blame the old fruit for being bitter about it?
It is unbelievable that left leaning public figures continue to excuse Polanski's behavior. We are in the middle of talking about demonizing public figures for things they did not say (i.e. Rush Limbeagh and Sarah Palin) but Polanski drugs and rapes a girl but is excused again and again.
That is the line of the day!!! LOL!!!
Who cares what this ancient pile of excrement has to say about anything. He's a ridiculous and pathetic old fop and liberals are trying to make him relevant, why??
He'll shuffle loose the mortal coil soon and then William F. Buckley will get another chance to drill this scumbag in the mush….
Thanks for the article and accompanying picture. Now I know what the vile,old, Wicked Queen thinks and looks like since her Snow White performance. No surprises.
I agree with Gore!!!!!! Vote for Democrats. Support Obama!!!!!!!!! Support Roman!!!!!
Here,here….from your lips to the ears and pencils of future 'exposers' ! I came in (unfortunately) on the last 10 minutes of this presentation. Sorry that it won't be shown again in the next few days.
That there is a decadent double standard embraced by the limousine liberals is shouting loudly by the left's wholesale defense of Polanski. This Polanski defense should be the siren song depicting them for the totally dysfunctional rational they embrace that has total royal exemptions for themselves but slavish subjugation necessary for their minion subjects.
John, you and your readers might be interested in my column using Vidal as an example of the "cult of intelligence" that pervades the Modern Left, in which morality is considered irrelevant as long as someone is brilliant enough:
http://sanityinjection.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/t...
[...] Lopez October 29th, 2009 No Comments Gore Vidal, shamefully (and crassly — be warned), weighs in on the Polanski [...]
[...] Lopez October 29th, 2009 No Comments Gore Vidal, shamefully (and crassly — be warned), weighs in on the Polanski [...]
[...] Lopez October 29th, 2009 No Comments Gore Vidal, shamefully (and crassly — be warned), weighs in on the Polanski [...]
[...] is Gore Vidal? All I know about him is he’s some weird degenerate who is trotted out every so often so we can admire what a weird degenerate he [...]
I only read one, "Creation", which I thought was very good. I suppose it´s possible that an utter swine like Vidal can be a decent writer. It is noticeable that his massive tomes were widely reviewed and debated at the time but seem to have faded from view now. Has he done anything that will be in print 50 years from now? I have my doubts.
Vidal is still mad because Buckley kicked his ass all over the lot every time they debated anything. Oh, and because even though he's old now, he's STILL a fucking idiot who never wrote anything worth wasting your time reading and got away with it because he's a libtard.
Want to stop these crazy left wing zelots? Publish their home address ,post google map, phone numbers and personal email addresses. Like thge cockraoches they are, if you shine light on them they will slowly scamper and die.
Gore Vidal is a senile old fart. He was a prolific author but the majority of his work was tripe.
Ha. It IS interesting that his stuff has gone down the memory hole.
What a dreadful human being.
anyone see a connection between this pukes 13yo hooker comment and ACORNS support of bringing in underage girls to staff brothels
Watching that video again… I got the same feeling in the pit of my stomach as I did while watching Breitbart on CSPAN ripping on those callers. Sometimes you have to call people out.
I yearn for sanity.
When Vidal dies day after tomorrow, I hope he isn't cremated. I am saving up a fitting tribute to his life, to lay upon his headstone. My dogs add to the volume of the tribute every morning on their walk.
would typical "Hollywood" liberal be a better choice? Believe me, I do have liberal friends and would never lump them in with the Hollywood ones.
I'm not familiar with Latin, however in Russian "gore" means: misery (if you pronounce the "e" at the end).
So, it all makes sense
He needs more formaldehyde.
This is normal Hollywood thinking. What is the surprise here?
Vidal needs his pee pee whacked.
I agree completely with the criticism but I'm not sure why we should generalise and say that this is typical of leftists or liberals.
The guy's an asshole, period.
"Young hooker"? What can you expect from that old lizard. He's at the top of my own "18-year-old scotch and Cohiba cigar list". That is how I plan on celebrating when I finally get to read the obits of these "personalities":
Gore Vidal
John Murtha
Jim Webb
John Kerry
Jane Fonda
Ted Turner
Joan Baez
Pete Stark
Barbara Boxer
Nancy Pelosi (I will also play my old 45 of "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" by The Fifth Estate
Yoko Ono (as above)
Christopher Dodd
Barney Frank
Tony Kushner (I will also be sure to otherwise 'keep Kosher' that day)
Fidel Castro
Hugo Chavez
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Lloyd Doggett
Steve Earle
Bruce Springsteen
Wanda Sykes (she's only worth a Heinekin and a half-corona)
Hope I manage to outlive 'em all…the world will be a better place.
Anyone asking Gore Vidal for his opinion is seeking the controversial remark. He would not be asked unless he could be counted on to provide one. So to create something out of nothing this former relevant moth eaten person is dragged out of the closet.
Vidal is one of those guys that are defiant all the way to hell. Let him be. He's going to find out very, very soon that his earthly status counts for nothing come judgment day.
Yeah – I guess since she's a hooker, she deserved it – huh, Gore? After, women are just worthless chattel for men to use as they please. Drug 'em and screw 'em – what the hell. Right? Sick, sick, sick. Read more at: http://conservativetm.blogspot.com/2009/09/31-dep...
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