Gore Vidal

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Writer and social critic Gore Vidal bashes Bush, the war in Iraq and mortality.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 7, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Author: CBCtv

Length: 00:10:45
Rating: 4.77
Views: 44469

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JuneauActor (November 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm)
Great man, great writer.
Check out "Creation" one of my favorite books ever.
chin075 (November 21, 2008 at 11:14 am)
I'm curious... what does Mr. Vidal think of things now that Obama has been elected?
misscritter (November 16, 2008 at 8:25 pm)
Vidal is a modern day Socrates.
numbersyesno (November 8, 2008 at 4:00 pm)
Well said, Mr. Vidal.
shaurz (November 7, 2008 at 3:46 am)
I don't like Bush, but he is an easy scapegoat and you should look deeper. The Iraq Liberation Act which called for and legitimised the Iraq war was signed by Clinton in 1998. The political elite of both parties had already decided to "regime change" Iraq well before G W was president.
atvfreelife (November 2, 2008 at 12:25 am)
things fall apart. best line from the best poem of the last 200 years. yeats the second coming. it was so wonderful, it was used again many years later as the title of the very famous book by nigerian author chinua achebe. things fall apart. indeed they do sir. :)
Jinnerz (November 18, 2008 at 8:17 pm)
the second coming is one of my favorite poems.
EnoFrisk (October 23, 2008 at 11:15 pm)
Superb!
gilgtc (October 21, 2008 at 5:50 pm)
What a phenomenal piece of humanity that this man represents. It makes a little bit more proud to be a human.
marcusbarr (October 19, 2008 at 5:16 am)
I think I missed the part of Vidal that is non-partisan. Thank goodness he was honest about the degeneration of The New York Times and the loss of journalistic objectivity in the News, as a whole. That much was unbiased. Yet, he then fails to define the original definition of "liberal" correctly & that was disingenuous of him. But, strangely enough, he did manage to debunk the usefulness of Political Correctness, despite having built his career upon it.