2009 Key West Literary Seminar: Gore Vidal

[WarDog]

From the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, author and critic Gore Vidal discusses his writing life in a conversation with the audience.

http://www.booktv.org/watch.aspx?ProgramId=FV-10143

[revolutionary8]

Thank you for posting this.
He slams it out of the park in the first inning...
"Well, we have the worst educational system of any major government on earth...
and until you have better teachers, better textbooks, and until you take the country seriously, I don't know that there is much to be done about it."
-Gore Vidal

hear fucking hear.

[revolutionary8]

"why all the Bushes and Bushettes are not all in prison, I don't know..."

[revolutionary8]

Yeah me neither. Vidal goes on to talk about how great FDR was, and the "racist opposition" he and FDR encountered.
BLECK. This isn't to say people didn't experience real RACIAL issues, it is just that people in "high places" created not only the "problem", they created the "solution". FOX GUARDING HENHOUSE.
Unfortunately/Fortunately, I have never listened to GV for more than 15 min. until now.
he keeps blathering on about the MAGNA CARTA and "Senator Byrd". how about HABEUS CORPUS and RON PAUL????

[revolutionary8]

Gore asks: "where would you find the teachers?"
RASING HAND:
AT HOME- THE MOMS AND DADS.
gv fails.

[revolutionary8]

Then he goes on to THEISM.
He doesn't say one f'in word aboout THEOSOPHY.
grrrr
FAIL
Listen to the first audience question (REPBULICAN) who took him to task over his glorifying of linclon and fdr. GV got PWNED and GV started spinning his yarn.