If you could go straight to Gore Vidal and tell or...

ask anything, what would it be?

He'd be a lot cooler if he has. (He's still damn cool though)

Wm F. Buckley...Where he called Buckley a crypto NAZI...

priceless. Someone here turned me on to that. I thin it was htuttle.

I had never seen it before.

Buckley is such a pompous shit stain I'd pay to see that.

Early flame warriors Buckley and Vidal defy Godwin's Law here .

that clip is awesome.

At least his thoughts on it now.

FUBAR??

IMHO...he has said as much anyway.

Because I did.

the word "Twit" was bandied about.

I'd go gay to him and make sweet love to one of my favorite writers.

I have dibs...

THREESOME!

yes :thumbsup:


:evilgrin:

Hall and Oates...

:grouphug:

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possibly the most accomplished and distinguished man of letters in America, author of many novels of which "Lincoln" is generally regarded as not only his best but a masterpiece in the genre of historically based literary fiction; a brilliant essayist and proponent of the core values of America and the liberal tradition in the face of a rising tide of conservatism; and also Al Gore's second cousin, grandson of a United States Senator, and sort of half-stepbrother to Jacqueline Bouvier (later Kennedy and Onassis)...in addition to being at various times a screenwriter, playwright and actor. Oh, and he's also one of the sharpest and most literate and erudite critics of the Bush administration, and the foreign policy of what he terms "Imperial America". Hope that answers your question...

so much more. I like him...it was amusing to hear him use the work F~@(. My jaw dropped.

some of which are mentioned above.

He also wrote one of the first American gay novels: The City and the Pillar.

He also wrote Myra Breckenridge, a groundbreaking novel about a transsexual dominator (trix?)

Yikesorama TheWizardOfMudd Gore is one of them, that is he was born into and travels in their circles. But he is on "our" side on most every other way. Here is a sample of his thinking.
Sorry, don't have the link to this article and it is several pages,
if you want to read the entire interview skeak up.

The Last Defender of the American Republic?
Marc Cooper, LA Weekly
July 3, 2002

He might be america's last small-r republican. Gore Vidal, now 76,
has made a lifetime out of critiquing America's imperial impulses
and has -- through two dozen novels and hundreds of essays --
argued tempestuously that the U.S. should retreat back to its
more Jeffersonian roots, that it should stop meddling in the
affairs of other nations and the private affairs of its own citizens.

That's the thread that runs through Vidal's latest best-seller -- an
oddly packaged collection of essays published in the wake of
September 11 titled Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How
We Got To Be So Hated. To answer the question in his subtitle,
Vidal posits that we have no right to scratch our heads over
what motivated the perpetrators of the two biggest terror
attacks in our history, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and last
September's twin-tower holocaust.

Vidal writes: "It is a law of physics (still on the books when last I
looked) that in nature there is no action without reaction. The
same appears to be true in human nature -- that is, history." The
"action" Vidal refers to is the hubris of an American empire
abroad (illustrated by a 20-page chart of 200 U.S. overseas
military adventures since the end of World War II) and a budding
police state at home. The inevitable "reaction," says Vidal, is
nothing less than the bloody handiwork of Osama bin Laden and
Timothy McVeigh. "Each was enraged," he says, "by our
government's reckless assaults upon other societies" and was,
therefore, "provoked" into answering with horrendous violence.

Some might take that to be a suggestion that America had it
coming on September 11. So when I met up with Vidal in the
Hollywood Hills home he maintains (while still residing most of his
time in Italy), the first question I asked him was this:

Are you arguing that the 3,000 civilians killed on
September 11 somehow deserved their fate?

GORE VIDAL: I don't think we, the American people, deserved
what happened. Nor do we deserve the sort of governments we
have had over the last 40 years. Our governments have brought
this upon us by their actions all over the world. I have a list in my
new book that gives the reader some idea how busy we have
been. Unfortunately, we only get disinformation from The New
York Times and other official places. Americans have no idea of
the extent of their government's mischief. The number of military
strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since
1947-48 is more than 250. These are major strikes everywhere
from Panama to Iran. And it isn't even a complete list. It doesn't
include places like Chile, as that was a CIA operation. I was only
listing military attacks.

that he has warned about, the lone voice of reason, for decades.

"The City and the Pillar - Revised," which I read in 1966. It changed my life. I'd also thank him for being one of my favorite authors.

help you get elected. :)

Oh, and I'd ask him if he thought you were cute too. :P