Blood and Gore

[acmavm]

April 2, 2005

http://smh.com.au/news/World/Blood-and-Gore/2005/04/01/1112302241851.html

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Gore Vidal has never been the shy, retiring type. And he is as mad as hell, aiming his fury at a country he says has lied, cheated and stolen to get its way, writes Gerard Wright.

The love of his life has gone, replaced by a black-and-white photo of a smiling man's face inside an ornate silver frame. The old, quiet, dark Spanish house in the hills above Hollywood smells of eggs at lunchtime. Gore Vidal sits quietly reading. He is 79, and has lived, fought and written through world wars, cold wars and red scares as an author, essayist and historian.

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"This is a bubble," he says of America and its imperviousness to world opinion. "Nothing from outside gets in, unlike a European country or even a semi-Asian one like Australia or New Zealand. They all have neighbours, who have media; who have newspapers; who have criticisms to make. They all have dealings.

"We have nothing but Canada and Mexico, for whom we appear to have contempt in both cases, for quite different reasons. We get no outside information. When was the last time you saw or heard of any coverage of the last Australian election when Master Howard was elevated yet again to the throne?

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Vidal foresees his colleagues poking through the ashes. "This will die in a pauper's grave, I can tell you," he says. "The great theory, you would think, for the Republican Party, which is the party of corporations, big business and money and of, you know, drip-torture greed, is allowing the place to go broke. There's a two-and-a-half-trillion-dollar deficit."

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[MichiganVote]

1. And he is right, right, right

[BrklynLiberal]

2. A Cassandra, perhaps, doomed to foretelling the future, but never to be

believed.

[housewolf]

3. Gore Vidal is an American treasure

I can only wish there were more individuals of such caring, intellect, integrity, education and patriotism. What a different world it would be.