http://www.truthdig.com/gore_vidal Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-07-28T11:45:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090728_america_the_great_police_state/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090728_america_the_great_police_state/ barack obama, cambridge, class warfare, fascism, gore vidal, henry louis gates jr., police, professor, racism, Gore Vidal's Essays

Let us accept the facts staring us in the face – that demonstrably we are no longer a republic. We are no longer governed by laws, only by armed men and force. This is just like the days of Billy the Kid. You have an armed man going down a dusty street and that is authority. And it has come to this for us.

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The whip-smart and ever-sly Gore Vidal visited “Real Time” on Friday, giving his historical and sometimes hysterically funny take on the state of the United States. He also revisited a few key moments from his personal history, illustrated by some priceless archival footage found by Bill Maher’s crack research team. Is it too soon to make an Amelia Earhart joke?

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]]> 2009-04-11T21:55:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_gore_vidal_blasts_racism_claim/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_gore_vidal_blasts_racism_claim/ andrew gumbel, barack obama, gore vidal, hillary clinton, huffington post, michelle bachmann, p.g. wodehouse, poetry, president, racism, sarah palin, slave, Gore Vidal's Essays

Gore Vidal, racist? Au contraire, the renowned author asserts in this response to a recent piece on The Huffington Post that claimed Vidal had a problem with Barack Obama’s bid for the White House because of the president-elect’s race.

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]]> 2008-11-11T05:03:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081027_mccain_in_the_echo_chamber/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081027_mccain_in_the_echo_chamber/ barack obama, democratic party, franklin delano roosevelt, gore vidal, john mccain, lincoln, new deal, pow, president, russia, sarah palin, socialist, Gore Vidal's Essays

October proved to be the cruelest month, for that was the time that Sen. McCain, he of the round, blank, Little Orphan Annie eyes, chose to try out a number of weird lies about Barack Obama ostensibly in the interest of a Republican Party long overdue for burial.

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]]> 2008-10-28T00:59:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080612_taking_back_the_republic/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080612_taking_back_the_republic/ american media, articles of impeachment, cheney, constitution, democracy, dennis kucinich, gore vidal, house of representatives, president bush, republic, Gore Vidal's Essays

On June 9, 2008, a counterrevolution began on the floor of the House of Representatives against the gas and oil crooks who had seized control of the federal government. This counterrevolution began in the exact place which had slumbered during the all-out assault on our liberties and the Constitution itself.

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]]> 2008-06-12T07:56:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080320_gore_vidal_speaks_seriously_ill_of_the_dead/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080320_gore_vidal_speaks_seriously_ill_of_the_dead/ buckley, convention, debate, magazine, media, newsweek, obituary, television, vidal, Gore Vidal's Essays

The iconic author objects to Newsweek’s obituary of his onetime rival, William F. Buckley, a “knightly man” who stood up to “bullies” like Gore Vidal ... by verbally gay-bashing him on national television.

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]]> 2008-03-20T22:20:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071218_whither_dennis_kucinich/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071218_whither_dennis_kucinich/ blitzer, clinton, cnn, debate, democrat, des moines register, gore vidal, iowa, kucinich, president, Gore Vidal's Essays

Whither Dennis Kucinich?  If the powers that be at CNN and a certain Iowa news outlet (attention: Des Moines Register) thought that elbowing Kucinich out of the most recent Democratic presidential debate would slip by unnoticed, Gore Vidal is more than ready to disabuse them of that notion.

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]]> 2007-12-18T23:25:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hail_and_farewell_the_end_of_the_american_empire/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hail_and_farewell_the_end_of_the_american_empire/ empire, gore vidal, history, media, new york times, rome, white house, Gore Vidal's Essays

The iconic author, historian and patriot suggests that perhaps there’s a more sinister explanation for the president’s fiascos than mere incompetence: He’s out to destroy the American empire.

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