{"id":208,"date":"2007-07-11T14:50:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T14:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=208"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:34:21","slug":"gore-vidal-on-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2007\/07\/11\/gore-vidal-on-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"GORE VIDAL ON THE NATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/data1.blog.de\/blog\/n\/neilemacview\/img\/GoreVidalVanVechten_small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo left: Gore Vidal  by  Harlem Renaissance photographer Carl Van Vechten, 1948<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Citizens, please take a few minutes &#038; visit with Gore vidal, a voice of stability and  sanity in these crazy times&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/now\/rss\/media\/news-316.mp3\"> GORE VIDAL INTERVIEW: Now on the News, PBS<\/a><br \/>\nWriter, activist, cultural critic and iconoclast Gore Vidal talks to<br \/>\nSenior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa about what the killings at<br \/>\nVirginia Tech, and their aftermath, say about the state of America<br \/>\ntoday. The interview happened the week of the Virgina Tech killings, yet still its message is one to be heard. Vidal also shares his strong views on President Bush, a potential war with Iran, and &#8216;the loss of the republic.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Interview Excerpts:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;We are in a terrible state of which the events in Virginia are more<br \/>\nwarning signs that the heavens are about to fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;George Bush was emblematic of everything that just happened in<br \/>\nVirginia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;He [President Bush] should have been impeached and thrown out long, long ago. I&#8217;m now getting ready with a group and we&#8217;re going to try to get an amendment to the Constitution that we have the right of recall of an administration that proves to be out of its mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;If you have a nation where anybody can buy a lethal weapon you&#8217;re<br \/>\ngoing to have lots of mass murders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;We [Americans] are the most gullible people on Earth, and whatever our masters tell us we believe it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>About Gore Vidal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Gore Vidal is a novelist, essayist and playwright whose career began  in the years immediately following World War II.  Vidal has  published more than 20 novels, including a sequence of seven   novels about American history, and satirical novels such as &#8220;Myra Breckinridge&#8221; and &#8220;Duluth.&#8221; He has also written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and three mystery novels written under a pseudonym. A prolific writer, Vidal has published over a hundred essays on a wide variety of socio-political, sexual, historical, and literary themes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">His memoir &#8220;Point to Point Navigation&#8221; was published in 2006. For<br \/>\nmore on Gore Vidal see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/database\/vidal_g.html\"><em><strong>American Masters.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Thanks to my friend Ira Land for pointing out this Vidal speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo left: Gore Vidal by Harlem Renaissance photographer Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Citizens, please take a few minutes &amp; visit with Gore vidal, a voice of stability and sanity in these crazy times&hellip; GORE VIDAL INTERVIEW: Now on the News, PBS Writer, activist, cultural critic and iconoclast Gore Vidal talks to Senior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}