OpEdNews - Article: GORE VIDAL / AMERICA'S GEORGE GALLOWAY

" Bill Clinton was so busy triangulating that he was enlisting under the colors of the other team:" Gore Vidal

In the dangerous political tides of today's world ~ it is imperative that we hear the voices of England's George Galloway and America's Gore Vidal to remind us that our ship of state is listing badly and we desperately need a new captain and crew.

Here's a typical quote from Vidal that hits the mark ~

" The media belongs to the big money, and the big money, their candidates, their party, is the Republican Party as now constituted ...What isn't typical is a Democratic Party that has also sold out. There are just as many lobbyists and propagandists there as on the other side. They're never going to regain anything until they remember that they're supposed to represent the people at large, and not the very rich."

Here is Gore Vidal being interviewed recently by David Barsamian for The progressive and Vidal, once again, delivers in style.

Allen L Roland

GORE VIDAL INTERVIEWED

By David Barsamian
August 2006 Issue

http://progressive.org/mag_intv0806

Gore Vidal is a gold mine of quips and zingers. And his vast knowledge of literature and history-particularly American-makes for an impressive figure. His razor-sharp tongue lacerates the powerful.

He does it with aplomb, saying, "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." He has a wry sense of noblesse oblige: "There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."

Now eighty, he lives in the Hollywood hills in a modest mansion with immodest artwork. I felt I was entering a museum of Renaissance art. A stern painting of the Emperor Constantine was looking down upon us as we sat in his majestic living room. A Buddha statue from Thailand stood nearby. But all was not somber. He had a Bush doll with a 9/11 bill sticking out of it on a table behind us.

His aristocratic pedigree is evident not just in his artistic sophistication but also in his locution. In a war of words, few can contend with Vidal.

"I'm a lover of the old republic and I deeply resent the empire our Presidents put in its place," he declares.

Vidal moved gingerly and was using a cane. A recent knee operation left him less mobile. He says, "The mind is still agile but the knees have grown weak."

We sat in upholstered chairs. On a nearby table I saw the galleys of his second memoir, Point to Point Navigation. It will be out this fall. His earlier one, Palimpsest, came out in 1995.

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