Gore Vidal on the media

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Have TV journalists learned anything from the last several years?
Says Vidal: "Everybody with an IQ above room temperature is on to the con act of our media. They are obeying bigger, richer interests than informing the public -- which is the last thing that corporate America has ever been interested in doing."

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@beaniegreen4849 9 лет назад

Who will ever fill the shoes of our beloved Gore Vidal

@notrombones5041 14 лет назад

An incredible quote from this video: "I've been around the ruling class all my life and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country." Listen to this man, if you dare to hear The Truth.

@bendkafka 17 лет назад

Gore Vidal is the best. I hope The Real News finds viewers. You have one in me.

@BloodMilkSky1969 9 лет назад

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.-Nietzsche

@kamranii 9 лет назад

People are either idiots or swindlers.-My uncle.

@guerillatraveler 17 лет назад

Mr Vidal hits the nail firmly on the head. Editors and broadcasters have become increasingly reluctant to investigate stories. Not all of us reporters are lazy. Trust me. With few exceptions like Vanity Fair, we just can't get editor's to stop thinking about Britney and Paris and selling ads in the United States of Advertising (my phrase). The question is what are we going to do about putting some thought back into reporting. Suggestions?

@makkein 13 лет назад

I am officially amazed. I have to read and research more of this man.

@taoofmichael 17 лет назад

JamesR1969 You are the voice of reason around here, between the right-wingers and the rabid ronpaulites. And you write coherently. Keep it up. Since when did Americans stop respecting the wisdom of the old and experienced?

@dvader42 17 лет назад

I absolutely love Gore Vidal! This man has an open mind about our society and is a voice that needs to be heard in Corporate America. His views on media and the American mind set are the finer points of his I like to concentrate.

@luvmegan 15 лет назад

Gore Vidal is one of the greatest essayist and intellects this country has produced. It's nice to see someone who is sharp, deep, honest, and smart. In short:everything Hannity, Rush and O'reilly are not. Love, God. PS One of my better creations.

@foxdragoon84 17 лет назад

Well done! You, sir, are the master of wit. Please indulge us some more, as there are not enough of your little comments on the thread already - I like to call them "flashes of brilliance."

@chicobond89 12 лет назад

RIP Gore Vidal. a true Dear and eloquent sir.

@nabilkanso 17 лет назад

thanks for posting even a brief glimpse of the great voice of truth

@rrmond 15 лет назад

Just goes to show how our American culture always resents the smartest guy in the room. Keep dropping knowledge Gore!!!

@timirish2563 5 лет назад

Even in the decline of his last years, Vidal says something worth hearing, noting. His life as writer was heroic. That's what matters to me.

@britishempire01 17 лет назад

What an exceptional man. And if only all people listened.

@JoySynthesis 17 лет назад

"the underclass don't deserve a voice." What? Excuse me? Also, I saw Mr. Vidal's lecture in the Festival of Ideas here in West Virginia, part of his tour promoting Point to Point Navigation. Despite Vidal's age, his wit and demeanor are impeccable. I was priveledged enough to shake his hand and get an autographed copy of the new book. :)

@judymeyer4315 5 лет назад

re-visiting these in 2019 and sharing all of them.

@rajasmasala 14 лет назад

What an inspiring vid. If I would kill to give such a solid, authoritative damn about my own country, Singapore. I suppose I'll be nearer in ten years. TheRealNews, good luck. Thank you so much. Keep it up.

@vasp99 15 лет назад

I learned more about American history from Vidal's fiction than I did in school. He's a brilliant, heroic man.

@Telcontar1962 17 лет назад

The thing I like about Gore Vidal is he knows the players involved on a personal level in many cases. Of course what he says are his views and opinion but they have a great deal of credibility because he understands the mindset of the leadership class having lived amoung them for so long. One day we'll grow up and be a cynical as him because after all those who lead us are just men and women with no more right to dictate what a the average person should do or not do than my pet rabbit.

@bernlin2000 12 лет назад

@xxplosive661 This video is the first time I've heard him speak and it's quite remarkable to hear: he has a great voice and he speaks very very eloquently (love the accent too, wherever it comes from). And, of course, everything he says is true, if anyone takes the time to listen to him. This video should have 1000x more views

@taoofmichael 17 лет назад

Well said. Keep it up.

@pgadeb 17 лет назад

I think Jon Stewart's Daily News Show, as it satires the mass media news, gives a more realist portrayal of the world news. Gore Vidal has an important message and AMERICA needs to listen to this man. Vote for Ron Paul 2008.

@sastal 17 лет назад

Right on!

@peterbilt47 17 лет назад

Thank you.

@avatar723 17 лет назад

Run like hell, Knobby! Cut n' run!

@MustacheVerra 17 лет назад

I like that guy!:) I keep saying that the Republicans keep accusing their adversary of their own crimes to create confusion. And it works. :(

@avatar723 17 лет назад

Yeah, that's what gives him so much credibility in my book--he's got generations of elbow-rubbing with the top powers-that-be in the country--in military, political, financial and literary circles. He's seen the corridors of power from the inside, up close and personal.

@hob976 13 лет назад

Wow. The final moment in this video was bizarre. Vidal had an interesting discourse with Tim McVeigh that was outlined in "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace". Very worthwhile reading. One very smart dude.

@hitch4645 14 лет назад

i could listen to him talk for days

@Knobbyboy88 17 лет назад

I never said anything about his family. His father was a great man. He was a Patriot who served his country honorably. Mr. Vidal on the other hand...

@zamolxis 17 лет назад

He does have a huge ego, but it's at least partly justified by his work. He's not a Dem, he's a cynic and does a good job at that. Didn't know about the book he mentioned. Thank you, Gore Vidal and Paul Jay!

@cookiesonsteve 14 лет назад

"They lie and apply it to the other person..." ^_^

@hardlinemonk 10 лет назад

This man speaks my mind!

@CutterScene 17 лет назад

Vidal is absolutely among the highest ranking intellectuals. He's up there with Noam Chomsky and others... Check out his appearance in 'Why we fight' by Eugene Jarecki.

@senateb 15 лет назад

he so perfectly summed up the seemingly dominant political strategy of our time- lie and attribute your own faults to your opponent. ive always noticed that, but never bern able to put it in words

@avatar723 17 лет назад

"....don't be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity." "After Pat's Birthday", by Kevin Tillman, 2004

@RainyRaver 17 лет назад

That's arguable. The initial definition of a Liberal is someone who believes in loose interpretation of the constitution. While Conservatives believed in a strict interpretation. Though it would seem today that Conservatives are trying to get around the constitution (Patriot Act), and Liberals are trying to keep it in line. Jefferson I believe was a Conservative turned Liberal. He had to do things that was not listed in the Constitution. Hence, he went to loose interpretation.

@celshader 17 лет назад

Interesting concept. Real news independent of the politics, sponsorship of the media industry and their backers. Good luck.

@jnfakaros 17 лет назад

"The unexamined life is not worth living" let us all take a step back and think about that for a moment.

@bscottb8 17 лет назад

Age clearly hasn't diminished Gore Vidal's capacity for hyperbolic grandstanding.

@unqtious 17 лет назад

Brought to you by the committee to elect Ron Paul.

@trollfinger 15 лет назад

Well he always went for elections and didn't take the seats when he could have. "What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do" Aristotle. I love that quote.

@RainyRaver 17 лет назад

That's arguable. The initial definition of a Liberal was someone who used a loose interpretation of the Constitution. Verses a conservative who was a strict interpretation (you can only do what the constitution says you can). Jefferson was originally a Conservative. But seeing as how inflexible the constitution was to expansion and what not, he became a liberal.

@TheSkinzilla 14 лет назад

Where are the modern equivalent of intellectual giants like Vidal nowadays?

@joefranks69 16 лет назад

The McVeigh thing is uncomplicated - the piece wasn't apologetics, it simply fleshed out the man and his motivations. Sun Tsu would agree that this is the proper treatment to give an enemy. The America Firsters are more complicated.

@fdh2006 17 лет назад

There are alternatives, Gore Vidal mentioned the Nation and the Daily Show. There's also internet blogs, websites of foreign newspapers, Free Speech TV and Pacifica Radio.

@Knobbyboy88 17 лет назад

Colin Powell, for instance, was a general and served honorably in Vietnam.

@DragonDDT 17 лет назад

What angers is me is that multinational corporations outsource so many jobs, but rather than lash out against them, Americans sit around and blame the poor people who GET the jobs. I've never understood this mentality, but it seems to be the prevailing school of thought today, as if some poor guy in the Punjab working for $2/hr. is really to blame for trying to get out of poverty.

@S1MBRS 17 лет назад

Now that is an intelligent comment. Milton Friedman,... genius. Perhaps more genius than these Economic Opinionaters can understand.

@Gillhoolee 17 лет назад

Now all America can see who that was on "The Simpsons".

@foxdragoon84 17 лет назад

Thanks for that comment. I had not realized that, but it seems so obvious now. There are too many of those Orwellian terms going around all the time.

@bscottb8 14 лет назад

Genius? I'm sure Gore Vidal would be the first to agree, but more accurately a bloviator par excellence.

@guerillatraveler 17 лет назад

Good point. Mainstream papers and TV have become infotainment to a great extent. Editorials have become so jesuit-like that it is often hard to find the point. There is far too much hedging. The spade, that handy little shovel, is no longer a spade. So what do you call it? A photo/sound/print bite?

@farric1 17 лет назад

At at last, a conservative that glimpses the truth..

@midwestcharm 17 лет назад

Listen to people on the mainstream news when something bad happens. Everyone sounds the same, Horrifc, Surreal,Your in our prayers, great people/great state,artery....it's scary that most Americans get their education, influence and dialogue from T.V.

@TheSkinzilla 14 лет назад

Yeah, he could be considered one. My point is there sure isn't many of them anymore.

@ssancak 17 лет назад

Aferin len, kültürünle Türkiyeyi senin gibilerin temsil etmesi gerekli zaten. Bravo, ilgiiyle izliyorum.

@fidobarks 14 лет назад

bless u gore ur one of a kind and brilliantly witty.

@coolmamac 17 лет назад

Thanks. You say it with style. Do you remember Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley doing the election as a pair?

@blacknwhitesalright 15 лет назад

I'm going to agree with you on that, TheIllestVillain.

@jupiter7795 8 лет назад

His final comment confused me about his opinion on Jon Stewart. What is his opinion on Jon Stewart and company?

@DragonDDT 17 лет назад

Actually Thomas Jefferson would be the poster child for the modern Democratic party. He was very much against a unified country under one banner and preferred more power to the states.

@shaka222 17 лет назад

Goes Vidal is a GENIOUS. He sees things as they really are. At least someone out there 'GETS IT"

@Gillhoolee 17 лет назад

hey! that's NOT your opion, your not Dirty Harry!

@foxdragoon84 17 лет назад

That may be, sir, but it will never be as infantile as calling Gore Vidal a "rambling old man."

@taoofmichael 17 лет назад

Love your comments. I couldnt say it better.

@HarryS77 17 лет назад

Gore Vidal FTW! An awesome writer that speaks the truth.

@taoofmichael 17 лет назад

syuster Yes! finally an intelligent comment that isn't rabid Ron Paul gibberish. Lets get back to Gore Vidal please. The debate is about left and right. RonPaulers are idealists living in a dreamworld. Yes, Saul Bellow, Daniel Schorr, sane people. Keep it up.

@NihilNominis 13 лет назад

@Consumerofknowledge Yeah, because Mr. Vidal's interview in this months Humanist showed his deep respect for and belief in the American people. The guy's an intellectual elitist rather than political or economic, but he plays the game just as much as anyone.

@Euractiv 17 лет назад

Vidal really knows what he is talking about! ...talking from experience...

@madamoiselle0sahara 17 лет назад

Americans, I suggest you listen to sadamp1. I live in Australia and the feeling here is much the same.

@jyuja 12 лет назад

Another great American passes away :Gore Vidal was an eloquent and elegant writer who represented the best of America's free spirit and wonderful humanity whose books are a pleasure to read: he thought the 911 official tale was BS and criticized compellingly in his "Perpetual War for perpetual peace" US policies at home and abroad which only served a greedy and corrupt elite and victimized the middle classes .

@beta447 13 лет назад

awesome video, about says it all

@Knobbyboy88 17 лет назад

I really pray to God that you're refering to people like Gore Vidal and Michael Moore. I think I'll just go ahead and crack open my copy of the "Crusades," by Hillaire Belloc, or the, "Spirit of Free Enterprize," by William F. Buckley, thank you kindly.

@xxplosive661 15 лет назад

Gore Vidal is in my oppinion the most brilliant man alive. George Carlin is my hero but he would kneel down and kiss Vidal's shoes if they ever came in contact. R.I.P. George but props to Mr. Vidal as being the most intelligent man to ever live. Pure genius.

@DragonDDT 17 лет назад

I refuse to let you compare Mr. Vidal to Jack Lemmon.

@LucianTSkeptic 17 лет назад

testing how long does it take to get posted. thank god for christopher hitchens.

@greatbroad 17 лет назад

On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 the group, MoveOn(dot)org held candle-lighted vigils across the nation (over 700 I think). I was on page A3 of the local paper, "The Beacon News," on August 29. I think the web sights will soon have pictures up.

@rsmoove2000 8 лет назад

Is there an F-1 race going on in the background?

@bon1042 17 лет назад

WAY TO GO AVATAR !! NICE COMEBACK.

@quickymgee 15 лет назад

and i am not saying the democratic party is right, but the fact that it is a centrist party improves its position in my eyes. a governing party should do what's best in the interests of its citizens (with respect towards other citizens of the world) not blindly follow a doctrine. with some education people will no longer base their political preference on what they are told or given, and will take an active interest to inform themselves of every perspective and to research respective policies.

@guerillatraveler 17 лет назад

Where is this quote documented?

@DragonDDT 17 лет назад

Does anyone know why America is in the shape that it's in? Because all of us (myself included) are wasting our time debating a Gore Vidal video on RU-vid instead of actually trying to make a difference. Hook, line, and sinker. We've just been had, fellas. :P

@LESTERBATE 17 лет назад

I agree. Around the ruling class his whole life; If junior ever flew a plane; Absolute truth; Americans hate truth; acquired so many enemies; We set them off; adnausium... Self-appointed and constipated

@taoofmichael 17 лет назад

I can see that he is honest and sincere, he is just overly simplistic. He is like Perot. "Just gotta get under the hood and fix it." Well yes, but, there is a bit more to it. I know I am going to regret this, but what is CFR?

@CaptainBluebear08 12 лет назад

All true. Bless him.

@fntime 8 лет назад

It's funny how everyone sees the world differently.I love his comments about the 'right'. But, when talking about the left heloses he objectivity and becomes blinded by his own self delusion.Biases of thoughts and prejudgements does almost everyone ineven those with a remarkable intelligence.

@titolovely8237 8 лет назад

+fntime the right wing in the US is completely unhinged. if you cant see that you're hopeless. theyre as extreme as the most rabid italian fascists. half the republicans running for president want to start a war with russia and carpet bomb syria. the leading contender wants to bomb muslim families indiscriminately. to compare the left and the right in the US is to obfuscate reality - the right has lost it's mind and lives in total fantasy. it's important to add that gore vidal defines himself as a conservative, a label i agree with. it's just that what's called "conservative" in the US is a radical strain of state capitalists, and doesnt even begin to resemble what's referred to as "conservative" in the rest of the world. vidal actually believes in the constitution, and doesnt just pay lip service like the republicans do. theyve utter contempt for whats written in the constitution, as demonstrated by their policies.

@fntime 8 лет назад

+Fightneit 90 Do you ever examine yourself? You are a perfect example of an 'intellectualized mind'. Similar to a computer, all 1's and 0's! Because of that your mind lacks descernmentand lacks an understanding of 'probability' the natural development ofa mind not captured to 'black & white'. If you ever knew the weaknessof your minds operating system, it would probably appall you if youwere an honest person. Stopping being the 'silly shmuck' in the room.You have a long way to go, Grasshopper!

@xjaskix 17 лет назад

People like this guy here make it IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to hate Americans. True intellectual. Americans are not all stupid. No way.

@taoofmichael 17 лет назад

Yeah, like he said.

@DragonDDT 17 лет назад

It's not so much conservative or liberal as it is entertaining. I keep referring to it as the modern-day Bread and Circuses, because that's what it has become. It's no longer a forum for unbiased (well, as unbiased as anyone can be) reporting. Instead, we've become a cult of personality, more fixated on the human being and who they are rather than what they do, which I think is a serious mistake.

@Knobbyboy88 17 лет назад

The Democrats are not known to be huge fans of Dual-Federalism in general. They champion the dominance of the Federal government over state governments. Hence the whole, "Big Government," debate.

@drgonzo1971 17 лет назад

All 100% true.

@calvinjonesyoutube 17 лет назад

RATE 5 STARS: this is the sort of video that should spread, no?

@grailmaiden 16 лет назад

People vs. "Sheeple" there are people and then there are sheeple. most of humanity is sheeple early to bed, early to rise, fight like hell and organize

@taoofmichael 17 лет назад

If "anyone being able to work their way up" is the definition of free market, then as I said, we do not have a free market in this country. No regular person will ever be able to compete in this economy against the giant corporations. Right wingers, starting with Reagan, favor the centralization of wealth and power. This is not Adam Smith capitalism. There must be free competition for that to work. American laws are written to favor the rich every time in every way.

@nationalallianceforprogres3136 2 года назад

Long live freedom and democratic communism

@pgadeb 17 лет назад

Actually what he says is he personally doesn't agree with (esp. late term) abortion, but recognizes that there is NO ONE RIGHT ANSWER for everyone in every situation and it shouldn't be legislated at the Federal level, but at the State level. In his mind an 8th month abortion is not much different than delivering a baby and the mother throwing it away and going to jail for it. As for marrying, he says government shouldn't dictate that people Have To get a marriage license for it to be *legal*

@gesellschaft 17 лет назад

Hopefully I'm not the only one who spends only a number of minutes a day at this... there's also the voting, educating, meetup, unofficial campaigning for Ron Paul, skate boarding, hand crafts/art, ..it would be real real sad if this is all we were doing. We were successful in voting down a local neo-con for senate.

@RainyRaver 17 лет назад

Yes. I did. Technically they were called the Democratic Republicans. And we can't exactly say that THAT party changed to the Democrats. What happened to the Federalists and the Whigs? It wasn't until Ronald Reagan did party behavior become what it is seen today.