Democrat | Gore Vidal Interview | US Politics | Afternoon plus | 1981
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- American writer and public intellectual speaks the Thames televisions 'Afternoon plus' Vidal discusses his works and political ambitions. First transmitted on the 30/04/1981
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An Artist of the mind and tongue. Only in his passing do we really see how poor we are without him.
Amen.
Nick, I feel the same way. What a giant of a man.
Why ? Did he rob the treasury? He's the dude from oceans 11 huh? The old man portraying the rich man at the casino was it?
STILL so relevant and true so many years on!! I LOVE YOU GORE VIDAL!!
This could've been recorded YESTERDAY--it's depressing how nothing, really, has changed in the past 35 years (except for getting worse).
It's profound he brought up Gun ownership back then which is the hot topic these days in 2019
@@Timzorrr You took the words right out of my mouth - nothing has changed since the first temple-priest came up with the idea to sell a piece of real-estate he didn't own in the first place...
yep, the same potholed streets, the shakey bridges, big cities that reek of filth and that is just the infrastructure. Now time for the societal rot......
Gore Vidal is very bright an a real American treasure. Just started following him in the last couple of years. Very truthful. Great insight. You are right sad about how worse it really is. Maybe Bernie is the only Senator who tells the truth about the corporations and super rich. I also read tons of books,and following history of our country. In my opinion, this country was not made for middle class or poor. Always for well to do.
What a constant poet that man was!
I am a farthest right conservative and adore listening to his poetic words
What a mind!
I will pray for America. Please pray for me.
God Bless you.
A lot of right wingers did prefer Vidal over Buckley, it's strange.
@@MS-wb5mf - I disagree with both and am FAR to the right of Buckley, but I love the singular eloquence of both.
Gore Vidal was really a great man. How come I know nothing about him until Julian Assange was showing one of Gore Vidal’s book while he was being carried out of the Ecuadorain Embassy. Thanks again Julian Assange.
He had his faults, God knows, but he had the guts to say things that seem more and more self-evident
look at gore vidal trying to impress the british like a desperate handyman. a marxist who blames 160 million gun owners for the shootings of presidents. what a shameful marxist.
What kind of faults?
@ To err is human. If you can read this, you are human and have made mistakes. We all do.
@@vanguard4065 Get real!!
@@PreciousBoxer making a mistake is not a fault...fool
She really caught his beliefs, paradigm, and ideals in this chat. It's all true, yet he knows his content is marginalized by our own inept, naive, herded society.
one of the great intellects of all time and the greatest essayist the USA has ever produced...
and i have read all 1100 pages
"A fool and his money are soon elected." (Will Rogers)
Excellent interviewer. Can't find anyone like that anymore.
Masterful interview, wish I met him #rip
"Do you think you've wasted your life?" The interviewer obviously never read much.
She should asked him about recipes!!!! But yes,
she is clueless about his talent.
How he said that his greatest attribute was the fact that he had never killed anyone says it all,I think.
Excellent interview!
Just love one party two wings
he is my greatest hero who told the history of America, because he Knew
he forgot to tell you that no republican ever owned a slave.
If he really was your hero, you'd have a better vocabulary
Great interview.
Delightful man!
I think Gore would agree with rank choice voting and campaign finance reform.
except politics has become even more rotten and evil in 2017
certainly agree. politics have given the likes of histories greatest murderers and heroes. today we are seeing a blatant and brazen offensive rivaled by a very brutish but brilliant negotiator who can pick out the faults of others while admitting his own or dismissing them depending on the advantage acquired politically.
One incredible Decent Fellow 🥰🥰😇😇
ahhh what he would say today...
Either "told you so" or "I'm so tired of repeating myself like history itself"
Hell of a dude. RIP
Heather.
You'd a loved this dude. I don't recall.
Not Sorry though.
Love.
I miss him so much. The most interesting man in the world.
GV, always telling it like it is.
Some write about AMERICAN political history , the Gores are witness to it .. he once said , his blind senator grandfather was influenced by his grandfather , a southern politician in 1776 .. continuity on inside politics ..
He was just too intelligent and learned for most Americans.
Long live democratic socialism and Gore Vidal s legacy ❤😊😊😊
He wasn't really for any party in he's other interviews he blames both parties.
you mean teh rape of a lady by a kkk member in 1925 that ended up putting democrats in jail for corruption
Usually I back either republicans or no one at all (the latter is most common) but I’d back this guy.
Yeah I do also.
Why is Gore Vidal dead and Donald Trump alive. Why God? Why?
Gore Vidal drank himself to death.
Comment on a Christopher Hitchens video: "Christopher Hitchens is dead and Henry Kissinger is still alive, proof that there is no God."
Gore Vidal lived till age 86. That's a long life well lived.
im sure you have the inside scoop
2:49/12:27 As a music teacher Im surprised he may be alluding to perfect pitch being
associated to "gifted"musical ability or so called "talent" .Because composition and performance of music at all developmental levels and stages can sometimes be conflated disproportionately with having an "inborn gift"as against a trained and nurtured one.
The majority of the world`s music making takes place through an initial auditory and rhythmic response at birth to a cultural environment of stimulus alongside language development and usually before literacy.
Whereas musical to all levels skills via "Relative Pitch" go largely unregarded more often than not.
In fact there are instances where "perfect pitch" can be seen as a disadvantage in some instrumental teaching and learning where notation
and transposition is involved.
pmn
Quite right. He wasn't a musician so he didn't know.
The woman brings out the best in him
To bad theese truths never changed anything.
And still up to this day ,nobody listens........I go to my bed in gloom
I love how he said ever girl can be president too
....NOT exactly what GV said...he said "girls are being TOLD they could be", which is VERY different. You can tell GV is skeptical of the idea, which is the wise opinion to express on the matter. I'm female
Really enjoyed the interview the lady Did a wonderful job
what's the name of the woman interviewing him?
Her name is "Tessie from the hood"
if he were still alive, gore vidal woud endorse bernie sanders.
Horrible choice but you're probably right.
But the dnc would not pick him
HEY, READ SHAW'S, MAJOR BARBARA - IT'S ABOUT POWER
"Content is not very important, as you know". Is it just me or did Vidal mock the interviewer at the last second?
Fucking god and legend
He says the rulers want someone who can read cue cards. .. Obama and Biden..
Legend and god
Long live communism and freedom
My comment to the interviewer would have been: SHUT UP! SHUT UP!
Smart, witty, arrogant, foolish.
the 1st Donald Trump?
My god, how gracious he was to that ignorant, confused, almost impertinent interviewer.
Long live communism and eugenics
Vidal was always a bit of a liar. He claims his family had no money, yet he attended one of the most expensive private schools in the country. His mother loaned him the money to buy an estate in NY so he could set up a run for Congress.
Vidal always thought of himself as a major player in politics with connections to power.
JFK simply referred to him as, "Just one of Jackie's queer little friends."
ive only known the mans name for about an hour now. man does he sound like the smooth talking slick willy and all the other snake politcians
@@barneygordon2585 he definitely was. None of his observations here for example are particularly intelligent, let alone unique when commenting on American politics in general. The average Joe on the street would probably have a similar black and white view if you caught him at a time when he feels frustrated. The smooth arrogance, weather intentional or not, would work better if he was a British citizen. They relish in thinking they know what goes on in American politics.
MMMM... his mother had money and he had it later, but his family was not wealthy.
After going to Exeter he never went to college or university, partly because of the war and partially because of having to earn money
And he was the brother by marriage to Jackie, not a friend.
The greatest American intellectual .
What would he say about today?.. Somehow I have the feeling that he wouldn't be too anti Trump...
Anti Biden? - 100%...
🤣🤦♂️ He would be totally against Trump. He was against Nixon, Bush, Reagan.
He was a partisan political smooth talker.
Gore! You'd go down on a man in a flat second!
You must be a Republican. Always concerned with what men are doing with their dicks...
He was wrong about Reagan. Reagan was a populist and stood in reaction to what Carter and the leaders did in the 70s. There is an element to what Vidal is saying is true. The Reagan lineage did not last. What we got was decades of ruling class like Vidal states. He oversimplifies the American system. Like Reagan, Trump is a populist, but like Reagan, even if he gets a second term, there will be a tendency to go back to the establishment types.
There is a difference between a populist in policy and a populist in rhetoric
@@michaelberry6443 Depends upon the substance of policy and rhetoric.
Not at all.
The worse things done by US Presidents almost always happen during their second term (Watergate, Iran Contra, Monica Lewinsky). This is because they know that this is their last term so they can really cut loose. If trump had been re-elected who knows what would've played out?
@@kiwitrainguy He probably wouldn't have done the outrageous thing of getting us out of debt.
THIS SEEMS LIKE AN EVIL MAN
I am a Trump supporter but I miss Gore Vidal. A brilliant man, writer, and I wonder what he would have to say about current events.
I don't think Vidal would be sympathetic towards the modern day, neo fascist left. He would not support the Trump persecution masquerading as investigation. He was an honorable man in his own way.
He may not be on board with impeachment but I don't think he would have anything nice to say about Trump. Or Clinton ftm.
Everything he said predicted the election of Trump, he would not have been surprised. However, he did support Hillary, not Obama, that did surprise me.