Gore Vidal on Everything
March 7, 2006 · By Peter Rempel
Gore Vidal has let loose his wisdom on some poor unsuspecting interviewer. Let’s listen in:
On Brokeback Mountain:
“So I was eager to see the movie about the two sheepherders, actually is what they are, they’re not cowboys. You can see there’s not a cow in the movie, just a lot of sheep.”
On rotten little boys:
“They asked a whole raft of high school boys across the country a couple years ago, one of those polls about what they would most like to be in life, and what … they would hate to be, and so forth, and what they would most hate to be was homosexual.”
On Bill Clinton’s indiscretions:
“And the events that befell poor President Clinton were all done because he wanted healthcare for everyone in the country, so you get him on dalliance with Monica in the White House.”
On his recent visit to the zoo:
“It is traditional, it is biologically correct; mammals have been performing same-sexual acts ever since the first mammal was created.”
Getting all catty over Truman Capote:
“He always wore dark glasses, and his eyes would drop behind the dark glasses, and he would seem to be looking down at his nose, and then as he got more and more frenziedâ€???the lies really very frenzied, they were orgasmicâ€???you would start to see the eyes begin to roll up to see if you’d fallen for what he was saying.”
Finally, commenter Klaus von Balow on Vidal:
“If Gore is a national treasure, let’s bury it.”
What a nut bar!
But Rempel, you forgot a very bizarre excerpt:
“You can see how the two sheepherders might get tired of the sheep and begin to look to each other, as a kind of variation on a theme.”
What on earth is he saying? Sheep inherently make guys horny?
Very strange.
My favourite is the notion that Clinton, a good policy analyst for a president, and how he chose to handle his foibles is elevated to:
“This was all cooked up to destroy the most intelligent politician in the history of the United States.”
I never realized Vidal had such an omniscient view of history. If only Vidal and John Ralston Saul would just publish one work together, I’d never need to read another book! My gratitude knows no end!
Ha ha ha
Better yet, Maurice Strong and George Soros could fund an international conference on the complete history of American imperialism and the coming new world order; key note lectures by Ralston Saul and Vidal, of course.