ANALYSIS: Gore Vidal's Essay Brilliant
marco | 29.10.2002 14:59
What most makes Vidal's essay brilliant is he directly indicts the
Bush administration without blaming all of government, he blames
Bush without so much as a phrase that could be taken as anti-semitic,
and he thrusts at the US government WITHOUT blaming America or the
american people.
It has the following four effects. For this Vidal himself
is brilliant. Dare I say stellar.
a) has at least a dozen facts that can be used to impeach the pResident
b) it gives the more timid journalists out there the credible source
they need to say what they're previously afraid to publish
c) people like Pat Kincaid come off foolish even beginning to attack it
d) timed perfectly to ruin at least half a dozen potential republican
Senate seats and possibly thrice in the House.
My only complaint is it's so dripping with "England" English,
I found it difficult to read a first and second time. Some
paragraphs I didn't understand until a third reading.
I'd say Gore Vidal is "kicking ass and taking names."
Bush administration without blaming all of government, he blames
Bush without so much as a phrase that could be taken as anti-semitic,
and he thrusts at the US government WITHOUT blaming America or the
american people.
It has the following four effects. For this Vidal himself
is brilliant. Dare I say stellar.
a) has at least a dozen facts that can be used to impeach the pResident
b) it gives the more timid journalists out there the credible source
they need to say what they're previously afraid to publish
c) people like Pat Kincaid come off foolish even beginning to attack it
d) timed perfectly to ruin at least half a dozen potential republican
Senate seats and possibly thrice in the House.
My only complaint is it's so dripping with "England" English,
I found it difficult to read a first and second time. Some
paragraphs I didn't understand until a third reading.
I'd say Gore Vidal is "kicking ass and taking names."
marco
Homepage:
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=103582
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29.10.2002 17:24
redjade
Gore Vidal follow up..
29.10.2002 22:36
The only good thing that can come out of the article is that perhaps a few more people will have their eyes opened to what is going on in the Bush government, but since the readers of the Observer are usually the liberal middle classes, it's probably not going to be a great sea change of effective opinions. If the piece were to have appeared in the News of the World however ..perhaps things would work out differently.
Contrary to an earlier post, the Gore Vidal article can also be viewed at :
this was typed BY HAND by a remarkably committed individual whose website also has an abundance of other interesting information.
There is a huge amount of info about Bush /sept 11 etc available on the net, it's just a shame that no-one will believe it until it hits the review sections of comfortable broadsheets.
justin
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03.11.2002 10:54
Consider the fact that to this day, Noam Chomsky continues to show cowardice when dealing with the assassination of JFK. Chomsky denies there was a conspiracy -- and continues to duck any question about it. Hell, even the United States Congress declared in 1977 hearings investigating the assassination that there was indeed a conspiracy (they used that word), that more bullets were fired than what was reported in the "official story" of the Warren Commission report. But Chomsky, inexplicably spineless, refuses to deal with the real conspiracy behind the JFK assassination. Is this reason to blast Chomsky and ignore his work? Of course not. To do so would be to act in a black and white fashion, which is exactly what you're doing if you let yourself get too angry with the fact that someone is being called a genius for stepping up to the plate and swinging at this massive story -- albeit very late.
It's interesting to note that Vidal didn't get the Pearl Harbor history correct. He notes that the history is unclear, when in fact it's perfectly clear that FDR goaded the Japanese into attacking so as to have a pretext for war. There is no doubt about this given a long list of document discoveries, most recently including the work of Stinnett. For just Stinnett's work, see the following:
and the doc Stinnett found:
Amazon page of Stinnett's book:
Vidal's treatment of some of the other facts noted in the essay could have been more detailed as well, and there were a couple of other little points I could pick on. But each author has his own style, and it's a huge subject, to be sure. So, on balance, he did a good job and the fact that he's the first major well known intellectual to address this issue should put a smile on your face, regardless of the fact that you were able to see the "truth" long before him.
I thought Vidal's open suggestion that Bush will one day face an impeachment hearing was bold indeed.
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