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Gore Vidal Toes The Hollywood Reactionary Line

October 28, 2009 - 3:20 pm - by Ed Driscoll

John Nolte writes at Big Hollywood:

In an interview published today, The Atlantic describes Gore Vidal as “a sharp provocateur, as irascible and irreverent as ever.”

I’m assuming that’s some kind of internal Atlantic-code for ”twisted old has-been degenerate desperate for attention“:

ATLANTIC: In September, director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for leaving the U.S. in 1978 before being sentenced to prison for raping a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson’s house in Hollywood. During the time of the original incident, you were working in the industry, and you and Polanski had a common friend in theater critic and producer Kenneth Tynan. So what’s your take on Polanski, this many years later?

VIDAL: I really don’t give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of?

Vidal then goes on to blame Polanski’s legal problems on…

“an anti-Semitic and anti-fag thing …  The idea that this girl was in her communion dress, a little angel all in white, being raped by this awful Jew, Polacko…”

Oh, it’s because Polanski’s Jewish… Now it all makes sense. We should’ve been looking at his being a Jew not his confession or his drugging and sodomizing a 13 year-old girl who obviously had it coming because she wasn’t wearing a communion dress.

Naturally Vidal will face no real outrage or consequence for describing a 13 year-old rape victim as a “hooker.”

He’s inoculated.

He’s a Leftist.

You’d think that a guy being billed by the Atlantic as “a sharp provocateur” would take something other than the standard line out of Hollywood.

But why should Vidal start thinking outside of the standard bourgeois-bohemian mindset now?

Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Hollywood, Interrupted, Liberal Fascism, The Return of the Primitive

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  1. 1. Charlie (Colorado)

    Okay, the part I really don’t get is the “anti-fag” part. The 13 year old was a 13 year old girl, right?

    October 28, 2009 - 4:11 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. Ed Driscoll

    Germans? Pearl Harbor? Sadly, he’s rolling.

    October 28, 2009 - 4:55 pm   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. porkopolitan

    Perhaps we could convince the former 13-year-old to address Mr “Veedle” with a WFBJr paraphrase, replacing the term “crypto-Nazi” with “hooker:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley,_Jr.#Feud_with_Gore_Vidal

    October 28, 2009 - 9:40 pm   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. Jeff Brokaw

    “Irascible and irreverent”. Yeah, that pretty much covers justifying the drugging and raping of a child.

    If there was ever an episode that should convince the thick-headed East Coast literati types that they really have no freaking idea how America ticks, this Polanski thing is it.

    Big Bright Line, guys. Big. Bright. Line.

    October 29, 2009 - 8:33 am   Link to this Comment

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