NEW MANTRA UPDATE: Gore Vidal

NEW MANTRA UPDATE: Gore Vidal picks up on the vast right wing media conspiracy. Michael Medved quotes him as saying:

“The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.”

Fortunately, Vidal’s spirits aren’t as low as this fellow:

One impassioned partisan in Wasilla, Alaska…became so “despondent over Tuesday’s election returns” (according to the Anchorage Daily News) that he climbed to the top of a 230,000-volt utility tower and allowed the dangerous current to course through his body