I have seen Vidal on other sites when in his old age and he did not do well; age, alcoholism, and diabetes had taken their toll. Happy then, to see this and how together he could still be...

Gore was way ahead of his time. I remember when he first spoke of Imperial America and how Americans simply had no clue as to what he was saying...just Vidal being Vidal...he was pretty much right on the money.

I love Gore Vidal and I love Bill Buckley.

Mr. Vidal is sorely missed and died much too soon to witness the mess this country has become. He would not be pleased with the Dotard’s shenanigans at all!

3:26 LOLL

both obama and hillary turned out to be war mongers. wish gore is still with us but in a way i'm kind of glad he's spared from all of these. march 2024 now. looks like it's going to be biden vs trump and national debt is in the trillions and we're still printing money for endless wars. i wouldn't want to imagine his blood boiled or him fallen into complete dispare that his grandfather's republic has turned into this.

i wish rose would have stopped his interruptions and let the man talk!!! didn't know about the CIA's plan on getting rid of hitler - would have loved to hear vidal elaborate on that!

Can one even begin to imagine, what his observations would be on the events of the last 8 years? Staggering...

Thank you so much for sharing this. Much needed during these dark times. I think he would not be surprised by what is happening right now. He warned us.

Gore Vidal. We miss you so. A brilliant writer, superb orator, no phony and a great wit.

How true. A sucker is born every minutes and the United kingdom is moving this way. Dreadful times indeed.

Sadly, few people have his wonderful books on their shelves.

The mention of Brooks Adams piqued my curiosity when Vidal mentioned a biography. For anyone interested I did find a reference to Brooks Adams: A Biography by Arthur F. Beringause (Alfred A. Knopf, 1955).

He was a national treasure, Golden words. Gore was an awesome human being.

What could he say now? We really do have creeping communism in this country...and the people have been asleep far too long. Some have awakened, many have not. We get the government we deserve. "My people are destroyed by lack of knowledge"..The Bible

20 years fast-forward and the newly accumulated weapons are now shifted to Ukraine....

I heard about psychogeography thanks to Arthur Machen, who precedes the situationists. (I think that he concept differs somewhat from the situationists' one, though.)

The USA needs to be the king of the world! God, Frum is delusional.

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This is a year on from Howard Auster's death and sadly you can tell that Gore's tailspin -- self-destructive alcoholism, leading to brain disease, personality change etc -- is picking up speed.

looks like Gore got crazy drunk the night before

Literally me

What a dystopian the US continues to become.

I declare that the new generation must both remember and care About these dreaded past affairs That still linger in the US of A’s air

Every.Word.

Why do people still listen to Gore? A man who used to have little boys up to his house in Italy? Ask around

I wish that interview would of went on another hour! He was so right about al gore his campaign wasnt good, but after that he was full of fire, we lost out on that😢, how different the world would of been...

Amy looks so young here! I guess the last 12 yrs have been rough

well, this is 11 years later so.. ya changed times, but 12:40, could he ever of imagined someone so degenerate as trump would've gotten in? eheh... uhh... ya... After witnessing so many atrocities on part on both sides more or less, can be hard to reason after that.

Gore was (is) a great intellect, and like any accomplished sophisticate he's self righteous, he's condescending, he's all-knowing, he's petty, he's vainglorious, he's self-congratulatory and he's never not correct nor is not able to speak to every goddamn imaginable thing with authority. Get him drunk (wouldn't be hard) and he'd tell you about vast benefits of maintaining Caste.

No doubt… he was entertaining A legend in his own mind!!

The irony is that in correctly talking about baby Bush, now perfectly describes Biden and the Democrats!

No, the US is not 'hated by all' and realize Communists, like those who were in the USSR would be a REAL EMPIRE. Don't agree, move to a real communist nation like North Korea, or heck just move to China and speak your mind openly, be political active and say you Hate China and you hate the CCP and let's see how long you last. If the US were a real empire, Gore Vidal would be treated like the Soviets or CCP Chinese would treat him if he talked smack in their nation or sphere of influence. He'd be 'disappeared' and not appear on shows like Democracy Now, and if Stalin were in charge or Mao, he would be erased from history completely 1984 style. How this that as a combination of intelligence and humor and not being a sheep.

I own that book, but the reality is it is NOT the "United States" as a vague entity. Rather it is factions of people, often likeminded with foriegn interests and those interests are those who we could show are aligned with Canada and the UK, Anglophilic in nature, that run roughshod over whatever 'American Empire' Gore speaks of. That deep relationship is anti-American as America was born as a reaction against empire and nations like Mexico were born into real Empires. Santa Anna was not President of Mexico. He was its Emperor. The real story has to do with WHY the United States fills the void left by the British, and other colonial powers like France like France. To call this an empire is a misnomer, but did you know the 'Dutch' empire never ended, it transformed into something else.

Vidal is splitting hairs when he says, there are no homosexuals, just people who commit homosexual acts. That's like saying, a Senator is not a conservative Senator, he simply votes in a conservative manner. Brando is not a dramatic actor, he simply acted in dramatic roles. I think Vidal has brilliant insight and was a great writer, but his ambiguity over sexuality was just his way of not coming to terms with himself being gay. He was from a different generation and probably struggled with that aspect of his life from time to time. As society evolved, people eventually realized they have no say in the matter of their sexuality just like they have no say in the matter of the color of their eyes. It's a crap shoot.

He saw the future of American cities

What would he have made of Trump?

Thanks for post.

He's 84 here and still sharp.

Hey what’s all this talk of stolen elections? Doesn’t he know that is an “attack on democracy”. Is he advocating for insurrection? Let’s get Joe Biden to address all this “ misinformation”. He is right about msm.

Interesting to hear Vidal in agreement with Donald Trumps opinion of John McCain.

Falsifying elections.

This guy sounds like a child

Listening to this in mid 2023, I think we are closer to victory, but I don't know how much harder the remainder will be...

Yo 5:05 hahahahahahhahahhahaha toooo funny

Gore Vidal was an intellectual giant and a brilliant man.

Gore is man a deeply admire but also hate

Nice, pub crawl philosophy, and why not?

Vidal was a fierce commentator. A proper American heavyweight. Rip.

He was the last of a breed....that stretched back to Aaron Burr....now that we are a second world country and heading to third world status, he will sooner or later be remembered as the last of his kind....not the best, mind you; I doubt he would say he was the equal of say, Edmund Wilson...but the best we could do in our twilight...