Gore Vidal on Charlie Rose 1994 Part 1

[@rdalbright1]

Vidal was an intellectual. Fascinating to listen to. As a conservative Republican, I rarely agreed with his position on many issues. However, I do miss his intellect and sense of humor.

[@tiffsaver]

Gore Vidal was a National Treasure. Period.

[@fidobarks]

god bless u gore. ur an inspiration to us all.

[@MyVictorO]

Vidal's first novel was Williwaw, Charlie.

[@jadezee6316]

all the comments praising vidal...but...i am willing to bet i am THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO HAS READ THAT 1100 PAGE BOOK...of essays that charlie is holding

[@brainsareus]

a cookie 4u

[@contacter]

Vidal was a great American, because like the founding fathers, he was a constant critic of the Republic. the first republic is finished now in 2012 but it was great while it lasted.

[@steveconn]

Compared to 2018 it was alive and thriving :)

[@jamescates9095]

Feeling intense trepidation I begin watching this. I love listening to Vidal talk, but Charlie Rose is such an awful interviewer that I never reach the end of one of his shows without having come perilously close to tearing my hair out.

[@mhikl4484]

+James Cates So true regarding Rose. He has his list of questions and sticks to them. A robot could do the same.

[@jadezee6316]

maybe you needs some meds for your intense trepidation...or maybe you need some meds for your intense buffoonery

[@LanceWinslow]

This gentleman completely bothers me, and but he does have some relevant debating points, things which need to be addressed. A staunch Democrat, with attacking essays and comments.

[@acohen1980]

A truly great American......

[@jasonnewyork1]

Thank you so much for this video. I've been on a Gore Vidal interview kick. If you know of other great ones, please let me know. Cheers and thanks again!

[@thefakenewsnetwork8072]

Long live communism and eugenics

[@gregoryberrycone]

"you must be terribly dull if you want to get elected, and you musn't be too intelligent" well at least one of these claims has proven false with time.

[@gymnastix]

My own father, a man of modest means, was an electrician. And though always employed in the private sector, his last and longest-running gig was electrical construction, for Bostons' public transit system, the MBTA. That is what put a roof over my head and food in my stomach for the last 11 or my first 18 years of life on this planet. So much as I bitch about the "T," I also owe them, indirectly. My dad was a private contractor. But I must also acknowledge that which contracted him.

[@Kubrickfan1]

The last patriot. When he kicks it, we'll really be on our own.

[@marciellopez5845]

We’re on our own..

[@davidmay273]

Speaking as a former public transit worker, if the public transit systems across the country were privatized (run on a for-profit basis) you would see the cost of fares explode and service diminish or (more likely) disappear outside of busy corridors. Almost every U.S. public transit system gets the vast majority of its funding from taxes or state and federal subsidies, not fares.

[@JohnBolender]

I think it was very graceful of Vidal not to bother correcting him.

[@MrClipper23]

God, Vidal has the same mannerisms as Buckley, his ideological opposite. Weird.

[@janjanjan0]

@MrClipper23 man tahts incredible i thought that (exactly) just a few seconds ago!

[@RocketKirchner]

Last man of letters .

[@LowellBDennyIII]

@MrClipper23 But Vidal is a much, much better writer than Buckley by far.

[@freedomwarrior6632]

Long live all legends

[@michaeldoyle6702]

When men still colour their hair into their 50's and 60's....nature turning on against us (1:37) Come on gay men , let it go.

[@TheStallion3]

@MrClipper23 That's the way upper class New Yorkers used to carry themselves. FDR sounded the same as well. All three are from New York.

[@gymnastix]

Now, however, sad as it is, there is an even more inept creature who has assumed that role, giving Harding a run for his money. Rumor has it this man is an Indonesian citizen. But, you know, "affirmative action" in all public housing.

[@gymnastix]

Public transit and utility companies have long been easy targets of the populace. But these institutions have also served that same populace fairly well over time, as well employed many of them, one way or another.

[@gymnastix]

Of course many found Vidal pretentious. And Hitchens, at least one generation removed from Vidal, could fairly have been called a "pretender of the pretentious." In any case, lionization aside, the fate of the world does not rest upon the absence of either of their yammering jaws.

[@lanser87]

Only in American Politics is lying a virtue. That's the smartest thing I've heard all day.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

The worst thing about Rose was his mindless, annoying, inappropriate laughing.

[@ollieeSkate]

I don't agree with you but...well predicted

[@woodstock6792]

They both look look so young

[@gymnastix]

Did you see Christopher Hitchens more as a conservative? Because, at least initially, I thought him to be of a philophical like mind with Vidal. Interesting you refer to Hitchens as "Hitch," a nickname more usually reserved for one who gave far more pleasure to the culture, Sir Alfred of Hitchcock.

[@thedolphin5428]

Gee, for a smart guy, he passed a stupid comment re earthquakes "I wonder what we have done for nature to be doing this to us". Weird logic.

[@gymnastix]

My biggest wish is that the transit system could be privatized, or at least made only quasi-public, to remove it as an extreme source of political patronage. With increasingly burdensome fare hikes, one wonders where and on who the monies of the transit system are squandered?

[@gymnastix]

Naturally enough, the Europeans (like the current Hollywoodians) fawned all over this man. But then, they are still brooding over their own losses. Would that we could have witnessed this now-departed cynic debate George Will, Michael Savage, or Monica Crowley, and in a forum not managed by the likes of a Dick Cavett or Charlie Rose, where the playing field would have been more truly level.

[@gymnastix]

Oh, everybody puts down the oil companies. But, you know what, in the era of their greater prominence, everybody put down the railraods too. And even today, if one lives in an area with mass public transit, most find the subway system an easy target. One good thing about fascists, you know the adage--they "made the trains . . . "

[@gymnastix]

But I do concur with your statement. The verbiage that spewed from this man's mouth and pen (figuratively) was a betrayal of the land of his birth (I'd have written betrayal of his "class," too, but that's more the preoccupation of the Brits and the Bolsheviks. Americans recognize only two classes--"first" and "coach"). Though I was sometimes amused by his style, upon reflection, I shall never forgive his treason. .

[@gymnastix]

"Handsome young lad," where? You don't mean in this clip? Because Gore Vidal is about 70 years old here. So, unless you are about 90 years old, "young lad" would hardly be the appropriate term. As for the activities of your oral cavity, all I may say is "You are what you eat."

[@gymnastix]

Anyway, I once met "the old queen," during the period when a man from Plains, Georgia was the recipient of the most expensive public housing deal of the United States of America, and at that time the most incompetent person since Warren G. Harding to temporarily reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.