Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No (Documentary) (partial)

Special thanks to T Gore for sharing this video

[@collinmosley139]

Whoever you are posting these GV videos, you're doing gods work.

[@captur69]

Even when he slams religion...

[@timfrye3586]

@@captur69 Especially when he slams religion

[@NikoHL]

Hear,, hear.. !! 😂❤

[@NikoHL]

​@@captur69 Absolutely 😂

[@NikoHL]

​@@timfrye3586 Exactly 😂

[@Manhattanite1]

Thank you for keeping Vidal's voice alive.

[@ttacking_you]

We still have Chomsky. Unbelievably, at the cutting edge still

[@Manhattanite1]

@@ttacking_you YES!!

[@ianmartinezcassmeyer]

Read Gore Vidal. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[@whispjohn]

Way ahead of his time, also an interesting man.

[@christopherhamilton3621]

So underappreciated a genius…

[@reidwhitton6248]

This channel is gold! I listen to everything I can find on Gore Vidal. It was nice to see jazz great, Mel Torme chatting with Gore.

[@tonirose6776]

That was knitting my two great loves together: music and politics (and literature!)

[@billplaney2585]

what a treasure this man was.

[@MissPerriwinkle]

adore vidal and these vids. fabulous .....

[@michaelsix9684]

sure miss his commentary and views

[@academiadobruno7834]

Great channel

[@ronniecozzi8385]

All these years later and we are still talking about the need for a third party. Same old. It will never happen. The owners of the United States will not allow it.

[@NikoHL]

Im glad GV never became a Politician... He would have hated it !

[@ttacking_you]

Horseshoe theory with the NATO pull out

[@Johnconno]

I could lend you a dollar, but that wouldn't be helping you would it?

[@uttaradit2]

handsome enough but 2 smart to have been president

[@Charmagh110]

39:57

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Traitor.

[@uttaradit2]

who ?

[@carlsaveus1735]

"..the thing that will destroy us, tribal loyalty." Look around you in this age of Trump and the insane GOP..

[@allencollins6031]

Both sides.

[@benburndred2226]

have you seen what Biden has done to the country and the economy.....you must be so wealthy as to absorb all his failures. my god you can not be sentient!

[@Shadowman4710]

@@allencollins6031 One side is clearly worse than the other. And that's from somebody from outside "the system."

[@shaheer151]

@carlsaveus1735....The ruling party is always the one to fear.

[@carlsaveus1735]

​ @shaheer151 Right now, the dull corporate democrats, in as so far as they are in power (let's face it, the corrupt Trump hijacked SCOTUS has done more damage), are a far better option than a fascist narcissistic con-man's regime, with his court sycophants in key power positions destroying what's left of the constitution, democracy and liberty.

[@cheri238]

The only suggestion I may add here is to unequivocally share all Gore Vidal's archives to everyone that one may not have heard of him speak or have read everything he has written. What an inspiration he made in my young life. Long live Gore Vidal. He will never fade from history. Ultimately, he made history laugh at itself. Smeared it right in people's faces. Bravo!! 🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

[@uttaradit2]

he'd lived for a third of the nations independent history

[@ttacking_you]

All in all, the guy really covered the whole spectrum of today's political paradigm. A well-rounded politician.

[@georgewilliams3065]

They don’t make ‘em like Gore anymore. Would that we had his like today. He gave the greatest state of the unions speeches for years. He is here in his prime. He was erudite and hilarious in a combination rarely seen. Among his many gifts, he wrote historical fiction that tells the whole story of America like no other.

[@cindymaceda2999]

Less than 1% of Americans would read books like Vidal’s today. Education now does not encourage reading literature or history. Only social media.😢

[@Pancakeshouse85]

The main person in my life that's told me the truth about what's really going on. And for that, I will always respect him.

[@BreckoniousMaximus]

What a breath of fresh air. We need a contemporary version of this man. It's like he speaks an archaic language that we all knew but forgot, and upon hearing it again, it's as if we just woke from an evil spell.

[@cindymaceda2999]

We don’t because there are equally literate men today, but their audience wouldn’t know who Prometheus was or what the Lord of the Flies was about. The Dumbing Down of Americans. No one reads now.

[@cindymaceda2999]

Archaic ? He says Gore Vidal in Russian means “one who has seem grief. Nabokov told me that.”😊 Do university grads these days even know who Nabokov was. 😢

[@cindymaceda2999]

He mentions brainwashing in the first minute of this documentary. “Tribal loyalty…Blind loyalty.” If Vidal were seeing what is happening in America now, he would be totally trying to get up from his grave. 😅

[@user-di8hm2jl2u]

I feel so connected to Gore Vidal and have so much love for him. He was a treasure.

[@JeffRebornNow]

I love this documentary. I was so used to seeing videos of him after he moved back to the USA in 2003, it's nice to see him younger and firing on all cylinders.

[@ttacking_you]

Oh he doin' that Henry Wallace thang...Oof, but with a slight neoliberal/libertarian slant. (Small govt)

[@szenberg]

Yes inimitable words language communication humor and true compassion not so hidden behind his curtain of brilliance. Revealed in every moment of contact with his public. Americans humans worldwide. 14:48

[@cindymaceda2999]

“The IQ of Barry Goldwater is about room temperature.” 😂

[@chimi1924]

GV❤❤

[@christinaslate1865]

Just come upon Vidal while watching a Roy Cohn video where Vidal was making him look foolish . I’ve been obsessed with him and read all his book , since then His breed is dead and gone

[@uttaradit2]

but you're alive

[@carlsaveus1735]

This documentary introduced me to Gore Vidal,.. it was airing on public TV on a Sunday night some 25 years ago,.. I embarked on a hunt for everything he had published and all video I could find. C-SPAN had hours of interviews and lectures,.. so good to see it still being archived here. The Cohn interview you mention is pure gold. PS Trying to find this documentary back in the day I even contacted the director to see if there was a way to buy a copy on video or DVD format, he was rather rude and embittered (excerpts of his film where used in other Vidal biopics,.. I guess he thought the request was sketchy,..)

[@platonically]

Thank you for posting this, I've been looking for this for months lol.

[@FieldDebby-o5h]

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[@JCResDoc94]

18:40 gore started the ppls party

[@smlcreative633]

Where can I find the entire film?

[@Annoyinglyoptimistic]

ohhh, where's the rest of it?

[@mysticaccount5845]

Where's the rest?

[@hughoshea-official]

Who is T Gore?

[@tonirose6776]

Is that actor Martin Balsam at 27:25?

[@ukrandr]

No.

[@coco360]

Been wanting to see this for awhile, thanks so much

[@tonirose6776]

Who is jazz pianist at 39:00?

[@cindymaceda2999]

He was amazing , like Oscar Peterson style.

[@efrem1]

With the conflict in Ukraine, the fact thst Democrats are fore massive weapon production would make Vidal weep. He would be partyless.

[@Shadowman4710]

He was when he was still alive...