Norman Mailer (Part 2) | Charlie Rose

Norman Mailer on Charlie Rose Part 2
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Norman Mailer (Part 2) | Charlie Rose
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[@AlexSzollo]

Mailer exposes his ideas loud and clear.Thats why I like and respect him.

[@kylekuhn1977]

This clip was so prophetic. It's hard not to look back on what Mailer said before the war started and think, "He was exactly right!"

[@williampaulbeaugruendler7901]

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, you coulda been a contender...

[@swampscrapper]

What you see here is the difference between an intelligent free thinker and one who has been brainwashed by the powers that be and cannot help but toe the party line.

[@AlphonseZukor]

Charlie Rose was still riding high on patriotism back then (like a lot of people). But Mailer nailed it, right on. For better or worse we are going to see what Mailer was talking about, for decades.

[@flirtwd]

Damn that was deep. RIP NM! Love CR.

[@drewmchristie]

This is amazing! i remember watching this when it was on- thanks so much for posting this- Norman Mailer has been vindicated

[@holdensagan]

I saw part one when it aired, but have yet to find it since. Not sure why.

[@lanser87]

Fascism is easy. Freedom is hard. Never forget that sentiment.

[@dalianreport88]

It is pretty clear who the smartest guy in the room was, eh. Charlie plays the obnoxious card to the max, getting in the way of what might have been a reasoned conversation.

[@raylena15]

What an intellectual flyweight Charlie is in a conversation about America not as slogan but as a civilization--as Norman approaches the discussion! Rose has for years has been punting and bunting his Long Island lock-brain way through interview after thoughtless interview with people who tower over his middlebrow self. Most of these esteemed guests let him off the hook by either being humorous with him or ignoring him altogether, waiting for him to shut up so they can get a word in edgewise.

[@TedBurke]

Rose knew what he was doing in those interviews, and it worked brilliantly. He might not ask the most subtle questions, but he did get writers, poets, film makers, politicians, CEOs, policy makers and academics to speak at length and at some depth about a broad range of topics over a good many years. His job was to ask questions, not to debate his guests. Mailer, it should be said, appeared on Rose's program many times and clearly didn't regard the host as a dunderhead. Rose turned into a creepy old guy, I guess, but he did an admirably job on this program.

[@raylena15]

Furthermore, this was amazing in as much as it underscored the very truth of what Mailer is saying: America is now an ignoble, "loutish" nation in which people cling to childish rhetoric, cliches, and hypocritical sentimentalities rather than trying to muster up enough mental energy to do critical analysis. Norman comes from a time in our history when it was commonplace for Americans, and particularly artists and writers, to do critical analysis. Language to a man like Norman Mailer was a tool.

[@steveconn]

"Changing the nature of American Democracy by the time we're done." He sees the future...

[@keithgreenan1850]

Charlie rose is pure establishment

[@ThinLynottFan]

"How did Vietnam change America?" Such a powerful statement, why wasn't Mailer made president? He was right.

[@ioriorioriorio]

The old boy nailed it again....normie's a many-faceted beast...he has that wildman , brawler side, but then he goes on a show like this and speaks right on the money. I would have loved to have a night on the town with him!!

[@tommynogo]

He's afraid that by the time we're finished with Iraq, our democracy will have been damaged. I didn't hear anybody else predict that, and he turned out to be right. That's amazing.

[@raylena15]

The obnoxious, self absorbed Charlie Rose has spent years interrupting guests, being impenatrably thick. Hilariously, he hasn't the slightest idea how out of his depth he is. It's a hoot. Norman fucking Mailer, for God's sake! Old lion of literary history. An ACTUAL intellectual. Even at his age, runs mental circles around Charlie, not even exerting himself. I shouted at the computer, "Stop swimming, you've fallen off the ship, you're in the ocean Charlie, you're dead. You'll only prolong it!"

[@Commando303X]

"If [Americans] do it, they'll win the war easily." Apparently not.

[@richardkoenigsberg4271]

Charlie Rose is DELUDED: banal liberalism. Norman Mailer was the smarter guy around at that time. Things are more complex than Rose would suspect. So conventional.

[@pmkaka]

Charlie had te corporate Bush view and so even though he was wrong his fans made fortunes pathetic Charlie Rose

[@TobiasCBrown]

I used to like Rose, thought he was great, looking back, he's not good here. Poor line of discussion.

[@raylena15]

Bravo. Charlie is exposed as the inveterate child he really is--a fellow who from the look of him I have always speculated must have fallen off some ivy league cabbage cart--possibly Harvard or Princeton from the waxy face he often displays, I speak from some knowledge too, because I've Ivy League degrees--Cornell. Charlie is walking through his interviews with the diffident, blind and dumb arrogance of a man who has never been punched in the face by life. Well, Norman sure punches him here.

[@TedBurke]

Your hang up with Charlie Rose indicates that you have difficult to meet needs. I hope you've gotten professional help with his problem in the intervening years.

[@channelfogg6629]

Rose is awful. How did he survive as am interviewer?