First, RIP Gore Vidal, perhaps the last of this country’s ‘public intellectuals’: where are the likes of Buckley, Hitchens, Vidal? A brilliant mind, a brilliant wit, painfully honest and deeply patriotic – and a wonderful writer.
Here’s Michelle Bachmann today telling her Gore Vidal story:
“It’s very interesting because I had been a Democrats — and I’d actually worked on Jimmy Carter’s campaign. And I was reading a novel by Gore Vidal, and when I was reading it he was mocking the Founding Fathers. And all of a sudden it just occurred to me: I set the book down on my lap, I looked out the window of a train I was riding in, and I thought to myself, ‘I don’t think I’m a Democrat. I think I really am a Republican.’ Because the Founding Fathers were not the characters that I saw Gore Vidal portraying in his novel.”
For the good Congresswoman, that apparently passes for actual reasoning.
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Two of the last three posts are too challenging because I’m not going to read about Bachmann and Hannity within a matter of minutes. Well, at least you didn’t include Palin.
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I wanted to drop a Palin tweet in here just for you but dammit I don’t know how!!!!
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I’m not a big Vidal fan, but given that he got her out of MY party, Thanks, Gore!
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I’ll go with that Elyse!
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Are we to mourn the defection of Bachmann? Good riddance.
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Let us just enjoy the absolute stunning line of reasoning. What a public fool she is!
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Bachmann came to a proper, American conclusion on the worth of Vidal and those who favor his works in general, most of which were rankly anti-American.
Trust me, no true American is saddened by Vidal’s trip to judgement and not one will hope he receives mercy.
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By “proper, American” do you mean a conclusion based on little to no evidence coupled with faulty reasoning? You shouldn’t paint America with such a wide brush as there are people in America who do use reason and are quite thoughtful in their arguments.
Rampant generalizing and a logical fallacy, all in one comment.
Full Marks, do keep up the good work. 🙂
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Why waste your time? You’re not going to silence me with your attacks no matter how much you try.
And, BTW, what would you, a foreigner living in country with no devotion to liberty or freedom of speech know of America. Like all of your breed, you’re not really qualified to comment on America.
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