Plenty of celebrities issued crazy statements in their efforts to defend director and rapist Roman Polanski but none went as far as author Gore Vidal did when he labeled Polanski's victim a "young hooker."
In an Oct. 28 interview with The Atlantic's John Meroney about a variety of topics, Vidal claimed he didn't "give a f---" about the Polanski case. "Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?"
Vidal claimed "there was a totally different story at the time that doesn't resemble anything that we're now being told," and pinned the blame for the outcry against Polanski on anti-Semitism.
"The media can't get anything straight. Plus, there's usually an anti-Semitic and anti-fag thing going on with the press - lots of crazy things," elaborated Vidal. "The idea that this girl was in her communion dress, a little angel all in white, being raped by this awful Jew, Polacko - that's what people were calling him - well, the story is totally different now from what it was then."
Vidal also asserted that Polanski "seemed vicious and unnatural" to his "persecutors" for not "subscribing to [the] American values" of "lying and cheating."
People didn't persecute Polanksi for his failure to lie and cheat, as Vidal stated. They persecuted him for his "vicious and unnatural" rape and sodomy of a 13-year-old girl.




















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oh, he's done it now
October 28, 2009 - 14:57 ET by jon_torlinThat settles it, he's now officially a SCUMBAG!
Sorry piece of crap.....oh wait, apologies to those who are crap, this is worse than that.
-Jon
This animal reminds me that
October 28, 2009 - 15:43 ET by notonmywatchThis animal reminds me that we are rushing headlong toward being like Sodom, with the homo rapists.
People like this would not be tolerated in any decent society.
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nothing new
October 29, 2009 - 05:36 ET by konoBut j_t, Vidal's been officially a total scumbag for decades now. And he's always been smug about it, as if being a scumbag affirms his place among the elites. Can it be only coincidence that he shares both personality traits and a distinctive name with the Prophet of Warmism? (For what it's worth, the 'b' in scumbag should really be an 'f' for him.)
What we need is a Buckley to
October 28, 2009 - 14:59 ET by Dan The Man 2What we need is a Buckley to deck that fag. A 13 year old girl is not supposed to have consent whatever the circumstances. Lord!!!
Encore
October 28, 2009 - 17:24 ET by Vivaldi5Gosh, Dan the Man 2, now I need to go watch that confrontation again:
http://www.youtube.c...
Ah, now I feel better. It seems that the lack of a WFB to administer such put-downs to Vidal has only allowed him to grow more and more flamboyantly outrageous with time.
To twist Wordsworth a bit, "Buckley, thou shouldst be living at this hour...." We certainly have need of thee.
That's a great link vivaldi
October 28, 2009 - 21:14 ET by rockyracoonThat's a great link vivaldi even though the video is a little fuzzy, thanks. It's too bad Mr. Buckley didn't actually sock this human excrement, and wipe that silly grin off his face. What a despicible little twerp the guy is. What the heck is wrong with dems with the name, Gore?
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Hi, rockyracoon
October 29, 2009 - 11:48 ET by Vivaldi5I suspect that the original source of this video was similarly fuzzy, rocky. I have seen the clip various places and it's not much sharper anywhere I've seen. Probably this comes ultimately from some archival tape of this 1968 broadcast that the network had, and sometimes such tapes were not all that carefully stored or handled forty years back (e.g., what happened with the tapes of the earliest Tonight Show episodes with Johnny Carson, which were wiped as per standard network practice at the time). We're probably lucky the Buckley-Vidal exchange survived in any form.
Vivaldi, I understand, as
October 29, 2009 - 16:10 ET by rockyracoonVivaldi, I understand, as that was quite a while ago, nonetheless quite riviting to see still.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Soooo......
October 28, 2009 - 15:04 ET by jdlybrand"well, the story is totally different now than it was then."
Soooo....how's that revisionist history working out for you Gore? You dirty old freak!
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
If vidal can say 'fag',
October 28, 2009 - 15:09 ET by FranksamIf vidal can say 'fag', then then I guess I can, too. does he really think that the media don't like queers? The whole Matthew Shepherd fraud was brought to us by the press. My gay friends and relatives have told me that Shepherd was killed in a robbery, and that his sexual orientation had nothing to do with the crime.
I don't pretend to know what happened to the poor guy, but I doubt that Vidal knows much about what happened to Polanski's victim, either, First off, she was female, so she wouldn't be the faggot's type.
Why does this senile.....
October 28, 2009 - 15:09 ET by BEGRUNTPOS still get any attention to ANYTHING he says? This guy is an old has been queen, and has been irrelevant for years. Like I give a rats a$$ what he thinks. It is absolutely disgusting to refer to a 13 year old rape victim a "young hooker"....like she was looking to be raped. This scumbag should be shunned as should Polanski.
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Gore Vidal
October 28, 2009 - 15:12 ET by onewiseguy...a truly disgusting, demented and degenerate piece of sh!t.
Gore Vidal -- vile as ever, and proud of it.
October 28, 2009 - 15:13 ET by needle- Relying upon the Liberal Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.
- I didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left me.
How incredibly disgusting
October 28, 2009 - 15:14 ET by justmeIs there an appropriate place on earth for people like this? Somewhere far, far away from my little girls?
If Obama succeeds, liberty fails. I'm for the success of liberty.
Yes, J,
October 28, 2009 - 16:23 ET by boomerconYes, J, there is such a place: sucking on the barrel of my 12 gauge shotgun. If it were my daughter, I'd be doin the time, and smilin every day.
Boomer, very nice. For
October 28, 2009 - 20:35 ET by TheBigBBoomer, very nice. For these kind of sickos, I am an advocate of therapy. 100 grain, hollow point, high speed therapy.
Who will lead the Republicans to victory in 2010 and 2012? Why, Barack Obama, of course!
I hear ya...
October 28, 2009 - 20:37 ET by MightyMouth...and it's not the kind of job you can just "hire out"!
"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"
Who is Gore Vidal?????????
October 28, 2009 - 15:16 ET by MilfordHavenThere are some people in this world that, whenever I hear their name, I always think of somebody OTHER than who that person is. Gore Vidal is one of those people. For some reason Truman Capote keeps coming to mind whenever I hear Gore Vidal's name.
"Unnngghhh... Polanski....
October 28, 2009 - 15:21 ET by bse5150"Unnngghhh... Polanski.... mmmm.... nnnnnggghhhh..... Jews! Kennedy! Art! Everyone out to get me! Nnnnggghhh..... I'm Gore Vidal and I'm nnnggh... important! Unngghhh... hhmmmmeeeee.... No! Stop! Not that Goy Gore - Nnnggghhh... Lies! Media... Mmmm... my diaper is full!.... nnggghhhh..."
bse...Captured the old fool
October 28, 2009 - 15:51 ET by celatorbse...Captured the old fool perfectly. There are guys sleeping in dumpsters with more class than Vidal.
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
"There are guys sleeping in
October 28, 2009 - 21:18 ET by rockyracoon"There are guys sleeping in dumpsters with more class than Vidal." Now that is a truely great line, celator, and applies in this case.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
"There are guys sleeping in
October 28, 2009 - 21:19 ET by rockyracoon"There are guys sleeping in dumpsters with more class than Vidal." Now that is a truely great line, celator, and applies in this case.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Headline should read
October 28, 2009 - 15:24 ET by ohiochiliPathetic Old Fairy, Attempting to Generate Attention, Demonstrates He is Still a Hideous Waste of Space and Skin.
This man gives pond scum a
October 28, 2009 - 15:37 ET by motherbeltThis man gives pond scum a bad name!
Talk about a degenerate!!
Who is worse: the man who violates a 13-year-old girl, or the man who blames the child for it?
In This One Instance
October 28, 2009 - 15:28 ET by BondPlainBondI will heed the desires of the lunatic fringe greensters and suggest, strongly, Mr Vidal be first in line when the culling of humans begins.
Gore Vidal is a talentless
October 28, 2009 - 15:32 ET by math4lifeGore Vidal is a talentless worm. Why does he garner attention? Someone should e-mail that other hack Joy Behar with his "young hooker" remark. I'm sure she being a feminist will be angry.
Joy has never been laid so
October 28, 2009 - 16:53 ET by jkwtradingJoy has never been laid so she'd never know what anyone was talking about..lol
I say again...
October 28, 2009 - 15:35 ET by stage9This is class A liberal rationale - defend the criminal, destroy the victim.
They did it with Robert Kennedy's murder of Mary Jo Kopechne, you would've thought Kennedy was the victim and Mary Jo was the murderer. They did it with rapist Wayne DuMond, painting him as a victim, ignoring his rape of Ashley Stephens. They did it with the terrorists who were linked to 9/11. They've done it with Che Guevara. They've done it with Hugo Chavez. They do it with homosexual issues. Abortion. Euthenasia...and the list goes on and on and on.
Whenever there is a moral position to take on an issue, liberals, without fail, will always take the extreme position over the traditionally moral one.
And if defending the criminal is beneficial to their cause, then they'll defend him to the death.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will
be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for
pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner."
— Malcolm Muggeridge<
Gore Vidal
October 28, 2009 - 15:35 ET by FeynmanFanGore Vidal: a worthless pile of dung.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
X
October 28, 2009 - 15:35 ET by serfer62Aha
A pervert defends a pervert...
Vidal statistic: She was a 13-year old hooker?
October 28, 2009 - 15:40 ET by CO2MakerWait a minute. Was she from El Salvador? Haven't we heard this story before? Did ACORN help her meet Polanski?
Oh, btw, notice the little Catholic smear? A "little angel all in white, in her Communion dress."
Yep, where's Bill Buckley when Vidal needs a good right cross (multiple puns intended).
Fairly Awful Guy
October 28, 2009 - 15:48 ET by TomoramaI demand every liberal denounce his remarks..........
Actually first I want them to denounce Grayskull.
Is this the week that Liberals hammer women over and over and Katie Couric and company actually do some reporting?
Thirteen year old boy, you up for it??????
A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.
WFB said it best...
October 28, 2009 - 17:34 ET by Vivaldi5...when he said "Let the author of 'Myra Breckenridge' go back to his pornography...."
By the way, Wikipedia's entry on "Myra" records that "the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant sexual practices, as filtered through an aggressively camp sensibility." That's in case anyone unfamiliar with Vidal wondered about this aging sicko's previous history.
Isn't what the old goat
October 28, 2009 - 15:44 ET by RR GOPIsn't what the old goat said libelous?
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
Vidal is just another
October 28, 2009 - 15:45 ET by ForeverOnTheRightVidal is just another narcissistic amoral entertainment sort. He's been corrupt for a long time. All the adulation for his writing talent has gone to his head like many in the entertainment industry. He's on that wide road to hell and considering his age, he's not long for making permanent residence there, short of a miracle. God save his soul, before it’s too late!
ah you are too kind to
October 28, 2009 - 16:49 ET by jkwtradingah you are too kind to Gore..
I'd say let him not repent then meet the devil head on..He'd have all eternity to discuss his righteousnsess.
boy love to see their meting and discussion..
Hey vidal......
October 28, 2009 - 15:46 ET by pantryman...go bleed to death....
victim again and again
October 28, 2009 - 16:04 ET by cajun2Having a past career of investigating sexual abuse of children, I learned that perpetrators repeat the same lines.
First, a 13 yr old child does not voluntarily choose prostitution as a hobby. A 13 yr old is still a child legally and by reason.
Pedophiles see children as sexual toys. They do not see them as humans. To blame the victim as having been the "seducer" is another of their ploys.
Since Mr.Vidal repeated both allegations, he does seem to fit the profile.
This child was a victim then and as long as Polanski was free, she was a victim, and now victimized again and again by the hollyweird and the liberal media. The more talking heads that issue statements in defense of Polanki prove to me every day that child sexual abuse is being presented to society as acceptable behavior.
One out of 3 young women have experienced unsolicited sexual encounters, are molested or sexually assaulted before reaching the age of 18. The most difficult issue in helping victims through their traumatic experience is how the victim and the assault is viewed. Blame the victim and recovery therapy is most difficult.
This "normalizing" perverse sexual behavior will only place more children at risk. Inproving technology has led to a false sense of security for law enforcement. They put names in a computer, put ankle bracelets to monitor activity, and have support groups. Bull shit. The only thing this has accomplished is that these perpetrators have learned to murder their victims and treat all children as disposable refuse. They are getting more brazen because society is becoming more and more accepting of lessening morality and perverted behavior. This is one of the reasons I chose to retire. A never ending stream of victims in a society willing to continue creating new victims and perpetrators.
Re Profile
October 28, 2009 - 16:58 ET by slickwillie2001"Since Mr.Vidal repeated both allegations, he does seem to fit the profile."
Yep, I'd want to check his neighbohood for any stale unsolved crimes. He sounds like the type.
Vidal---
October 29, 2009 - 06:25 ET by matthewdeanWillie:
Gore Vidal IS a stale, unsolved crime.
MD
"I may not agree with what your bumper sticker says, but I will defend to the death your right to stick it." (Unknown)
About society
October 28, 2009 - 17:11 ET by justmeAbout society and sexualizing children.
I was shocked out of my senses to discover an adult man I know actually believes that young girls (8 year olds and there abouts) are capable of behaving seductively towards men (and for that reason has sympathy for poor men that are convicted of molestation of these seductive children). Needless to say, it taught me something. People, don't believe your kiddos are safe around people you know just because you know them. Guard your babies furiously. If somebody thinks a kid can act seductively, than he must also feel attracted to kids. This just makes me ill.
If Obama succeeds, liberty fails. I'm for the success of liberty.
It's not just girls
October 28, 2009 - 20:14 ET by legacyrepublicanI can't tell you how protective I am of my handsome, cute, blonde and blue eyed three year old son. I am aware that there are perverts who get off on them just as much as a little girl.
Years ago, in the late 60s and early 70s, I used to laugh that my mother took me to certain bathroom in Phoenix because she knew people there who could keep an eye on me.
Today, I thank God for her protecting me.
Says it all
October 28, 2009 - 16:55 ET by Anneke9That comment says it all about the vacuousness and misogyny of the Left's elite (I was going to use the word "intellectuals" but that would imply that they have the capacity for knowledge. The only brains they have are between their legs.)
Camouflage conservative in Baghdad-by-the-Bay
Of course Vidal feels this way.
October 28, 2009 - 17:01 ET by BO STINKS"Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?"
He doesn't like girls or women. He comes across as a vicious, mysoginist (sp?). So glad that the mask is being ripped from the facades of these pseudo-feminists. Keep teling us how you really feel, you animals. The American public has a right to know.
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" Sam Adams
Gore Vidal is what he
October 28, 2009 - 17:22 ET by bigtimerGore Vidal is what he always has been...evil.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Satans little imp
October 28, 2009 - 17:45 ET by Thinking.ManWhy would anyone take this lune seriously?
Ah well from the looks of it a few more years and he can pal up with Hitler in hell.
When Sorros and Podesta end their miserable lives they can all room together and play ping pong with each others balls while they wait for Polanski to show up and make it a foursome.
What utter pieces of worthless human trash.
I don't ever use the word,
October 28, 2009 - 17:51 ET by Richard RomanoI don't ever use the word, but this man is evil.
There is something truly wrong morally with this miserable old fool, and it's not simply being elitish or snobbish.
I don't ever use the word,
October 28, 2009 - 21:58 ET by Dan The Man 2I don't ever use the word, but this man is evil.
You should use it more, I believe in evil and I believe a man who occupies the White House is evil. We should call out true evil when we see it.
Gore Vidal and Roman
October 28, 2009 - 17:51 ET by fitzfongGore Vidal and Roman Polanski are birds of a feather...two arrogant, entitled, disgusting creeps whose personality flaws have been forgiven (even explained away) by the "arts" community because of some overblown perception of their dubious artistic talents.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
Vidal
October 28, 2009 - 18:31 ET by RuckweilerIs this old pervert still alive?
Gore Vidal is a soulless...
October 28, 2009 - 18:39 ET by PrairieSkyfilthy remnant of human detritus.
The sooner he departs this Earth, the better.
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan
Vidal wrote a book 'bout
October 28, 2009 - 18:52 ET by Jack BauerVidal wrote a book 'bout Aaron Burr,
Had the hots for him but never her.
He likes 'em young, and will pay a fee;
And just like Roman, prefers sodomy.
Gore Vidal
October 28, 2009 - 20:18 ET by justbob223Gore Vidal is a pathetic piece of human detritus.
My God, what a vile and hate
October 28, 2009 - 20:43 ET by nadadhimmiMy God, what a vile and hate filled man. What type of subhuman, animalistic scum is this Vidal? I think he epitomizes liberals. They defend the criminals and abuse the victims. Think abortion , and defending undisputed murderers and you get the picture. Excuse me while I puke in my socks.
Killing Jews
October 28, 2009 - 20:49 ET by nadadhimmiHow dare Vidal ignore his own liberal brethren. College campuses abound with Jew hate, extolling the elimination of Israel, murdering Jews and Nambla boy rape. What a self loathing piece of shit he is.
This is not unpredictable.
October 28, 2009 - 22:04 ET by Mike in AZPeople should not be shocked. This is what is to be expected of a person who is covertly hostile. Imagine a person smiling at you with a dagger hidden behind their back. That's Gore Vidal. I am not the least bit surprised that this sub-human piece of (fill in the blank) would come up with disgusting rationale such as this. I can only hope that this p.o.s. gets his in the end. (I'm a believer in karmic retribution.)
Unfortunately, the world is full of wretched people who justify vile behavior. I will speculate that Mr. Vidal must have some sort of child rape situations of his own in the past. Why else would he seek to provide cover for the coward rapist vermin, Polanski?
Hmm, This Is Rather Amusing...
October 28, 2009 - 22:49 ET by The7SticksWho knew that one man's words could bring out such vitriol that you'd think that the evil Emperor Palpatine had just come in the room? Seriously, you morons are the only reasons that I belong to neither party. I don't like liberals anymore than you do, but Heavens to Betsy, this kind of vitriol is what convinces me that you conservatives are just soooo gay for liberals. Like the Joker said to Batman, "You complete me." If I didn't know any better, I'd think you'd all have a man-crush on Gore Vidal from the reaction I've read here. And I'm beginning to think it's a little lame. I'm not getting much of a larf from all of your pissing contests to see who can piss the most on an individual. If I were to say that Jabba the Don-of-Puke was pure evil, I would be rightfully laughed at. But I don't. I just insult him as "Jabba the Don-of-Puke". I mean please. You people seriously need to get a life.
P.S.: Vidal may have been referring to the fact that the girl Polanski raped had previously had sex with her boyfriend. Not that I find the comment any less outrageous, but sometimes you have to look at the kernels of truth that fall through the cracks.
-"Your bird intelligence is no match for my PEOPLE intelligence!"
-Peter Griffin from Family Guy
The reason you don't belong
October 29, 2009 - 02:38 ET by ckc1227The reason you don't belong to either party is because you can't figure out how to fill out the registration form.
Seriously does it get any richer than when a tool whines about vitriolic posts with....you guessed it....his own vitriolic post, lol.
Thank God you're not a Republican. We have enough nitwits as it is. We don't need any more, I don't care how big our tent is supposed to be.
Amusing---
October 29, 2009 - 07:05 ET by matthewdeanSticks:
Your cool, yet blase rejoinder, simply jolted me to the core.
"You people seriously need to get a life."
"Heavens to Betsy-you conservatives are sooo gay for liberals-Joker said to Batman-you complete me-man crush on Gore Vidal-larf-pissing contests-to see who can piss the most on an individual."
At least with such heavy homo-eroticism extant, I can better understand what you meant to say in your last sentence---
" --- but sometimes you have to look at the undigested kernels of corn that fall, mixed with feces, from someones' crack."
I don't generally engage in the name calling stuff, but since you called me a moron:
Can you say, "transference", putz?
Had you called me a maroon, I would have laughed along with you.
C'mon now Sticks, own up; are you really Perez Hilton?
MD
"I may not agree with what your bumper sticker says, but I will defend to the death your right to stick it." (Unknown)
7 sticks
October 29, 2009 - 14:47 ET by konoNeat moniker there. In terms of conversion of units, seven sticks seems to equal a bundle.
I'll sling insults at many a Liberal's idiotic words and deeds, and even occasionally impugn their intentions. Calling someone 'evil' is reserved for the rarest cases of manifest malignancy, though -- such as defending a child rapist by calling his victim a whore.
As for being called a 'moron' by you, I'll consider that an affirmation rather than an insult, considering the source.
Heavens to betsy you sound
October 29, 2009 - 19:08 ET by Jack BauerHeavens to betsy you sound so gay for Gore Vidal. You don't even attempt to hide your mancrush. Though please... Star Wars references? What are you? 10?
Let me guess you have a lifesize Death Star Trooper in your bedroom you share with your kid brother. Double bunk beds?
That 13 year old raped by Polanski. Clearly she was asking for it.
If you knew anything about the slimey creep Vidal and his vile tongue, you would know that he deserves every drop of vitriol that comes his way. The guy spent a lifetime dishing shite, he can take it.
Oh -- and I seriously doubt that the reason you aren't a member of any political party has anything to do with me, or the rest of us.
You know its way more personal than that. Clearasil is supposed to help. Try it.
Jack
October 29, 2009 - 19:14 ET by BlondeHeavens to Murgatroid!
:D
I hope he fails, too.
Vidal
October 29, 2009 - 10:12 ET by jessieHVidal has always been an idiot. I wonder if he would say this B.S. if it was his daughter.
Hey - she's just a hooker....
October 30, 2009 - 13:51 ET by ConservativeTMYeah - I guess since she's a hooker, she deserved it - huh, Gore? After all, women are just worthless chattel for men to use as they please. Drug 'em and screw 'em - what the hell. Right? Sick, sick, sick. Read more at: http://conservativetm.blogspot.com/2009/09/31-depraved.html