If you haven't gotten your daily dose of left-wing crazy, strap yourself in.
On CNN Headline News Oct. 22 broadcast of "The Joy Behar Show," left-wing author and conspiracy theorist Gore Vidal shared his thoughts about President Barack Obama. He said he thought the 44th President of the United States might be a little overqualified - at least as far as his intelligence.
"I like him," Vidal said. "I wish he knew more about the United States. I was for Hillary at the beginning on the grounds she knew how to be president. Having sort of done the job as a spouse. And then I realized, you know, he's too intelligent for the job."
Vidal also had some very disparaging words about the intellect of the American people.
"We have the worst educated population of any first-world country," Vidal said. "And I hope you're listening and I hope you know that your lack of education is the joke of the world. This is not a very nice joke."
And the host Joy Behar agreed with Vidal, saying that after George W. Bush's presidency, the American public wasn't prepared for "the shock of such a smart guy."
"I think you have a point. He's a little too smart for the country in a certain kind of way," Behar said. "I mean, after Bush, I don't know if the country could take the shock of such a smart guy."
And Vidal responded with even more adulation for Obama and his high degree of intellect.
"Well, it didn't," Vidal said. "What happened was that for the first time the American people, our people. We're listening on primetime to a president of the United States, duly elected, officially anyway, duly elected president who is speaking as one intelligent, well-educated man to his fellows. Well, they never heard anyone like that."
But it deteriorated quickly after that. Vidal then launched into an angry impersonation of former President George W. Bush and the way he handled the war on terror.
"I'm a wartime president. You got that? I'm a wartime president," Vidal said, mimicking Bush. "And he's marching along, ‘Let me tell you if we don't find them over there, we're going to have to fight them here."
And after his outburst meant to belittle the former president, Vidal revealed to viewers he wanted to murder Bush.
"Well, I was all for fighting them right here at that moment, you know," Vidal said. "But I couldn't jump into the screen fast enough to kill him off. That's one murder that I missed not committing." Behar didn't oppose his death wish. She responded first by chuckling and then say, "Well, it's too late anyway."
The is pretty normal behavior for Vidal. Last year following the death of his adversary, William F. Buckley, Vidal tossed another bomb, but for the Jun 15, 2008 New York Times Magazine:
How did you feel when you heard that Buckley died this year? I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.
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my GOD, he's RIGHT!
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:11 ET by AJBThat's what it is!! Obozo is just too darned smart to do anything!! His record as a state senator -- he wasn't just loafing and watching TV, he was thinking Deep Thoughts! His 143 days as US Senator... he wasn't just not voting and participating, he was thinking more Deep Thoughts! Yeah, that's it! Failed economy, take over of Gubment Motors, Cash for Clunkers... yeah... Deep Thoughts. That's it... well, would you believe....
Exactly WHAT has this
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:50 ET by motherbeltExactly WHAT has this President done that proves how intelligent he is? He has not done a single thing that proves a superior intellect!
The fact that he reads speeches well?
Give me a break! Someone please, name ONE THING that he has done that proves intelligence!
You can think he's a "smart guy" or a savvy politician, but intellect?
That very well may be, but what profound thoughts, what amazing reasoning, what magnificent theory has he put forth that proves a superior intellect?
These people have just decided that he's a genius, and that's that!
The one thing that Vidal is right about is the state of American education. But does he think that American kids immediately became dumb when Bush was elected?
Look to your own leftists to blame THAT one on, Gore!
Putting intelligence to use
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:05 ET by KC MulvilleObama has very calmly, smoothly, in a very polished manner ... told lie after lie to the American people.
I'm sorry -- to me, the evidence is in the opposite direction. Any man who spouts nonsense like "we are the ones we've been waiting for" should not be presumed to be intelligent. OK, I admit he's intelligent enough, but the idea that he's a genius is laughably short on evidence, and predictably long on blinkered hope.
I agree with Vidal that
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:24 ET by Seabeach4348I agree with Vidal that some of us here in America (too many) were dumb enough, from a political and historical standpoint, to elect Obozo. Some just didn't give a damn and elected him because he had a nice "smile" and even sounded "intelligent", not that I would trust these people to be able to recognize "intelligence" if it hit them between the eyes.
And Vidal forgot to mention that Obama never released his college transcripts (not one of them) even though he was asked many times to do so.
So, for all we know, our president, Barry I, the Illegitimate, may have been third from the bottom of his class.
And then there's that nasty little birth certificate......
Biden
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 23:36 ET by NorthCoasterObama was smart enough to hire his own cheerleader. Wouldn't you want a subordinate who has called you "clean and articulate
"?
I have no major
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:01 ET by misterbee241I have no major accomplishments, but I read pretty doggonned good. Can I be POTUS? Not that I'd ever want to.
"I dont need to read a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber."
Walter Brennan, The Colonel, Meet John Doe, 1941
quote of the day
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 10:25 ET by OuttaMyWayan igoogle quote of the day:
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal
i posted that to my fb profile, saw this story, and promptly removed it. figured he was talking the prompter in chief.
Poor Joy, she is scraping
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:15 ET by kefkaPoor Joy, she is scraping the bottom of the barrel for guests already.
Prove it, show me the
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:19 ET by George S PattonProve it, show me the magic negro's school records.
isn't there a law
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:19 ET by jacktheripperagainst death threats to a POTUS?
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can
bribe the people with their own money." – Alexis de Tocqueville
jack, There is such a law
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:27 ET by R D Helm...but it doesn't apply to kooked-out lefties, apparently.
-Dave
Our elected representatives have failed us.
... or octogenerian drag queens
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 10:30 ET by SickofLibs... or octogenerian drag queens
A COUPLE OF THINGS...
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:24 ET by danybhoyI love that Vidal is bitching about how crappy America's education system is. Too bad for this tool that the leftist have destroyed our schools by focusing on $h!T other then what kids should learn. You know, like science, math, history, & knowing how to read & write. Instead, they feed the kids global warming crap, teaching kids that capitalism sucks, that islam is peacefull, & how great guys like Castro is. BTW, ever notice how every kid who wins the spelling bee is homeschooled?
Gore Vidal is an little more then another angry liberal lefty. Nothing special about that, most of them are. But he's smarter then you, & he lets you know it. In the end, he is a petty little man who will be known for very little except for being a pompus @$$.
"...How blind can you be, don't you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."
Nightwish
Are You Listening?
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:25 ET by GeneralAlAre you listening, Congressman Bill Foster? You're the one who told me at a local grocery store that Vietnam Veterans, such as myself, present a bigger danger to America than terrorist or illegal aliens!
On nationwide TV, an idiot from the left makes these preposterous statements and the beat goes on! We have to destroy the Democrats and any of their Republican allies in the next election!
Ha!
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:28 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsWell he's at least got this right:
"We have the worst educated population of any first-world country,"
Vidal said. "And I hope you're listening and I hope you know that your
lack of education is the joke of the world. This is not a very nice
joke."
Thank you public education, political correctness, and the NEA. But guess what Gore old pal? The joke is on you. Without those illiterate masses Obama would never have been elected. He's got a lock on the idiot vote, that's for sure.
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You're right about that!
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:57 ET by motherbeltThank you public education, political correctness, and the NEA.
I said similar above. But like all good leftists, I'm sure Mr. Vidal's "solution" would be more government money, more administrators, more pay raises for incompetent teachers, and more social engineering.
And you're right....those were Obama's voters.
Yep, Rock the vote!!!
I was for Hillary at the
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:30 ET by BKeyserI think he's talking about Hillary...
Great observation!
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:07 ET by motherbeltHe was for Hillary, but then he realized that Obama's too smart for the job?
I re-read it, and I think you may be righ.
Obama is not very intelligent
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:32 ET by R D HelmIn fact, he appears to be not even smart.
As for Vidal, he has clearly gone 'round the bend - way around it.
-Dave
Our elected representatives have failed us.
Flashback
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:36 ET by ClericalGalI just looked at an old TV clip from the Democratic Convention in 1968. William Buckley and Vidal were commentators for ABC. Vidal called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi"; Buckley threatened to "sock [Vidal] in the G.D. face." I wish Buckley had.
Barack Obama
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:41 ET by FeynmanFanBarack Obama: style over substance
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
Barack Obama: So much style,
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:47 ET by kefkaBarack Obama: So much style, he doesn't need any substance
Double standard
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:49 ET by Blogger Guy00001Making a threat about the president. Quoting someone making a threat. Talking about someone making a threat. All these invite a visit from law enforcement. Except if it's about George Bush.
Intelligent?
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:51 ET by richb313Like most educated people Gore Vidal mixes and chooses his words in such a way as to confuse the listener and or reader.
1. Intelligence is a measure of the ability of a person to learn new things and how quickly they can do it.
2. Educated is a measure of how much stuff someone has learned.
3. Wisdom is the ability to use your Intellect and Education to come to a proper decision.
The newest President might be educated but has shown little Intelligence because when presented with New Information that contradicts previously held beliefs he has not quickly adobted this new Information into his working knowledge base. He has also not demonstarted Wisdom because he does not use his Intellect and Education to fashion the most proper decision. Instead the President clings to previously held beliefs in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary.
What is the value of an Education if the information learned is flawed in the first place?
Murder
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:59 ET by nadadhimmiMurdering Bush, I think he was speaking in the vernacular of his age group. I've heard my parents use that expression to express dissatisfaction and exasperation with someone. What, however, Vidal wants to do with Obama rhymes with: sew job. Of course, the msm just laps this stuff up.
The truth
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:01 ET by FranksamI appreciate the fact that Vidal is being honest. I am now relieved of any reason to keep my own un-PC thoughts cloistered.
For starters, I hope that Gore is HIV+. He's just too smart to be on TV, and the morons who voted for Obama don't deserve his wisdom. I'd admit to wanting to kill him except for the fact that I'm trying to keep my carbon footprint down lately, and he's not worth the carbon credits that I'd have to buy from Algore Corp. to go make the hit.
These people
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:59 ET by Calypso Jonesare fools. The rest of us recognize that.
"We have the worst educated
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:04 ET by chessplayer"We have the worst educated population of any first-world country,"
Thanks to the libs "fixing" our education system, you stinking, vile jerk!
I wish Oba-Mao knew more about the United States, too.
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:23 ET by WorriedI finally agreed with the idiot Vidal on something.
Where do old libs go when they die?
Into utopia downstairs.
Morons
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:30 ET by sevenIn review of concepts and facts like
Unemployment rates
Taxes
Debt
Obama can't even grasp simple concepts like the difference between up and down.. He thinks a tax increase decreases taxes.
Obama thinks he is smart.
Wow Big whoop
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:31 ET by Jeff in Miami BeachWow big news Gore Vidal is still alive!
On his comments about our education system: Didn’t he invent some shampoo or something?
If you think medical care is expensive now wait until it is free!
I thought "Gore Vidal" was a
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:35 ET by BKeyserI thought "Gore Vidal" was a directive...
BK, funny stuff dude, I
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:53 ET by TomoramaBK, funny stuff dude, I actually am smart enough to get the concept of your "play on words"..........
Unlike the coward in chief though, I didn't need someone to write my response or wait for the binkyprompter to be loaded to write it or say it.
NEVER has so much adulation been hoisted on someone who has NEVER done bleep except speak.
Unlike the coward in chief, I served, paid MY WAY through college with a bit of help from the VA and have WORKED in a real job for 25 years and I can "work a room" with a microphone, WHERE MY NOBEL AT?????
Gore Vidal, when you happily die, someone will be waiting to give you that punch in the fact that you deserve, he had too much class to do it on TV.
Like a typical liberal pussy, you would have sued, as that what cowards do when they lose a fight.
A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.
Vidal and Behar
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:46 ET by NoMoreChangeVidal and Behar judging intelligence. Now, that is funny!
TOO FUNNY!!
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:00 ET by mjfitchA RETARDED WITCH AND A SENILE OLD FART, MAKES FOR A NONSENSICAL BRAINFART :-)
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill
I'll admit
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:47 ET by Tugboat PhilI'm not an "educated" person. I haven't spent one minute of my life in a college classroom and graduated high school in 75. Would one of you more educated folks look at his quote and tell me if this isn't grammatically incorrect? It just doesn't look right the way he used"worst" in the sentence. If I'm wrong I'll just go back to picking my nose in front of the TV set.
"We have the worst educated population of any first-world country," Vidal said.
Gun Control - The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
Tugboat
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:58 ET by TomoramaDude, you owe me a cup of coffee and a keyboard as that was funny stuff, get back to your pickin'....
Funny how the coward in chief drops his G's when he is around a "certain" type of crowd, dropping G's, didn't the media hammer Palin and Bush for doin' that?
Barry is so smart though, "he be doin' it fo effect".
A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.
I would never suggest that
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:15 ET by motherbeltI would never suggest that you go and pick your nose, because it certainly does look weird, but I think it is technically correct. I also think it needed a hyphen. We say the "best-educated" so I guess "worst-educated" is OK, although it is a bit awkward.
Too smart?
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:56 ET by zion1Gore Vidal has not been in the know for awhile. You have to get out, mingle, and participate in the world for that. Yet he is floated on these shows still, I guess because he is a link to the Kennedy era. There is a bit of truth about the educational system, but he is looking at the whole pool. We have plenty of intelligent and talented people, the lower illiterate and uneducated not withstanding. But, Obama is too smart? Why, because he dresses nice and reads a good teleprompter? That's great for the CBS news. Watch him answer an impromptu question that requires original thought and see that "Deer in the headlights" look. Also, one doesn't seal academic records to hide their incredible intelligence.
Re Kennedy
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:55 ET by slickwillie2001I don't think of Kennedy, I think of Laugh-In and Lily Tomlin.
Re our education system, I have to agree it is broken and busted, but that is why we ended up with the Bamster, not President George W. Bush.
Don't forget one thing we learned in 2000
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:01 ET by CO2MakerBush beat Gore.
Vidal
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:31 ET by jessieHVidal sounds like a very lonely, bitter man. The poor guy probably has a touch of insanity. He probably caught it from Matthews. Check his pulse, see if his leg is tingling.
Vidal has not been mentally
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:45 ET by celatorVidal has not been mentally intact for a number of years. They are increasing security around him, they say.
Every now and then he escapes from his room in the residence and manages to get himself on TV. The doctors and staff have apologized many times for that.
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
Hey "Vidal"! braniac!
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 10:15 ET by MightyMouthHow could we be the "worst" when our universities rank like this!
Oh they are private schools! Well maybe the little troll has a point! I have an idea...let's throw even MORE money at public education! That always works!
"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"
Re Rankings
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 11:24 ET by slickwillie2001I believe our Ivy League schools are highly overrated. I've interviewed many of their graduates, and some of them are shockingly ignorant. Look at the graduation rates; at Yale I believe it is 95%. That means the only people that didn't make it through either died or were too drugged out to find the school. It happens because college ratings tend to be done by the liberal elites, and for them the Ivy League label is everything.
So....what kind of school is it?
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 12:35 ET by jon_torlinWhat do they teach at these schools if the people are shockingly ignorant? (which I firmly believe is the case too)
How to throw common sense out the window in favor of lib-tarded ideas?
-Jon
Behar's show
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:48 ET by okiehawk44Does anyone really care what Gore Vidal thinks about anything anymore? Talking about irrelevancy.
Ann Coulter please stay off this show. It's in the tank and has lower viewer stats than Matthews and that's saying some. You give it viewers and hope.
Pretty tolerant right
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 10:17 ET by wiwfPretty tolerant right there, Mr. Vidal.
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
more man worship....
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 10:51 ET by stage9Mahdi Obama, the liberal Messiah, the progressive, free thinker - underminer of capitalism, communist sympathizer and media darling, is indeed too "smart" for America. His narcissism would be better served elsewhere - like Mainland China or North Korea. What can we do to speed such a transition along?
"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
Geez!!!
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 10:57 ET by Patriot IIGive it a rest!!! I wouldn't trust anything with the name "gore" in it! oblahma too intelligent? ha ha ha roflmao!!! only his monitor knows for sure LOL
dumb
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 11:12 ET by thewookI am a computer engineer who recently received a 770 out of 800 on the GRE. I'll take on any liberal including Vidal in an IQ test. We will see who is dumb. Need I say "Wolf Blitzer"?
Yes, the prexy would agree
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 11:40 ET by StarAZThe president definitely comes across as thinking he is above the job--I guess he reads Vidal in addition to Niebuhr.
By the way
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 11:44 ET by StarAZI don't think of Obama as "my" president or of Gore Vidal as "my" intellectual. But you know how I am.
Does this mean
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 12:47 ET by katiejaneit will be ok to not feel bad when Vidal finally dies? Just asking - if it's ok for him to regret not killing a sitting Pres it should be acceptable to not regret the death of Vidal.
I for one welcome our new
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 12:47 ET by FlashmanI for one welcome our new cerebral overlords!
Ahh...EXCUSE me....
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 13:40 ET by gopcongressPardon me for being a noodge, but...
Shouldn't Vidal be federally investigated for advocating MURDER against a former president? Last I heard, it's a federal offense. You know DAMN WELL that if a conservative had said the same thing about Obama, Clinton or Carter, that person would be in the hoosegaw and be the prime news item.
You know this country is totally out of whack where such a statement about a former Republican president is seen as commonplace and not even newsworthy, let alone indictable.
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Moderate... Democrat... Liberal... Progressive... Socialist... Communist—The progression is clear as day.
if I remember right
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 13:47 ET by jon_torlinThe Secret Service is the one who investigates these types of things. And if so, who does the Secret Service work for? DHS. Who's in charge of it? Yeah. The same one who called our soldiers people to watch out for when they come back from overseas tours.
-Jon
So when someone sticks this guy's head in a meat grinder...
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 14:21 ET by Lord ErondIs anyone going to be disingenous enough to act shocked?
"Timothy, guard what God has entrusted to you. Avoid godless, foolish discussions with those who oppose you with their so-called knowledge."
Timothy 6:20
Vidal is just upset
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 14:23 ET by Lord ErondBecause no one wants to have sex with his wrinkled old butt these days anymore.
"Timothy, guard what God has entrusted to you. Avoid godless, foolish discussions with those who oppose you with their so-called knowledge."
Timothy 6:20
Obsama
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 15:31 ET by retspookretspook
If you people think Obsama is too smart for America. I have a great solution. Send him back to Kenya with all his relatives hwere he belongs. This has to be the dumbest President I have seen in my lifetime. I really don't know where you people are coming from.
Vidal
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 15:50 ET by grumpyoldbI met Gore Vidal once (30+ years ago)....
My impression? Can you say INSANE!
Why is Gollum pictured in
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 16:59 ET by stratmanWhy is Gollum pictured in this article?
His precious is wretchedness.
Vidal is proof the apple does not fall far from the (family) tree.
outragous
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 22:03 ET by sudmufI demand an immediate Secret Service investigation into the Vidal death threat against Persident Bush.
Gore Vidal is hard to
Sun, 10/25/2009 - 13:39 ET by MikeBGore Vidal is hard to figure out. He makes one statment (Obama being too intelligent for America) that makes him appear the poster boy for senile dementia, then makes another statement that is almost correct. American education in the primary and secondary schools, and in the Colleges of Education, Sociology, and Journalism are a joke. But, he seems to miss the fact that primary and secondary education is controlled by the teacher's unions, which are liberal to the core. Go figure.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Vidal's hissy fit
Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:51 ET by SFCMACOh yeah, Obama is such a f***ing intellect. He can't string together a coherent sentence when his teleprompter goes on the fritz. He thinks 10,000 people were killed by a single tornado in Kansas, that there are 57 states, one of which is called "New Pennsylvania", where the "Nitally Lions" play. He also thinks the White Sox play in "Cominsky Field", that "Austrian" is spoken in Austria, and that Iran is a "tiny country".
Other than that, he's a genius.
"On the Eighth Day God Created the United States Army and the Devil Stood at Attention"