Gore Vidal versus Dimbleby

Because the other version knocking around the YouTubes is really glitchy (at least on my PC), here's another clip of the Vidal grumblethon.

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News & Politics

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• Gore
• Vidal
• Dimbleby
• BBC
• News
• US
• Election
• Grumpy
• Old
• Man

[mirandalatimer]

I think he was trying to say that JD's questions were focussed on trying to get him to say something outright provocative, to get a soundbite. He'd already done that for him! So JD did look a bit like a typical British journalist (and I am British so I recognise the type): trying to 'get something out' of the interviewee rather than have a real dialogue.

[SweetDissident]

3:21 "It's your turn." LOL!! Love Vidal!

[NixonisLord]

And Vidal's since changed his mind and thinks electing Barrack Obama was not as good an idea as electing Hilary Clinton would have been. But he's senile so cut him some slack.

[NixonisLord]

I am proud that Gore Vidal called me "the only great President of the last half of the 20th century." But he's also obviously senile or drunk-or both, sadly. They should have not allowed him to speak in public in this stage.

[wonderfulwhippet123]

3:33 Someone's choking on the corporate cock...

[HeadieMung]

I think Mr Dimbleby took this with very good grace.

[BloodTar]

I can't stand such giggling journalists . . . . or whatever they consider themselves to be.

[BloatedSensations]

@lelobest "Gore Vidal is stupid leftie" - Uh... well put!?! Spoken like a true Conservative.

[BloatedSensations]

The BBC audience likes The Facts of Life? I bet their favorite is Tootie.

[mrgbennet]

Nice to see someone so dismissive of those pompous boring Dimblebys.

Vidal made a good point about the clowns the BBC usually uses eg the panel who could only laugh at the exchange. It was beyong them.

[robtul12]

It's obvious Gore was having a hard time hearing Dimbley.

[robtul12]

Vidal was not drunk. It is obvious the sound was bad on Vidal's side. Dimbley asked are you "excited" about all of this and Vidal replied "Yes, I did expect this." As if he thought he heard Dimbley say expect instead of excite. There is another instance in which Gore Vidal asked him to repeat what he said. It is obvious Gore Vidal couldn't hear him very well.