Tom Wolfe - In Defense of George W. Bush
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/12/Uncommon_Knowledge_Tom_Wolfe
Acclaimed author Tom Wolfe offers a defense of the much-maligned 43rd President of the United States.
This program was recorded as a part of the Hoover Institution's interview series, "Uncommon Knowledge."
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Peter Robinson engages Americas master novelist in a conversation that ranges from the death of the American novel to the "charming aristocracy" that seeks to dictate literary standards to the intersection of culture and the latest findings in neuroscience.
Along the way, Tom Wolfe reaffirms his place as the preeminent chronicler of the changing American scene - Hoover Institution
Dr. Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe is an American author and journalist, best known as one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Tom Wolfe is the author of many books including I Am Charlotte Simmons, Hooking Up, A Man in Full, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Purple Decades, From Bauhaus to Our House, In Our Time, The Right Stuff, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, The Painted Word, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Pump House Gang and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.
Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MB.
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@zwiiyt Huh?
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intelligent people often take the contrarian position because they're the only ones intelligent enough to imagine it. that doesn't mean they're right. it does make them interesting though.
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@thegeneraltheory forget what?
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where are the rest of um?
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@mcleanartists "Bush had higher grades than John Kerry."
And by this comment you think what? You've backed me into a corner with some deep knowledge that makes you a "winner" and me a "loser"? What kind of fucking moron are you?
The fact that John Kerry earned lower grades at Yale than George Bush (I knew this already) proves our so-called ruling class is composed of buffoons and sub-normal cretins, and it's sliding irrevocably into small gene pool territory.
At least Kerry went to Vietnam.
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@bapyou Bush had higher grades than John Kerry.
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@hehsus You're right, church ladies should write Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il. Yes. Let's have tea. BUt not a Tea Party. Oh dearie me.
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@thegeneraltheory Bush attended Yale, not Harvard.
Here:
"George Bush was a man with severely limited intelligence & no moral core. He exemplifies the legions of self-centered, spoiled, intellectually limited & wealthy elitists churned out by places like Andover, Yale & Harvard. Bush was, like the rest of his caste, propelled forward by his money & his connections. The real purpose of these richly endowed schools is to perpetuate entitlement & privilege." ~ Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion
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tom wolfe, one of the great 20th century writers, supports sheepdip bush. a complex world....
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I love Tom Wolfe but lets be straight here, Reagan didnt win the war against communism, the communists ruined their own economy, they allowed power struggles in the party ect, they fell on their own sword. If anything Reagan lucked out.
As for his views on the wars in Vietnam and Korea unless I am mistaken both of those countries have gone communist and the whole domino theory turned out to be just capitalist paranoia.
That being said I respect wolfs right to these opinions.
Whipitonmyjim1234 3 years ago 6
What he wrote about the pranksters in the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and the astronauts in The Right Stuff stands as testimony that your opinion is 100% correct. Great writer, total cunt as a person.
jezmundberserker 2 years ago 5