Here is Vidal's take on the Polanski arrest:
In September, director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for leaving the U.S. in 1978 before being sentenced to prison for raping a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson's house in Hollywood. During the time of the original incident, you were working in the industry, and you and Polanski had a common friend in theater critic and producer Kenneth Tynan. So what's your take on Polanski, this many years later?
I really don't give a f***. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910u/gore-vidal#at
Apparently a thirteen year old is a "young hooker" and Polanski drugging her and then sodomizing her was apparently part of some trick gone bad.
http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/index.php?topic=14394.0
Polanski s/b brought back to America for trial....
Per This land Press' tweet, Gore Vidal's grandfather was Oklahoma's 1st Democratic senator.
Quote from: Townsend on August 02, 2012, 03:30:32 PM
Per This land Press' tweet, Gore Vidal's grandfather was Oklahoma's 1st Democratic senator.
I'd always heard the Tennessee Gores were related to the Oklahoma Gores, si o no?
(http://uglydemocrats.com/democrats/United-States/Al-Gore/ranting-al-gore.jpg)
Quote from: Conan71 on August 02, 2012, 03:53:43 PM
I'd always heard the Tennessee Gores were related to the Oklahoma Gores, si o no?
(http://uglydemocrats.com/democrats/United-States/Al-Gore/ranting-al-gore.jpg)
That freekin picture was MADE for Photoshop!
Quote from: Gaspar on August 02, 2012, 03:55:35 PM
That freekin picture was MADE for Photoshop!
It's from after he stopped kissing Tipper.
Anybody who called Bill Buckley a crypto-fascist on television is OK in my book.
QuoteAnybody who called Bill Buckley a crypto-fascist on television is OK in my book.
+1
Quote from: Townsend on August 02, 2012, 03:56:13 PM
It's from after he stopped kissing Tipper.
Sorry, just seeing a picture of Al Gore gives me a sarcasm.
Quote from: Gaspar on August 02, 2012, 04:28:22 PM
Sorry, just seeing a picture of Al Gore gives me a sarcasm.
Yeah, I didn't try hard enough on that one. I attempted to allude to "he no likey the ladies" so he's no longer kissing Tipper...(http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4c0533797f8b9a3c3bdf0000/gore-kiss.jpg)
Quote from: jacobi on August 02, 2012, 04:27:38 PM
+1
Note to TNF. Nate and this guy thinks person who makes these sorts of comments about children who are victims of rape are "ok" to them.
QuoteIn September, director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for leaving the U.S. in 1978 before being sentenced to prison for raping a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson's house in Hollywood. During the time of the original incident, you were working in the industry, and you and Polanski had a common friend in theater critic and producer Kenneth Tynan. So what's your take on Polanski, this many years later?
I really don't give a love. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?
Sickening.
Are you trying to insinuate that Gore Vidal is a kiddie diddler? Grow up.
P.S. I believe there were some words in the bible about glass houses and stones. You may want to look more closely at the organizations you align yourself with before attempting to impugn others.
Quote from: nathanm on August 02, 2012, 06:53:02 PM
Are you trying to insinuate that Gore Vidal is a kiddie diddler? Grow up.
P.S. I believe there were some words in the bible about glass houses and stones. You may want to look more closely at the organizations you align yourself with before attempting to impugn others.
Yeah, that's exactly what I am saying.
Oh, and FYI, Gore Vidal "is" not anything any more.
Quote from: guido911 on August 02, 2012, 07:11:02 PM
Yeah, that's exactly what I am saying.
You want to back that up, or do you prefer to pretend you're the second coming of Joe McCarthy?
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Oh, and FYI, Gore Vidal "is" not anything any more.
Is, was, whatever. Hopefully soon the Church's kiddie diddling can also be a was, so you can stop looking like a hypocrite.
Why bother with these threads?
So immature and unintelligent....
Quote from: Teatownclown on August 02, 2012, 08:14:14 PM
Why bother with these threads?
So immature and unintelligent....
The original post is from 2008. Being a liberal doesn't make someone a good human being, just like being conservative doesn't mean the inverse. You should know something about that. His statement in careless defense of evil was despicable no matter his politics.
Quote from: nathanm on August 02, 2012, 08:10:49 PM
You want to back that up, or do you prefer to pretend you're the second coming of Joe McCarthy?
Is, was, whatever. Hopefully soon the Church's kiddie diddling can also be a was, so you can stop looking like a hypocrite.
You cannot even get sarcasm. Where did you go to college incidentally? I do not think you've ever told us where you got your degree from.
Quote from: guido911 on August 03, 2012, 01:21:15 AM
You cannot even get sarcasm. Where did you go to college incidentally? I do not think you've ever told us where you got your degree from.
I would think you'd know by now that sarcasm doesn't come across well in text. :P
You didn't take the course "Sarcasm In The Written Word"?
Quote from: Conan71 on August 03, 2012, 06:50:56 AM
You didn't take the course "Sarcasm In The Written Word"?
I took it. Doesn't work.
Quote from: Townsend on August 03, 2012, 09:49:42 AM
You can't be serious.
You be serious....I'll be Roebuck....
(Serious & Roebuck... the catalog sales people...)
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on August 03, 2012, 09:50:32 AM
You be serious....I'll be Roebuck....
(Serious & Roebuck... the catalog sales people...)
Richard W. Sears was a railroad agent in North Redwood, Minn. Upon receiving an errant box of watches, he started a business selling watches and jewelry. Alvah C. Roebuck was a watch repairman whom Sears hired as his business grew. Roebuck eventually partnered with Sears to form the foundation of Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Quote from: Townsend on August 03, 2012, 09:52:52 AM
Richard W. Sears was a railroad agent in North Redwood, Minn. Upon receiving an errant box of watches, he started a business selling watches and jewelry. Alvah C. Roebuck was a watch repairman whom Sears hired as his business grew. Roebuck eventually partnered with Sears to form the foundation of Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Yep. I read about it many years ago, so have forgotten most of what I ever knew about it....luckily there are/were libraries, and now the interwebz.
Google is your friend....
I always wondered (and definitely suspected) that by "errant" it meant he found a box of watches on a train that looked "lost", so took them home so they wouldn't be lonely until he could find a good home to sell them into? I see that at truck stops from time to time...drivers "find" a box of DVDs, or iPods, or a tank of fuel that they are just trying to find a good home for - at half price. There is always some kind of scam going on - and while he profited from it, I don't think he initiated it. The picture of a guy in a long coat, opening one side to show a 'wall' of watches to a prospective customer comes to mind.