Gore Vidal: McCain's Torture Truther

When you've run out of things to say, it is important to throw out rhetorical bombs and slanders in order to stay in the limelight. That's the lesson Gore Vidal has learned:

And what about Mr. McCain? Disaster. Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?

Everyone knows he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. That’s what he tells us.

You stay classy, douchebag. 

In Allah's post on the subject, he issues an exit question:

Exit question: Help Vidal fill in the blanks. Where was Maverick and what he was up to during the “lost years”?

Why, planning 9/11 with his then-underground neocon buddies, of course. That shit takes time, man.

This leads to a question I've always wondered about.  If you were in your later years, wouldn't you want to spend that time, I dunno, enjoying the sunset of your life*?  If I had Vidal's money, I'd be oceanside 24/7/365.  But I suppose some people need attention more than I do.

One more Vidal-related side note on this haphazard, poorly written post and then I'm done.  I had breakfast with Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft and a few other grad students in the fall of 2005 and I thought I would give him a break and ask him a non-political question.  Well, he looked at me like I was a complete idiot for asking something off topic and said Lincoln by Gore Vidal.  Who'd've guessed?

*Yes, I understand the irony of anyone who (even reluctantly) supports McCain saying this. 

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