NY Times Issues ‘Epic’ Corrections to Gore Vidal Obituary — and They Involve William F. Buckley
- Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:05am by
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Celebrated author and playwright Gore Vidal died Tuesday at the age of 86. (AP)
The New York Times on Wednesday issued a paragraph of corrections to its four-page obituary of Gore Vidal, the celebrated liberal playwright and author who died Tuesday. Simple name misspellings these were not: Michael Roston, the Times’ social media producer, even tweeted Wednesday night that the corrections were “epic” — and we’re inclined to agree:
An earlier version misstated the term Mr. Vidal called William F. Buckley Jr. in a television appearance during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. It was crypto-Nazi, not crypto-fascist. It also described incorrectly Mr. Vidal’s connection with former Vice President Al Gore. Although Mr. Vidal frequently referred jokingly to Mr. Gore as his cousin, they were not related. And Mr. Vidal’s relationship with his longtime live-in companion, Howard Austen, was also described incorrectly. According to Mr. Vidal’s memoir “Palimpsest,” they had sex the night they met, but did not sleep together after they began living together. It was not true that they never had sex.
“Apparently they made a few mistakes,” the Atlantic Wire writes, “but they might be the funniest mistakes attached to an obituary, ever, and they fit so well with the stories we’ve heard about Vidal.”
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FreedomWitness
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:49pmGore Vidal: GONE, FORGOTTEN.
I understand that he used to work in a candy factory. Apparently he packed fudge.
Report Post »BuggiOlleo
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 5:16amI did not know that it was so important to learn about what folks do inside their own bed chamber.. We are all people, …misguided, borderline lunatics, and staggering around bumping into walls believing that our own poo does not stink. Without a power greater than oneself, you get a bunch of folks unhappy at the imperfections of man..Look around, dominoes are teetering, I see many problems…including mine own. Don’t get me wrong, ..you made me laugh. Thanks.
Report Post »KokinoAcer
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:36pmI remember one very stupid movie something like Gattaca.
Report Post »The typical value relocation tome wherein we are to believe the good somehow lies
outside of ourselfs and primarily in the way others see us.But you see only the best got to go
to jupiter.What crap.Frankly I had no idea what a loon he was,otherwise not a d-dime of my
money to support enemies,and as they say “haters”.
Joe Mersnik Sr
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 5:29pmVidal was a good writer, not the best, and he tried hard to be called the best. However that title is reserved for Shakespeare.
If you read everything Vidal wrote and only him you would lave a lefty slant of the world and be a flawed person. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( /ˌɡɔr vɨˈdɑːl/;[1][2] October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was a liberal American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality. He also ran for political office twice and was a longtime political critic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal
What’s new, this goes on all the time, slanting. Think NYT editorials vs the Wall Street Journals, or teachers, etc.
Any new work you read has to be read in the context of understanding what the author is about, their beliefs, standards, morality, etc. A socialist lefty author has that philosophy embedded in the new written material, either deliberate or by mental and creative osmosis. Vidal was very obvious and to go merrily along with his writing if proof of being susceptible to his liberal slant and a lack of moral fiber because people are not tuned into to his flaws and can’t pick up on them, or don’t know what flaws are. It becomes an accepted thing………like the homosexual battles going on now in the US. Once there was a plea for tolerance and now overt promo
Report Post »CoyoteDKM
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:20pmI’m guessing that “verce of reason” wishes he was one of the boys that were buggered by vidal. Or is one of them. Hero worship somewhere else. Don’t you have a Chickfila or Christian church you planned to be protesting in front of? I hear your fellow code pinkos calling you.
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:06pmOne of America’s most important authors of the 20th century.
Report Post »And HE didn’t use ghostwriters, like so many FOX commentators. Wink, wink
scuba13
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:05pmKind of like Obama who didn’t write his own auto-biography either.
Report Post »HemiOwner
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:01pmHe’s gone. Who cares.
Report Post »mdman
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:02pmhe was a commie,, another one we dont need.
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:20pmYOU will obviously believe anything.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:18pmsounds like another gay pedophile liberal progressive, the world will be better without him, liberals have too much hate..
Report Post »microace
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:04pmAnother Commie done gone….
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:24pmA commie.
Report Post »He was absolutely correct – BOTH parties are corrupt.
How does that make him a commie?
You folks jest luvs to throw terms around, socialist! marxist! commies!
By any definition of the terms the USA is currently a Fascist plutocracy NOT a democracy -
so there ya go.
faithkills
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:59amIt was Chomsky who called WFBJr a crypto-fascist, in a televised debate. You can find it on youtube.
On reflection I suspect Vidal‘s and Chomsky’s point was that they were being upfront about what they were, left socialists, and didn‘t much respect WFBJr’s unwillingness to admit his ‘right’ wing big government tendencies, (ie fascism) BECAUSE it stifled real debate. I think they had a point. Looking objectively it is not true that WFBJr was a free market, limited government guy. He liked big government that was bombing people and protecting US enterprise from being truly competitive.
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:50pmNo, it was Vidal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
Report Post »faithkills
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:09pmThat’s what I get for trusting my memory without checking. Thanks.
It is a funny video.
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:46amWait who is he,al gore vidal? Hes dead, good riddance, another commie becomes worm food, sad part is, they dont drop fast enough, when will soros’ time come?…..
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:27amUh, okay – who cares?
Report Post »Government_Goodies
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:02pmExactly.
Report Post »Carlinpa
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:21amVidal a homosexual used political debating as his weapon against capitalism and American values AKA the successful Judeo / Christian heterosexual world. He was obnoxious
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:43amHe was a nasty, old, commie, queen. Satan is using his head for a foot stool, now.
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:04pmHow many million have you made from your talent and work?
Report Post »You silly silly people.
tothepoint
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:13amI distinctly heard Gore Vidal threaten to kill ex-President G. W. Bush after Obama got in office.
Report Post »The FBI investigated but nothing came of it. Later, Vidal denied the accusation but I heard it myself.
That, America, really sums up Gore Vidal.
Itsnakemo
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:39pmHe was worse than that, he helped start NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Ass ociation.
Report Post »He really like small boys best.
What a filthy man.
He and Sandusky are cut from the same filthy cloth.
If you do not believe it, do a search on “ Gore Vidal and NAMBLA”
watersRpeople
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:57amIt’s incredible how people just have to get in the way of God.
Report Post »KaptanJak
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:55amWhy does anybody read the NYT?
Report Post »forthepeople
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:17amNot many do anymore , same with cnn , msnbc , etc ………..
Report Post »Government_Goodies
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:03pmI can’t imagine why they would. They can’t get a simple obituary of a celebrity correct. Even one that they’re fond of.
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:35amAnd this is a story on the Blaze, why? Gore Vidal will always be a known and ‘respected’ author. An Intellectual ….. no. A sage of our time …… no. The test is ……. would civilization be less had Vidal been a carpenter? Possibly better. He may have swung a mean hammer. Frankly, as with most enjoying celebrity, what his thoughts or opinions are matters not.
Report Post »JimL
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:59amHukster who directed our attention from the centre stage to the side show.
Report Post »Joseph2
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:32amThe NYT would have to print more voluminous editions of their paper than the originals to straighten out their lies and innuendo published every day.
Report Post »YourVoiceMatters
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:24amsometimes they release too much information….
Report Post »on the other side of the veil of death
he may have a very different interpretation of even these very personal revelations
only eternity will reveal as oneday we will all witness!
MAULEMALL
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:23amAll they needed to print
“another whiney libmo Dies of ”Pneumonia”…”
I thought they stopped useing “Pneumonia” in the 80′s when rock hudsen died…
Oh yea…Al Gore invented homosexuality…
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:44am“Oh yea…Al Gore invented homosexuality…”
Here’s your fun history fact of the day! The term is actually believed to be written first by the Prussian Karl-Maria Kertbeny, who used it in 1869 Prussian penal code. The pamphlet was actually advocating to overturn Prussia’s anti-sodomy laws. The first usage of it in English was 1895 by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, who was translating from German to English a study of sexual practices.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:19pmWasn’t Karl-Maria Kertbeny in love story??
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