Gore Vidal on Liberty + Gore Vidal on US Media and Society, Parts 3 & 4

Dandelion Salad

TheRealNews on Aug. 30, 2007

Gore Vidal on Liberty

The people who wrote the Constitution hated democracy

Says Vidal: We’ve always been an oligarchy of the well-to-do and are becoming even more so now. What freedoms we had have now been eliminated — Magna Carta guaranteed us due process of law, the only good thing England left us.

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Gore Vidal on US Media and Society

We’re not the United States of Amnesia — we’re the United States of Alzheimer’s

Gore Vidal discusses taboo subjects in the media and society and says: “the people have no voice because they have no information.”

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Updated: Dec. 15, 2021

Full Interview (Parts 1-7)

theAnalysis-news on Dec 14, 2021

When Julian Assange was arrested, he was holding up a copy of Paul Jay’s book, “Gore Vidal’s History of the National Security State.” This mini-documentary is the original 2005 interview with Vidal, upon which the book is based. We republish it now as a way of protesting the persecution of Assange and the threat to what’s left of press freedom in the United States.

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From the archives:

Gore Vidal on the Cold War + Gore Vidal on “The Emperor” (Parts 1 & 2)

Gore Vidal on the Cold War + The Future + Democrats and Religion (Parts 1, 5 & 6)

Gore Vidal on the Media (Part 7)