I don't agree with everything he said but at least he mentioned Griffin's book. He is sure right about the media though. Without a complicit media they never would have gotten away with 9/11. I pay no attention to anything the MSM puts out. If they said it was sunny out I would carry a raincoat.

I've heard a few people refer to Mr. Vidal as a "gatekeeper". Now we know it's not the case. Great to know that not every "leftist" academic is a shill!

Just stumbled across this youtube, thought it was worth sharing, very well edited.

www.v911truth.org

Sorry to burst your bubble but on CNN he recently said no MIHOP conspiracy. Too bad, I earlier thought he was on the side of the truthers. Now I don't know if he has weak analytical skills or a gatekeeper:

Gore Vidal Talk Asia Interview
POSTED: 1303 GMT (2103 HKT), April 12, 2007

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/03/talkasia.vidal.script/in...

"...
AR: You do seem to have this rather anti-establishment drive about you. I mean you've also suggested that the Bush administration let the attacks of September 11, 2001 happen. What did you base that on?

GV: (interrupts) No, I never said that. I am quoted as saying that to show that "I'm a crazy person who believes in conspiracy theories."

AR: Plenty of people do believe there is a conspiracy theory about that.

GV: Yes, they do, but I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I only go by facts that I know about. I've never been a journalist which means that I don't use opinions as facts. And this is unknown to journalists everywhere at any time; I don't do that at all. I'm a conspiracy analyst, because I know where it's coming from. What sort of general disquiet is out there in the population? I said there was plenty of information about 9-11 before it happened. And there is a presidential briefing that they finally came across after much activity to try to get their hands on it, this is Congress. Of course we'd been warned.

GV: But we had the most incompetent vicious government in the history of the United States. There is nothing compared to it. And I've written the history of the United States in something like 20 volumes. It's there and they are unique. They didn't let it happen, it happened because they're incompetent. And Bush was cleaning, brushing his ranch, on his awful piece of land that he's got in the middle of Texas, and he did nothing, because he does nothing. He's totally inactive and inopportune. And the stupidest man who has ever been the President of the United States. How can I tell that he's stupid? I don't know him. Listen to him try to talk English. Every word is unfamiliar to him. He stumbles over this one, he stumbles over that one. And you know, you think, "The poor thing should be put away and sent home...and kept under wraps." But big money wanted him for President so Halliburton could make a fortune.
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