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Gore Vidal: 100 Years to Recover From Bush’s Evil

It’s been a while since I have given out a Moonbat Award, and it looks as though Gore Vidal, during an interview he gave in Spain, has done a good job of earning this high honor. There is a short excerpt from the El Mundo piece in English being carried by News 24. I searchedfor the original article and then googled an English translation of the entire interview carried by El Mundo. I admit my Spanish is not even second rate, even after living there for 3 years during the ’80s. Even then, it wasn’t all that good. Since Google provides website translation tools, I figure, what the hey. No doubt the translator looses a bit in the translation process.

From News 24:

“The president behaved like a virtual criminal but we didn’t have the courage to sack him for fear of violating the American constitution,” Vidal told the El Mundo newspaper.

The author, a trenchant critic of the US-led invasion of Iraq, said it would take the United States “100 years to repair the damage” caused by Bush.

“We live in a dictatorship. We have a fascist government …which controls the media,” he said.

Actually, what he said in the El Mundo interview is (NOTE: translation tools are imperfect):

We live in a dictatorship and we like the dictatorship. We have a fascist government that has controlled his pleasure media. He mounted the Republicans’ impeachment ‘to Clinton because someone made a blowjob, and now we lack the courage to take forward the’ impeachment ‘of Bush for systematically violating the U.S. Constitution … We live in a country that frightens. We have gone beyond the republic and have renounced the Magna Carta. We will take 100 years to repair all evil.

Vidal is claiming that we live under a Fascist Dictatorship? And that we LIKE it? “We have gone beyond the republic and have renounced the Magna Carta?” Okay, history buffs, for 10 points, what country implemented the Magna Carta? If you guessed England, not the United States, you are right. Although there was some influence on our Constitution from the Magna Carta, that document, in and of itself, has zero relationship to the American Republic. And that last bit (correcting the translation here), “It will take 100 years to repair all evil,” is absolutely bonkers. I guess, in Vidal’s world, removing an evil Fascist Dictator like Saddam Hussein, or removing an oppresive government, like the Taliban, from power, is an act of evil. Just ask Obama. According to Vidal, Obama is a smart guy who hangs out with terrorists, racists and criminals. And Obama has repeatedly said he would not have gone into Iraq and liberated the people and assist them in building a free and democratic government, but would rather see them wallow under the iron boots of fascism.

What I find hard to believe is that the interviewer bought into Vidal’s viewpoint that the U.S. is living under a Fascist Dictatorship. Spain lived under a Fascist Dictatorship for something like four decades under Franco. The people of Spain, at least those who grew under Franco, KNOW (or should know) what a Fascist Dictatorship is. And it ain’t the U.S. of A. But then that is the hard-Left’s way of trying to paint the Right as being evil, by falsely attempting to associate us with Facism in order to counter the fact that they are, by-and-large, Marxists, and forgetting that Fascism, although it may be to the right of Communism, is still a Leftist ideology.

That is probably the worst of Gore Viral’s Moonbatiness in the interview, however he does go on to spread the leftist mantra and lies about Bush stealing the election in 2000 (it was actually Al Gore who attempted to do so in the Florida courts and the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Florida Court’s illegal rulings on that election), that Bush claimed that Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks (no one in the Administration made such a claim, only that Hussein was supporting various terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, with logistics and funding). There is more, much more. Give it a read, either in the google translation or the original Spanish.

Gore Vidal, for his rantings against the U.S., our government, and our way of life (not to mention for his being a Kucinich supportor), is the latest winner of the Moonbat Award. Congratulations, Vidal. If this is what you think of America, try living in Cuba. What a Moonbat!

I have to wonder of Gore Vidal knows how to define Fascism, let alone spell it.

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