{"id":30591,"date":"2012-08-06T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30591"},"modified":"2012-08-06T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:51:05","slug":"the-wit-and-wisdom-of-the-late-gore-vidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/08\/06\/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-the-late-gore-vidal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wit and Wisdom of the Late Gore Vidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080612\/2012_08_06_vidal.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080612\/2012_08_06_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/gore_vidal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Author and venerated political commentator, Gore Vidal, passed away on Tuesday, July 31st at the age of 86. Vidal wrote over 20 books in his lifetime, including The City and the Pillar which pushed social boundaries by depicting homosexuality in the late 1940s. Vidal&#8217;s work was characterized by an intellectual wit and vigor that he used to skewer the pretensions of the American political class.  Throughout his career, Vidal courted controversy and challenged the American status quo, most memorably during a vitriolic debate about the Vietnam War against William F. Buckley Jr. during the historic 1968 Democratic Convention.<\/p>\n<p>On April 2nd, 2008, I was invited by student groups at Los Angeles Valley College to interview Mr. Vidal on campus about  the 2008 presidential election.  In a conversation rife with his trade mark brand of dry humor and sharp political analysis, Vidal discussed the 2008 elections, government corruption, the Iraq War, and the U.S. education system. <\/p>\n<p>In tribute to him we are sharing an excerpt of my interview with Gore Vidal, beginning with a question about the dominance of the corporate media and what citizens can do to counter it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and venerated political commentator, Gore Vidal, passed away on Tuesday, July 31st at the age of 86. Vidal wrote over 20 books in his lifetime, including The City and the Pillar which pushed social boundaries by depicting homosexuality in the late 1940s. Vidal&#8217;s work was characterized by an intellectual wit and vigor that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}