Video (6min 39sec) - Part 4 of 4: Legendary Author Gore Vidal on the Bush Presidency, History and the "United States of Amnesia". With a career spanning more than six decades, Gore Vidal is one of America's most respected writers and thinkers. He's authored more than twenty novels and five plays. His latest book is "Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir."
...We don’t need another repetition of the original New Deal, which is economically structuring, but if we had something like that—or we may need something like that because of the mess—it’s going to take two generations to undo the mess of the Bush people. Too much has been damaged. Too much is now—just look at the judicial system. Look at these, you know, judges they’ve been appointing. No, the power was seized using the 9/11 adventure as a cause to overthrow the government of the United States, and it was overthrown. And was any voices raised against it? The first one was Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. So I wrote that one, because I was seventy, and I didn’t want to sit down and do a whole batch of political books, but there was no choice. So I wrote that first to try and explain who the enemy was. Every time I hear “Islam” or “terrorism is on the march”.
Oh, “Islamofascist,” the phrase makes no sense. How can a non-Italian be a fascist? It never spread that far. The stupidest group of people that I have ever seen in public office are in it, have been in it for the last ten years, whatever. They don’t know anything. And you can see, when George Bush is trying to read his notes — “Well, we’re trying to protect the Grecians who are on the march. No, I mean, it’s the Turks. We’re having problems with Turkey. Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah.” And when Americans don’t know stupid people, the country is out of business.
