By apolloguide, November 16 at 11:46 am #
re"  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081114_a_rejoinder_to_gore_vidal/

If the comment required explication why didn’t you, Mr. Gumbel, request for clarification instead of going to press with your confusion?  I can only reason from your rejoinder that you decided to keep the comment out of context so that you could make issue from it.  Gore’s remark is dripping with sarcasm.  An earlier Bill Buckley might have understood this but as his reincarnation you appear unable to do the same.  
You say that you were:

“deeply troubled about where this thought had come from.”

The next time you are not sure what you heard you need to clarify by asking another few questions, and not by rushing a publicly tarnishing hit piece on a great American author which your article attempts to do, to print. You proceed to suggest that Gore Vidal is out of touch and and nothing more than an idle rich man of the Jack Tanner class of 1896.

and then this line: 
“Vidal’s reactionary bile is part of a clear historical pattern that has, at different times, condoned the slavery he alludes to; espoused open prejudice against immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and the industrial working class; and embraced the notion that democracy is somehow too precious to be entrusted to more than a small fraction of the people governed.” As an immigrant Catholic Jack Kennedy would certainly dispute your characterization of Vidal.

Could it be that Gore Vidal is also responsible for global warming? Or could it be that you Mr. Gumbel are no Bill Buckley?

HuffnPuffington banning

I seem to be much too controversial for Huff'n'puffington.  They bounce me for saying Rahm Emmanuel and Hillary are Zionistically inclined and bringing up the Rahm Emmanuel father truthy observation supporting such an earthy analysis by yours truly.  All of this within the controversy of whether or not Lieberman should pay a price.  Looks like Arianna Huffington has the Plum Book of the Obama  Administration in her sights.  Lord knows internet sites don't pay for that lavish travelling lifestyle of hers.  Her namesake Mr. Huffington, republican candidate for governor of California is still paying the price in so many ways. (by the way anyone who takes the same stage with Tony Blankly is not a Liberal.  More like phony!!) 

Oh by the way I believe along with others that Lieberman should remain until the point where he might decide to vote out of the Caucus on a Cloture Vote.  But having grown up in the dismal days of the southern democrats from 1947 to 1968 I know that the worst scenario is always, ------always the operant direction plan B.  We will get Joe and he will keep his hammerlock on the new administration.  But I would really like to have the supermajority of 60 democrats available for my dreams for at least a few days before the underworld takes out a democrat or two like they did with mel carnahan and paul wellstone...I know its hard to believe but they were smoked by the cia mafia.  

The plebiscite is dominant through voting for only a very short time when the real military power is still held by the opposition.  Never forget that we are still in the extreme danger of losing our popular victory.  There is the domestic !st brigade stationed in the united states and their 7 support teams which have not been mentioned in the BS news reports of the media...  

don't relax just yet, the Superbowl will host a new reality in America.  Demo Centrist Biden may come out on top.