October 22, 2009 CNN
Gore Vidal gives Joy Behar her best interview to date!
Transcript via Nexis Lexis:
BEHAR: This man once said once that his greatest achievement was not killing anyone. Let`s hope that doesn`t change tonight. I`ve been an admirer of his for years, celebrated essayist, novelist, playwright, satirist. We don`t have enough space on the prompter to fill in everything that this guy has done. His new memoir is titled "Gore Vidal snapshots in history`s glare". Welcome to the show. It`s a pleasure to have you on the show.
GORE VIDAL: It`s a joy to me, Joy, to be on your show.
BEHAR: Now, I started with you wanted to kill somebody. You have anybody in mind right now?
VIDAL: Yes. Of course I do. Nobody present.
BEHAR: Nobody present that`s good.
VIDAL: We have to go to the district of Columbia where I go to work to cleanse the Republic.
BEHAR: OK so you don`t want to name names?
VIDAL: No, I won`t name names.
BEHAR: All right. Now let`s talk about -- I`ll name a couple of names. Barack Obama.
VIDAL: I like him. I wish he knew more about the United States because I was for Hillary at the beginning on the grounds she knew how to be President. Having sort of done the job as a spouse. And -- and I realized that he`s to intelligence for the job.
BEHAR: Obama is --
VIDAL: Well of course. The worst educated population of any first world country. And I hope you`re listening and I hope you know that your lack of education is the joke of the world. It`s not a very nice joke.
BEHAR: You`re talking to the Americans now.
VIDAL: The Americans, yeah.
BEHAR: Do they make fun of us in Italy where you lived for all those years?
VIDAL: No, cause Italians are kind.
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