[Newsbot]

Title: Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies
Category: Showbiz
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2012-07-31 22:12:00

[Scape]

$1:

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."

"We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic."

"A good deed never goes unpunished."

"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."

RIP sir.

[Thanos]

His legacy as a fiction writer and as a historian of the Roman republic/early empire is unchallengable. Unfortunate in his later years Vidal lost a huge amount of credibility with his whole-hearted embrace of wild-eyed conspiracy theories. He was about the most public face that ever had the gall to claim that Tim McVeigh was innocent of the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing. It was tragic that a talent and an intellect of such power lowered himself to associate and promote that kind of devious and hate-filled thinking.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

He was about the most public face that ever had the gall to claim that Tim McVeigh was innocent of the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing.

Vidal was the one who pointed out that McVeigh, as a Constitutionalist, never had a driver's license and he had never registered his car. That's how McVeigh came into custody was for driving an unregistered vehicle without a license.

Vidal then asked the question which still has not been answered:

If Tim McVeigh had never had a driver's license then how did he rent a Ryder Truck since they require people to present a driver's license?

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Myself, I've always wondered why anyone would bother to legally rent a truck in their own name to use for killing a few hundred people? If it was a suicide bomber, well sure. But McVeigh wasn't a suicide bomber, was he?

Seriously, if McVeigh really did this then you have to wonder what was in his mind?

Mass murder is okay but, hey, simply stealing a truck for the crime, oh no, that would be wrong.

[Lemmy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Myself, I've always wondered why anyone would bother to legally rent a truck in their own name to use for killing a few hundred people? If it was a suicide bomber, well sure. But McVeigh wasn't a suicide bomber, was he?

Seriously, if McVeigh really did this then you have to wonder what was in his mind?

Mass murder is okay but, hey, simply stealing a truck for the crime, oh no, that would be wrong.

You shouldn't have executed him. You should have kept him around, like Manson, for research purposes.