The left needs someone that can flex that cold arrogance these days. If for no other reason than entertainment value.
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Vidal’s detached bemusement is a formidable weapon.
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It truly was. It unnerved Buckley and Mailer. Cohn does a little better.
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Neither was the sort of guy you’d want to invite to your backyard cookout.
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Cohn comes off the far superior debater here. Only Vidal's somewhat iffy defense that he had no idea he was going to debate Cohn might mitigate it.
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He's the superior debater in part because he's willing to lie.
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Vidal didn't know ahead of time he would be doing a long-form debate with Cohn on this show, and he was not pleased.
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Very unrelated: In 1984, Vidal told Pat Buchanan that he had seen "Airplane!" five times and thought it was the greatest work of art of the past 30 years.https://youtu.be/NLyvszhFAC4?t=296 …
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He was right!
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I had no idea Will Ferrell hosted a talk show in 1977!
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