Gore Vidal: Michele Bachmann 'Too Stupid To Deserve An Answer'

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/gore-vidal-michele-bachmann-too-stupid-to-deserve-an-answer.php

You might recall how Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has said that she first became a Republican as a result of her disgust at reading a "snotty" Gore Vidal novel. So what does Gore Vidal think?

As we reported last week, Bachmann told a Republican crowd in Michigan that she cast off her youthful Democratic roots after reading Gore Vidal's novel Burr, which depicted the Founding Fathers in an unfavorable light. (We later discovered that Bachmann had told this story before -- and that in an earlier version of the tale, she said it had been a different Burr novel, 1876.)

Our old colleague Justin Elliott at Salon did quite a lot of work to get a response from Vidal. And finally, through an assistant, he received this written statement from the man himself:

"She is too stupid to deserve an answer."



Vidal: Bachmann "too stupid to deserve an answer"
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/01/06/vidal_response_to_bachmann/index.html

Rec for Gore Vidal's answer :D

...he doesn't suffer them at all.

Maybe she meant she once bought some Vidal Sassoon shampoo.

Head And Shoulders.

:rofl:

I think you've uncovered the truth!

and her belch sounded like "ughhhhhbecomearepublicannnnn"

I love to hear him mock bush..

Idiot savant.

Bachmann has about as much intelligence as a bag of rocks!

Didn't Boner make her chairperson of some intelligence committee?

That's all she's qualified for.

This woman reminds me of Katherine Harris, ex Florida Sec of Altered State.

k/r

Vidal is great.

I'm supposed to believe she read a book. . .

The title is '.............'

Mein Kampf.

She's like a charlatan preacher. Who cares what she thinks or says?.... except she's in Congress.

Love it!

:rofl:

If she had read any of his stuff seems like she would have been able to predict something like that response and shied away from it.