POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JOHN IBBITSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Surely, this is the dumbest column in a long line of dumb
columns.
Ibbitson's blind right-wing hate must have reached an
intense pitch to produce it.
Even in old age, Vidal was one of the best raconteurs on the
planet.
He was brave in what he said, and said it so wittily.
Just listen to Michael Enright's CBC Radio interview with
Vidal on Sunday Edition (repeated Aug 5).
Vidal's reputation will live in the brilliant-critic
tradition of Orwell, Jonathon Swift, Dr. Johnson, or Voltaire.
His literary talent wasn't as large as some of those great
people, but his speaking to truth and razor wit were the equal of any of them.
Unlike Mr. Ibbitson, who will be forgotten with his last
droning column.
