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August 26, 2008

Robert Duvall's got McCain's back

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From The Weekly Standard's article on Hollywood's low-key conservatives comes this wonderful bit about one of my favorite actors.

[Robert] Duvall, who just finished doing the voiceovers for the McCain videos that will be show next week at the Republican National Convention, points to McCain's national security experience. "He's an American hero. He's got character. He's been around." Duvall pauses. "The other guy? I just don't know."

Duvall ... is incensed by comments Gore Vidal made about McCain back in June. Vidal had questioned McCain's heroism. "Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?"

Duvall doesn't think much of Vidal, whom he called "an American icon-slash-dilettante." It's not only John McCain who could kick Vidal's ass.

"His 96 year-old mother could beat the crap out of Gore Vidal with her shoe," Duvall says. "And you can quote me on that."

Oscar Wilde once said the only thing worse than being talked about was ... not being talked about.

Gore who?

Posted by Mike Lief at August 26, 2008 07:01 PM | TrackBack

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