Why does liberalism serve as a get-out-of-jail free pass for speech and behavior that would bring the establishment media down upon conservatives for engaging in the exact same speech or conduct? That's the question John Nolte asks at BigHollywood regarding octogenarian crank Gore Vidal's latest outburst. The novelist and failed politician said this when asked about Roman Polanski's rape of a 13-year-old girl: "I really don't give a f^*#. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?" Vidal, it should be noted, has written favorably on underage sex. He also admits in his autobiography of being on the giving and receiving end of cash in exchange for sex. Though he may not view the label "hooker" as an epithet, everybody else, including your garden variety hooker, does. Ditto for the taboo on sex with junior-high students. Vidal may not find it repugnant, but everybody else does. Who in their right mind would call a thirteen-year-old rape victim a "hooker"? Bobby Kennedy, William F. Buckley, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer agreed on exactly one thing: Gore Vidal is a jerk .

Who in their right mind would call a thirteen-year-old rape victim a "hooker"?

Someone who has done as bad or worse.

Don't forget that Vidal blamed the bad media attention on anti-Semitism and "homphobia".

Vidal: "The media can't get anything straight. Plus, there's usually an anti-Semitic and anti-fag thing going on with the press - lots of crazy things," elaborated Vidal. "The idea that this girl was in her communion dress, a little angel all in white, being raped by this awful Jew, Polacko - that's what people were calling him - well, the story is totally different now from what it was then."

How do you like these apples..

"Buckling under pressure from U.S. diplomats, negotiators for Zelaya, toppled in a June 28 coup, and the de facto leader Roberto Micheletti who replaced him, agreed to put an end to Central America's worst political turmoil in two decades."

So, Clinton, Obama and the other would be Chavezes or Castros have been successful in restoring a leftist would be strong man who was removed lawfully for attempting to violate their democratically ratified Hondoran Constitution.

Wow.