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AmSpec alum Jeremy Lott conducts a hostile self-interview about his new book on the faith of William F. Buckley, Jr. Lott wishes that Buckley's notorious exchange with Gore Vidal had ended differently.
And while I'm being outrageous, he should have punched Gore Vidal while the cameras were rolling. You shouldn't get away with calling somebody a Nazi to his face on national television without at least a love tap.
If we can have national greatness conservatism, progressive conservatism, crunchy conservatism, and South Park conservatism, why not face-punching conservatism?
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W. L. Barton| 8.18.10 @ 12:06PM
Buckley was nothing but a pseudo intellectual snob, who fancied himself an aristocrat.
His hoity toity, pompous nasal tone tells all anyone needs to know about the Hell residing, Firing Line punk.
pk| 8.19.10 @ 2:13PM
Ditto...
W. L. Barton| 8.18.10 @ 12:32PM
Of Course, That Keith Olbermann makes my knees quiver. He is one hunk of a man.
WB| 8.18.10 @ 1:56PM
Quiver or "tingle"?
Bob Miller| 8.18.10 @ 3:08PM
Buckley's mannerisms did not subtract from the value of his output.
LibertyVini| 8.18.10 @ 11:37PM
Buckley was Skull And Bones as well as CIA, and an exemplar of how the power elite controls mainstream opinion. His monstrously mean-spirited "obituary" of Murray Rothbard reveals him for what he was - a Yale-educated thugocratic creep. But as Mark Twain said - in slightly different context - I repeat myself.
Steve O'Rourke| 8.19.10 @ 4:45AM
Vidal actually called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi". He later claimed he meant to say "crypto-Fascist". Damn those Freudian slips!
pk| 8.19.10 @ 2:14PM
Nazis and Fascists are the same thing.