William F. Buckley (1926-2008)
Categories: Transitions
Watch William F. Buckley employ the "why do you hate the troops?" argument and invoke "Nazism" while debating the Vietnam War. When Gore Vidal counters that Buckley's a "crypto-nazi," Buckley calls him a "queer" and offers to sock him in the face.
William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.His assistant Linda Bridges said Buckley was found dead by his cook at his home in Stamford, Conn. The cause of death was unknown, but he had been ill with emphysema, she said.
The AP on the National Review:
The National Review defended the Vietnam War, opposed civil rights legislation and once declared that "the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail." Buckley also had little use for the music of the counterculture, once calling the Beatles "so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of antimusic."
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