Thanks for the thread, Mr Earl.
Ach, I had a good laugh reading your comments, Y'all. Sure reminded me of the Bill. I didn't discover him til I was in college but you're all right with Firing Line (WTF did he say?) I'd try to remember words and look them up at commercial time, else I'd miss the flow. I read the NYT obit. News said he was writing a book on Reagan and he donated his papers (seven tons) to Yalie.
A few snips from NYT:
“He has the eyes of a child who has just displayed a horrid use for the microwave oven and the family cat.”
Southern whites had the right to impose their ideas on blacks who were as yet culturally and politically inferior to them. After some conservatives objected, Mr. Buckley suggested instead that both uneducated whites and blacks should be denied the vote.
To the New York City politician
Mark Green, he purred: “You’ve been on the show (Firing Line) close to 100 times over the years. Tell me, Mark, have you learned anything yet?”
The merits of the argument aside, Mr. Buckley irrevocably proved that his brand of candor did not lend itself to public life when an Op-Ed article he wrote for The New York Times offered a partial cure for the AIDS epidemic: “Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm to prevent common needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of homosexuals,” he wrote.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/bu...ewanted=1&_r=1