Comments on: On Buckley’s Civility, Part II http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:51:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Weston http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-135628 Weston Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:44:34 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-135628 Yeah, see the previous thread on this. Buckley v. Vidal was not a civil exchange on either side by any stretch, and Buckley flew off the handle. He was extremely embarrassed about it later, and even poked fun at himself for it in the Chomsky debate. Yeah, see the previous thread on this. Buckley v. Vidal was not a civil exchange on either side by any stretch, and Buckley flew off the handle. He was extremely embarrassed about it later, and even poked fun at himself for it in the Chomsky debate.

]]> By: Will http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-135620 Will Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:16:48 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-135620 Apparently he wasn't always civil. The incident between William Buckley and Gore Vidal that occurred during ABC's coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8 Apparently he wasn’t always civil. The incident between William Buckley and Gore Vidal that occurred during ABC’s coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8

]]> By: Weston http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-135090 Weston Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:24:35 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-135090 Obviously. Obviously.

]]> By: cedar http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-134948 cedar Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:20:27 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-134948 Just because you don't gloat over this mfer's death doesn't mean that the rest of us can't. Just because you don’t gloat over this mfer’s death doesn’t mean that the rest of us can’t.

]]> By: Montag http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-134813 Montag Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:49:59 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-134813 In Sidney Lens' autobiography, "Unrepentent Radical," he relates that in November 1962 he debated Buckley at Indiana's Purdue University on the feasibility of the arms race. For some reason Buckley gave an intellectually lazy performance, in which he confined himself to ad hominem quips denigrating Lens. But Lens was a former Trotskyist and knew how to debate. He quickly exposed the fact that Buckley was insulting the intelligence of the overwhelmingly conservative audience by not addressing the subject. When Buckley responded by digging himself in deeper with more witticisms, he began to get heckled with shouts of, "Answer the question!" Buckley's performance was so inept that he was forced to renege on an agreement to release tapes of the event to other schools. The next time Buckley debated Lens he was on his best behavior. In Sidney Lens’ autobiography, “Unrepentent Radical,” he relates that in November 1962 he debated Buckley at Indiana’s Purdue University on the feasibility of the arms race. For some reason Buckley gave an intellectually lazy performance, in which he confined himself to ad hominem quips denigrating Lens. But Lens was a former Trotskyist and knew how to debate. He quickly exposed the fact that Buckley was insulting the intelligence of the overwhelmingly conservative audience by not addressing the subject. When Buckley responded by digging himself in deeper with more witticisms, he began to get heckled with shouts of, “Answer the question!” Buckley’s performance was so inept that he was forced to renege on an agreement to release tapes of the event to other schools. The next time Buckley debated Lens he was on his best behavior.

]]> By: Weston http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-134581 Weston Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:29:05 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-134581 Thank you for the clarification. My first comment was directed not so much at your criticism, which I felt was balanced and appropriately respectful, but at the deluge polemical idiocy it was bound to produce. Thank you for the clarification. My first comment was directed not so much at your criticism, which I felt was balanced and appropriately respectful, but at the deluge polemical idiocy it was bound to produce.

]]> By: Molly http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-134556 Molly Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:01:54 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/29/on-buckleys-civility-part-ii/#comment-134556 I understood--and appreciated--your first posting. It inspired me to go to YouTube and watch the Buckley/Chomsky clips again. Now it looks like I have some Rothbard/Buckley reading to do... It's only fair to want to add more depth to the post-mortem analyses of Buckley, and you have done so. Once again, it was appreciated. I understood–and appreciated–your first posting. It inspired me to go to YouTube and watch the Buckley/Chomsky clips again. Now it looks like I have some Rothbard/Buckley reading to do…

It’s only fair to want to add more depth to the post-mortem analyses of Buckley, and you have done so. Once again, it was appreciated.

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