Charlie Rose - WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.

[Fight4freedom311]

I just love this guy. It is so sad that so few such intellects exist. William F Buckley RIP.

[BenderJJJ]

it's absolutely painful watching these two cold empty clowns chat each other up. dear god.

[rapier1954]

BenderJJJ if it pains you so much why would you waste time downloading and watching it. Or has someone mysteriously removed your freedom of choice to just move on to something you find more entertaining!!!!

[drsdannyt]

Bill Buckley was a brilliant and eloquent man. I would have loved the opportunity to have met with him. He will be sorely missed.

[johnmichaelmcmahon]

Reagan is gone, and now Buckley. I hope they ask God, on our behalf, for successors. We certainly will need someone to fill the big empty boots left behind. Godspeed Bill.

[jumbowhite]

Which God do you mean?

[mcmcp2007]

The God of the United States as mentioned in our Declaration and to which our Constitution is dated.

[librarianeric]

Reagan was a disaster ... and a war criminal. He supported, philosophically, militarily and financially, some of the most horrible states of the 20th century. Buckley was his apologist and mythologist. Good riddance to them both.

[raconteur68]

A woman from Romania said once, "We put all of our hope in Ronald Reagan and he did it." She was speaking at the Ronald Reagan visitation in Simi Valley, summer 2004. That night, many others left notes on a table crowded with flowers. One from an El Salavadoran man said, "Thank you for giving me my freedom." (But I guess he was just a flack for the Right, huh?) Show a little common courtesy; could perhaps your ad hominem at least wait until we bury our friend?

[cgrscott]

Bill Buckley liked to use that phrase a lot "ad hoc ad hominem" and also "it-so-facto."

I could not understand a word he said when I was a teenager but when I got into my late 20s he seemed like a guy who made a lot of sense.

He enjoyed his life and his work and he was quoted as saying, "Politics should be fun." Some commentators today are offensively pompous while Bill was charmingly pompous. His personality was his signature.

[XKG80]

I believe it's "ipso facto" which is Latin for "by the fact itself."

[cgrscott]

You're right. Thanks.

RS

[librarianeric]

To Raconteur68: There's a big difference between supporting the people of a country and supporting the regime which rules over them. I'd be very interested in hearing how a "El Salavadoran" (sic) gained his freedom through Reagan. The US didn't liberate El Salvador - it supported a brutal military junta which was patently contemptuous of the freedoms we ostensibly hold so dear. Large numbers of Salvadorans FLED their country in the 80s to escape the repression financed by the US government.

[theschizoidman]

Well said.

RIP Bill.

[sirjames45]

Does ANYONE know where a person could buy video of Firing Line? I would pay BIG dollars!!!

[WhtRabbit76]

You can check online with PBS. You can also try checking eBay. I have several VHS tapes my dad ordered from Firing Line

[JakeBudz]

Good riddance.

[cgrscott]

Robin Williams does a good and respectful parody of Buckley in the Disney movie Aladdin.

It would be great if some one could get that clip up on YouTube.

[gilavin]

A mighty ceder has fallen... we must do our part to carry on the torch.

[theschizoidman]

Well put.

[Floyd37]

What year was this interview?

[chukmaty]

Awesomeness...

[3603mailmaster]

brilliant

[pavementfiend]

You could add up the IQ's of every liberal pundit to ever walk this planet and the sum total wouldn't even be close to that of Buckleys.'

[librarianeric]

Pffft! Who cares who has the higher IQ? Just because Buckley wasn't a troglodyte like Limbaugh, Reagan or Bush is no reason to assume he was anything other than an apologist for war criminals foreign and domestic. He was an imperialist and free market fundamentalist who supported the military coup against Allende and the rise of Pinochet. He opposed the civil rights movement and even blamed the Watts riots on Martin Luther King!

[darthcheney80]

Right on, agree..They praised and used Nozicks and Milton's liberal economic market theory's which made Americas a cold, hard, capitalist country.

[alwingate]

William F Buckley was a fantastic human being. May he rest in peace. He had a profound effect on my life. What an intellect!

[mullman]

WFB Jr. will be missed.

[gageisgage]

Let's see how far conservative indiscretion gets you in hell?

[aarraaggoo]

Never will be another like WFB. Ever. I will miss his style and abilities.

[jmhis34]

I'll second those comments, what a brilliant mind. Visit Amazon, see how many books, articles, ect you find. There are about 6 pages of material from THIS century alone. Amazing man!

[enriqueroman62]

Rest in peace.

[adm5893]

Aye, Rest in Peace. May your memory live on.

[BlueStarMom43]

Rest in Peace, Mr. Buckley.

[RSapper21]

What an amazing mind. I love this man.

[DermochelysCoriacea]

Buckley is my style idol :)