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  • no matter how hard he tries to impersonating he will always be James Baldwin.

  • LOL pretty good. If you only had studied his facial expressions..the widening of the eyes, the moving back & forth of his scalp/forehead, his leaning back,head raised to speak through his jaw. It would have been a perfect parody. Yet, still, well done.

  • Great to see this video again after what I thought was three years... Didn't know it was 2008... Amazing.

  • Someone should give this guy a good beating. Tribute my ASS!. He is mocking one of the greatest intellectuals of all time.

  • I think someone should give this guy a good beating! This is a tribute? My ass! It's a mockery of the greatest conservative voice and one of the greatest intellectuals of all time.

  • @xman1a Thanks, sir. Glad it still holds up. ;)

  • LOL, this was very well done. I love BUCKLEY.

  • haha amateur but real funny

  • Obviously WFB didn't grow up talking like this. He like so many of the self-promoterrs - Kissinger is another - adopted a phony aceent and all the mannerisms to impress the easily gullible, but underneath it all he was a total ignoramus !!

  • @steveinchelsea You don't know what you're talking about.

  • @TheWholeYearInn Yeah and I suppose you also believe that Glenn Beck's tears are real. Boo Hoo !!

  • @steveinchelsea Strike two.

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  • This is hysterical stuff!

  • national review motherfuckers!!!!

  • This is Brilliant !

  • Not enough winking, leering and eyebrow raising. Refutation by means of the raised eyebrow

  • I think it's those little warm smiles that makes this so great. but it's other stuff too.  NewsInColor, you are truly great!!

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  • man this is fucking hilarious.

  • haha, you don't really smoke do you?

  • Well done, young man. And now... off to the yacht basin.

  • You're a great impressionist.

  • Pretty good Buckley impression.

  • Where's Gore Vidal when you need him?

  • Sorry, Billy couldn't hold a candle to Chomsky by way of intellect. He was not an intellectual in the true sense of the word. His intellect was prefabricated and hardly ever original. He was trained at a young age to listen and repeat. He did that superbly.

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  • WFB Jr. postured as an intellectual -cultivating the external trappings of same: the faux British accent, the darting tongue, the twinkle eye (so the American audience -the only such in the world who mistook him for an intellectual- would be alerted to the special cleverness of what he just said prior to twinkling) etc.

  • @fctchk Quit posting the same thing everywhere. How long did it take you to write this up? And you don't sound nearly as eloquent as Mr.Buckley.

  • Quite right. Buckley was all and only about sounding eloquent.

  • Does anyone know if William F. Buckley was a smoker?

  • Could have, I've never seen him though.

  • yes. he switched from cigarettes to inhaling cigars

  • Yeah, somehow, he looks like more of a cigar kinda guy.

  • I've never heard that he inhaled cigars. I read that he smoked for ten years, between the ages of 15 and 25, and that he was diagnosed with emphysema when he was over 80.

    But if he did inhale cigars for a long time, it would be a lot less remarkable that he developed emphysema.

  • Pardon my medical ignorance but what does emphysema do? I've seen a few images of Buckley before he kicked the bucket and he certainly didn't look good, but that could have been due to old age alone for all I know.

  • Holy shit that was well done.

  • hahahahaha...good one, but what's with the Beatles wig?

  • You should be on SNL....

  • His son Christopher came out in support of Obama. He announced his support for Obama on his personal webpage or blog. He lost his job writing a column for the National Review, the magazine his father started.

    I suspect William F Buckley might have supported Obama. I saw him speak back in the 1980's. He had views that differed from standard Republicans. For example, he believed that drugs (or at least pot) should be decriminalized because it costs more to enforce the laws than it's worth.

  • Right... Thats why William F. Buckley denounced the integration of Black Americans in the 60's. William F. Buckley would not have voted for Obama because 1. Obama is defined as politically diametric to most conservatives 2. Buckley was a morally repugnant racist who once called Black Americans monkeys. This is obvious; This is the reason why this impersonation is ironic and funny. Get your facts straight. Oh and Noam Chomsky owned Buckley in that famous debate.

  • Did he not denounce white supremacy later on in his life and come to admire Martin Luther King?

  • This guy is right on with his humor, points and remarkable acting chops.

    ps. did I mention funny as hell?

  • I think the venerable impressionist merely has many internal characters who indeed inform who he is, and that his various characters are honest portrayals of those aspects, with no distortion or exaggeration. The product of such honesty is often called...what's the word I'm looking for...

    Humor?

  • I would have hoped for some indication that the praise tendered here to the late pundit and cheerleader for capital, William F. Buckley, Jr. was somehow ironic or satirical. No dice. I will say, however, that the impression of Buckley (I am aghast that the commentary doesn't recognize it) is positively remarkable. Well done on the mimetic front; though perhaps I would suggest looking for other masters: masters otherwise than scoundrels.

  • I recognized the impression (good username by the way).

  • "I would have hoped for some indication...that the praise...was somehow ironic or satirical." How is it that most Americans are so oblivious and uncomprehending of satire, that they need a signpost telling them that the material is not to be taken seriously? It is obvious to anyone with half a brain that this is a comedy impression - why would we need an indication of this?

  • You could say that it was the sign of a damn good impressionist

  • he looks like tiger woods

  • Funny. But the who the hell is he trying to impersonate?

  • I think he's actually trying to take off Buckley whilst talking about him. Not quit sure myself

  • how funny this arrogant bourgois boy probably really believing in the lies of conservative propaganda. Millions die of hunger, dictatorships are supported, wars are fought..yeah this is great! sad

  • Lies of conservative propaganda? I can read much out of such a statement. Even the truth can have propaganda, that dont say much though.

    The worlds hunger is in tyrannies, if you give them food you prolong their suffering, if u give them the freedom they deserve they can make their own future. War NOT peace is the answer.

  • No, there are democracys where people do not have enough to eat. Best example: india

    Or think about the revolts of the women in Agypt: 8%economy growth but the poor get poorer and the prizes for bread and esp. meat rises. The war should not only be declared to dictatorships but also against exporation itself. (btw. why are dictatorships like saudi arabia, columbia and Co. supported by EU+USA? yes -> money)

  • People in India don't have enough to eat because for the first 44 years of our independence, we were a socialist country, in 1991 our economic liberalization took place under Rajiv gandhi & Manmohan Singh. Also, the British completely FUCKED our country inside out. If India is growing right now, it is because of the free market.

  • haha stupid bobo of the left...all the left is composed of the bourgeoisie...you have lost your working class base since the '68

  • Absolutly great impression

  • Yeah. I watched the Dan Frye one the other day, which is good visually, but NewsInColor captures his mannerisms and characteristics better

  • Hilarious...

  • good impersonation. a LItttle obvious you dont smoke though. GOD

  • Great impersonation.

  • WFB believed cigarettes should be banned and suffered from emphysema in his later years. Please don't smoke if you can at all avoid it. He would have if he had the chance again. Good impression!

  • You can actually find the video in which he says they should not be banned. No one appreciates a liar, especially a lazy liar. Negative one.

  • From Wiki on WFB: "Half a year ago my wife died, technically from an infection, but manifestly, at least in part, from a body weakened by 60 years of nonstop smoking. I stayed off the cigarettes but went to the idiocy of cigars inhaled, and suffer now from emphysema, which seems determined to outpace heart disease as a human killer. Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes."

  • not only would you find a refutation of this in the Newsweek article following his death, quoting him directly, but you've also had access to video testimony from the 1980's that said we should combat smoking through education, not legislation.

  • Very good impersonation.

  • I agree. I added this to my favorites.But, this

    is not really an impersonation;it's more of a type, an ivy league intellectual of the 60s.

    Funny,Funny.

  • Hey Rubicon, you shouldn't rip off Baudrillard solely because you have nothing to say

  • You look like the midget from that old james bond film

  • lol Great impression of WFB! I'm an anarchist so of course I disagreed with WFB on many things but I still admired the guy for bein such a keen intellect. And I still try to bite his debate style. RIP WFB

  • Clips posted by NewsInColor are always entertaining, occasionally thought provoking and often truly funny. Somebody should give this guy a break in television and put him on camera for a mainstream audience. Over time, I have no doubt he would be a success.

  • i love it !!

  • Ignoring the BS comment below, great impression.

  • you spelled "naught" wrong, stupid.

  • Hitchens ripped off WFB's debate style.

  • You should have substituted the smoke for a pen. Nice on though.

  • Fantastic! You caught the essence of Buckley perfectly

  • Excellent imitation and tribute. You caught his meter and intonation.

  • thats assine... the dude just passed. crackhead. i'll be sure to do the same thing to you... all over the internet.

  • yo' mama has so meny fat fold that she don't know wich one is her tits..

  • One other thing, if any one takes the time to watch the Chomsky/Buckley debate ( on youtube as I'm sure many of you are aware)the only tactic Buckley has is interruption. Chomsky quashes him at every point, including his misappropriation of the arnoldian term "disinterestedness"

  • Great imitation...but he could have used a pencil to latently fellate

  • This guys video's are lame and he sucks as an actor. Hit the pipe u bitch

  • Offensive and lame.

  • Fabulous! Well done!

  • HOLY CRAP, DUDE!! That was GREAT! hahaha that's talent!

  • how come rush doesn't get this kind of regard?

  • Mr. Buckley cut his nails...

  • Fucking Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • He even sounds just like WFBjr!

    If I lived for a few years in a British boarding school maybe I could sound like that too!

  • You are good at faking smoking, cool

  • I really wish the news media (especially Fox) learned from Buckley, instead of using sheer volume and name calling to argue their points.

  • Exactly what I was saying yesterday.

    Now all we conservatives have left is Thomas Sowell. Actually considering he is smarter than any ten liberal thinkers, we are pretty well off.

    Jonah Goldberg is coming into his own as well.

  • What about George Will, There is one man you better come in with facts before a debate

    I remember one time, where he said at some Forum back in the late 90's early 2000, it was on Health care, He shut Hillary up

    He said "Madame, I know more about this than you ever will, so be quiet while I explain" and He went on ignoring her, It was like Hillary was slapped by her Dad.

    George Will, he is making sure to use words with no more than 3 syllables so we can sorta follow him

  • Exactly what I was saying yesterday.

    Now all we conservatives have left is Thomas Sowell. Actually considering he is smarter than any ten liberal thinkers, we are pretty well off.

    Jonah Goldberg is coming into his own as well.

  • @FiveAcez Buckley advocated the tattooing of the buttocks of AIDS patients in order to more easily identify them. A cruel and despicable man with nazi tendencies. This creep was not a conservative in any sense. He was a right-wing extremist.

  • Bravo! I am guessing Bill would have gotten a real charge out of that indeed. Thanks for the tribute and the creativity.

  • creepy good

  • Awesome video. He nailed it. Not just his imitation but his meaning.

    Hey, Lawyerdude! To quote Buckley, "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you actually believe what you said."

  • Don't ever say that. You just said you're gald someone died because of what they think. Being happy that someone has died just makes you that low.

  • Are you glad Hitler died?

  • A loss of life is a loss of life. Hitler had committed major crimes against humanity, but his death didn't bring back the Gypsies, homosexuals, political dissenters and the Jews that he killed.

    Be glad that hateful ideas like racism die, but not when a human being dies. It's just another loss.

  • You're obviously an ACLU lawyer I take it.

  • Good Job :)

    Bill, you will be missed.

  • Well done!

  • wow really??? u improvised this?? o-O;;; dang u must be a genius

  • Clip your fingernails, dude. That's creepy.

  • YOU ARE GOOD!

    BEARR7

  • Bloody brilliant.

  • I'm fuckin half deaf and I heard/understood him fine. Turn your speakers up.

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  • I do know the difference. I skipped 2 grades and I am in the advanced learning program. It's just that the imbeciles that inhabit youtube don't understand me unless I use incorrect grammar.

  • You have what's called a god complex. ttly.

  • TTLYUNIQUE:I guess reading Moby Dick or The Scarlet Letter is entirely out of the question.

    I"ll make my question short,the newest porn video will be on soon."Momma what's a Congressional Medal of Honor?" it's like

    an episode of "Survivor" except they don't get to vote the bad guys off before they blow

    the other guys brains out.

  • delicate and kind thanks !

  • Damn..you are good...

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  • brilliant!

  • Very well done. The cig flick is priceless. I interviewed the man in college and he was a truly gracious person. Even though now I don't share his politics, the soul of the man transcends such transient concerns. The world is one step closer to barbarism with his passing, and a whole lot less witty. RIP Bill.

  • I love the flick of the cig at the end. Very nice.

  • there are many things to love about this video, but chief among them is the hair.

  • Damn the cigarette threw me...I smelled the fuckery shit from the screen and lost something...I'm hoping to find it in your next performance.

  • Kudos Dave.

  • You nailed it perfectly.Buckley was a superfreak,but, damn, he was interesting..

    He'll be missed....

  • OMG, soo WFB and so funny. You are an incredible talent. LMAO

  • Scripts for the win. I like the character and I like where you tried to go with it, but I like your stuff much better when you organize your thoughts better.

    Unless you meant to ramble.

  • He was the greatest conservative thinker of our age that wasn't afraid to test people's intellect. He will be missed. Hope his intellect has been passed down to his son and grandchildren.

  • Classic

  • Good job! A rather unvomit-like tribute :-)

  • Very entertaining...

    I'll especially miss Billy's unappologetic anti-communist, pro-McCarthy, anti-civil-rights stands.

  • LOL!!! David, you've got Buckley down so perfectly!!!

    :P

    You have sooo much talent!!!

  • you are definitely a non-smoker, am i right?

    great video!

  • hes reading what he wrote in his other hand... =)but he makes it look natural o-O;;

  • Actually, the whole thing was improvised - one of the few I've done that way. ;)

  • PS, great video as usual.

  • Silly rabbit, don't you know that "words don't matter"? Interesting point you make about Buckley living to see its zenith under Reagan and its demise under W. The right was upset with Buckley when he broke with them over the War in Iraq, but Buckley was never really a political party man; rather he was an ideologue -- more loyal to conservatism as an idea, than to the Republican Party as a political reality.

  • Well put. Your intelligent parodies are always refreshing.

  • omg you are too funny, that was soooo him !

    keep up the good work!

  • Wow. Um...Wow..Dude..If there was such thing as a black Buckley....that was it...WOW!

  • OMG has Edward R. Murrow been reincarnated as a conservative solipsistic moron? If the conservative banner is to be carried forward by this guy and his ilk (think Rush Limbaugh) then the future is bright for progressive thinkers and doers. Mr. Buckley was not much of a doer and his thinking was severely retarded by his circumstances and the only reason he was heard at all was fact he could self fund his pulpit.

  • Drop that ciggy bro. yuck.

  • I wonder if you know how stupid you are.

  • I know you are mccronej but what is he?

    Oops, I mean: Shut the fuck up.

  • How old are you, and do you know any thing about Mr. Buckley? Its obvious you are not an educated person, and you may live in a trailer park not ever venturing outside your little circle. Its sad youtube allows stupid comments by dumb people; However, you have the right to your opinion. I hope you grow up and pray your parents aren't as stupid as you. More than likely they are. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.

  • (1) Proofread your comments when you decide to call people dumb, stupid or uneducated. (2) Intelligent people rarely have to attack a person personally and seldom make sweeping assumptions about who they are. (3) Stfu.

  • My statement was not directed towards Mr. East, it was directed towards a clown that made a stupid comment. You are correct I should have proofread; However, I didn't. As I said to him we all have opinions, and we can voice them, and if you are the person I made the statement to fuck you and your mama.

  • Ah, you're right. I didn't realize you were attacking a poster (you'd think "trailer park" would have given it away). Sorry, I'm hung over.

    (1) Do not criticize others for their criticisms of others while hung over and/or drunk. (2) Reading comprehension FTW.

    My bad.

  • tonjanhalmal; Bill Buckley was an awesome spokesman for conservatives, I thought he was

    unique in this world. But,don't trash people from trailer parks.

    Johnny Depp, and myself,are trailer park people Issac Newton,the greatest mind outside of Jesus, never moved more than 50 miles from his birthplace. We are all in this together and the truth is absolute.

  • Great style David. Love the wig too.

    "Billy" lol.

  • If conservatism dies, America is in BIG trouble. There really are not that many "nuances" to it and more black and white than the liberals will ever admit. Liberal policy breeds socialism which naturally morphs into communism, which inevitably results in lots of dead people. History proves this. RIP William F. Buckley, you will be missed. I happen to adore Rush, Ann, Jason Lewis. Listen to these people and then try to refute their facts. Rush haters do not know the man.

  • If Rush ever has any facts, I'll refute them.

    As to William Buckley, rest in piece, you were a sight classier than the neanderthals carrying your banner now, and you had the good sense to retract some of your more bullshit statements, COMPLETELY unlike the neanderthals now.

  • One would have to listen to Rush's program to and perhaps do some research to determine the accuracy. Unless of course there is some sort of fact-alert software that notifies special people of "facts". Speaking of facts, why is NPR financed by taxpayers while liberal politicans keep trying to reinstitute the "fairness doctrine" to shut conservative talk radio up. Liberals are not interested in the exchange of ideas, they seek instead to silence opposing views.

  • Do you even listen to NPR? Because I think you probably do about as much as I do to Limbaugh, and we could Both Learn a Valuable Lesson (TM).

  • Some of us are. Some of us want to rise above the treehugger vs. religious nut crap that the media, including NPR and conservative radio, shove down our throats. People spend too much time gravitating towards the pundits and "news sources" that cater to their philosophies instead of seeking out true honest information. Our current state of politics is inbred.

  • Why are you insulting the neanderthals by comparing them with people like ann and rush?

  • vargaboy, you mention today's neanderthals. Buckley was, of course, a Paleoconservative. I'm sure that the fact that the neo-cons took over his magazine didn't help to lengthen his life any.

    While I was never wild about Buckley, who was also an elitist Anglophile, he clearly wasn't a screaming cowboy like the neo-cons of today.

    I think he was somewhat broken in his final years as many of the things he enjoyed (like sailing) and worked for (like conservatism) began to slip away from him.

  • Yea, you have talent...

  • Scarey!

    Don't you just love David's skits?

  • Now that WFB is dead, I hope conservatism completely dies too.

  • WFBjr, wow, he is the one that lit the spark that burnt and clensed the whole world.

    What was it that a publisher once said, I will make it so that the young boy who driveth the plough knows more of the word than you will ever.

    Goodness I can't remember who said that, but He was a conservative too, Liberals love to control dissemination of media, in order to control thinking, conservatives (real ones) want it all out, and the truth will rise to the top

  • therubicon: Though I am a Liberal, I do not believe in biased media. It should be as objective as possible.

    'and the truth will rise to the top'

    Well, in the world of political disscussion, there are few truths. Most of politics is opinion, there is never a definite 'yes' or 'no'.

  • I'm not good at english, (the study of it as a first language) I was always good at math, the poncaire conjecture, fermonts therom, or that solution to one of the 5 millennium prizes solved a couple years back by the weird Russian mathematician.

    I guess I'm used to there being a formulae, and truth comings after the equal sign. I don't like the subjective querys of politics, cause I know in my heart what is morally right, but with politics it never is

  • therubicon: With all due respect, how does this relate to my comment?

  • everything I say has to do with what I say and what I care about, I live in a closed simulacra, It all happens in my mind, there is a closed matrix, the world including you (and I'm amazed at your indignation) are all figments of my imagination

  • therubicon: Who said I am angry?

    What is this a joke?

  • You should have said... "I'm no mad" which was a great response of WFB's.

  • chukmaty: Did you reply to me?

  • Inasumch as you're a figment of my imagination as you're all part of my matrix, you should know that I never joke :)

    ego non scio

    venite occourtie morbo

  • therubicon: Ok, go back to your padded cell.

  • Oh, I hope that this is anonymous, but If not, If I'm taken away by the big goons again, I really hope they get that it's all just a joke, they didn't last time.

    Ouch my arse is still hurting from that encounter

  • therubicon: Very funny.

  • Really good impersonation!

  • Really great take! You do have talent!!!

    5*

    But I don't think people like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, B. Cunningham embody the type of conservatism people want. There is a difference between common sense conservatism and blowhard conservatism.

    I hope the Republican Party catches that fine distinction!

  • Man, I wish I had your talent, because you are good. I bet you will have some fool make a studid comment about this video. You hit the nail on the head. Where did you go to school, because its obvious you are well rounded. Keep up the work, and you will be rewarded in some manner I promise you that.

  • "Billy was one of a kind" lol

    Man, I hope you have a forum outside of Youtube where your genius is acknowledge and appreciated.