Charlie Rose - An Appreciation of William F. Buckley

William F. Buckley died on February 27, 2008. Buckley was an American author and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, and hosted the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999.

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[PeterBluth]

Charlie sounds and looks like he's about to cry. Understandably so, Bill was the man. That's all I can say and I pride myself on being something of an articulate speaker, but I pale in comparison to the man, the myth, the legend that was William F. Buckley. Rest in Peace, Sir.

[Reggie1971]

You don't make a substantive point. You just use ad hominem attacks against those who disagree with you. There is a commonly held distinction between creationism and "intelligent design" The former is specificative. The latter entails that the universe came about as a willful act, which could encompass deism as well as theism.

[duchessofpercy]

Say what you will about Mr. Buckley's political views, you have to respect the man's unfettered intelligence. He was blessed with such a brilliant way of expressing himself, and we are all the beneficiaries of his word craft. God Bless him.

[9162vb48]

Yes he was a great, gret, GREAT man. Down there rotting in hell with all the war criminals who used the same yacht wax he did.

[4000angels]

This was wonderful, thank you for posting this. Thank you.

[acmna]

@jayrusniak1 Ending slavery: Lincoln, a republican. War on drugs: Nixon(you get his one) a republican. Who advocated for it to end? Buckley. and while Nixon called it the war on drugs, most of it was made illegal during the time of one of americas most racist presidents of the 20th century: FDR. No Child left behind: written by Ted Kennedy Vietnam: Started by Kennedy, put in the gutter by LBJ. Iraq: Bush, kept going by Obama.

Yep, seems like liberalism is great!

[acmna]

@jayrusniak1 Ending slavery: Lincoln, a republican. War on drugs: Nixon(you get his one) a republican. Who advocated for it to end? Buckley. and while Nixon called it the war on drugs, most of it was made illegal during the time of one of americas most racist presidents of the 20th century: FDR. No Child left behind: written by Ted Kennedy Vietnam: Started by Kennedy, put in the gutter by LBJ. Iraq: Bush, kept going by Obama.

Yep, seems like liberalism is great!

[morristeflon]

@un4m3d4 What a graceless, inhumane turd you are. That any person -- on either side of the political spectrum -- could watch this excerpt and be moved by the occasion to call Mr. Buckley an idiot speaks volumes. You and that king of otiose idiots himself, Noam Chomsky, make cozy bedfellows, I'm sure.

[leapingfury]

What a cool, retilian, non-human. I like him!

[xtrmsprts]

As acerbic and mean-spirited Bill could be, he was also a very decent and nice gentleman. In the 60s, he took to task racists like Judge Perez and members of the John Birch Society. He wept when he heard those black girls were bombed in that church in alabama. Sure he had faults like his support of the Vietnam war, but he man had a way with friendship. Good man. Sorely missed.

[TheSololobo]

I admire Charlie's composure in his last sentence

[feck2112]

Charlie Rose can say he never bet on baseball, but I don't believe him! He will never be in the Hall of Fame!