Muhammad Ali talks to William F. Buckley (1968)

Ali talking questions from the audience

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• Buckley

[bevanlurito]

Observe that Mr. Buckley refrained from offering to sock Mr. Ali in the goddamned face.

[forevercold88]

Just imagine if Ali had a proper education and grew up with more educational opportunities. His genius clearly still shines through.

[Frankaay1]

@MrRickyWallace

Couldn't agree more

I hate it when blacks use racisim against everything, but they dont catch them selves bein racist.

[bevanlurito]

@itsallthesametothem

If –in your considered estimation– my being disengenuous (sic) implies that I secretly concede Buckley was an intellectual colossus, you are in error.

He was a clever chap that knew how to turn a phrase, and nakedly hostile to much that would pass for common human decency. True intellectual greatness is the result of more than simply aggregating facts and statistics. If that were not the case, then Kim Peek would rank foremost among modern minds.

[itsallthesametothem]

Rocky Marciano Ali - the word is "undefeated."

[itsallthesametothem]

@bevanlurito You are an absolutely disengenuous pain in the ass. If you can't see through the smoke of your own ideology that is fine. However, to discount the massive intellect and wealth of knowledge of Buckley is being assinine in the extreme. Who would you place on that list instead of Buckley (Here we go kids, Chomsky and the like). By the way, my list does include some liberal thinkers, but at least I am intellectually honest.

[MrRickywallace]

@LameassIndustries Buckley should have torn him to pieces intellectually for being a blace racist and draft dodger. That's more important than physically "punching him out."

[MrRickywallace]

Did you hear him say that his religious cohorts didn't allow white people in their meetings! Obviously, this smacks of racism. Catholics and other denonominations allow blacks and other races in their churches. It's called black racism, liberals, and he's no better than the KKK.

[bevanlurito]

@LameassIndustries

How ably you demonstrate your ignorance.

The bizarre notion that William F. Buckley was anything other than a mean-spirited, last-gasp relic of the old-guard w.a.s.p. plantation owners is one that I find at once comic and lugubrious, quite a trick!

Republicans like to hold Buckley aloft as evidence that conservatives can "talk pretty."

To rank him among the greatest minds of our time is to discount the very idea of intellectual greatness.

I guess the joke is on you.

[LameassIndustries]

@bevanlurito I won't argue that Buckley is obviously one of the greatest intellectual minds of the modern era, but if you mean to tell me he could punch out Muhammad Ali, you are an idiot.

[Jassurin85]

What a well articulate young man he was.