William Buckley Vs Gore Vidal

This is the well know incident between William Buckley and Gore Vidal that occurred during ABC's coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. This version has slightly better sound quality and syncronization.

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[thetobelliot]

I'll sock you in your Goddamn face, and it'll stay plastered.. Damn.

[1960mayhem]

I disagree with most of Buckley's views, but he is like a superhero compared to the juvenile "conservatives" talking out of their asses these days.

[TemplarLeonem]

Anyone who starts a sentence with "You must realize..." is a pompous ass.

[dangerfan2005]

@Haarez1 Gore Vidal believed that Ho Chi Minh and the Reds were really going to 'liberate' the South. I think we know now that Vidal was dead (100,000s of Vietnamese dead that is) wrong and Buckley was right. Buckley got his dander up because Vidal made an ad hominem against him that he was a crypto Nazi. As a WWII vet, I'm sure Buckley deeply resented the insinuation. Vidal is a low, vile creep who delighted in Buckley's death.

[TemplarLeonem]

Vidal acted idiotically. When his specious proclamation was challenged, he degenerated to off-topic insult. Not the arguments of intellect.

[TemplarLeonem]

@butchroy- Vidal was being declaratorily pompous; and, when challenged, degenerated into stupid and catty.

Typical argumentam ad hominem, when yoir argument has a weak basis.

[butchroy]

I am interested in raw intellect. I know that Buckley was mega-smart, but I was curious about Vidal; therefore - the reason for my watching this video. I found out that Vidal can't be that smart. In the video he was recorded as saying: "the only sort of pro-crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself." The wording of that statement shows that he's not an intellectual. The statement is grammatically wrong in the most elementary way. Unless you readily see the error, you are not qualified to reply.

[TemplarLeonem]

@haarez1- Vidal was hardly 'right' in defendin Red Chinese hegemony as somehow justified, and US hegemony as innately wrong. Communism is an enslaved populace.

Further, just because Buckley stood up to the attempted brushing aside by Vidal in a masculine fashion, does not impugn his intellect one whit.

And I must say, your disingenuous attempt to so characterize a known intellect dous you no service vis-a-vis an indice of your own cerebral capacity.

[angryscowl]

Vidal changed his name to ride on the Coattails of the Gore Family......

[johannthebored]

Stay classy.

[listerone]

"The Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize...".Organize? Is that what they called it back then? Guess they had'nt yet settled on "liberate" because they were still digesting Mao's "Little Red Book".