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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[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.

[pcgamer010]

"Now listen you queer..."

lmao

[gnomechomskylives]

@dangerfan2005 "Communist insurgency" is the same tired code words used to appeal to people's fears. Whatever crimes may have been committed -as deplorable as they were- they are dwarfed by the sheer numbers we killed & maimed. Whatever "good" we were trying to engender is nullified if we resort to the same level of destruction than the so-called "evil" we're supposed to be fighting.

Today Vietnam's economy is growing, we trade with them and it never became the domino you purport it to be.

[gnomechomskylives]

@AmericansforFreeIran I'm responding to various comments, that is not the same as spamming. Thanks for your concern though.

[ArseneIncubus3]

@1960mayhem do give him to much credit he was a segrationist

[dangerfan2005]

@dangerfan2005 With the benefit of hindsight we can see the futility of much that was done in Vietnam. But there can be no doubt that the 'dominoes' fell after our withdrawal. The butchering of tens of thousands of civilians in Vietnam and in Laos; the genocide in Cambodia; refugees in the millions. All the result of Communist victories in the area.

[dangerfan2005]

@gnomechomskylives The Vietnam War began with a Communist insurgency inside South Vietnam, which after showing it could hold its own against the ARVN and US military, received substantial support from North Vietnam, the PRC and the USSR. After the failure of the Tet Offensive and the virtual annihilation of the Viet Cong, it became a war of invasion by the Communist North of the non-Communist South.

[AmericansforFreeIran]

@gnomechomskylives- you're spamming a bit.

Kind of like a plea for attention.

[bernlin2000]

@1960mayhem He was a very well-informed conservative, which simply can't be said about most of the clowns today. It's a damn shame: we need people like him for debates

[gnomechomskylives]

@TemplarLeonem Hah! I see you're a fan of Chomsky judging from your profile. Eh. You're pretty typical for a rabid, homophobic right winger.

[gnomechomskylives]

@TemplarLeonem Which pretty much covers anyone with an opinion on anything, so I guess that makes you one too eh?

[gnomechomskylives]

@dangerfan2005 100,000 dead versus the 2 million we killed? What utter garbage. It's apparent to all but the most ideologically blinded that Vietnam was a civil war in which we should never have participated. It's not that Ho Chi Minh was going to save anyone; put simply: Vietnam's political struggles were never ours to begin with. So much blood & treasure and for what? Now we're trading partners. People died for nothing but people like you still fight the Cold War. Haven't you learned anything?