I’ve been feeling the same kind of nausea the last few days that I suffered from for weeks when Ronald Reagan died. Listening to someone you viscerally loathe being loudly and publicly praised does that to a person.
Tristero, on Wm. F. Buckley:
Spectacularly rotten judgment combined with a gratuitously violent nastiness. Those are William F. Buckley’s most influential bequests to the conservative movement. And every day they do homage to these character traits, and indeed, to his entire enormous legacy of pretentious snobbery, bigotry, homophobia, and stupidity.
Edited to add: Dennis Perrin also weighs in, with a couple of fabulous links of Buckley debating Noam Chomsky.
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Nil nisi hokum, Part 2 : A Different Street
April 6th, 2008