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I was 13 in 1968. Bobby Kennedy was my candidate and I couldn’t understand why everyone wasn’t a liberal since it seemed obvious that we could solve any problem if we all pulled in the same direction. I remember vividly the exchange between Vidal and Buckley on live TV during the conventions. At the time Buckley was the epitome of "wrong thinking." One of the best things about getting older is the ability to look back at our youth—and be highly embarrassed. |
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"I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred." Bill did us a disservice when he DIDN’T slug that "guy" in the face so hard he’d have stayed plastered... |
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Obligatory Buckley Vidal video.
"The man is shameless, rude, ignorant and just plain old nasty."
Yup. The guy has never had an original or interesting thought in his life. He just repeats the common wisdom of his circles with smug moral certitude. |
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Sweet. Nothing like playing "last tag" with a dead man. Trust me, I will have my say when his time comes... which looks to be not all that far off... and I suspect I am not alone.
Is there anyone on the planet who matters, whose respect this slug has, yet?
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Eh....I personally don’t really agree with the "can’t criticize the dead guy" school of thought. Better honest bile than fake niceness. At best, I usually follow the maxim "if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all" for my own conduct, when possible.
But if Vidal wants to make himself look bad, I say please feel free to do so |
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Shark;
Nor do I, though I generally won’t say much negative in those situations. Save for the really sub-humans... like Vidal, for example. |
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When Norman Mailer died a year ago, WFB wrote a surprisingly sweet commemoration, Norman Mailer, R.I.P. in National Review. Buckley and Mailer were about as far apart in politics as Buckley and Vidal, yet Buckley could summon up graciousness in life and in death towards a political opponent.
I think it likely that if Vidal had died first and Buckley had had the last say, he would have acknowledged their enmity with sadness and been as gracious as possible in a last wave to Vidal. |
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In short, Buckley had class. Vidal does not. |
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Vidal has been an idiot over deaths of liberals, too, so it’s not just an ideologically driven lack of class. When Truman Capote died, Vidal said, "Good career move."
Anyone else remember when Vidal ran for the US Senate in California?
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Vidal was the one pushing the oil pipeline story in the days after 9/11 as the "real" reason for invading Afstan.
He is still a ’tard |
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I love this clip where Vidal calls Buckley a Nazi and Buckley tells him if he calls him a Nazi again he will plaster him in the moth and he will stay plastered.
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Years ago I read his early novel, Messiah, about a modern day Christ figure, named John Cave, who preaches suicide and somehow it becomes a mass religion that spreads throughout the world. Messiah was brilliant in a diseased way and it haunted me for days afterward.
As with many liberal/leftists, I wonder if at least some of Vidal’s unpleasantness can be attributed to his dislike of religion and his lack of faith in something larger than himself. |
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