Wm F. Buckley, Jr: Senile old doddering fool, or

[CatWoman]

Conservative icon?

I report, you decide.

:D

[LittleApple81]

1. For us: Prejudiced obnoxious (talk about elitist!) fool. For RWingers:

icon.

[MrBenchley]

2. "Grotesque racist goon" gets my vote...

[Octafish]

20. "Crypto-fascist" was how Gore Vidal described him...

What you said is apt, as well.

[Pepperbelly]

3. Even a blind sow ... WFBJR ... can occasionally find an acorn ...

He is dead spot on regarding recreational drugs. Just like Friedman. Go figure.

:hi:

[fishnfla]

4. conservative icon, but not the lynching kind I guess

I read his essay on giving up sailing because of his advanced age and impending mortality, it was pretty good (This month's Atlantic magazine)

Maybe he'll have a late-life conversion, sort of like Goldwater

[LittleApple81]

6. Keep on dreaming. n/t

[Kathy in Cambridge]

5. Pretentious senile old doddering fool

:D

[Sweetpea]

7. Broder "We have to accept our intelligence failed"

Would you accept a doctor removing your heart if you had a cyst?

[blueknight]

8. both

[Stew225]

9. Arrogant, elitist, condescending,

big old poop head!

[Ilsa]

10. How about hateful bigoted little prick? eom

[CatWoman]

11. What was that he called Johnson back in the 60's?

"Cornpone"???

And this guy is supposed to be the father of the conservative movement :eyes:

[Stephanie]

12. That works for me. Did you see this interview?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/magazine/11QUESTIONS.html

You have made so many offensive comments over the years. Do you regret any of them?

I regret all spontaneous exchanges, because they aren't as concise as you can make them deliberately. Charles de Gaulle used to memorize replies to anticipated questions from the press.

It's not fair to blame the press. Some of your most inflammatory comments have been made in your essays and columns. In the 50's, you famously claimed that whites were culturally superior to African-Americans.

The point I made about white cultural supremacy was sociological. It reflected, in a different but complementary context, the postulates of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

What are you talking about?

The call for the ''advancement'' of colored people presupposes they are behind. Which they were, in 1958, by any standards of measurement.

Do you regret saying that patients with AIDS should be tattooed on their backsides to identify them to potential bedmates?

If the protocol had been accepted, many who caught the infection unguardedly would be alive. Probably over a million.

[Sweetpea]

13. I shudder these guys are considered authority figures worthy

of commentary.

[AlCzervik]

14. I can't get past the dandruff that is

always on his shoulders or his overy affected accent.

[Cocoa]

15. he called Langston Hughes a "Negro poet"

that was in 2004, not 1954.

[wurzel]

16. He's been a "A senile doddering old fool" all his life! AND

he is a "Conservative icon".

[CatWoman]

17. hey!!!

he's hit the trifecta!!! :D

[Zomby Woof]

18. Robin Williams used to mimic him in his act

But Buckley is is irrelevant these days, too few would appreciate the impersonation. :-)

[hlthe2b]

19. Senile old doddering fool... you left out "drooling!"

I can't stand to either listen nor watch him... ugh....

[bobthedrummer]

21. An old spook with a large RW vocabulary?

:shrug:

[devilgrrl]

22. A clueless gasbag who never stepped outside his Ivory Tower

He's just another elitist asshole who hasn't a clue of how the rest of America lives.

[Kahuna]

23. Nasty, crusty, pissy old cretin.

:puke:

[Blue_Roses]

24. He's one scary right-winger

in words and looks. He made me sick this morning on MTP.

[leftofthedial]

25. senile, doddering old conservative icon

:-)