Not such a hot picture of the buttoned-down old boy.
Posted on 09/09/2025 12:39:04 PM PDT by DFG
The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a William F. Buckley Jr. Forever stamp Tuesday and immediately sparked a torrent of fury from left-wing accounts on X.
USPS says the first-day-of-issue ceremony kicks off Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at Yale’s Beinecke Plaza in New Haven, where Buckley graduated and launched his long public career; the black-and-white portrait is based on a 1960s photograph. The stamp is now live in the Postal Store, with Sept. 9 listed as the official issue date.
“Today we’re honoring the legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. by releasing this hand-designed Forever® stamp,” USPS posted.
Today we’re honoring the legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. by releasing this hand-designed Forever® stamp. William F. Buckley Jr. was an author known for his wit, and a longtime TV host who brought thoughtful debate to living rooms all over the country. Order yours and other… pic.twitter.com/srhZO2L4js
— U.S. Postal Service (@USPS) September 9, 2025
Buckley, founder of National Review and host of PBS’s “Firing Line,” “shaped the conservative movement into a formidable political force,” the agency notes in its backgrounder previewing the issue. USPS first announced the Buckley stamp as part of its 2025 program in March.
The announcement sent left-leaning users into a meltdown. Among them was Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson, who replied to the USPS post to call Buckley a “pompous ass and a bigot who used fancy words as a substitute for logical thought.”
he was a pompous ass and a bigot who used fancy words as a substitute for logical thought https://t.co/b3XTMNsedv https://t.co/oPSUrwpmhH
— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) September 9, 2025
“Buckley was also known for being a very racist White American Catholic,” Nate Tinner-Williams, editor at Black Catholic Messenger, observed.
“F*ck this country—forever,” said Benjamin Kunkel, co-founder of a New York-based literary journal.
Conservatives, meanwhile, celebrated the honor for the man who, as USPS acknowledges, helped define modern American conservatism. National Review promoted the release to its readers, while the Buckley Institute urged supporters to attend the dedication at Yale.
USPS lists Sept. 9, 2025, as the issue date and New Haven, Connecticut, as the location on its sales page; collectors can also buy the digital color postmark with the event’s date and city.
Barbaric yawpping.
My gosh. Lefties’ skulls must be getting thinner - they explode with just a touch!
Buckley would have some great comment about all this, I’m sure. He’d likely be embarrassed when he discovered who all he will now be listed with - some are real nobodies.
Bet he would have no problem with a stamp of Mamua Jamal..........
Nathan, Nate, and Benjamin: three flyspecks who will never be honored with a stamp.
Not such a hot picture of the buttoned-down old boy.
You had me at..Lefties Seethe
I have to call it. I don’t want to see Buckley on anything except those urinal cake screens.
Why the slash through FOREVER - so you can’t copy it and pass it off as a real stamp?
I just bought ten sheets of First Ladies, and Margaret Thatcher forever stamps.
the cult of the perpetually offended
Ayn Rand became so angry at Buckley she avoided him for the rest of her life.
I still have a sheet of 9-11 stamps with the fireman holding a USA flag standing on a pile of debris.
The first thing Ayn Rand said to Bill Buckley, when she met him at a dinner party, was “you are much too intelligent to believe in God.”
About time it’s not some damned leftist.
And I’m not just talking about the official politicos. They ensure to put all preening pontificating posing communist-pushers and heroes of their ever-griping complaints on everything, including trivia on Jeopardy. People such as Maya Angelou, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, anything to rub it in our faces about how awful America is.
I wonder if you left an envelope with his stamp on it near the edge of a desk would it fall off - as kept leaning and leaning further over the longer his show went on until he nearly fell out of his chair.
He never did but it was great low-grade suspense while expanding my vocabulary.
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