Posted on 02/28/2008 6:48:55 AM PST by PJ-Comix
The fact the Left hates him is the greatest tribute to his effectiveness.
Corliss doesn’t even rise to the level of the last and final handful of toilet paper that Bill Buckley used to wipe his butt.
Rest in Peace WFB!
Poor Time magazine. I last subscribed 20 years ago, last
bought a copy two years ago.
Ahh, so the author managed to open his Thesaurus program and take potshots at his betters behind the mask of some MSM rag that is just as likely to display the scribbles of a bitter man next to an advertisement for Rogaine or Viagra.
How appropriate that the two afflictions that infest this sort have their treatment displayed next to such low brow venom.
Pretty much the same type of vitriol was written when Ayn Rand died. The left has zero class.
It gets worse.
Corlis wrote for National Review.
Go figure.
It has become a thin husk of its former self. A little
leftwing rag.
“Your rival is not to be charmed so much as crushed.”
Sounds about right to me. Wish more Republican candidates had the instinct to go for the jugular.
Interesting this guy is neither charming or crushing. Must be jealous.
Yeah, I’ll bet if somebody does a google on this writer you can find tribute articles singing the high praises of Alger Hiss though lmao.
I’d do it but I’m working.
You would find Charmin so much more satisfying.
Worse than bad taste.
A life well lived, richly shared, and deeply enjoyed is an affront to other men poor of spirit and shallow of soul. It is evident that Corliss resents Mr. Buckley for the success and adulation he craves for himself, but will never achieve.
Fascinating. Richard Corliss is apparently incapable of attacking WFB on the merit of his arguments over the years..so instead attacks him on his style..
I’ll speculate the reason is -Corliss cannot grasp the principles Buckley so ardently defended.
Two comments: 1. Corliss takes issue with Buckley’s style; not the substance of his principles, as is typical of the left. 2. Buckley’s passing will probably not be as noteworthy to the MSM as Heath Ledger’s, in terms of length and breadth of coverage. To me this is how far we’ve moved significant events out and entertainment values into the popular news media.
“Hi Mr. Corliss, this is William F. Buckley’s jock. Oh, you can’t carry it, I just wanted you to see it”.
What the heck is Corliss even trying to say here?
Corliss isn’t fit to shine Buckley’s shoes.
In the article, Corliss called Buckley a “master debater”- Get it? har de har har-I’d expect that type of double-entendre from the National Lampoon, not Time Magazine.
Even if he disagreed with Buckley, surely he could have been civil under the circumstances. There was an old journalist who was a fearsome opponent of those he disagreed with, but who never unfairly smeared any old enemy after their death, saying, when people asked why he showed such restraint: “When the Good Lord lays His hand upon a man, I take mine off”.
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