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Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Playboy Philosophy
youtube ^ | 1/24/17 | William F Buckley/Hugh Hefner

Posted on 09/29/2017 7:14:06 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Episode 026, Recorded on September 12, 1966

Guest: Hugh M. (Hugh Marston) Hefner

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: morality; sexuality; truth
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To: SoFloFreeper

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4566642/hugh-hefner-sex-men-gay-rights-sexual-revolution/

Years later, he ‘experimented’ with bisexuality...


21 posted on 09/29/2017 8:40:18 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m surprised he didn’t have his penis laying out on the table.


22 posted on 09/29/2017 8:40:48 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: SoFloFreeper

41:50 in, Q&A time.

WFB is asked to comment on Hef’s idea that America should turn over all of its nuclear weapons to the United Nations.

Wow. I did not know Hef said that.

Hef denies...he tries to correct a Saturday Evening Post article where he DOES acknowledge that the solution to war, he says, he SOME KIND OF WORLD GOVERNMENT. Ugh. even worse.


23 posted on 09/29/2017 8:45:12 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

The linked discussion, circa 1990, between Buckley and Christopher Hitchens is much more interesting. Hefner was a slime ball who could imitate an educated and intelligent person, to a point. With Buckley you can see his brain seething trying to come up with anything. A 150 IQ versus 97 isn’t an interesting contest. But with Buckley and Hitchens you can see mutual respect and a conversation worth listening to. Sad they’re both gone.


24 posted on 09/29/2017 9:14:31 PM PDT by katana
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To: SoFloFreeper

Its funny how 50 years later, almost any normal person now agrees on the consequences of the “sexual revolution” - on families, children, health, abortion STD’s

And yet having not seen it, Hefner could spout nonsense about how the “puritan old traditions” simply was holding people back from being better.

I wish I could teleport myself back to the filming of that show and tell everyone - I’m from the future, let me tell you what REALLY happens!


25 posted on 09/29/2017 10:04:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: katana

Used to watch Firing Line when I was in middle school! At first it was because I loved his Boston accent. Later I listened, and he taught me well.
About 10 years ago I met his son. Similar voice. That was a treat.


26 posted on 09/30/2017 3:21:59 AM PDT by lizma2
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To: SoFloFreeper

Well, I’m in the minority here but Playboy was a good magazine with good journalism and was not porn although I could have done without middle-aged Nancy Sinatra baring all. Hefner was an active film preservationist (silents, classics and foreign), helped to save the iconic Hollywood sign and was well-known to be a really nice guy.

I’m always at the opposite end of the freeper spectrum.


27 posted on 09/30/2017 4:47:29 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Snickering Hound

I think by that time Hef was used to holding court in his mansion, lecturing his adoring guests who acted as if his words were coming from the lips of Plato.

He probably has his schtick down pretty good and assumed he could wow Buckley as he did his acolytes.


28 posted on 09/30/2017 5:14:32 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Bookmark


29 posted on 10/01/2017 12:17:36 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: miss marmelstein

I’m with you regarding Playboy. It featured some of the best writers of our time.

Playboy was clearly a seminal magazine. (no, I said SEMINAL)


30 posted on 10/01/2017 12:35:53 PM PDT by aligncare ( Make America Great Again: kick a NeverTrumper to the curb)
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To: aligncare
Watch your phraseology, lol!
31 posted on 10/01/2017 1:35:40 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: SoFloFreeper

Bkmk


32 posted on 11/03/2017 7:16:55 AM PDT by samtheman (Where is the Clinton Dossier that is the product of Trump/Russian collusion?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Interesting interview.


33 posted on 11/03/2017 9:00:55 AM PDT by samtheman (Where is the Clinton Dossier that is the product of Trump/Russian collusion?)
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