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PBS Misremembers William F. Buckley Jr. — the Man Who Built a Movement
New York Post ^ | April 8, 2024 | Social Links forDaniel McCarthy

Posted on 04/08/2024 6:02:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Buckley’s institutions, notably National Review, opposed Trump ...

Buckley was deceased before President Trump's arrival in politics. But Jonah Goldberg and Rich Lowry and Christopher Buckley et al were mostly all never Trumpers.... which is one of the many reasons I gave up on National Review.

21 posted on 04/08/2024 8:48:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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He tried to take votes away from the relatively liberal Republican candidate and fellow Yale alumnus John Lindsay, who later became a Democrat.

And Lindsay was a disaster for New York.

22 posted on 04/08/2024 8:51:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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To: Liz

That “demand a recount” line is one of the classics of political wit. Thanks for posting it.


23 posted on 04/08/2024 9:49:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’ll count out the number of times PBS has not screwed up a biography by tainting it with leftist bias:

(still have ten fingers ready).


24 posted on 04/08/2024 9:51:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Unusual fact.
“Born in New York City, Buckley spoke Spanish as his first language before learning French and then English as a child.”


25 posted on 04/08/2024 9:53:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: nickcarraway

How many political talk show hosts have created a dvd like this one:

Celestial Navigation
https://www.celestaire.com/product/william-f-buckley-jr-dvd/

Actually they say the late singer David Crosby was an excellent sailor and was said after a long trip to be able to quickly maneuver his sailboat to a dock in a narrow area “like backing a Volkswagen Beetle into a parking space.”


26 posted on 04/08/2024 9:58:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

y/v/w


27 posted on 04/08/2024 10:15:24 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: frank ballenger

I read NR from the early 1970s. My first subscription was comped by NR for a college student. The quality of NR then was much higher, when it was run by WFB and William Rusher. WFB was a great advocate for traditional conservatism, and a great coach to improve one’s vocabulary.


28 posted on 04/08/2024 10:15:25 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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When I was in college, I’d often take a break from studying by pulling bound volumes of NR off the periodical shelves. In a way, it was a valuable part of my education.

A high school friend, who was also a senior at UGA, drug me to a presentation of WFB in 1977. Had never heard of him. It was interesting. A few years later as an NCSU grad student I came across a stack of political journals in the lounge area of the student union - The Nation, The New Republic, and National Review. Read them over about 6 months. Firmly grounded me in conservative values.

29 posted on 04/08/2024 11:08:16 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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I watched about half of this documentary until the last half hour. It went 0-60 in 2 seconds into a rightwing extremists Jan6 insurrection clusterf*k. At which point I decided to save electricity and get some sleep. Turned into a Trump hit piece.


30 posted on 04/09/2024 4:59:32 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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I understand Henry Kissinger had a brother — no thick German accent — he said he was the one who listened.


31 posted on 04/09/2024 6:26:46 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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