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      <![CDATA[Re "dueling slurs": To insult someone's political ideology by calling him a "crypto-Nazi" is much different, and less offensive, than calling a homosexual "queer." For Buckley to call Vidal "queer" was to insult all sexual minorities. But then, I guess that for Vidal to call Buckley a crypto-nazi was an insult to . . . all Nazis.
        
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      <![CDATA[Still a false comparison.  Advocating planting bombs and killing people which Ayers and Dohrn definitely did do is not the same as writing a thought piece in a Newspaper advocating a democratic resolution to a civil rights problem.
    
    It may not be the right resolution, but it is not advocating bombing those whom WFB disagreed with.
        
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      <![CDATA[Andrew Patner is correct about what Bill Ayers didn't do (through luck as much as design). I've put up a new post on this blog commenting at greater length on Ayers and linking to my 2001 interview with him.
        
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      <![CDATA[Sorry, "Anon,"
    
    I am no fan of Bill A., but whatever crimes he did or did not commit, he neither murdered any people nor blew up buildings at UW-Madison.
        
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      <![CDATA[False Comparison Mike,
    
    Ayers and Dohrn planted bombs and murdered people.  There were only charged with a few of the crimes they committed.
    
    Buckley exercised his right to free speech to half-heartedly object to the Civil Rights act.  He did not blow up buildings on the UW-Madison Campus (or any other campus) to justify his rhetoric.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hmmmmm....  Dueling "slurs".  On one side we have queer, on the other , crypto-nazi.  It's hard to know who to believe.  What to do?  I know, let's give equal weight to each, after all the truth must be somewhere in the middle.
    
    Buckley was the velvet glove on the iron fist.   He existed to serve power, usually with ten dollar words.
    
    Arthur Silber has a good summary here - 
    
    http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/02/our-saint-of-buckley-derided-defiled.html
    
    There's also a couple of good Buckley/Chomsky youtube clips floating around......
        
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      <![CDATA[Not easy to defend the late Mr. Buckley, who wasn't a personal hero -- but for the sake of accuracy, his slur was in response to another by Vidal, who began the nastiness by calling Buckley a "crypto-Nazi" in an exchange during to the 1968 Democratic convention.  
    Wikipedia remembers it the way I do, so I'll quote them: 
    "Buckley's response to the term was, 'Now, listen you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in the goddamn face, and you'll stay plastered.' "
    Not exactly David Brooks and Mark Shields...
        
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      <![CDATA[One expects an obituary to emphasize the positive, but I was taken aback by Julia Keller's fawning appraisal in the Chicago Tribune (Thursday 2/28) of William Buckley's "brilliant mind and Brobdingnagian vocabulary," the "sophistication he demonstrated on television, the easy charm and graciousness." Right -- like the time he called Gore Vidal a "faggot" on the air (on Dick Cavett's talk show, I think), thereby not only insulting Vidal but every gay person in America. Say, isn't "faggot" the same epithet that other great conservative intellectual Ann Coulter recently used against John Edwards. Yes, indeed, Buckley's influence on the conservative movement was powerful indeed!
        
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