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>mfw I know most of the words in this book already

>mfw William F. Buckley is a patronizing asshole for assuming his readers are too dumb to know this shit already

>> No.1421502

It says "wonderful words", not "shit you don't know yet".

>> No.1421507

COOL STORY BRO.

HERES ONE FOR YOU.

>MFW YOU READ THAT PIECE OF SHIT AND POSTED ABOUT IT ON /LIT/

>> No.1421531
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Buckley was the type of insecure pedantic ass that uses esoteric language in a attempt to make others believe they are intelligent. Buckley had a dumb-shit audience so it worked.

>> No.1421536

>>1421531
>esoteric language

Except it's mostly words that the average educated person knows already.

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>>1421536
>implying that the majority of people who watched Firing Line or bought his books were educated or that the general population he catered to is in any way "educated?"

>> No.1421645

remember when this stupid goon called gore vidal a faggot and threatened to punch him? i dont because my parents werent even born yet.

>> No.1421653

>>1421645

Your parents weren't even born yet because you're the product of a teen pregnancy.
Typical welfare democrat trash.

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>>1421645
You do not know anything about either man other than a vague awarness of this incident. For something to make a imprint on you it has to be a television spectacle.

>> No.1421689

>>1421684
theres nothing to"remember" about buckley. he was a malicious evil prick who had the most annoying, affected manner of speech in human history

>> No.1421694

>>1421684

Shut up you crypto-nazi.

>> No.1421701

>>1421689
yep

homeboy knew how to wear a suit but was basically a racist caveman piece of shit dressed up in a thesaurus

>> No.1421722
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>Buckley was a world-class American liar on the far right who would tell any lie he thought he could get away with. Years of ass-kissing famous people in the press and elsewhere had given him, he felt, a sort of license to libelously slander those hated liberals who, from time to time, smoked him out as I did in Chicago, when I defended the young people in Grant Park by denying that they were Nazis and that the only “pro- or crypto-Nazi” I could think of was himself. He sued me and got nowhere. He sued Esquire, in which our words appeared. By then the coming right-wing surge was in view. And so Esquire cravenly agreed to settle with him for a few paragraphs worth of free advertising for his weird little magazine The National Review, hardly the great victory he claimed.

>The current editors at Newsweek appear to have listened eagerly to his son Christopher, who is guiding them to a benign view of what had been a most hysterical queen (WFB), much admired by a media that takes everyone at his own evaluation of himself as they did with Capote, who told them that he was a great writer like Proust (pronounced Prowst) and the hacks ate it up.

>The correct assessment of any reputation today is so far from plausible reality that it might be a good thing if the hacks of a magazine like Newsweek steered clear of characterizing those disliked by the advertisers; hence his creepy son’s depiction of me as a “bully” when I was simply attending to one, and then—o, joy!—Buckley called me a “queer” and actually threatened me with physical violence, so great was his testosterone level.

>RIP WFB—in hell.

Lisa Simpson has god tier taste in IRL trolls

>> No.1421754

>mfw William F. Buckley is a patronizing asshole for assuming his readers are too dumb to know this shit already
his readers were that dumb. this is the national review we're talking about.

>> No.1421760

as vile as WFB was it is nice to see clips of him in debate back when there was diverse politics and actual vigor in the media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJUULZQ8T0

>> No.1421769

>>1421722

you should read the gore vidal-penned article he wrote for esquire following that famous exchange. it was never published because buckley sued the magazine to stop it.

it's a real hoot and is available here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060326111414/http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/vidalesquire69.html

>> No.1421808

>>1421769

Hahaha, nice.

>> No.1421822

must be a coincidence.... or maybe not?

just found this book in my room. i think my dad gave it to me or i got it as a christmas present once a long time ago. it wasn't something i would have got for myself, that's for sure.

>> No.1421824

>>1421760

it's funny, WFB is obviously gore vidal's intellectual inferior and fills the air time by making sounds and exaggerated gestures/facial expressions. the guy was such a phony baloney.

>> No.1421834

>>1421769
Oh my god, this is legendary

>> No.1421847

>>1421769
>He then quotes various unflattering things I had written about Bobby, asking rhetorically, "Was that the passage that caught the eye of Sirhan?"

lol holy shit buckley is a master fucking troll forever