A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on February 27th, 2008 in US News

William F. Buckley, Jr has been found dead by his cook. I refuse to act like this is bad news.

It isn’t that I don’t understand that his death is a tragedy for his family. But, hey, I’m sure that someone somewhere mourned for Saddam Hussein, too. At least Buckley didn’t personally kill and torture people, so if someone as bad as Saddam is mourned, then someone somewhere will miss Buckley, too.

But it’s a great day for America. Understand why.

But Buckley’s most infamous TV moment occurred in 1968, during a debate with writer Gore Vidal. Vidal, who is gay, called the conservative a “pro-war-crypto-Nazi,” to which Buckley replied, “ Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in you goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.”

See for yourself what a prick he was. Here’s a couple of clips where he “debates” Gore Vidal about what happened at the DNC in Chicago in 1968. Vidal was present, Buckley was not - so of course, Buckley knows much better.

More video clips after the jump.

Listen to his disparagement of “hippies” and the anti-Vietnam movement/endorsement of Richard Nixon (again, matched with Gore Vidal):

Here he is matched with Noam Chomsky:

Part 2:

If George W. Bush was born on third and thought he hit a triple, Buckley was born in the dugout and thought he hit a homerun - and figured everyone else was Barry Bonds, too. America, and the world, is a better, and safer, place without Buckley. If only all the evil he worked could be undone as easily as his heartbeat.

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