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  • Steven Sturdevant
    Steven Sturdevant replied on 06:00 PM on March 27, 2008
    Buckley was the most disgusting quasi-celebrity I ever encountered. I was a Republican for over forty years and a one-time subscriber to his magazine. I watched him several times on his TV show and could never fathom the depth of his conceit. I canceled my subscription to National Review upon receiving the issue that featured the portrait of Chelsea Clinton. What a sadistic bastard. I had no love for the parents but what did a little girl have to do with anything. It was as sick as McCain's famous joke. While I think the world is better off now that he is dead, I think the world would be much, much better off if he had never existed.
  • Steven Sturdevant
    Steven Sturdevant replied on 10:00 PM on March 27, 2008
    Buckley was the most disgusting quasi-celebrity I ever encountered. I was a Republican for over forty years and a one-time subscriber to his magazine. I watched him several times on his TV show and could never fathom the depth of his conceit. I canceled my subscription to National Review upon receiving the issue that featured the portrait of Chelsea Clinton. What a sadistic bastard. I had no love for the parents but what did a little girl have to do with anything. It was as sick as McCain's famous joke.

    While I think the world is better off now that he is dead, I think the world would be much, much better off if he had never existed.
  • black 666
    black 666 replied on 09:36 PM on May 28, 2008
    and the same can be said about you t. rasa...people have a right to different notions and ideas, even if they are despised. i understand your anger , however a closed mind/system doesn't allow for change. To deny the very existence of another lends to indifference about you and your opinions,thoughts, and notions and in worse case scenerios yours or mines very existence when left to others with different ideals of how there world should or shouldn't look.. namaste, black666
  • black 666
    black 666 replied on 01:36 AM on May 29, 2008
    and the same can be said about you t. rasa...people have a right to different notions and ideas, even if they are despised. i understand your anger , however a closed mind/system doesn't allow for change. To deny the very existence of another lends to indifference about you and your opinions,thoughts, and notions and in worse case scenerios yours or mines very existence when left to others with different ideals of how there world should or shouldn't look..
    namaste,
    black666
  • kida kida
    kida kida replied on 07:48 PM on June 21, 2008
    His loss won't make the world a darker place since his spotlight always pointed in the same direction - that of Washington's dictate. Buckley was just another 'commissar' and it's quite interesting to see how his "intellectual stature" was reduced to that of a mere censor constantly interrupting and not letting Chomsky articulate his positions.
  • kida kida
    kida kida replied on 11:48 PM on June 21, 2008
    His loss won't make the world a darker place since his spotlight always pointed in the same direction - that of Washington's dictate.

    Buckley was just another 'commissar' and it's quite interesting to see how his "intellectual stature" was reduced to that of a mere censor constantly interrupting and not letting Chomsky articulate his positions.
  • Matthew Wood replied on 11:15 AM on August 23, 2008
    Chomsky..our most developed analytical mind shows buckley to be a crude bullying ideolouge
  • Matthew Wood replied on 03:15 PM on August 23, 2008
    Chomsky..our most developed analytical mind shows buckley to be a crude bullying ideolouge
  • Steven Sturdevant
    Steven Sturdevant replied on 10:48 PM on September 27, 2008
    My goodness, black 666. You not only state the obvious -of course the same could be said of me- but you jump to the conclusion that I am expressing anger. "Why are you so angry?" has become so clich
  • Jim Stiene replied on 05:28 PM on April 24, 2009
    A Democracy only thrives with the sound of many voices, and he was one of the voices that shaped public perception. Many have become to interested in hearing their own thoughts reflected back, rather than opposing thoughts giving them fodder for reevaluation of ideas. There is not growth when the mind is closed. Not much learning when people surround themselves with yes men or similar minds where the only variety is the way they express their ideas rather than the ideas themselves. The parties are like a maternal and paternal figure in which one coddles, the other practices tough love. Together they create a sense of balance. Without them we become too soft or too hard. There really are two sides to every coin, and Buckley aptly expressed one of them.
  • Rian Mark Gorey
    Rian Mark Gorey replied on 10:26 AM on June 04, 2009
    Buckley is a great mind of the 20th century that will be greatly missed and is missed already. It is amazing that the question about his passing is posed to an accomplished academic linguist who is a political dissident, libertarian socialist and anarchist, anti-Catholic who met Buckley once. Buckley, an entrepreneur, leading conservative thinker, and Catholic. Suprise? Chomsky disagreed with did not like Buckley. This is an incredibly stupid question and mindless peice for "Big Think."

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