Best Of Enemies Official Trailer (2015) - Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jr. HD

[@iloveplasticbottles]

"or I'll sock you in your god-damned face and you'll stay plastered" Truly epic

[@MattSingh1]

Buckley was a Catholic fascist.

[@Night-Tid3]

Matthew Singh-Dosanjh and?

[@AlexKomnenos]

Matthew Singh-Dosanjh why? For trying to conserve what’s valuable instead of tearing everything down like an adolescent revolutionary?

[@ExistentialWill]

@@AlexKomnenos”an adolescent revolutionary”, you say? In the context of the British saying the exact same thing regarding traitors to the crown? You’re historically illiterate.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

What someone says when they can’t win an argument.

[@blaksu]

Excellent film, no overt bias, very insightful

[@machinegunhunt8407]

Personally I think this is the best Documentary ever.

[@finallythere100]

Wondering where that girl in the miniskirt is today, she's now sort of iconic! :)

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

Buckley's darting eyes always suggest he's constantly being struck by the power of his own profundities.

[@SamvedIyer]

Do know of the militaristic music that plays for the first thirty seconds of this trailer?

[@jewulo]

That is a very good line. Both brilliant and funny at the same time.

[@anothertime1282]

Though they do make him look like a gay hooker.

[@iwinyoulose9427]

I spit out my drink from laughing at this

[@charloneill]

@@SamvedIyerLiberty Bell.

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

They never were reconciled judging by Vidal's scathing obituary to Buckley in 2008.

[@SamvedIyer]

Do you know of the militaristic music that plays for the first thirty seconds of this trailer?

[@Craitech]

@@SamvedIyer "Liberty Bell" by John Phillip Sousa

[@SamvedIyer]

@@Craitech Grateful indeed for your response.

[@jamals.8786]

Lol, true. I think Vidal's final words in that scathing obituary was, "RIP WFB - in hell."

[@davetarpley3740]

I attended a Vidal appearance in Berkeley in the '90s. An audience member asked him if he'd ever forgive Buckley. Vidal said that he would for the holiday. (It was Valentine's Day.) Buckley, later in life, regretted his "queer" attack.

[@howardadamsky2417]

I loved this film. Absolutely loved it. So very well done.

[@SamvedIyer]

Do you know of the militaristic music that plays for the first thirty seconds of this trailer? Does it have a name?

[@californiaslastgasp6847]

@@SamvedIyer Yes, I know of it. And yes, it does have a name.

[@samuelfelix7337]

“Anything complicated confuses Mr.Vidal” 😂😂😂😂

[@bluebirdgirly]

"health and wellness:" really?

[@ExistentialWill]

So was that ever proven or just a soundbite?

[@billgarrity6720]

They edited out Bill Buckley saying to Gore Vidal, "Listen, you queer".

[@acewarrenpaguyod7779]

It’s there: 2:03.

[@billgarrity6720]

@@acewarrenpaguyod7779 Thanks.

[@ryanx3584]

@kinsmarts seemingly the only reasonable response to alot of jibes these days. Also, *crypto.

[@roughhabit9085]

Mr Buckley. Did you see the play Myra Breckinridge and why not? WFB . Because it folded before New York City transport could get me there . They left that out too.

[@DeuceSchnozzle]

Too bad. It was accurate.

[@vidiot9006]

I miss these two sooo much! Nobody around today even close to their magnifying glass We need their sort of yin & yang discussion to air things out!

[@faramburug]

Un clásico para estudios políticos. !! La batalla por las palabras. Un documental histórico con dos colosos intelectuales.

[@FilmIsNowMovies]

¡Hola! Gracias por mirar y comentar con tu opinión 👌🍿

[@eamonndoconnor]

"He's almost always to the right, and always in the wrong".

[@corruptgunslinger]

Very good documentary. Though I don't often agree with the Conservative talking head, Buckley, I can't help but love listening to that man talk.

[@itsmywayorthegeminimethod1095]

I can't help but read National Review, have a suscription to it even though The American Conservative and The New American are more my tastes. I love the covers, the artwork, the name on the page, it is a big institution on the right/conservative side. I will definitely keep that as my differing/opposing right publication to suscribe to over The Weekly Standard or other Neocon centerpieces, even though I will dab through those too. I like reading everything.

[@manweller1]

Me I agree

[@TheBiglee777]

Absolutely loved it great documentary

[@SamvedIyer]

Do you know of the militaristic music that plays for the first thirty seconds of this trailer?

[@MikeHowardElectrivire]

I saw Christopher Hitchens! Loved him!

[@bxwizard]

Agreed, my ears perked when I heard his familiar voice.

[@cetteunefluer]

Just saw the theatrical version in London -very good!

[@Knee-JerkReactor]

They did this on stage? Who was in it?

[@cetteunefluer]

@@Knee-JerkReactor Zachary Quinto (Spock from the new Star Trek movies) played Gore Vidal, and David Harewood (from Homeland) played Buckley. Both were excellent.

[@markg.1078]

"Mr. Buckley, do you think mini skirts are in good taste?" Buckley: "On you I think they are." Young lady Giggles........ Classic Buckley!

[@MattSingh1]

Yep, classic Catholic fascist.

[@fromsurrey9538]

Creepy Buckley

[@SamvedIyer]

@@MattSingh1 Fascist my foot.

[@JETZcorp]

​@@fromsurrey9538 That's in the eye of the beholder, and the beholder was flattered. In the 1960s, flirting was not yet considered an act of assault.

[@braceyourselvesfortruth2492]

​@@fromsurrey9538nope, nothing more than an obviously well-received compliment, as is obvious from the clip that we all saw.

[@AaronBowley]

i adore them both so much

[@shaunholt]

I have signed books by both of them! ❤️

[@FabianMacGintyONeill]

Every single online argument over politics traces its genesis back to this debate. I mean, "don't call me a crypto nazi you q*eer" is something I hear on Twitter most days

[@LawofCinema]

Hitch

[@roughhabit9085]

Hitchens said that without Firing Line Buckley would have been nothing. That’s ironic because neither would he . However Buckley still would have been the leader of the Conservative movement.

[@nickstoli]

Saw the film on Amazon Prime. At first, I lamented the fact that we don't see this on TV today. But then it occured to me that we do see this on TV today, only with participants not as eloquent and erudite as Buckely and Vidal. The essence, though, is the same. It's not about the issues. It's not about educating the audience. It's about two sides only interested in attacking the other and never conceding the other may have made a valid point. The documentary is basically watching two people masturbate. Um, why watch it if you can do it yourself?

[@ernestschultz5065]

all we see now is ritual shouting matches and school yard taunts.

[@billy9497able]

Buckley got one taste of Chomsky and said "no thanks" no mas lol

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

Anyone who makes a hero (Chomsky) of that douchebag deserves whatever he gets.

[@billy9497able]

@@Gunners_Mate_Guns what if they get a million dollars?

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

@@billy9497able From an aging communist? I thought Marxists didn't believe in money for individuals.

[@billy9497able]

@@Gunners_Mate_Guns their debate was on the Vietnam war and atrocities committed there and interventions in South and central america. They touched on communism but didnt go into much detail. It was more about war crimes and the morality of it all.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

@@billy9497able Vietnam was a war started on false pretenses (Gulf of Tonkin fabrication), but the only real reason why Chomsky opposed it was because it was the U.S. against communists. Notice how he had nothing to say about communist aggression against other nations throughout the world at the time.

[@TheJoaquinsabina]

Here a big fan of William F. Buckley

[@fromsurrey9538]

Really? He turned out to be wrong in everything he ever said.. Why not, an ideal hero for the confused and intellectual lightweights.

[@edf13]

Sorry to hear that. I suppose in an infinite universe there had to be one.

[@diazdelosmuertos1503]

I’ve pored over several comments from fans of Gore Vidal without hurling a single insult at them-leave it to the modern left to employ smug, ad hominem attacks as their opening salvo.

[@edf13]

@@diazdelosmuertos1503 Where's this alleged AH attack?

[@diazdelosmuertos1503]

edf13 Yours is right above my comment. Do you deny that your comment was meant to insult the person who made the initial statement?

[@abhimanyukarnawat7441]

0:42 lol

[@juliejensen7370]

I miss Gore talking about the United States of Amnesia.

[@SamvedIyer]

Does anyone at all know of the militaristic music that plays for the first thirty seconds of this trailer?

[@brandenpianowski8604]

The Liberty Bell by John Philip Sousa

[@SamvedIyer]

@@brandenpianowski8604 Grateful indeed for your response.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

For some reason I trust Gore Vidal to be more honest in his arguments than I do Buckley.....

[@Pyrethryn]

I have no idea what she says at 2:34-2:36.

[@JohnMichaelson]

+Pyrethryn "Until the Matrix Reloaded claimed the top spot"... I had to play that a half dozen times slowed down to finally get it.

[@scientificatheist9381]

Pyrethryn what would William f but think about it ?

[@ryanx3584]

Is this on Netflix? If not where?

[@NYoumans]

I watched it on Netflix a few years back. Can't find it anymore tho.

[@Madkid73]

Bless him. Buckley never got over being destroyed.

[@jasonfromedmond]

Bullshit: it was Vidal who got his metaphorical head handed to him.

[@shelbyherring92]

In the short term, no. But after his death, he was lampooned as the progenitor of far right conservatism, Tea Party, and Fox News. If there were any reason why it seems Buckley didn't get destroyed in his lifetime was because he underplayed his sincerity on certain hot-button issues and played up this idea that he was simply an open eared conversationalist. Hell, the only black guy he seemed to like was Thomas Sowell, and that was because Sowell was a conservative economist who reinforced the ideas Buckley held on socioeconomics.

[@roughhabit9085]

It would have riled Vidal so much that Buckley had such a successful tv career after those debates lmao.

[@codyholt2358]

Can we take a moment and appreciate Bill Buckley talking about how flattering a mini-skirt was on that fine woman?

[@pendorran]

The interview guest was Woody Allen, who remarked, "I never would have taken you for a leg man." hahahaha

[@FabianMacGintyONeill]

It's that strange mix where on one hand my opinion is "that's a pretty creepy thing to say on a public stage" and on the other hand "both of these people are objectively attractive having a charged moment". I don't think sexuality should be removed from politics, but we should also acknowledge that it's a bit icky

[@Rum-Runner]

@@FabianMacGintyONeillI find it interesting that he made that comment, considering his and Vidal’s disagreements over sexuality and it’s display in media.

[@ernestschultz5065]

William F. Buckley may not have been an actual Nazi but he certainly was an ideological Nazi.

[@aldosigmann419]

Lols ever hear of Godwin’s Law my little simian fren?

[@astroboirap]

they're doing a play of this

[@ewondogg8467]

wheres that violin music from?

[@justathought973]

A violin.

[@lamolambda8349]

@@justathought973 Daaaaaaaaamn

[@RichamHWaked-ul4sn]

Darude - Sandstorm

[@Fulminatrixx]

Very interesting.

[@stephenjoiner882]

I think I would have rather seen John Updike debate George Will.

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

Bad as politics are now I'm glad I wasn't around in 1968. What an awful year!

[@writerconsidered]

And then 2020 just smacked you in the face.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

2020: Hold my beer.

[@brianwalsh1401]

Yeah but at least in 1968 we didn't have a defeated incumbent try and overthrow the lawfully elected president and be backed up by 40% of the country who insists the election was stolen. I find these times to be very trying and disturbing.

[@finallythere100]

om goodness, it was really something, and exciting back then... but NOT the ugliness of today,. It had its own conflict, but those were much nicer times. And 1972 was outrageously epic. Al in the Family breaking on the scene. I was in Catholic school then, and our class was sharply divided between the minority of liberals supporting McGovern and the Majority conservatives supporting Nixon. (1968 was when my once Dem parents, Kennedy voters, switched over to Republican., as times were a changing!) We had a very liberal young male teacher that everyone in the parish knew. He made his personal views very clear but he truly welcomed both sides and there were passional=te political discussions. Just as it SHOULD be, how super lucky was that? Girls lined us teasingly and proudly as "Nixonettes"! And I wore my fathers green army jacket to school as a jacket over the uniform, which was popular during the Vietnam War. ... And something most enlightening: I remember being terrified that McGovern would win bc it seemed in the media that EVERYONE (except the majority in our class) was voting for McGovern, and that only stupid people and the minority of people were voting for Noixon (except we knew WE weren't stupid). But it seemed that way bc media presented Nixon voters as stupid, like Archie Bunker. . Then after I was shocked at the Landslide won for Nixon, I realized how liberal leaning the media was. Hmmm.

[@mr.bitterjustice7961]

I love Paul Newman films.

[@old_romans]

Buckley, the architect of the chaos of today's GOP. He had more power than he knew...well, ,maybe he did know.

[@scientificatheist9381]

What Hitchens said on gore Vidal """"Gore vidal is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that they think of him as being rather more to the left than he really is."""

[@caseyjoanz]

Blue Jacky - He also represents a sore vision for modern conservatives because he saw the progressive income tax as rational and fair given the wealthy benefit disproportionately from civilization, and (quote) “as wealth increases, civilization becomes worthy of paying a lot more for!” Modern conservatives think they do us all a favor, and they should be subsidized by the poor. They currently are.

[@zzmoonz]

the effort to equate Gore Vidal and Buckley seems crazy when Vidal is just like a normal person nowerdays and Buckley was a pro racial segregation homophobe in favour of economic policy thats proven false. Also Vidal never wrote about how pedophillia is 'not as big a deal when done to young boys because lgbt acceptance is basically the same' , as in he said Michael Jackson r@ping a child isn't that servere when that child could grow up to be gay without being arrested..... interesting that people who like Buckley skim over the whole defending pedophillia part

[@Avidcomp]

@2:30 What is she saying? It sounds like did you know that Beverly Hills Cop was the highest grossing R rated movie of all time, until the *_magic sploded claim did the_* top spot.

[@MrMemyselfandi415]

LULZ! Closed captioning says" until the matrix reloaded claimed the top spot". Now I can hear it...but there's no way in hell I would have figured that out otherwise. Speech recognition software has become freaking powerful when it can decipher thickly accented words better than the human ear. We've moved into uncharted territory.

[@patriciakrueger4677]

interesting...I use to listen to Doctor Scott in the 80's...about the pyramid...

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

Doctor Gene Scott , that dude was a kook

[@jod6cindy]

Buckley's tics included opening his eyes wide, wrenching his jaw around, and licking his lips like a lizard.

[@gregrambo606]

Yep. The lizard lick and wide eyes are memorable from Firing Line.

[@Knee-JerkReactor]

What is your ammy day one?

[@backwoodsgps]

grand old men - just love them, is all !

[@JeffmChicago]

Not William Buckley. Too racist and homophobic for my taste.

[@SamvedIyer]

@@JeffmChicago So, someone who rejected his earlier favouring of segregation and came around to supporting civil rights in the 1960s is racist? Good luck being taken seriously by people who know better.

[@JeffmChicago]

@@SamvedIyer that's news to me. I hadn't known about his later life.

[@emmanuel7690]

Impeccable green screen

[@richmotroni]

I agree more with Gore, but much rqther have lunch with Buckley. Gore just seem like unpleasant company.

[@tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t]

A HIT DOG’LL HOLLER, Chiiiiile…❤

[@randommodnar7141]

crazy how anybody can see buckley as an intellectual equal of vidal. Gore vidal is leagues above buckley, its not even close

[@lukeappleberry827]

Buckley was better.

[@sebanderson]

Both are narcissistic ideologues.

[@fieldthrasher]

@@lukeappleberry827 Not even close.

[@vaultboy4710]

​@@fieldthrasherYou're right Vidal wasnt even close.

[@Trifixion22]

Personally if I want to read pretentious gay literature, I'll go to Burroughs over Vidal. But if that's you're genre than Vidal's your man!

[@holbvgbbbbkfz]

They sound so British.

[@SerwanMonstar]

They made the meme into a film

[@Scot-Tube]

hi valerie

[@ForeverBennett]

Could make a good movie, a dramatization I mean. But who would play who? Very interesting...

[@mandykhoo2473]

gore was great in Bob Roberts movie

[@ryandunkle9471]

I heard hitchens

[@pr0jectSkyneT]

I'm waiting until they make a documentary on the debate between Buckley and Chomsky. I say "debate" but it was more like a thrashing.

[@roughhabit9085]

If I knew for a certainty that Chomsky was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life . Thoreau.

[@SamvedIyer]

It was nothing close to thrashing. Have people seriously never watched even a single episode of Firing Line? That is what Buckley would do; probe deep into the guest's conviction of his or her thoughts. That is what made it an intellectual discourse. Buckley did what he would always do very well, and Chomsky defended himself very well, too.

[@rolierebel0399]

Very disappointed in Vidal's letter after Buckley's death, disgusting.

[@stevenichols2938]

Vidal did take the low road. Buckley, on the other hand, showed class. He wrote a public apology to Vidal after the famous fight; Vidal, of course, wrote nothing.

[@MattSingh1]

@@stevenichols2938 Buckley was a Catholic fascist.

[@AlexKomnenos]

Matthew Singh-Dosanjh what’s your deal? You leave the same baseless comment on nearly every thread. Can you actually state your view or do you simply prefer to “one and done” it?

[@MattSingh1]

@Astranat Buckley was an admitted fan of Franco, Fr. Tiso, Fr. Coughlin and Sen. McCarthy. He also held the extreme nutjob anti-abortion view his absurd church preached. Additionally, he shamefully opposed the civic rights bill and movement of the 60s. Again- Buckley was a Catholic fascist. You're a pathetic grovelling serf of Buckley, hence why you're so upset at the mention of a pure matter of fact, such as Buckley being a far-right Catholic crackpot.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

@@MattSingh1 Careful with that bigotry, Eugene.

[@todessehnsucht]

Ironically, Buckley looks like Dennis Hopper, which Vidal got in the sack.

[@billjohn4132]

Buckley was creepy. I was a child, I could tell when adults were creeps, unless it could be one more thing... it's possible it was an IRREMOVABLE arrogance. Like TOTAL entitlement does to people.

[@neilgodfrey2669]

Black actor David Harewood is playing Buckley in the London Play of the same name. Odd choice

[@JETZcorp]

I don't think any human being looks like Buckley, so might as well. Lol

[@AnthonyBrunicardi-yc9ur]

Buckley wasn’t too bright! Also someone who says “I’ll sock you in the goddamn face” has never actually hit anybody!

[@patrickrancourt4782]

1968 When MAGA was born whit the help of MR Roy Cohn

[@trenttrip6205]

Hilarious that these too have been presented as intellectual rivals as if Buckley wasn’t proven dead wrong about like every moral/political issue since 1960

[@trenttrip6205]

Sumit Bedi in what way

[@philcenters6690]

That's why Buckley was the perfect spokesperson for the Right, because of late (the last 100 years) they are too often dead wrong.

[@nathanbarnett4832]

@@philcenters6690 Explain?

[@philcenters6690]

​@@nathanbarnett4832 The party of Lincoln was the progressive party in the U.S. from its inception until the early 1900s when a major wave of revolutionary social reforms shook the country (pure food and drug act, meat inspection act, further progress for an 8-hour work day, against child labor, for women's suffrage, etc.). Republicans dominated the presidency from 1861-1933, 56 out of 72 years, with Cleveland and Wilson being the only two Democratic presidents during this time. Teddy Roosevelt was the last thoroughly progressive Republican president (though his support of African-American civil rights was abysmal). It was during Taft's administration that the GOP shifted from being the party of people to the party of business. As a result, Roosevelt and other dissident Republicans formed the short-lived Progressive Party, throwing the 1912 election to Wilson. In that election Taft received only 8 electoral votes, in part at least reflecting the rejection of his administration’s conservative policies in response to the progressive spirit sweeping the nation. The Republican presidents of the '20s, Harding-Coolidge-Hoover, were staunch business allies, and their laissez-faire (“leave us alone”) form of capitalism set up the crash of '29. The Republicans weren't able to elect another president for 20 years. Internally Eisenhower fought the insane elements of his own party for the 8 years of his presidency (see "Ike's Bluff"), and in the end gave a sober warning about the military-industrial complex. Already in the Eisenhower years (the fab '50s) the GOP was reinventing itself as the party of the working man and of family values. Almost 70 years later this continues to be one of the greatest con jobs in American history, the latest example being the 2017 $2 trillion capital giveaway to corporations and the filthy rich. Countless examples from Nixon through the current GOP administration could be given of the party's being on the wrong side of people issues, such as Reagan's busting of the unions, though, to be fair, many examples could also be given of progressive thinking, such as Nixon's initial support for a guaranteed minimum income.

[@nathanbarnett4832]

@@philcenters6690 Thats a very long message. So from what I understand, you call conservatives con artists for not being progressive, and republicans spend too much money. Democrats however (I'm assuming) are fiscally conservative and don't like spending money? Unless you are trying to say all politics is messed up, which I would agree with. However I support socially conservative values.

[@kathipapaleo3230]

They'll ban this in Florida, off course!

[@anomiemnemonical578]

Who's "they", and how do you ban a video in one state?

[@greglongphee2034]

Buckley was such a jerk. Any world based on his views would become uninhabitable for ninety percent of the population.

[@B1345-q2s]

And look what Vidal’s ideals turned America into

[@do_not_mot2326]

DO NOT MOT 9-30-19

[@snoolee7950]

who is that babe at the end of the video

[@elbabalao]

Wtf. valerie? Put an american there...

[@Bill-tz3wg]

Vidal was such a liar. At 1:11:50 into the documentary, a caller to the radio show Gore was on said Buckley seemed to be the more honest man. Vidal challenged the caller, asking in what way he was dishonest. Buckley, regrettably, had called Vidal a homosexual (using a different word...one that would render this comment blocked) on live national television. If Vidal were REALLY that honest he would have replied "Yes, indeed I am." Instead, Gore denied this until the day he died. Vidal was effective using his mouth to agitate, but he was never that intelligent. He was a writer, that's true. His writing commonly served as propaganda, though, serving his own compulsions. Compulsions many did and would regard as either perverse or disgusting. He only survived on stage with Buckley because Vidal essentially refused to discuss the topic they both were paid to discuss...the 1968 conventions. Instead, Vidal had op research done on Buckley and used the ABC platform as a vehicle purely for attacking William F Buckley.

[@zzmoonz]

you know you could literally be arrested for doing gay sex in parts of the states so no shit he's gonna deny it you retard

[@zzmoonz]

also fuck Buckley he was pro raping kids and racial segregation, fuck Richard Nixon too. I mean if we're gonna say these men weren't honest visa v sexually relationships then let's not ignore how one defended homosexual pedophillia and one didn't

[@pinedelgado4743]

In watching this trailer, I'm really seeing what kind of pompous and arrogant creep Buckley was regardless of his erudition and Yale education.

[@abhimanyukarnawat7441]

This but for all liberal.

[@raskltube]

this looks really lame

[@bestcongressmoneycanbuy9704]

Gore calls Bill a Nazi in order to bait him into responding like a Nazi. 🤣

[@carnetsde16]

Yeah, it didn't take much to get Bill to talk like a nazi!