Gore Vidal vs William Buckley Republican Convention 1968 Debate 1
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@logix010 жыл бұрын
Regardless of political affiliation I think we can all agree that what is missing from modern politics is thoughtful, intelligent debates between passionate well-spoken individuals--instead of the garbage we are treated to from modern media.
@SteveTheGhazaRooster Жыл бұрын
The fact this comment was posted 9 years ago but got a mere 10 likes me included, yet we can see dozens of comments posted ten hours ago with some witty line on a useless video, getting thousands of likes, sums up much of what you say by reflecting it upon our modern times. Sad truth is in these times many citizens were atleast somewhat informed on what was happening around them. Even far away from them at times. Now? Most people don't even want to look outside their own windows. The people have failed their government almost as much as the government has failed its people.
@talkbackdoe74709 ай бұрын
"Listen here, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-fascist or I will sock you in your goddamn face, and you'll stay plastered" A prime example of civil discourse, from a Buckley vs Vidal debate.
@billygowhoop2 ай бұрын
There really isn't anything out there with the best political thinkers of both sides going head to head. If you ever see a debate on CNN or Fox, they always get idiots and weirdos to represent the opposing side.
@FrancisE.Dec.Esquire2 ай бұрын
God Hates America, God Hates Republicans Mass Murder Party Gore Vidal is a Oklahoman I am from Muskogee. Oklahoma, Proud of Gore Vidal from Oklahoma: I live in San Francisco now 74 Years Old.
@BorisBoris-sl1sf19 күн бұрын
@@SteveTheGhazaRooster It's not the fault of the media. The majority of people have always been crass and uneducated and frivolous, but were kept away from TV shows because there were standards of decency. Elitism, if you will. But your side believes that elitism is wrong. That the "real" Americans are the ones who can't string a sentence together and speak in low, grunting tones. So, you got what you always wanted. The real Americans have spoken and here we have the thrash you so abhor.
@-HRH5 жыл бұрын
Astounding level of debate. This is back when people read books.
@Martin-sp4zf Жыл бұрын
This was back when some AMERICANS could read books, albeit explained by one out of the two of them, of the other being required to frequent Europe, to do so. The top spots in politics under the reigns of Nixon, Regan and others were not exactly festooned with talent and eloquence.
@krisscanlon4051 Жыл бұрын
And wrote them too lol really wrote them lol
@danielcavanaugh3590 Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure modern politicians still read books, its just that the image they are expected to take on and the ways they can manipulate people have changed.
@Thatonecopypasta Жыл бұрын
Now listen here you queer, stop calling me a crypto nazi, or I’ll sock you in your goddamn face, and you’ll stay plastered!
@davidthompson6211 ай бұрын
I’d like to know how many people have read anything by Vidal (in book form).
@MrShbbz8 жыл бұрын
"As a matter of fact we have a situation in the United States where they believe we should have socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor." (5:19+) ... in 1968 (!), such a prophet.
@joaomarcelo7427 жыл бұрын
more like a god
@bradh61857 жыл бұрын
Mac Greusaichelàmhaich I think it really just demonstrates that nothing changes. The exact things that were happening then are happening now.
@JimmyFranceable5 жыл бұрын
Not really, the left just beat the talking point to death.
@charlieann825 жыл бұрын
Mac Greusaichelàmhaich Originally said by MLK Jr a few years prior. ❤️🇺🇸
@kathleengleason98054 жыл бұрын
Oh please the rich rule the world n dont pay adequate taxes good Lord u need a billion to live no let the capitalists that arranged this pay the poor so what
@pedrosolitario65328 жыл бұрын
intellectual wrestlemania!!!!
@boxer123505 жыл бұрын
Still love this comment
@yojoeski5 жыл бұрын
Not really, more like an NWA TV taping featuring Ric Flair (Vidal) vs George South (Buckley).
@ForeverBennett3 жыл бұрын
Beautifully put, Pedro!
@cohenkane21482 жыл бұрын
The Super Bowl is on, I'm on this.
@FrancisE.Dec.Esquire2 ай бұрын
God Hates America, God Hates Republicans Mass Murder Party Gore Vidal is a Oklahoman I am from Muskogee. Oklahoma, Proud of Gore Vidal from Oklahoma: I live in San Francisco now 74 Years Old.
@carlmarston16872 жыл бұрын
The camera on William Buckley makes him look like he’s in one of those funhouse mirrors
@mirusmedia5 жыл бұрын
I was 11 years old and watched every minute of this coverage. I loved it then and now.
@pianobanter3 жыл бұрын
Richard J. McCollough, M.Ed. Have you seen the documentary film of the debates and the Vidal / Buckley relationship, “The Best Of Enemies”? It’s excellent.
@mirusmedia3 жыл бұрын
@@pianobanter I saw previews of it, but did not get to the theatre to see it. I will look it up. Ironically, years before I wanted to do a documentary on them and that time in history. But the ones I am working on now will make up for it. They were much more intelligent on-air than many today.
@jeff5102 Жыл бұрын
You must have been an admirable eleven-year-old.
@xander7ful8 жыл бұрын
Vidal saw Welfare for the Rich in 1968! How very insightful and incisive of him to mention it! They do indeed spread the wealth around.
@gojeda7 жыл бұрын
Presumably other people's wealth, not your own correct?
@SagesseNoir7 жыл бұрын
Dr. King noticed that government funds for the rich are called subsidies, but less generous government funds to the poor are called 9wth disdain) "welfare."
@nicholasgonzalez59824 жыл бұрын
20 trillion dollars have been spent on welfare programs for the poor since LBJ. The poverty rate has flatlined. These social programs have been ineffective.
@abrad7559 ай бұрын
@nicholasgonzalez5982 not sure if these figures include Medicare and Social Security. Social programs have been poorly funded, implemented and updated especially considering they are constantly under attack and in political gridlock along with minimum wage and corporate regulation. We've spent much more on corporate subsidies and the military. How productive have our military campaigns been since then? Why hasn't the net worth of the American working class kept up with corporate profits since we have no problem with corporate welfare?
@aNewJesus22 күн бұрын
@@nicholasgonzalez5982 Federal subsidies to U.S. businesses now cost American taxpayers nearly $100 billion a year; and that was in 1999. Fossil fuel industry alone has taken 7 trillion in subsidies. If all corporate welfare programs were eliminated, Congress would have enough money to entirely eliminate the capital gains tax and the death tax. Alternatively, Congress could cut the personal and corporate income tax by 10 percent across the board.
@j1o1h1n1f324 жыл бұрын
Mild mannered, calculated, well researched, debate about facts as opposed to conjecture. Two brilliant men who well articulate the English language. We need this today.
@shakdidagalimal Жыл бұрын
Ridiculous. It's just as goofy as the garbage we get nowadays. You're (and 16 others are)fooled by the polished Ivy League wordings.
@apriore Жыл бұрын
@@shakdidagalimal I think you are missing the point.
@takuma35910 ай бұрын
@@shakdidagalimaldo u wanna break down what they actually argued about or did you only listen to the accent and think “rich white men, must be wrong”
@josephsauris49499 ай бұрын
Calculated, researched, yes. Mild-mannered, I dunno...
@mattklein54987 ай бұрын
agree, but Vidal was far less fooled@@shakdidagalimal
@michaelshier39567 жыл бұрын
Both these guys were totally American. Those upper class accents are just amazing. Bring back the accents.
That's because they're elites, the ones the right complains about.
@angelinejohnson95113 жыл бұрын
once upon a time, rhetoric and elocution were important topics of education.
@sfpdaniel Жыл бұрын
I'm going to be laughing at the line, "good night and let me tell you!" all day
@testertaster9 жыл бұрын
God damn could these guys detest each other any more?
@boxer123506 жыл бұрын
testertaster they could not
@owiz92122 жыл бұрын
Given the chance to kill each other and get away with it, they certainly would have.
@AngusRockford2 жыл бұрын
Nope. Buckley was a bigot's bigot. A virulent anti-semite, a leading opponent of any and all civil rights for non-whites, and, of course, a vicious homophobe, which is darkly comic, because most people, especially modern conservatives, see him clearly as the self-infatuated, effeminate fop he was.
@maggiesace389 Жыл бұрын
Cant blame WFBjr not liking nancy/nancys 1960s style WOKE, agenda.
@carlpen8508 жыл бұрын
Here we are almost 46 yrs later & nothing has changed except the names.
@johndeluca2987 жыл бұрын
And the sexuality. Gore was clearly, at least to everyone but Vidal and that tot tapping Buckley kept his mouth "occupied" while boring everyone at Yale.
@SagesseNoir7 жыл бұрын
One great change is that the intellectual level of conversation has dropped drastically over the past four or five decades. Can we able to sustain such a conversation nowadays.
@SagesseNoir7 жыл бұрын
trha2222 Civility has suffered a general decline. But Conservatives have certainly not fared better as exemplars of civility. If general, they've generally not fared as well. And liberals have no monopoly on violence.
@SagesseNoir7 жыл бұрын
trha2222 Most American terrorists--regardless of what the media suggests--are RIGHT WING and usually white. Liberals didn't start the birther movement. Liberals don't tend to affiliate with white supremacists and nationalists. Liberals don't form armed militias to terrorize their neighbors. In decades past it wasn't the liberals who formed lynch mobs, bombed churches, shoot dissident university students, or impose segregation by means of force. And Chris Hitchens was right when he noted that it was the LEFT who formed the black freedom movement of the 1960s and the movement for the rights of women. You don't have to romanticize liberals or other leftist to see that most violence and repression have come from the Right--and still does.
@SagesseNoir7 жыл бұрын
trha2222 I've studies history and know what I'm talking about. By the way, your reply to my analysis--"pure bullshit"-- is an example of what I meant when I stated earlier that discussion or debate on the level of Gore Vidal and William Buckley is rare and barely possible today. Despite his snide, mocking manner Buckley would hat least have made some effort to reply to me with a REASONED rebuttal.
@slowbro1738 жыл бұрын
Vidal's banter is impeccable
@gorecassady16328 жыл бұрын
Banter
@samfacultad96696 жыл бұрын
Impeccably disingenuous
@FrancisE.Dec.Esquire2 ай бұрын
God Hates America, God Hates Republicans Mass Murder Party Gore Vidal is a Oklahoman I am from Muskogee. Oklahoma, Proud of Gore Vidal from Oklahoma: I live in San Francisco now 74 Years Old.
@tonywilliams6028 жыл бұрын
Whatever you think of Gore Vidal, he had Nixon pegged from the beginning.
@56squadron4 жыл бұрын
The worst thing about Nixon was the most liberal thing about him - His penchant for Keynesian economics, which he used to win an election, and which brought about the rampant inflation that destroyed industry, the american middle class, and which we have never actually recovered from.
@marioarguello69898 ай бұрын
@@56squadronIt's "funny" how the Masses Of Dumbasses believe he was "far right" when years clearly not.
@definitiveentertainment16584 жыл бұрын
Buckley looks EXACTLY like his Genie Impression from Aladdin here 😂
@jake1053 жыл бұрын
Geez I'd forgotten about that.
@yawdjin17373 жыл бұрын
“A few provisos... “ Now I finally make the connection.
@RikSchneider10 жыл бұрын
The ultimate debate when it comes to intelligence, wit and humor.
@johnmontgomery9100 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant debate. No matter who you agree with both men bring it.
@paulstoker476 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting it, sir! Ah, those were the days...
@bradpirochta92934 жыл бұрын
A very polite cat fight.
@troyadams1910 жыл бұрын
I nearly died when he said "The Jig is Up" was a headline about Powell.
@llynfach10 жыл бұрын
Politics aside, I love both these chaps. I wish modern Americans still had accents like these.
@tonyduncan98523 жыл бұрын
Sorry - but one of them is quite detestable. And the other is Vidal.
@TheClassicalConservative2 жыл бұрын
@@tonyduncan9852 Ok boomer
@tonyduncan98522 жыл бұрын
@@TheClassicalConservative Pre-boomer, if you like labelling _that_ much.
@floydzeppland Жыл бұрын
@@tonyduncan9852 you were born before 1946?
@tonyduncan9852 Жыл бұрын
@@floydzeppland By 2 yrs.
@georgediederich2035 Жыл бұрын
What a great historical view of politics thanks SOO much for posting
@Tom-kt8lu2 жыл бұрын
Both catty old queens!
@TheHeraclion10 жыл бұрын
Gosh, how handsome was Gore then?
@williamfarris22914 жыл бұрын
TheHeraclion have you ever wondered what he looks like now?
@tiffsaver9 жыл бұрын
Vidal's comments regarding Nixon was pure prophesy... just look at history, the greatest test of any philosophy.
@keefriff998 жыл бұрын
tiffsaver Very true...Vidal sounds like a prophet here.
@extremesplash818 жыл бұрын
+tiffsaver And Buckley's regarding a black man using his race to absolve his wrongdoing sound prophetic also.
@stephenjoiner37387 жыл бұрын
Buckley prophetic? Cease your blasphemy!
@stevencoardvenice5 жыл бұрын
tiffsaver And Buckley was for the Vietnam War. Conservatives shouldn't promote this guy as a great thinker when he's repeatedly on the wrong side of history. He's an articulate idiot. He just defends the powerful, defends the status quo and the interests of the american ruling class. Nothing original or courageous about him
@sulfurousstench5 жыл бұрын
well said
@cheriepeden77453 жыл бұрын
Two rich guys debating the fate of the poor is just so hot.
@jaywilson45205 жыл бұрын
0:38 Buckley never looked better.
@mohammadj.yeganeh59642 жыл бұрын
Omg I laughed so much at that part!
@Brooklyn395510 жыл бұрын
My goodness how these two gentlemen speak!
@spahnranch698 жыл бұрын
Thanks for providing this gem. I loved it. I think the reason why Buckley and Vidal disliked each other is because they both realized that neither one of them could intellectually defeat the other. Again, thanks very much for this!
@ccaammiinniiito27 жыл бұрын
@Spahn...How poetic!
@gojeda7 жыл бұрын
+Thomas More You should probably elaborate on why you think Buckley was a homosexual. It is because you believe that Gore had a point when he said (paraphrasing) that humanity must be as gay as he is?
@gojeda7 жыл бұрын
Ah, I see.......a "hunch". Well I should remind you what I said was that you should elaborate, not that you had to elaborate. I find your comments (and your claim) rather spurious, but considering you haven't offered anything substantive, I suppose it was the only kind of "drive-by" answer you could give. Suffice to say, the claim is malarkey. Of the countless words spoken or written about Buckley by his most strident enemies and closest friends, no one has ever made such a statement about the man. Aside from the fact that such a statement would be poorly received precisely because there is no evidence to support it, there wouldn't be much of a point to it even if it were true. Homosexuality did not make Gore a better person inasmuch it would have made Buckley a poorer one. So who else was gay, according to you? Teddy Roosevelt?
@ccaammiinniiito27 жыл бұрын
Thomas More I see no conservative today, except for George Will, who can keep company with William F. Buckley, Jr., who, along will, are exemplars of a classic education now long gone, except for a few prep schools such as the St. George's School in Newport, R.I., and a few others. And poor O'Reilly isn't even in the ballpark with either Vidal or Buckley. Say, more, excuse me if I've asked this question once before and have forgotten that I have asked it, but just how is it that Vidal is related to Jimmy Carter, of all people, however intelligent Carter is? I fail to discern a cultural connection as I do with his connection to the Bouvier family. Carter's not preppy at all.
@ccaammiinniiito27 жыл бұрын
Thomas More On the question of bigotry found in the Republican party, am I correct that conservatism on the continent is different from our local brand, that is, it isn't a cover for racism? One of Buckley's more admirable standouts is that he addressed bigotry by conservatives and moved the movement away from anti Semitism, at least, not so much for the black conservative. Is a conservative in Europe different from his American counterpart?
@cemab4y9 жыл бұрын
I watch these two articulate men, and I keep thinking about Rush Limbaugh. Our political discourse has deteriorated.
@mdesapio9 жыл бұрын
Charles Martin Oh come on - Limbaugh's style is not that of Buckley or Vidal, but he's far from inarticulate. How often do you listen to him?
@geniusmchaggis8 жыл бұрын
Michael De Sapio never michael. never.
@beasleybrother18 жыл бұрын
These people knew how to speak and debate with civility. Not to stoke racial fears and prejudices
@geniusmchaggis8 жыл бұрын
beasleybrother1 you should watch some of the early "firing line" episodes from the 60s here on youtube. they were very combative! they came out swingin!
@beasleybrother17 жыл бұрын
Limbaugh and Hannity and those types are notorious for stoking fears whether they be racial, socioeconomic, or anti-LGBT. If you don't think so, need to really take a hard look. These men didn't.
@syourke39 жыл бұрын
It is hard to believe that American television once hosted two such passionate and articulate political commentators. Gore Vidal was a very popular guest on American talk shows for a while - but then the political spectrum moved far to the right and Vidal went from being a frequent television commentator to a TV non-person.
@samsca8529 Жыл бұрын
This was one snippet of the Buckley-Vidal weeklong coverage of the Republican primaries. They did a show ever day of the convention. This is the same coverage where Vidal and Buckley famously called each other a “crypto-nazi” and a “queer”.
@mmgogre9973 Жыл бұрын
If you’ve not yet, you’ll see all but one of their debates (one video is two edited together) are available on this account.
@scottrussell2281 Жыл бұрын
Articulate and well informed debaters are much needed today, though it seems with the public's short "give me the tag line" attention span, they are not wanted by the average person today. Sad.
@markgraczyk56005 жыл бұрын
Fascinating debate. I consider myself a progressive, but always had grudging admiration for Buckley's intelligence and debating skills. Curious what he would have thought of the rise of Trump and today's brand of Republicanism. Vidal was also skilled, but a bit too arrogant for my tastes.
@payasoinfeliz Жыл бұрын
He would have loved Trump, as all fascists do. They always fall in line.
@felixetienne-edouardpfeifl9996 Жыл бұрын
Interesting take on the two. To me, Buckley's manner is so pretensiously contrived, so overly theatric--beyond any normal expression of patrician manner--that he strikes me as especially arrogant, also evident in his posture within the chair. That said, I knew Vidal personally and can say he was far more arrogant personally than he is here (oddly enough)--I find him quite correct and civil here.
@bobbypins1743 Жыл бұрын
@@westbatman66 bro you are a cartoon
@blacksand357 Жыл бұрын
@@westbatman66 Allow me to present a bit of republican "what-aboutism" in the form of Miss Haley's on again, off again support for her former boss and the ever sinister Rick Scott openly denying his own proposals to sunset social security and medicare programs. Republicans are by far the most hypocritical as Vidal keenly pointed out a half century ago.
@syourke3 Жыл бұрын
I think they’re identical twins separated at birth.
@splashpont8 жыл бұрын
This is a must see BEFORE the Presidential Primaries begin, every four years. (Preparing to watch Part 2!)
@46dc9er11 жыл бұрын
Thank you OUTSTANDING !
@johnlewis16404 жыл бұрын
Back when a debate was a real debate not just answering questions one by one.
@williamstearns7490Ай бұрын
A good wit and an articulate argument is very satisfying. Especially when it’s persuasive enough that it compels me to rethink or change my stance on a subject.
@gorecassady16328 жыл бұрын
God I miss Gore Vidal
@ccaammiinniiito27 жыл бұрын
@juan...So do I. And you'll be amused, perhaps, that I'm watching an old classic called "Suddenly, last summer," starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Kate Hepburn as Mrs. Venable and written by Tennessee Williams. Rounding out this cast is the wonderful Mercedes McCaimbridge. And to add to this lineup, the screenplay is by none other than Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams himself, whose brother suffered from some exotic infirmity. Elizabeth Taylor gets first billing. But it's clear that the star of the show is Kate Hepburn, seconded by Montgomery Clift, a relationship similar to the one Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) has with a young character played by a youthful William Holden in "Sunset Boulevard."
@gojeda7 жыл бұрын
+Jay Young He might be missed for his banter, but his screenplays, more times than not, were forgettable. Suddenly Last Summer was, arguably, one of the few successes (at least at the box office) though it was still panned by both critics and some involved with production of the film (beginning with Williams himself).
@kathleengleason98054 жыл бұрын
I do too he would have a field day talking about Trump that twat is just what smart minds feared
@JohnsSecondChance8 жыл бұрын
$75 Billion spent on military budget. Chicken Feed compared to today's.
@420JackG4 жыл бұрын
Back then 75 billion wasn't exactly chump change.
@FknAzzMuncher4 жыл бұрын
16% of the total U.S budget is spent on military, which when you compare to other nations budgets, is more than reasonable.
@sammcfadden39612 жыл бұрын
Adjusted for inflation not really
@alphadogstudio10 жыл бұрын
I miss this kind of intelligent debate.
@roughhabit90853 жыл бұрын
“It seems to me that the Republican Party has shown a record of greater sobriety than Mr Vidal who boasts of not reading something that he’s prepared to misquote in the presence of the person who edits it “ God that was quick
@apointofinterest85743 жыл бұрын
@Rough Habit: No, Vidal does not read that "little magazine," but that doesn't mean he was not holding the exact quote from it in his hands. In fact, he was. When it did not suit his purpose, Buckley was known for denying what he had wrote or said. Vidal knowing that, came prepared, armed with quotes.
@AntonyTheGod3 жыл бұрын
Oath. One of my all-time favourite cracks. Makes me laugh every time.
@hotlunch44153 жыл бұрын
It may have been quick, but given that it is not credible, he probably ought to have reconsidered it.
@AntonyTheGod3 жыл бұрын
@@hotlunch4415 Mate, Buckley zapped him.
@SLSAMG6 ай бұрын
Buckley loves the sound of his own voice.
@gordonbartlett19212 ай бұрын
Quite true. And that's why he seems the more more pompous -- if that's even possible.
@SlimeOgre11 жыл бұрын
will be posting more videos soon. thank you for the comments
@wally1452 Жыл бұрын
I watched this as many as 10 times I believe. Neither political party differs anymore but this program (my opinion) showed what Republicans are forever like and Democrats are no different now.
@beanie92811 жыл бұрын
Wow! Political pundits who really could get with it. Fascinating!
@jwake48035 жыл бұрын
The political "pundits" we have today don't compare to these two. Who do we have now? Ben Shapiro? Anderson Cooper? Bill O'Reilly? Sad times.
@nicholasgonzalez59824 жыл бұрын
J Wake Ben Shapiro is good.
@billygowhoop2 ай бұрын
I could listen to both these guys read the phone book. Especially Buckley, his cadence and accent are just fantastic.
@43nostromo5 жыл бұрын
William Buckley: "He was wearing my Harvard tie. Can you believe it? Like oh, sure. HE Went to Harvard..."
@johnnypastrana67274 жыл бұрын
Buckley went to Yale not Harvard.
@tommym3214 жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha I got that reference
@dennis31783 жыл бұрын
In Philadelphia, it's worth fifty bucks...
@callmemurphz11 жыл бұрын
thanks for this..
@Rockownz515011 жыл бұрын
5:08 - 5:48 Nothing has changed in 45 years! NOTHING! Jesus Christ, this is depressing.
@McGarvinStudios11 жыл бұрын
Thank your for posting this! I love watching these two!
@rosagorda11 жыл бұрын
This is the kind of debate that I love: civil and based on substance!
@Gabriel2173311 жыл бұрын
Subsidizing the rich? How timeless.
@tcw8652 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much for putting these online - seems like you're the only person who has done so which is fantastic. In the playlist I see 8 debates all up but on the documentary and other articles it mentions there were 10 debates. Does anyone know where the other 2 debates can be seen or have I misunderstood? Thanks in advance.
@mmgogre9973 Жыл бұрын
I’m not the one who uploaded these; but I am married to them. They can no longer access this account. Yes, there are 10 debates. One of the 8 here (Miami) is technically two debates; but is edited by ABC oddly and is unclear to those who don’t know that. The final 10th my spouse didn’t share as it is after the most famous of these debates and it is only a couple of minutes long. Vidal and Buckley are not interacting at one another at all. They were simply answering Howard K. Smith’s questions. Because there isn’t much there, he did not see to upload it.
@tcw865 Жыл бұрын
@@mmgogre9973 Thanks heaps for explaining, good to know. Thoroughly enjoyed these! Have a good day.
@cruelsuit193910 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I lived long enough to see Gore Vidal proved right and William F. Buckley proved wrong. Vidal may have had an ego but Buckley made his own ego the center of his self-worshiping universe. The "conservatism" of Buckley and his ilk was the ideology of self-satisfaction and the bigotry that his kind was the end of human development.
@williamfarris22914 жыл бұрын
cruelsuit1 so what do you think now? 5 years latter?
@docmagnus4 жыл бұрын
Vidal was an utter ass. As are you.
@docmagnus4 жыл бұрын
Darin Preston Not an argument; a statement of fact.
@docmagnus4 жыл бұрын
Charles Barnes Hilarious!
@rolandtomassi34864 жыл бұрын
Buckley is a witty man
@CLASSICALFAN1006 жыл бұрын
WFB's & GV's finest hour. This is what they will be remembered for...
@Dingleberrycrunch366 ай бұрын
Man, imagine a time when people actually spoke like Frasier
@ronniebishop24965 ай бұрын
Nixon was very experienced, and very knowledgeable . In fact he’s one of the most qualified we’ve had in my 73 years of life.
@bernlin200011 жыл бұрын
Wow a real debate....I miss those
@malter58008 жыл бұрын
I like the sound of Gore Vidal's english.
@mckernan6038 жыл бұрын
Malte R They both have the East-Coast "Mid-Atlantic" dialect that seems to have died out.
@coreycox23455 жыл бұрын
Was it a real accent @@mckernan603
@mckernan6035 жыл бұрын
This podcast explains it well: slate.com/human-interest/2016/10/why-people-in-old-movies-talk-a-certain-way-on-lexicon-valley.html
@colinmontgomery54924 жыл бұрын
@@mckernan603 , 'Trans-Atlantic', not 'Mid-Atlantic'.
@ninapeatrice96319 жыл бұрын
Buckley had the facts.
@coolmamac11 жыл бұрын
I miss these two.
@sethkay3829 жыл бұрын
team VIDAL!!!!!!
@TobinhoDiaz8 жыл бұрын
What's with the unusual framing used by ABC? Often the top half of the screen is empty.
@michaelshier39567 жыл бұрын
TobinhoDiaz early green screen
@dsjump11 жыл бұрын
This is the miracle of prep schools. Buckley's father was a Texas oil wildcatter and Vidal's grandfather was an Oklahoma Senator. Vidal never even had to go to college to acquire that mid-Atlantic patrician accent. Both of them should be a-sayin's Garsh! Shazam! Whee Doggies, y'all. Pass the cornbread and okra! But no. They went to prep schools.
@tonysam19558 жыл бұрын
Both Buckley and Vidal came from privileged backgrounds, but Vidal never went to college while Buckley made a big deal out of being educated in the Ivy League (Yale). Vidal was way smarter than Buckley.
@stephenjoiner37387 жыл бұрын
Vidal was a self-made intellectual. Buckley was artificially manufactured.
@gojeda7 жыл бұрын
It is more accurate to say that Gore CHOSE not to go to college. I am not sure if that something to brag about, to be honest, given the highly privileged background Gore had (arguably more privileged than Buckley's). Either way, I fail to see your point unless you are trying to say that a collage education is just another elitist crime.
@gojeda7 жыл бұрын
I forgot to add that if we are talking about demonization laced with subtle ad hominem attacks under a veneer of frustration and self-loathing anger, I would them agree with you that Gore's genius is superlative in the regard.
@Zimx024 жыл бұрын
@@gojeda As someone that actually has an education in logic and cringes at the misuse of the phrase "ad hominem" by self-serving pseudo-intellectuals, I can say that Gore Vidal is far more intelligent. This is why we can't underestimate a good education. Just because some people were privileged enough to not need one, doesn't mean that every Dunning Kruger Effect struck pretender can provide intelligent commentary.
@roughhabit90853 жыл бұрын
Anyone who uses the term Dunning Kruger needs a bullet . It’s funny that language can sound exquisite to some and dull to others. Personally I thought that Yale’s greatest ever debater was a cut above his very talented opponent on this occasion
@allblaall75512 жыл бұрын
Now we have intellectual heavyweights such as joke tapper and hannitty
@joseywales148 Жыл бұрын
You would have to be brain dead to watch either
@FengLong8 жыл бұрын
As someone from the UK, I would find it so much easier to take Americans at all seriously if they still spoke like this instead of the farmer/bumpkin accents they all seem to have these days... Shame, really~
@simianinc8 жыл бұрын
+FengLong Right, cos everyone from Essex speak like Oxford dons
@Revelwoodie8 жыл бұрын
+FengLong It's called the 'Mid-Atlantic' or 'Trans-Atlantic' accent. I was considered the officially correct way to speak in this country for a long time, and was taught to children in schools. It began to fall out of favor over time, surviving mainly in private schools in the Northeast, and so eventually became associated with the upper class of the East Coast. That's probably why after WWII, it fell out of favor altogether and stopped being taught. I agree, it is an attractive accent, and I miss it. It survives now only at your great Aunt Martha's house lol, and in videos like this.
@parrisgjerde92123 жыл бұрын
What a cush job! After your 2nd question, you just sit back, and watch the sparks fly for 15 minutes😂
@freeman72964 жыл бұрын
Their digs against each other are great.
@reverendbryan6 жыл бұрын
I have to wonder of the distortions on Mr Buckley's camera were intetional on the technition's part. Well played!
@dennisstaughton74746 жыл бұрын
rev.b No, he always had an oddly shaped head, a problem exacerbated by a dreadful comb-over. If the camera got too close, his pock-marked complexion was all you could see. Filming Buckley was a no-win situation.
@kenoneill87832 жыл бұрын
Where did you get this? Is it an original betamax or early VHS recording? Actually I doubt VHS was around then.
@mmgogre9973 Жыл бұрын
Actually this copy was acquired by a member of Vidal’s family for family archival purposes and then shared here from that original copy.
@GrandMasterFreshMpls11 жыл бұрын
What they say isn't terrible unique, as much of the debate and arguments they had are still going on to some degree today. However the way they talk, and relate to each other, is far more interesting I believe. Nobody talks like that anymore.
@apointofinterest85743 жыл бұрын
"In your little magazine, whose name shall not pass my lips...which I do not read, but am told about."
@ton_of_youtube18313 жыл бұрын
Doubt it is true that Vidal never read the National Review but I get the sentiment. Vidal mentions between 7:05-7:15 a headline he read in the National Review, that headline being "The Jig is Up". And again Vidal mentions a National Review article between 10:10-10:18 concerning Ronald Regan's cutting programs for the poor as Gov. California.
@apointofinterest85743 жыл бұрын
@@ton_of_youtube1831 He didn't say he himself read the headline, much less the article. Gore simply asked: "What was one of the headings in the National Review when Adam Clayton Powell got nabbed? The headline was: The Jig is Up." Which fits with his earlier statement that he's only "told about" the magazine.
@tonyesposito60483 жыл бұрын
@@apointofinterest8574 Yes, I heard what he said. But that does not mean that’s what did. Like I mentioned, I “doubt” he really never read National Review. We may never know whether he did or not. But the point he was making/implying is that he did not like the magazine, it’s politics and the editor of it (WFB).
@apointofinterest85743 жыл бұрын
@@tonyesposito6048 It's plain that Gore Vidal never read the National Review, only that he was told about what was in it, or else that provocative headline was referenced elsewhere, and caught his attention. It's nice to be able to chat with the Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender.
@roughhabit90853 жыл бұрын
Vidal’s major beef with Buckley was that Buckley moved in higher social circles than him
@leoz20357 жыл бұрын
Vidal was a legend.
@rowenaburke46892 жыл бұрын
Vidal IS a legend.
@ReallyGoodBadBoy6 жыл бұрын
How very interesting this to watch. Well Vidal and the Liberal vision for America has claimed a definitive victory in the 50 years since this happened. Entitlement spending has far eclipsed military spending, and absolutely nothing to show for it. The wealth divide is larger, the poor are relatively poorer, and Government has grown.
@Hhoom-rc8le2 ай бұрын
Seeing Americans complain about government is hilarious. So much wringing of hands but no desire to learn from success around the world. Greetings from Singapore
@jhassett211 жыл бұрын
Splendid posts
@nauort2310 жыл бұрын
These two should have settled their differences between the sheets.
@nightowl54752 жыл бұрын
Vidal had boxed Buckley in a corner with Buckley’s own words. It’s obvious Buckley was trapped by his own rhetoric and Vidal was brilliant in his direct approach. Vidal wins hands down!
@nightowl5475 Жыл бұрын
@@westbatman66 What interview were you watching? The parallel universe interview??
@milart1210 жыл бұрын
I think its a tie..I wish current debates were as lively
@infinitejest4414 ай бұрын
Buckley sounds like a Valley girl.
@GoodWoIf6 жыл бұрын
I love how Vidal in style, tone, and background, appears at first to be exactly the kind of typical rich boy advocating for his class. But he's not, he cares about the poor, disenfranchised black people, and is angry about how the wealthy class and the republicans co-opts democracy for their own benefits. He knows the bullshit and calls it out directly. It's fantastic.
@RavMan404 жыл бұрын
YES !!!
@tommym3214 жыл бұрын
Agree
@andromedastar49003 жыл бұрын
I admire Vidal a great deal for precisely that reason. He was born into wealth and privilege, into America's elite ruling class, but he never fit in to their society for a number of reasons, and he knew he was seen as a pariah both by the ruling Democrat elites his family was part of, and by neocons like Buckley (a big part of the reason Buckley hated him so much was because Vidal refused to hide in the closet like most other gay men of the time). He was unapologetic about who he was, even though he was constantly denigrated for it. He could think for himself, think outside the box, he had a genuine compassion, sensitivity, and intelligence. He came across as aloof, difficult to know and get close to, but if you knew about his upbringing and his experiences, you would understand why he was that way.
@oroderosa3 жыл бұрын
@@andromedastar4900 very true
@louisfriend7388 Жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6mYkpqtfdRgfdk Easy Vidal was a Club of Rome cult member who believed in mass starvation by 1973 and the need for Chinese style one child family planning. This interview did not age well.
@eddiemaxblack9 жыл бұрын
Nothing has changed. The Republicans still serve a specific class; the corporate class. We still spend enormous amounts on the military... which simply serves the corporate sector. Black people are still very much disenfranchised. We're regressing... as far as wealth concentration is concerned. It's much worse today. We've a plutocracy.... whereas in '68 there were hints of a semblance of a democracy.
@CHANgnsd9 жыл бұрын
And the Democrats still prey on dopes like you.
@michaelcolello27359 жыл бұрын
Being able to tell two-plus-two equals four denotes being 'preyed' upon?
@TheBrainMachine789 жыл бұрын
CHANgnsd Republicans don't give a shit about anything besides funneling money to the 1%. Broke as a joke right-wingers vote for this, over and over and over again. They define the useful idiot.
@damac51369 жыл бұрын
TheBrainMachine78 And Vidal just explained their game of crying crocodile tears that a brain-dead American public still has yet to pick up on going on fifty bleemin' years now. Owning the media is apparently the end game. Sad.
@tiffsaver9 жыл бұрын
Edward Black Eloquently put.
@leapevery4years5210 жыл бұрын
Vidal has the facts.
@Porkcfish11 жыл бұрын
I put all four of these on Plex so I could play it on my TV. You do not get this kind of entertainment anymore. The idea that intellectuals were celebrities must seem odd to a generation who cares about that vile Honey Boo Boo. Christopher Hitchens came close as he, too, was a very entertaining polemicist. Camille Paglia, too. You watch old Carson or Cavett clips and you get Capote, Mailer, Vidal, Chomsky... Those days are gone. We are a lesser nation for it, too.
@jereuter018 жыл бұрын
"Passionate, but irrelevant." Priceless. Vidal pummels Buckley no end, but I can't help but wonder what today's Politifact would have found regarding many of their statements.
@seanmoran18948 жыл бұрын
How about the diminutive angle the producers shot Buckley? Buckley is shot low but Vidal is full screen.
@gorecassady16328 жыл бұрын
Thy look up to Buckley
@eddieperez95654 жыл бұрын
Seems like things haven't changed much since the 60's....
@Cosmickitten20125 жыл бұрын
they've gone from political talk to attacking each other
@quickchris103 жыл бұрын
Yes, neither of these talks over one another.
@kelvyquayo9 ай бұрын
Vocal Fry is a lifestyle
@dragonfly6868685 ай бұрын
“I based my character on you, passionate and irrelevant” 😂 LOVE gore Vidal. We’ll never have anyone like him ever agn.
@infinitejest4414 ай бұрын
He was the George Carlin of his day
@briandelaney97102 ай бұрын
That insanely bizarre appearance by Vidal on the BBC after Obama’s victory was more of an insight on his hateful character
@dragonfly6868682 ай бұрын
@@briandelaney9710 do you have the link? Would love to see what Vidal had to say about Obama.
@Crimsonphilosophy11 жыл бұрын
are these the two old guys from TRADING PLACES???
@davidb2206Ай бұрын
Vidal's description of the Republican Party held true at one time, in his experience and lifetime prior to this debate, but does not hold any more. Times change. The Democrats would not accept JFK's policies today, either, and call him "far right."
@darkblighttmo10 жыл бұрын
compare this to what we see concerning political coverage and debate now
@overcamehim6 жыл бұрын
Vidal....rapier wit and coolness under pressure
@yaserthe15 жыл бұрын
Wow Gore Vidal could literally be saying exactly the same things today, and it still applies.
@roughhabit90853 жыл бұрын
If he’s dead he can’t literally be doing anything
@BamfFromLA11 жыл бұрын
He went to Yale
@dstuart29186 жыл бұрын
Love these guys. Good debate-I'm a Gore fan. Nothing has changed-TV pundits bitching at each other and being snarky for ad revenue.