William F. Buckley Discusses the JDL with Rabbi Meir Kahane & Theodore Bikel | The Dick Cavett Show

[@Setebos]

I've disagreed with Buckley on several issues, but I can recognize his achievements and education. Not only that, but I respect him for legitimizing slouching.

[@pedal4ever]

If only current conservative republicans had a tiny amount of Buckley's intelligence. Which they don't.

[@kamuelalee]

A slouch of substance.

[@pedal4ever]

@@kamuelalee He was brilliant man...who was full of himself. I'm not sure how much he believed in what he said. But at least he was civil. No current republican spokesperson is even close to this, and can't carry on anything close to an intellectual conversation! Fox News has lowered everything to the lowest level possible.

[@michaelterrell5061]

My god his voice was fantastic.

[@jasonhood2453]

If there has ever been a Cavett interview I would like to see in full, this is it!

[@marcustulliuscicero237]

Yes; this is hardly a "lively debate" as presented in the description. Where is the rest?

[@TheNationofIsrael613]

as a child of Soviet dissidents, I can say that Kahane nailed it.

[@nadirrabah6756]

@TheNationofIsrael613 now his coffin is nailed HA!!!!!! 😂 stop using anti-Semitism as a tool to be Radicals. (Hypocrites!!!)

[@fisterklister]

Hitler was the worst, no matter how you twist it

[@08pixiedust]

Interesting to see people debating so civilly. I disagree with William F Buckley about almost everything, but he was a smart man-and his lockjaw drawl and manner are straight out of The Preppy Handbook, for those who get that reference.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

BUCKLEY WAS . . . | Yes. Quite the stereotype.

[@Frip36]

Buckley is relaxed here because an actor folk singer poses no threat. Throw Buckley in a room with a Chomsky or a Vidal and you'll see a preppy squirm.

[@g.e.5723]

You wouldn't hear a discussion like this on The Jimmy Fallon show.

[@billd3356]

No indeed. Not only is Fallon liberal to the point of being obnoxious , he can't seem to stop laughing at comments that I find no humor in at all. I would have loved to see an exchange between Buckley and say, Jordan Peterson, and even Ben Shapiro. The latter being hard right of course but still, can you imagine the intellectual electricity in the room?

[@LtGregoryStevens]

Kahane was such a lion of a man. He was a modern day King David. He's like Hitchens in that nobody could full his shoes.

[@aimanmarzuqi4804]

He’s a terrorist, plain and simple.

[@SadieZ7Z7]

I guess he learned from the muslims

[@roughhabit9085]

Cavett said that no other guest made him more nervous, because of the awe he had for him.

[@BOZ_11]

and was excellent at acting as his namesake implies (mr cavett, that is)

[@Frip36]

Him. He. Him. Clarity is not your thing is it.

[@michaelcullen5308]

Buckley must hold the record for talking longest without making a coherent point.

[@zovalentine7305]

I am hypnotized by him!

[@JMacque]

@@zovalentine7305 It's called Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Bill Clinton was/is a master of it too. Look it up.

[@a.c.f.2423]

You should listen to a lawyer fella called Rogério Alves that we have here in Portugal. He can talk(and with eloquence) for 2 hours without making a single affirmation.

[@frankramirez7693]

Yes he took you on a long ride. It wasn’t what he was saying it was the outward structure of his statements that was the message.

[@Ultra_Light_Beam]

He’s plenty coherent.

[@theklorg305]

Where can you see the full clip of Kahane on Cavett's show?

[@Frip36]

I heard it runs round the clock at the Museum of Tolerance. LA. Free popcorn and Pepi.

[@thecynicoguenews]

Kahane and Buckley. What a show!

[@kurtrambus2728]

An actual fascist with a cryptofascist. that is not a flex.

[@thecynicoguenews]

@@kurtrambus2728 neither one was fascist, but okay.

[@stonepillowband]

Part 2 please 🙏🏻 love Buckley

[@elialpert6366]

Rabbi Kahane was brilliant and right.

[@jebprendergast101]

Bikel played a “Columbo” murderer in season 6, and Buckley was the basis for William Shatner’s portrayal of a killer in a later episode. Echoes of Columbo!

[@spockboy]

Could we have the rest please?

[@ModMokkaMatti]

The best part begins at 6:13.

[@saabninefive93]

LOL!

[@ariellaabrahams]

I wonder if you appreciate the significance of that number considering the guests.

[@lvn4x]

I’d never heard William F Buckley say he disagrees with civil disobedience before. Obviously, I’m no Buckley scholar, but I know he was a conservative thought leader of sorts. To me, civil disobedience is a weird thing for an American to disagree with. Most of what I’ve heard him say was reasonable relative to conservatism of that time, but disagreeing with civil disobedience seems authoritarian.

[@roughhabit9085]

You confess you’re no Buckley scholar and at the same time you are dumbfounded that you have never heard him express a certain opinion?

[@lvn4x]

@@roughhabit9085 I’m not dumbfounded about anything. The fact that anyone in mainstream politics in the second half of the 20th century in America would say they don’t believe in civil disobedience disappoints me. I guess there are two types of disobedience: civil disobedience and uncivil disobedience. So if you don’t believe in civil disobedience, you either prefer uncivil disobedience or you don’t believe in disobedience at all. One of those sounds like an anarchist view and the other an authoritarian view. From what I’ve seen and heard of Buckley up to this point, I had him pegged as neither anarchist nor authoritarian.

[@lvn4x]

@Hanover Fiste To me rioting by it’s definition is uncivil disobedience, but perhaps rioters were classifying their actions as “civil disobedience”, so I imagine you’re right.

[@roughhabit9085]

Well Thoreau wrote the book on civil disobedience and I don’t recall him advocating rioting. Buckley said the same thing to Galbraith with the caveat except when somebody gets in the way of my rights to conscience. Buckley was not anybody in politics. Kissinger said he single handedly shifted American politics to the right. He was no disappointment to me . Dumbfounded may have been the wrong word. I should have said ignorant.

[@michaelterrell5061]

It’s not only authoritarian it’s also anti-American as the reason that our country exists is because of civil(perhaps even rather uncivil) disobedience.

[@nancymcmonarch]

So when the show continued, did anyone ask Kahane why his pregnant US mistress, Estelle Evans, jumped off the Queensboro Bridge?

[@tombergins8215]

Where can we see the entire episode?

[@ronmackinnon9374]

Hilarious when Buckley misheard 'Catholics' as 'capitalists.'

[@UzbekWatermelon]

I don't think he misheard. I think he was making an antisemetic remark.

[@mtut]

​@@UzbekWatermelon I think Buckley was feigning that he misheard it, for humorous effect, and the antisemitic subtext was intentional, because he supported Kahane. Kahane seemed to appreciate it, because it really set him up to give his speech about how he was motivated by anti-communism. Which was his selling point.

[@johnharrison7585]

Harav Kahane was correct and just!

[@tombergins8215]

To see how Great & Amazing our media used to be, only displays how low & far our media & society has sunk since. This was ABC mind you.

[@zvipatent]

Four people on a panel whom I greatly admire, some for vastly different reasons.

[@WintersWar]

6 minutes? keep them wanting, I guess.

[@mikhailabunidal9146]

Of all cult personalities in fascists, leaders and so on. Rabbi Meir David Kahane (1932-1990) was a cult personality among his followers

[@jamessheridan4306]

Rabbi Kahane looks like a middle aged Ben Shapiro. Frightening!

[@ronmackinnon9374]

I wonder, was his wife a doctor?

[@mikhailabunidal9146]

@@ronmackinnon9374 She was a librarian ,then became a housewife

[@imajokerimasmokerimamidnig7442]

Ridgmont high .. It would be a lot cooler if ya did..😎This guy in the brown reminds me of him ..😎😁

[@furankuchan]

Buckleys part is not here.

[@thefakenewsnetwork8072]

Long live Sir william f Buckley s and Barry Goldwater s legacy 🙏 😢 💙 💔 ❤

[@Ultra_Light_Beam]

The remnant continues on.

[@Desigirl876]

Buckley and Kahane, two fascists.

[@richardloostburg2637]

What is a fascist? Of it’s Anton’s a communist like you doesn’t like.

[@LtGregoryStevens]

Anyone who disagrees with me is a fascist

[@polumathes9729]

what exactly is a fascist?

[@olylongmember]

​@@polumathes9729 an epithet that the cupcakes use to refer to people they don't like.

[@JaysonLopezSantos]

Kahane is a fascist

[@charleswinokoor6023]

A very interesting (if overly brief) piece of TV history. Nowadays Kahane and Buckley (and maybe even Bikel) would be shouted down and harassed by the anti-Israel minions.

[@Frip36]

Buckley fired Sobran from National Review. So, that's worse than "shouted down".

[@charleswinokoor6023]

@@Frip36. Sobran asserted in the neo-Confederate Southern Partisan magazine that Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream had become an "American nightmare" because civil rights had encouraged, in Sobran's words, "black thugs".[19]

[@Frip36]

Like everyone says here about Kahane. Was Sobran wrong? @@charleswinokoor6023

[@jerrycruitt5375]

A fine and evil caste of lads (with the possible exception of Mr. Cavil).

[@theklorg305]

I wish America would still clap for Kahane.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

The only ones clapping are the few cult members in the studio audience; most others find the Fascist as repulsive as I do.

[@Albertanator]

@@ADAMSIXTIES Wow....a self hater eh.....

[@victorblock3421]

@@ADAMSIXTIES commie?

[@victorblock3421]

@@Albertanator he's one of millions.

[@JaysonLopezSantos]

@@victorblock3421 hating fascist means hating yourself apparently what a joke u are you

[@chesterproudfoot9864]

As a Leftist, I honestly loved hearing Buckley speak because he was so intelligent. Not the glibness that today passes for intelligence, but for genuinely being able to elucidate his ideas in a manner in which thinking people could process and appreciate. However, this 'interview' is so weakened by Meir Kahane that it really becomes meaningless. What a shame that Cavette participated in this charade, but what a a greater shame that he influenced so many people with this. Genocide of the Palestinians? Yeah, let's just process that away with bullshit propaganda and lies. .... FFS

[@olylongmember]

Kahane never asked for the genocide of anyone. He proposed that there's a great incongruence between Zionism (the need for a Jewish national home) and so-called democracy in Israeli society where arabs becoming a high percentage of the population would democratically extinguish Israel as a Jewish state. Therefore, arabs should be expelled and transferred to the neighboring Arab countries or stay in Israel with their political rights removed. That's quite different from genocide.

[@MellowWind]

Buckley is just so pompous.

[@Ultra_Light_Beam]

Oh, come on now.

[@Frip36]

So, they get two expert political guys and sick them on a folk singer. Par for the course in American media.

[@toddavis8603]

Food for critical thinking Judeo-Christian values are best, combined with free Societies!

[@truthmonster3290]

anti communism is not a bad thing? thanks captain obvious

[@LtGregoryStevens]

Kahane was more of a man than the last 500 years of your bloodline. Good job making a fool of yourself

[@michaelgilbert3713]

T. BIKEL DEAD ENDED 💀

[@TruthSurge]

You don't see this crap happening in Japan. hmmm wonder why?

[@BryanTyrone-l5c]

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[@frogstamper]

I wonder what Buckley would think about today's republican party and Trump...

[@Ultra_Light_Beam]

The same as what he thought of Nixon and the Birchers; very poorly.

[@cchris874]

A bit stiff.

[@JeffreyTaylor-c9q]

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[@BarbaraLee-x9l]

Lopez Helen White Mary Williams William

[@svtinker]

Ridiculous topic as Israeli apartheid takes the cake.

[@TheNationofIsrael613]

Arabs just ran their expensive cars with their loud exhausts at midnight last night in my neighborhood in Jerusalem. Please save your media-driven bs.

[@Ultra_Light_Beam]

Does it?? Not sure how, considering how many Arab Muslims live in Israel and have even participated very recently and it’s government. You can’t really say the same about the Palestinian authority.

[@svtinker]

@@Ultra_Light_Beam Palestinians are not the invaders.

[@jaygrossman5436]

This was a long time ago when the USSR was still in existence and was a totalitarian state that engaged in human rights abuses. I don't know how old you are but if you are younger than about 50 then perhaps you should read up on the history of the USSR before you comment.

[@TheNationofIsrael613]

@@svtinker Invaders buy homes at inflated prices?

[@zovalentine7305]

Rest in powerful peace William F. Buckley Jr.🙏 24 November 1925 ~ 27 February 2008⚘

[@zovalentine7305]

I recall as a young teenager that I was hypnotized by his long-winded commentary even tho I had barely a clue what he was talking about.

[@harleydavidson6851]

This Guy HAD MORE BRAINS 🧠 in his Pinky!! Then the ENTIRE Comerade BIDENOV Administration!! Including that SENILE MANNAQUINN!

[@douglaswdb1335]

Me too! And my mother adored him because of his language. But then I grew up and realized that he was just a tutti frutti pompous ass, whose primary act was talking down his nose at everybody, -a total poseur with nothing much to say, but with a very Grand way of saying it. But you've got to love his diction and vocabulary! It's amazing how mediocrity is perceived as superiority when delivered with ruling-class diction & manner, with above average eloquence. It took me a long time to learn that intelligence is not tied to eloquence. It is a skill that almost anybody can learn. Did anybody else notice that in his small defeat, he instantly assumed that irritating half-grin of his, as if he was celebrating a small, secret victory? I'm guessing that many bedazzled people would score that as a victory. He really should be celebrated as a master of grammatically correct gibberish, delivered with utmost panache. But I don't know him well enough to be absolutely sure that he deserves his reputation as a pseudo-intellectual. But really: "Where's the beef⁉️" About this video? 6 minutes? What total garbage. Perhaps the full interview will be chopped up in little pieces and served to us as clickbait, each little piece full of advertisements? Who's buying?

[@jagapatto]

@@douglaswdb1335 Yes, brevity is the soul of wit, eh Polonius?

[@nationalallianceforprogres3136]

Long live democratic socialism and Sir william f buckley jr and Sir barry goldwater s legacy.God rest their souls in eternal peace ❤😊😢

[@Ultra_Light_Beam]

A very strange comment.

[@FJ5280]

Kahane: how could you not hate this mfer?

[@BillBondsHasAPosse]

Jerusalem is forever Yellow ! 💛⚔️🖤🕎1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣6️⃣

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

William F. Buckley is the only "rightwinger" I like, even though his pretentious intellectualism gets old real fast. Theodore Bikel is the true legend here: actor, musician, philosopher, you name it! Dick Cavett: best talkshow host ever! Meir Kehane: repulsive hater. Notice he has a few of his cult in the studio audience clapping like idiots at all the hate he spews

[@jadezee6316]

..i dont believe Buckley was pretentious....it was his way of showing wit....besides he was a true intellectual, so just what percent of the people are left that would be capable of making such a claim? though you are correct about kehane.

[@highwaystar3780]

Columbo !