William Buckley Interviews Hugh Hefner on Firing Line (1966) Part 3

[@magicbeam6821]

Buckley is the type to have Playboys stashed away and if he ever had the opportunity to visit the Playboy mansion he would act like a kid in a candy store.

[@ariedlin]

I think he wrote a few articals for playboy not on sex though

[@jacobmccarthy1171]

When you listen to this conversation and how smart and intellectual they talk you almost forgot there debating on whether pre martial boning is good or bad!!

[@ariedlin]

Lol

[@7beers]

Hugh comes across so well here. Even when Buckley mocks him and elicits snickers from the audience, Hefner doesn't get irate, but instead calmly responds to the question.

[@richardwright8189]

because hugh would be getting some good pussy in a few hours. what was there to be irate about?

[@SRFotography]

wtf are they talking oh god pls help me whats this hefner guy talking about ????????????????%^&*$#@!@#$

[@MrsSarb]

I don't agree with the way that Hef lives his life but I will say that I agree with what he says about the Constitution. He's dead on right. The government shouldn't regulate these things.

[@jshalom65]

"I have sworn, upon the alter of God,eternal hostility over every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson / The greatest mental and physical diseases are caused by fearmongery which religion greatly excells at / has it ever occured to you religious monogamy pushers out there that maybe with out fear the sex act and sexuality just might be healthy and even sanctified? Scripture reference"To love is to fulfill the law.":"There is no fear in love -perfect love casts out fear."peace

[@Jeremyramone]

they are rather difficult to come by however, here on utube there is a fascinating discussion between them from 1998, hoover institute i believe hosted the discussion. type in the search "hitchens and buckley" and you should be able to find it. take care.

[@StephanieJ777]

This guy just wanted to lord himself over Hefner. He talks and talks, but really says nothing more than “listen to how smart Im trying to sound with my fancy words.” But he doesn’t say anything of substance. He was so ready to attack and demean Hefner for his beliefs. I don’t know why he felt to threatened by Hefner’s philosophy other than because it upholds women and gives them freedom and power and this guy was probably all about controlling and demeaning women.

[@drunkdonutboy]

Wow 2 thumbs down? I thought it was obvious the interviewer was scoffing at Hefner's unorthodox non-conservative perspectives.

[@berner]

Tell it like it is Hugh! :D

[@roloug95]

Also far more intelligent and intellectually enlightened than you can ever hope to be.

[@cookieman38111]

@MysteryManoLove :he also has a trait that a lot of successful people have; not to settle for less than your goals.

[@chifour66]

@CEHitchens33 Thanks for all you've posted, hope you will continue to do so as you acquire them.

[@jshalom65]

Those with out typos cast the first bottle of white out

[@ElegeantFencer]

Buckley needed to shut up.

[@Economica1982]

Thanks for uploading this interview!

[@roloug95]

rightio sooooo what have you accomplished so far?

[@buzzawuzza3743]

Buckley was a square. To keep going on and on about religion while Hefner reminds him of the separation of church and state is just uncool.

[@getsome4806]

Like, right-o, daddy-o.

[@godngunclinger]

it seems that if the Bible deals with any subject we can safely say we are insulated from THAT in a secular society. Like the serpent in Eden, we can ask, did God really say 'X' 'Y' or 'Z'? Then our answer is, Ye shall NOT surly die, then we can answer as the serpent did, ye shall be "as God" knowing good and evil. By a disregard of what God has said by calling it ancient ideas of sin, then we effectively become our own god

[@sammavacaist]

Its hard to believe there was a time when people were this religious. Now it's only fanatical kooks who think like William Buckley.

[@sandycannon6025]

Tax church. They have to pay off too many b o y s who were molested

[@figthersdreams]

Hef is beating around the Bush man! Buckley killed him. He engaged himself in semantics and lost that battle to Buckley who is a very good, well trained sophist

[@CozmikVokalz16]

Reading some of these comments from those who have negative things to say about Hef and his viewpoint regarding the separation of church and state, or the difference between the two's intelligence, or just simply knocking him and playboy.... it make's me laugh. Only because I am sure a large group of you ( mainly men) have looked at or have had a playboy magazine or membership. And perhaps have used them or other pornography for masturbatory fodder.

[@contacter]

its actually "altar" but you rightists cant usually string a sentence together with proper syntax and spelling.

[@marcuscrassus2095]

hefner is at epic fail here....must have been demeaning to be sure....

[@natebooce]

@campbpar congratulations on spouting a random meme

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

Both men were self-indulgent. Both the same age, with WFB being five months older than Hef, and both with lousy attitudes toward women. No wonder both were popular.

[@ariedlin]

Both had kids the same age too

[@contacter]

by whose measure?LMAO

[@gregorcollins]

Patrick Swayze

[@contacter]

LOL

[@7beers]

Can you expand on that?

[@roloug95]

The general consensus LMAO

[@acphenom]

@geglockn Sorry, what are you arguing exactly? America is a secular country. Its moral foundation is libertarianism, as encapsulated by the following quote of Jefferson: "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others." No religious doctrine is to be imposed on any American by the state, and unlawful coercion by any person of another is also forbidden as an attack on liberty.

[@meio4744]

William Buckley going toe to toe with Christopher Hitchens on religion - NOW THAT would have been a debate to watch.

[@marcuscrassus2095]

Buckley's intelligence is so far superior to hefner's it is astounding. hefner continually attempts to speak at Buckley's level and fails miserably; it is hilarious really to watch hef try to up his mind to Buckley's level for this show...nice try hef but you are woefully lacking in the cerebral category...this plainly shows he'fs lower intelligence so clearly. And watch his expressions and fear in his eyes when the superior Buckley challenges him. Hilarious! Hef is paranoid to be sure. Must have been very embarrassing for him at the time.

[@herbertwells8757]

Actually, Hefner is a lot more comfortable here than Buckley. Unlike Buckley, he feels no need to take notes or to refer to notes, and he is able to speak in a straightforward manner without circumlocution.

[@Bulltilt31]

Jeffrey Jones big words do not show your intelligence. It makes you look quite foolish in fact. Hefner was smiling the whole way through the interview because this clown was trying to hold him up to a religious moral compass. Funny how that turned out for the him and all the Catholic priests and their rather loose attitude to sex with minors 😂