SubscribeWilliam F Buckley Called Gore Vidal A “Queer”
Funny the things the media chooses to forget.
But during one of the TV debates at the 1968 Democrat Convention between the highly erudite William F. Buckley, Jr. and the celebrated novelist Gore Vidal, Buckley called Gore a “goddamn queer” and threatened to beat him up.
From YouTube:
Buckley: “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in you goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.”
Bear in mind that this was no tossed off joke at an obscure CPAC conference attended by a few thousand die hard conservatives.
This happened during a live coast to coast broadcast by one of the three television networks available at the time. It was seen by millions. Moreover, Mr. Buckley was there for all intents and purposes to represent the Republican Party’s point of view.
Bear this in mind when you see people wondering why Ann Coulter can’t be as lofty in her political discourse as William F. Buckley. And how she has tarred all the participants of CPAC and Republicans everywhere with her joke.
And of course Buckley wasn’t making a joke about someone going to rehab for calling someone a faggot.
In fact, if it happened again today, he probably would have to go to rehab himself.
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March 6th, 2007 at 12:28 am
If ever a quote begged for its own t-shirt.
What a beauty it would be to wear to one’s retirement party. Or pre-emptively to avoid receiving one.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:01 am
Yep, I remember it well. I was a teenage volunteer for Hubert Humphrey in those days (oh, the shame of it now) and even with everything else that was happening at the convention, the Buckley-Vidal catfight got a lot of tsk-tsking attention - not because of the language so much as because it was considered undignified for these guys to go on national TV when they both were, um, “tired and emotional”, as they say over here.
A few years back I heard Vidal on the BBC talking about “M-16″ and it didn’t make any sense until I realized he meant “M.1.6″, the British intelligence service. The old queen lost any credibility he might have had with that one, as far as I was concerned.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Two things, first calling somebody a crypto-nazi is worst then calling somebody a queer, and Gore Vidal started it. I guess them being ‘tired’ would be the explination for that scene.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:03 am
“Tired and emotional” is the centuries-old euphemism for “drunk” used in Parliament and the press to describe Members who appear in the House loaded, which is easy enough to do, since there’s about a dozen bars in the place. Anyway, the convention is that no MP would ever appear drunk in public, so this shorthand is traditionally employed to save everyone’s dignity.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:52 am
ROTFLMAO
I’m not quite so old as to remember the clip, but I do remember this incident as it was all the talk of the neighborhood
My crochety old neighbor was a Buckley fan, and I remember him coming over to tell my dad about the Buckley v Gore incident. I remember the words “queer” and “fag” being thrown about and I asked “Mr Wilson” later on the qt, What’s a ‘fag’?
He took a long drag on his Tareyton, “I’m smoking one now, and Bill Buckley smoked one when he told off that queer.”
March 6th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Tareyton cigarettes. Now THAT takes me back. Do they even still make them? It was always Luckies for me, back when I was going through three lighters a day (as Bill Hicks put it).
March 7th, 2007 at 3:42 am
William F. Buckley is my hero. In the same light, now Ann Coulter is my hero.
Let freedom ring!
(Men aren’t allowed to have balls anymore)