"Requiem For A Lightweight" In Which I Share Deep Thots About The Life And Times Of The Late Bill Buckley, Noted TV Huckster
Bill Buckley made only two mistakes in life:
- Creating the Conservative Movement.
- Letting the riffraff in.
If Washington, D.C. is where good ideas go to die, Bill's magazine, the Weekly Standard, was where bad ideas went to be fruitful and multiply.
Although Bill was of the right, he was never right, a proud tradition carried on by his acolytes in what are today sarcastically called "think tanks."
Do "progressives" need their own Bill Buckley? It's a little like asking if liberals need their own Joe McCarthy.
Buckley hitched his wagon to the stars of billionaires with extreme right wing ideologies, ideologies that just happened to advance their own economic interests. That's really all one needs to know about Bill Buckley. All the rest, including his own circuitous rants, are mere window-dressing.
Bill's epitaph:
Again, and again, and again.
2 comments:
Buckley's magazine was National Review, not the Weekly Standard. You may be confusing him with Bill Kristol, who works for the latter.
So much for my theory about Merlot and blogging.
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