A Bit Of William F. Buckley Trivia To Honor The Dearly Departed

The Whistler • March 1, 2008

Given that I was busy with my personal life I didn’t get a chance to honor the passing of one of conservatism’s founding father’s William F. Buckley. It’s far too late for that sort of thing now, so let me instead just point you all toward a list of humorous and endearing anecdotes from one of Buckley’s many rhetorical opponents (and personal friends) John Leo:

The key to serving fresh seafood on his boat was simple–he pulled up somebody’s lobster trap, removed several lobsters, put way too many dollar bills in a bottle to pay for them and placed the corked bottle in the trap. Shopping made simple.

Not to compare myself to a giant like Buckley, which would be absurd as I don’t even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as him, but the bit about Bill getting up from the dinner table feigning a need for cigars in order to bang out a quick column reminds me of….me. I don’t know how many times my wife has had to tell me to take my laptop off the dinner table.
Buckley will be missed.

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I don’t know how many times my wife has had to tell me to take my laptop off the dinner table.

What is she, a control freak?
Bat One

I watched Mr. Buckley’s Firing Line program for years as a youngster.

Galbraith, Schlesinger, William Sloan Coffin, Gore Vidal. With his easy charm, effortless wit, and a razor sharp mind Buckley bested all of them.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

I watched Mr. Buckley’s Firing Line program for years as a youngster.

The great thing about Firing Line is that Bill was typically outnumbered…numerically! Usually, there would be Bill Buckley and one other conservative, against two liberals and the pin-headed liberal Michael Kinsley as “moderator”. (This was public television’s idea of “Balance”: One lone program, with conservatives outnumbered three to two!)

It’s hard even now to hear the Brandenberg Concertos without thinking of Firing Line!
http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

It’s not bragging if you can do it.
Bat One

I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, “Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?” I couldn’t think of anyone.

William F. Buckley, Jr., written in The New York Times Book Review in 1986.
Wing Chun Geologist

The great thing about Firing Line is that Bill was typically outnumbered…numerically! Usually, there would be Bill Buckley and one other conservative, against two liberals and the pin-headed liberal Michael Kinsley as “moderator”. (This was public television’s idea of “Balance”: One lone program, with conservatives outnumbered three to two!)

That tradition continues to this day on NPR’s Left, Right and Center, where a conservative faces off against a Liberal Demorcat and two hard-core leftis.

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