I recall cutting my teeth on the notion of Conservitism and watching Firing Line with a legal pad ‘n pen writing down the words I had NEVER heard used before. Then I had to look up the words in a dictionary [gasp!]....which were often spelled incorrectly, which made it doubly hard. LOL
WFB was exciting and fun to watch him slice and dice Gore Vidal to ribbons. He and Bill Safire are missed. Greatly missed.
As a yewt, I fancied myself as a liberal before I understood what a classic liberal was and I thought the show was fixed, because whenever WFB debated some duffus on TV who represented the left, I figured that he chose the worst representative to debate just to make himself look good. Little did I know he was actually winning me over and converting me to conservatism.