Posted on 11/30/2023 9:54:45 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson agreed wholeheartedly with the assertion that National Review founding editor William F. Buckley Jr. was “one of the great villains of the 20th century” during a Wednesday interview with Dave Smith, a comedian and libertarian YouTube host.
Smith launched the initial attack on Buckley, declaring “I’ll tell you this: Whatever this atrophy in like the intelligence of the American people, it’s, I think it’s accelerating. I mean it’s-. Look, and again, just like you said I’ll disclaimer as well: I’m talking about people who I don’t necessarily like. Like I view Bill Buckley as like one of the great villains of the 20th century. I think he ruined-”
At that point, Carlson interrupted to shout “I couldn’t agree more!” and pound his fist on a table with a laugh.
“But, but, but he was a clearly very — also CIA by the way — but he was also a very intelligent guy and witty, and not speaking down to his audience, and like a popular show, his Firing Line show would be Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley arguing with each other,” said Smith.
In addition to founding and overseeing National Review, Buckley was a prolific, widely-read columnist who also hosted the long-running interview show Firing Line. He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the modern conservative movement, and helped shape its ideological parameters as well as propel it to political success within the Republican Party.
He also worked for the CIA for two years after graduating from Yale.
Both Carlson’s brother and firstborn son bear the first name Buckley. It is not clear whether his brother was named after the famed conservative commentator and activist, although the Carlson’s father, Dick Carlson was a right-of-center journalist who was appointed the director of the United States Information Agency under President Ronald Reagan and U.S. ambassador to Seychelles under President George H.W. Bush.
Because he kicked the John Birch Society out of the Conservative movement ?
National Review stinks n00b.
The great irony will be when some brainless kid on this forum condemns Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, or Bill Buckley as a “neocon”.
Carlson is losing it.
With Barry Goldwater, and later Ronald Reagan, Buckley created the modern conservative movement.
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How hard did you have to try to be this wrong?
Goldwater and Buckley were libertarians. Reagan said one nice thing about libertarians back in the 70’s. Which they proved to be untrue. Reagan also said the Democratic Party left him.
Carlson is losing it.
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He lost it with his manic obsession over UFO’s.
Don’t you understand? There is only one true Republican and his name is Trump. Any other so-called Republican who has failed to take the DJT loyalty oath is a darn dirty RINO, even if they are too dead to do so.
And that it was a CIA creation tells you something.
The elite are very effective at interjecting their operatives into the leadership of any and every movement.
Tucker Carlson Says crazy things, this is an example of his craziness.
Lets not forget that there are kooky people who speak on Trump’s side as well.
I do want freedom of speech to exist on the internet however.
It's classic debate club style debates, not presidential campaign style debates.
-PJ
Ayn Rand would carefully examine any party invitations to see if William F. Buckley was also invited. If so she would not go. So who was the bad guy here? Buckley wanted to protect Religion and Rand saw Religion as an enemy of reason. Although Rand came from a Jewish family she clearly was not a faithful child.
Used to buy National Review religiously.
Believed that it, and as a counter balance, Foreign Affairs were giving me insight into the real struggles of right versus left in this nation and abroad.
Took me a while, but I don’t hold Buckley in any esteem any more. The father of the modern neocons, IMHO.
How did Tucker manage to go off of the deep end so quickly?
Carlson is going full Ann Coulter !
Not a Neocon.
Father of neocons?
Yes.
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