Going on about how civil and smooth WFB was primarily serves to demonstrate what class one most strongly identifies with. Only the crass (lower classes) speak ill of someone so articulate irrespective of how vile the opinions they elucidated may be. Fuck that. Dennis P's blog had Buckley summed up nicely in my opinion. It's hard to imagine having read WFB and not forming a negative opinion.
John Thornton
Chris Doss wrote:
> I don't have any opinion about Buckley, but do people
> just lose self-control sometimes.
>
> --- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Are we talking about the same William F. Buckley
>> that
>> told Chomsky on air he'd "punch [him] in the god
>> damn
>> face"? That civil guy?
>>
>> Or was it just -- a joke. The kind of joke that is
>> just kidding -- but not really.