Who was William F. Buckley, Jr.? | The Incomparable Mr. Buckley | American Masters | PBS
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Watch the first ten minutes of The Incomparable Mr. Buckley in this sneak preview. Discover how political commentator William F. Buckley, Jr. galvanized the modern conservative movement. The preeminent public intellectual grew up on a sprawling estate in Sharon, Connecticut, where his father's own idea of pedagogy had a lasting impact on his future ideals.
Follow the personal and political journey of conservative writer, strategist, candidate and provocateur William F. Buckley, Jr. See how one of the architects of the modern conservative movement rose to prominence as a public intellectual and influenced generations of politicians-including Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. As founder of the National Review and host of the public affairs program Firing Line for over 30 years, Buckley created new spaces for civic discourse that were accessible to the public.
The Incomparable Mr. Buckley premieres April 5, 2024 at 9/8c on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/americanmasters and the PBS App.
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My favorite part about the LAugh-In appearance is when Buckley said, "I was a bit apprehensive coming here, but your producer promised the plane that would take me to Los Angeles would have two right wings."
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I am friends with the guy who set up National Review’s website, and I MC’d two crisis-pregnancy banquets in Boston where our featured speakers were NR’s Senior Editors. I later attended WFB’s memorial service at St Patrick’s Cathedral, and saw McGovern and Hitch (who stepped outside for a smoke as a silent protest when Kissinger spoke), whose appearance tells you the respect and affection they had for Bill. Afterwards, my friend invited me to lunch with the NR Senior Editors and their wives, and my head was swimming with the joy and privilege of being with them as they continued remembering Bill. Later that evening I stood outside his apartment on the sidewalk, just standing there, honoring his memory. And I’m not even all that conservative, just a huge admirer.
The man was seriously funny. His vocabulary and his wit were unparalleled. (Responding to critics who said he showed off his vocabulary, he said he wanted always to use the right word, and that nobody criticized a jazz musician for using obscure chords.)
I’m looking forward to seeing this documentary a lot. I was smiling for the whole 10 minutes of this overview.
You indeed have had a unique and enviable experience, thank you for sharing what makes for an extraordinary comment. I enjoyed it. I can well appreciate the dignified and discreet note of censure on the part of Hitchens and McGovern whilst Kissinger spoke. It is perhaps interesting that you claim not to be a conservative as clearly you regard Buckley with admiration even though he can so easily polarise opinion with regard obviously to a host of fundamental ideas. He could become curiously petulant in the face of successful rebuttal which sometimes surprised me as was the case with Chomsky in 1967. But otherwise of course, a sincere and fascinating man. Have you read his son's memoir of loosing his parents at the end of their lives ? It is revealing and poignant. Thanks again for this full and thoughtful comment.
Crisis Pregnancy Centers?
Are those the religious outposts manned by evangelical extremists who lie to women to trick them into limiting their health care options?
This is stellar. I look forward to seeing the complete documentary.
Yes indeed. I wonder if you, or anyone else might know the meaning of one commentator's remark?
' Your dog is greater than Gore Vidal'. What form of slang is this and what does it articulate ?
Poor Buckley, he was actually a caricature come to life. No, I kid to an extent. He was a boiler plate neo-con but at least was civil and actually had friends on the left.
Bravo. A balanced and pithy memorial. Neo-con with a smoke and mirrors act that could very entertaining. He and Mailer did have a mutually useful doubles routine.
And you'll never be as clever as him.
@@nikkif.409 Oh yes, Buckley was undoubtedly clever I shouldn't have wanted to go toe to toe with him. The Houdini of ideology.
*Close- Buckley was actually a Catholic fascist for most his piddling, miserable and inconsequential life.*
I feel privileged to have become aware of Mr Buckley. It was during an interview with Jack Kerouac & 2 other guests - the exemplary way Mr Buckley conducted the interview .... Jack was playing up 🤣. I loved Jack & thoroughly enjoyed the repartee between all four of them, truly brilliant!
I remember Buckley interviewing Kerouac around 1967 with the guest dressed like a lumberjack. Buckley was most gentle if perhaps a bit patronizing. Sometimes it
seemed he was treating Kerouac as an idiot savant or a poet child-man asking general soft ball questions and greeting answers with reassuring smiles.
Buckley can be a wonderful standup comic. I found him hypnotic as a child and marvelled at the all too clever sentence structures without end.
Long, rarely used words, can be helpful in the obfuscation of common sense. It could be a powerful club but it didn't work on Vidal and Chomsky.
I'm afraid there hasn't really been a conservative party in the United States since the war making Buckley the spokesman of the unrecognizable
variant that has followed. But he's still a remarkable, curious man. I look forward to the documentary. I grew up with American Masters and feel
a warm and almost familial bond with PBS. Bless you.
William Frank Buckley, his red barrel Parker Jotter usually pressed to his bottom lip, was an extraordinary man with a prolific work ethic and boundless energy who left an indelible mark on the 20th century.
Nicely phrased sir. The word smith cometh.
*Babbling nonsense. Buckley was a Catholic fascist. Prof. Noam Chomsky humiliated him on his own show.*
It can also be said that Hitler left an indelible mark on the 20th century.
I had no idea of his larger influence. I simply enjoyed his weekly television program because he was such a snob that he amused me. As I recall he became profoundly depressed toward the end of his life. But that would be nothing to how he'd feel were he alive today.
Patrician, not Snob. Huge difference.
@@kevinmadden1645 You might want to examine what your preferred word actually means 😉 And he freely admitted to the other word.
@@BlueBaron3339 Buckley admitted to being a snob? Oh come now!
@@kevinmadden1645 Oh, it wasn't regarded then as it is now. 😊
He always assumed his audience were intelligent. That’s the opposite of snobbery in my book.
"I'll be glad to elaborate on them" 😅
He ran for Mayor of NYC in 1965. A reporter asked him what would be his first official act as Mayor if he won. He said, "Demand a recount."
I wrote him a letter and he wrote me back.
What did he say?
Full documentary withdrawn I notice. Good, because it focused on trivial incidences in his life and overlooked the enormous political influence he had on American history.
I thought it was really good. Nobody would watch it if they didn't already kinda know who Bill Buckley was and therefore has some sense of the theatrical Herculean triumphs of epistemology and conservative thought that you feel needs to be addressed?
William F. Buckley Jr. > Gore Vidal
I am closer to Vidal than Buckley when it comes to politics. However, I think Vidal was too much of a whore for attention. He basically set the standard we have today.
I'm 63 now , Where did the time go ? William F. Buckley was such an intrical part of my life . I like him , Am a total , complete Conserative Republican , '' Hopelesly '' a part of my party . But I loved listened to this man for his education His way of speaking to his adversaries with his tongu of steel .
Very interesting to see that like Goldwater, Buckley's hardline views changed towards the end of his life. Even regulations he championed in the war on drugs were questionable given some of his later panels at universities, where he was willing to admit that they had overall a wasteful effect. Truly a man willing to change for his time, also someone who saw the opacity of the Civil Rights Movement and was willing to put forward difficult questions very few were willing to address. Undoubtedly a praiseworthy individual, should be reflected on by many modern-day conservatives. I so too appreciate his bipartisanship in his programs regardless of his "snobbish" remarks which hosted anything from Christian Socialists to Segregationist Governors.
"admit a Wasteful effect!?" He did more than THAT? He described how he torched up some veggies on his yacht, got stocious, and came to his damn senses amidst, no doubt a delightful fit of reverie! THAT was cool for that time. I'm fairly certain he procured it from Ginsberg who proposed that Bill try some?
Wealth from the father
Religion from the mother
Worst combination possible
Worse is no wealth from the father, no religion from the mother.
@@jonbrandon6793 No religion from the mother might have helped Buckley's otherwise thwarted development.
@@CaruthersHodge He did well
@@woobiefuntime In what father and mother both gave their son, I believe the Christianity imbued Buckley with a very deep if conservative piety, I suppose not surprisingly. His son Chris Buckley, in his poignant memoir of his parents, speaks to this with a wry eye.
One of the few if not the only conservative who was honest about what conservatism is. Nowadays everyone wants to self-identify as conservative but either have no idea what it means or don’t want to admit to themselves or others what it means. The conservation of traditional power is the ideology that dares not explain itself.
Why was full length doc taken down?
Love to see the full episodes of WFB on Merv Griffin, Carson and Frost.
Buckley was made a cartoon villain, repeatedly, by his betters.
BUT WHEN IS IT ON PBS LIVE ?! WILLIAM BUCKLEY?!?
Buckley was the polar opposite from me politically but I've rarely seen a more intelligent or charismatic man. His one flaw, or some may it's a strength, was he never liked to lose an argument. Probably the reason why he despised Vidal and Chomsky. Strangely he had an amazing rapport with Hitchens who I think he admired for his intelligence and charisma even though he was even further left than the others.
Well observed and I like to see the coupling of names like Vidal and Chomsky with this remarkable, odd man. A neo-con pretending to be a conservative during that movement's long gasping demise. Your'e spot on about WFB not liking to lose, he became cringingly feline and feebly sarcastic with Chomsky when he couldn't score a point. And Vidal is a joy to watch
in action. Buckley strikes me as being a very clever vaudeville act. All smoke, mirrors and long words playing out to the side of the real drama.
@@CaruthersHodge Brilliant analysis, sir.
@@davidrobinson2776 Your'e very civil, as they used to say or, uncommonly civil of you. At any rate, thank you. I had a comment to another thought advising me to see a psychiatrist and quickly.
It's about time.
Put the full one back up :(
Your dog is greater than Gore Vidal.
Of any living creatures, few were greater than Vidal and certainly not your dog.
@@CaruthersHodge Get thee to a psychiatrist. And quick! Run! Don't walk!
@@kevinmadden1645 Thank you for caring. I shall soon have dinner and may feel better. It's nice to see that we all might, dare I say, learn to get along.
It's interesting how WFB's U.S. Senator brother had an unremarkable American accent but WFB had this semi-English "Mid-Atlantic" accent. I always thought it was fake as Elizabeth Holmes' deep voice.
I alternate between loving and hating the guy, but either way I always maintain a healthy respect for him. He held to his convictions, but was not incapable of changing his mind and evolving his views. He was undoubtedly a man of deep intelligence, never backed down from a debate, and more than held his own against legendary intellectuals like Chomsky and Vidal despite all the mudslinging rhetoric from the left to the contrary.
We are at the same point in time from 60s as they were from WW I. After Groucho this clip went downhill rapidly. Hard to believe those kooks were part of our national conversation. Mailer, Chomsky, Ginsberg?
Where’s the rest of it?
I remember watching public tv for free over the airwaves. Much of it is not free anymore. A sobering reminder about my low economic status. I have no gripes about being poor. I just need to be put in my place to remember who I am - a shriveled remnant of a once vibrant hard core conservative who still worships at a towering idol. I don't need the pretty pictures, so I'm going to scour the landscape for a pdf or epub transcript.
Cancel your own God dam subscription!
Back in the day when conservatives were allowed to exist.
Is this available to watch in UK?
His show the Firing Line is available on TH-cam
Check PBS American Masters, William F Buckley, just recently uploaded to YOU TUBE in USA ... Hopefully also in U.K.
Imagine the good that Buckley could have done, starting while still in college, if he had put his intelligence at the service of the civil rights movement...
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Dick Gregory about WFB: “I love that cat.”
They honestly felt that the govt shouldn't tell you who you can allow in your own establishment. That to them was illiberal and government over reach. And it's that over reach that scared Buckley the heir to Rockefeller's second hand man, so one can imagine?
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority “
~ Mencken
Spare me!😂😂😂😂
I resemble these comments!!
@2:50 @TuckerCarlson anyone?
It has to be one of his relatives.
LONG time "SKULL & BONES" puppet.
Puppet? He was probably President.
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1950년 한국에 jesus 재림했다
1955년 national review 창간 --- sign of time
Utter nonsense. Proof: Noam Chomsky
Total closet case
Incomparable - or insufferable?
Insufferable is a perfect description!
Insufferable to idealists.
😢 Just another commercial...
The Birchers were right
William F. Buckley was a very talented and skilled bullshit artist.
Terrible human being
He lost most of his charisma and authority after firing line with Chomsky in 1969. At least, IMHO.
I don't think so. I saw the debate and Buckley lost but I think he still had his charm afterwords.
Buckley was always seated because he had some of the worst posture of anyone born in the twentieth century. Also there's a direct ideological and political line from Buckley to Trump, as much as the "intellectual" or even "marginally literate" (an overlapping Venn diagram) line of Conservatives would like you to forget.
That's tendentious nonsense ("...from Buckley to Trump") but it is surely the line we expect PBS to take; there is always an agenda in the programming insensible to liberals because they take for granted it's the unvarnished truth. Nevertheless we shall watch patiently if not painlessly.
How can you have some posture?
That's funny because Buckley trashed Trump in an article he wrote in 2000. I also see more qualities of Vidal in Trump than Buckley.
Not at all interested in this drivel.
Why are you commenting then?
Nobody cares.
@@ricardocantoral7672 I admit, Buckley himself can be drivel. But the haircuts alone may prove a possible diversion for you.
But seriously, education can be fun.
An idea of what the country should be like and then the country gets there? 😢So...we should thank him for helping to create the oligarchy corporatocracy that we now live in? Although extremely intelligent and entertaining, he was a cheerleader and spokesman for the wealthy elites and his antiprogressive policies were repugnant.
Buckley remains a unique individual and also the most Hopeful one, that we might yet save the Country and the human race, if we can produce such men as this.
"Listen here you queer, stop calling me a crypto-nazi"
“I’ll sock you in your goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered!”
William f. Buckley was a fucking monster.
Please explain señor?