Mr Buckley once said over the years he had several appearances on this show and Johnny Carson's, yet scarcely a trace can be found on YT in either case. Good to see the stuff finally getting released.
Hear, hear! Imagine one of the wishy-washy namby-pamby contemporary 'thinkers' attempt to defend a gender theory or what-have-you to someone such as Mr Buckley :)
"William F. Buckley has a knack of making you his ally." Cf. Sir Roger Scruton [to laughter and applause, after his interlocutor in a televised talk, a left-activist academic, was left with little choice but to grudgingly concede his series of points]: "I get this all the time. People say _I'm in danger of agreeing with you."_
We were once a great culture. We were an educated, literate, prosperous people. We embraced education, science, balanced news and measured opinions... What happened...?
Buckley's wit and rhetoric are so dense and mesmerizing that -even without the clipboard- it's difficult to imagine anyone even managing a reply. And who's the guy who said "Looks like he just got up?"
Dick Cavett was sooo small! I had no idea. When we were kids my sister called him “Sour”. We don’t know why but it stuck. If we saw him on TV, we’d say, “Sour.” 😂
I was wondering who the President was at this time. Please add the air date to the video title for context. (Nixon was mentioned more than half-way through the interview.)
I wondered the same and assumed it was 72 or earlier, as I know Nixon was still in office when I was born (Feb of 72). I believe one of them also mentioned the upcoming mid-70s as well. Fascinating conversation to watch and still relatable today.
@@gravenewworld6521 I'll look for that. Kinda curious what Warren has to say. I think Shirley was a VW protestor. Btw, fun (maybe) fact: Warren was the subject of "You're So Vain". The description fits, and Carly Simon dated him.
Dick Cavett, best, most generous, balanced interviewer of all time. You should come back on TV. Of course WFB was such a prominent thought leader of the time, and Rush had some stories as well about this man. (Good timing on this drop as well)
I'm a Cavett fan too. There are some very interesting interviews of him later in life talking about his experiences. Sorry, I don't have a search term for you, but it's on TH-cam.
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Buckley is very articulate. But his facts aren't solid. Especially when he speaks to real historians. Look at how Chomsky washed him up on his own show and panel.
@@Ken-iu2zp I agree. It's always interesting to me to see how a younger audience views old figures like Buckley and Nixon, etc. They often seem taken in by the speech more than the content. I didn't know there was a discussion between him and Chomsky who actually says things, lol. I'll look for that one, thank you.
@@Adam-ov5ie Has nothing to do with Buckley. The charge of "whataboutism" is just dodging and deflection, like so many other words ending in "-ism" or "-ist."
It's great to hear what the Rabbi said about being anti-communist given how many people were afraid of being anti-communist after the McCarthy era and given what Nixon started with the Chinese which never made sense to me and in hindsight was clearly wrong, has been and is causing many problems for the West
Ah yes. Back in the days when at least a few conservatives were articulate, even if they were wrong. Nowadays, they're both inarticulate and wrong. And great work from Mr. Cavett as well, as usual. I miss this kind of intellectual rigor. cheers from cool Vienna, Scott
You’ll notice that Dick didn’t stop the show to pause and have all of his guests play some insipid ‘game’ where they play Pictionary to a howling audience. Oh, sorry that 2020s talk show stuff.
Back in the "good ole days" when conservatives were willing to initiate a global thermal nuclear war in order to prevent the possibility of the Soviets getting an upper hand.
@@pablonh I'm not even talking about Buckley in so much as I'm commenting on the conservatism of his day with people like Curtis LeMay and his "Better Dead Than Red" philosophy.
@@lurx2024 So you're not referring to Buckley, but you smear him anyway, then, when called on it, toss off someone with a very different philosophy (who e.g. advocated massive increases in federal social spending), and something neither of them said. How typical.
No, That actually thanks to Mind-twisted Television Executives that believe copying how Jerry Springer or then WWF Vince McMahon in 1998 did His TV Show brings audience aka ratings which unfortunately We enjoy seeing showmanship & hellraising.
William F. Buckley, Jr, a sophist extraordinaire. As baseball players say, it's one thing to *talk* a good game; it's quite another to go out and pitch one, e.g., a no-hitter. 🤨
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There was a time when this was considered a talk show... Oh how far we've fallen.
Mr Buckley once said over the years he had several appearances on this show and Johnny Carson's, yet scarcely a trace can be found on YT in either case.
Good to see the stuff finally getting released.
I am not a Buckley fan but, he was not an idiot.
@@zejaguar I think you replied to the wrong comment dear fellow.
@@zejaguarDue to his arrogance he sure came across as one!
Thank you for uploading this great episode of your TV series. An interesting guest, Mr. Buckley always was!
Can you please go back to posting the exact date in the video description? Thank you,
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. From listening to it, I think this program aired in 1972.
It was after the Munich Olympics and before Nixons re-election, so latter half of 1972
I was just watching Buckley and Goldwater speaking on Firing Line this morning on TH-cam. Perusing some old episodes.
Buckley jrs interviews are gold thanks for posting
Extremely timely discussion.
Anger! There is no date for the clip in the whole description.
Considering Buckley mentions 3 and a half years in assumed reference to Nixon's term in office, this must've aired sometime in mid-1972
More Buckley please !
Hear, hear!
Imagine one of the wishy-washy namby-pamby contemporary 'thinkers' attempt to defend a gender theory or what-have-you to someone such as Mr Buckley :)
@FarhanAmin1994 😂 what ? The guy was clown that got annihilated in every debate he had. Also, you probably don’t even know what woke means
@@AndrewLaReal Where have I said ‘woke’? Lol. Also, perhaps you are right. I dunno Buckley toooo well, bleh.
It’s called conversation. It used to be on display every night on tv a long, long time ago.
'You always look like you just got up.' It's deliberate, of course. And he doesn't get offended at all.
"William F. Buckley has a knack of making you his ally."
Cf. Sir Roger Scruton [to laughter and applause, after his interlocutor in a televised talk, a left-activist academic, was left with little choice but to grudgingly concede his series of points]: "I get this all the time. People say _I'm in danger of agreeing with you."_
Buckley's greatness has the whole stage uptight and nervous.
Buckley was a pompous ass
Aired June 7, 1972.
Mr Buckley has his nervous niche. Pulls out his trusty pen or pencil when ever he's on a talk show. We need more people like him.
More classist bigots then?
William Buckley is a fine human being 😊
We were once a great culture. We were an educated, literate, prosperous people. We embraced education, science, balanced news and measured opinions... What happened...?
That's a pretty broad and myopic generalization of even that time... the cracks were already present and spreading before this.
Buckley is always so funny to listen to. One of the greatest comedians of his time.
If only he'd been a mime!
please put the original air date in the description of your clips
I definitely miss William F. Buckley, jr.
I was young but I knew he was a man to respect.
“William F. Buckley has a knack of making you his ally.”
It’s depressing to compare him with the so called “intellectual” of today (they don’t exist…at least publicly )
Besides WFB, jr. , the guest to his right is Theodore Bikel, an actor who was a member of MENSA.
Bikel was a common face in many tv shows and movies.
Buckley's wit and rhetoric are so dense and mesmerizing that -even without the clipboard- it's difficult to imagine anyone even managing a reply. And who's the guy who said "Looks like he just got up?"
If he is so witty, why did he play with himself at 11:12
Dick Cavett was sooo small! I had no idea. When we were kids my sister called him “Sour”. We don’t know why but it stuck. If we saw him on TV, we’d say, “Sour.” 😂
I was wondering who the President was at this time. Please add the air date to the video title for context. (Nixon was mentioned more than half-way through the interview.)
most likely 1972, since mcgovern was mentioned.
June 7, 1972. Episode #61 Theodore Bikel, William F. Buckley, Jr., Rabbi Meir Kahane.
I wondered the same and assumed it was 72 or earlier, as I know Nixon was still in office when I was born (Feb of 72). I believe one of them also mentioned the upcoming mid-70s as well. Fascinating conversation to watch and still relatable today.
Buckley refers to Nixon in n the discussion
Buckley alluded to the fact that Nixon had been in office three years (1969-1972).
Im lucky to catch about 50% of Mr. Buckley says.... sure was a sharp man!!
Please post some the Warren Beatty interviews, especially when he discussed Vietnam
With Cavett?
@@raincadeify yeah man. Beatty was on Cavett multiple times and he had some great points about vietnam
@@gravenewworld6521 I'll look for that. Kinda curious what Warren has to say. I think Shirley was a VW protestor. Btw, fun (maybe) fact: Warren was the subject of "You're So Vain". The description fits, and Carly Simon dated him.
Dick Cavett, best, most generous, balanced interviewer of all time. You should come back on TV.
Of course WFB was such a prominent thought leader of the time, and Rush had some stories as well about this man. (Good timing on this drop as well)
I'm a Cavett fan too. There are some very interesting interviews of him later in life talking about his experiences. Sorry, I don't have a search term for you, but it's on TH-cam.
Wow, Rick Moranis interviewing Joe Flaherty...
Kahane was addressing the conditions today in 2024
Did Cavett ever interview Chomsky ?
Boy, was WFB ever prescient.
9:00 Looks like Buckley got into the backstage booze. Buckley should've thrown that hindrance of a dinner jacket into the crowd lol.
Like Tom Jones throwing his underwear into the audience at his concerts?
Buckley! He gets a free pass on soooo much!
I think people in here calling him "a great man" etc, don't know anything about him, or they just love them some elitist snobs, lol.
Prescient sentiment 3:28😢
They needed Buckley by himself or make the show much longer
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When Buckley walks in the room, everyone else in the room shrinks to insignificance, without any effort on his part.
Buckley is very articulate. But his facts aren't solid. Especially when he speaks to real historians. Look at how Chomsky washed him up on his own show and panel.
But he still can’t do his tie properly.😁
@@Ken-iu2zp I agree. It's always interesting to me to see how a younger audience views old figures like Buckley and Nixon, etc. They often seem taken in by the speech more than the content. I didn't know there was a discussion between him and Chomsky who actually says things, lol. I'll look for that one, thank you.
@@Temeraire101 And he goes nowhere without his pencil, lol.
Actually Buckley graduated in History and Chomsky graduated in Linguistics.
And here it is 2025 almost and we are still at odds with Russia and fighting proxy wars.
Buckley the king of whatabouttism.
Not to mention masking his despicable, outmoded elitist viewpoints with that obnoxious, theatrical and flamboyant manner of speaking.
You say that as though it means something.
@@Drchainsaw77 it does to anyone who is remotely familiar with Buckley's style of discourse. Apparently that does not include you.
@@Adam-ov5ie Has nothing to do with Buckley. The charge of "whataboutism" is just dodging and deflection, like so many other words ending in "-ism" or "-ist."
I guess that's how he became a Yale champion debater with L. Brent Bozell at Yale.
Theodore Bikel makes good pojnts about the different forms of anti semitism
It's great to hear what the Rabbi said about being anti-communist given how many people were afraid of being anti-communist after the McCarthy era and given what Nixon started with the Chinese which never made sense to me and in hindsight was clearly wrong, has been and is causing many problems for the West
Have to have something to hate
Ah yes. Back in the days when at least a few conservatives were articulate, even if they were wrong. Nowadays, they're both inarticulate and wrong.
And great work from Mr. Cavett as well, as usual. I miss this kind of intellectual rigor.
cheers from cool Vienna, Scott
You’ll notice that Dick didn’t stop the show to pause and have all of his guests play some insipid ‘game’ where they play Pictionary to a howling audience.
Oh, sorry that 2020s talk show stuff.
Put a couple of Yaleees together and see what happens?
Back in the "good ole days" when conservatives were willing to initiate a global thermal nuclear war in order to prevent the possibility of the Soviets getting an upper hand.
Have someone with a clue watch this and explain what Buckley actually said.
@@pablonh I'm not even talking about Buckley in so much as I'm commenting on the conservatism of his day with people like Curtis LeMay and his "Better Dead Than Red" philosophy.
@@lurx2024 So you're not referring to Buckley, but you smear him anyway, then, when called on it, toss off someone with a very different philosophy (who e.g. advocated massive increases in federal social spending), and something neither of them said.
How typical.
@@pablonh I think the most unappealing thing that distinguished Buckley for me was his overt racism, you just can't sweep that under the rug.
The rabbi looks like Ben Shapiro's grandfather.
He sounds like his grandfather too- just a little more chilled than the grandson 😂
Whatever happened to intellectual gentlemen? All killed-off by WOKE.
No, That actually thanks to Mind-twisted Television Executives that believe copying how Jerry Springer or then WWF Vince McMahon in 1998 did His TV Show brings audience aka ratings which unfortunately We enjoy seeing showmanship & hellraising.
If you knew anything about the woke world, you'd know that it's the WOKE having the intellectual conversations of today!
William F. Buckley, Jr, a sophist extraordinaire. As baseball players say, it's one thing to *talk* a good game; it's quite another to go out and pitch one, e.g., a no-hitter.
🤨
Oh they had no idea how many would actually die. No one survives a nuclear war.
Buckley was wrong about Vietnam- among other things. He is the first iteration on Jordan Peterson.
His political enemies engaged the Vietnam War . He did have an influence in abolishing the draft. Was that okay?
Buckley was not a CONSERVATIVE.
What do you mean? This is a genuine question.
Seemed extremely analy constrained to me!
WOW Cold War propaganda at its finest.
How so? Who is the worst offender here in your opinion?
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