5 Firing Line moments that are still relevant today | William F. Buckley | American Masters | PBS

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William F. Buckley, Jr. hosted Firing Line for 33 years. During his tenure as host, he debated a number of influential public figures on topics ranging from comedy to imperialism. This compliation shows Buckley in conversation with five of his most memorable guests on matters that are still important today.
Discover the intellectual evolution and political legacy of William F. Buckley, Jr. See how the author and commentator, one of the foremost public intellectuals in American history, galvanized the modern conservative movement.
Chapters:
00:05 - Groucho Marx and Buckley on what kind of jokes are culturally appropriate
02:21 - Allen Ginsberg on drugs, spirituality and art
05:11 - Norman Mailer on the differences between Republicans and Democrats
08:47 - Noah Chomsky and Buckley on American imperialism
12:21 - Huey P. Newton defends the rhetoric of the Black Panther Party
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@katherinea.rodgers8366 16 дней назад

I miss William F. Buckley!! I never missed Foring Line!!

@boogerie 16 дней назад

"I'm proud of being a Jew particularly week before last." I believe that's a reference to Israel's victory in the Six Day War

@ShermerHighSchool 16 дней назад

Too bad we don't have a show like this anymore. The world is a poorer place without it.

@wwbuirkle 16 дней назад

PBS would never give him a show today

@jimsinger2521 10 дней назад

Buckley was a legend; he could expound and debate on anything.

@LaArtsGuy 16 дней назад

To all of you, who don’t understand the great elegance of people displaying their desperate ideas… The whole point of the constitution is to preserve that conversation so we can solve problems together. Whether you like or dislike, either person in a discussion is truly irrelevant. What’s important is to understand both sides of an idea in the same moment.

@cullensweeney5678 16 дней назад

The Ginsberg one was beautiful. Great conversation and performances by Allen.

@joshmulema1540 13 дней назад

i need that mailer sitting angle

@user-zb6cv1eo6f 16 дней назад

Brilliant men

@Spiral.Dynamics 16 дней назад

This is good.

@kdmdlo 16 дней назад

Could you possibly imagine a civil, intellectually-grounded discourse today? To begin, the participants in our political discussions today simply don't know anything (could you possibly imagine Matt Gaetz reading Karl Marx???). Add to it the calm, measured, polite exchange of ideas and it simply becomes an impossibility today. We are just so much worse off because of those (e.g., Newt Gingrich) that worked so hard to advance/propagate the cracks and fissures in our politics.

@wwbuirkle 16 дней назад

No but I could beleve AOC or Omar. LMFAO

@kdmdlo 16 дней назад

@@wwbuirkle Well, I don't know Ms. Omar particularly well, but yes ... I could absolutely see Ms. Ocasio-Cortez having such a discussion. She's reasonable, rational and uses ... you know ... facts. Matt Gaetz is too busy trolling high schools and Ms. Green has just one intonation (and that's full-on "shrill").

@wwbuirkle 15 дней назад

@@kdmdlo AOC using facts? I'm in her district genius nothing factual or worthwhile comes out of her mouth

@kdmdlo 15 дней назад

@@wwbuirkle Well, to hear the facts, you would actually have to listen to her and, perhaps, engage with her. She's your congressperson, speak with her. You'll be surprised to see that she's actually willing to talk to you if you're prepared to be civil.

@wwbuirkle 15 дней назад

@@kdmdlo LMFAO I guess you're just a fellow Socialist which is kinda embarrassing

@charlespirate1 10 дней назад

This would be much better if the participants spoke much more quickly and in sound bites for short periods interspersed with intrusive graphics and music.

@RetiredVet2020 15 дней назад

He would be spinning in his grave to see what happened to the Republicans

@AndyLehrer 7 дней назад

His son voted for Obama.

@roughhabit9085 2 дня назад

Kissinger said he single handedly shifted American politics to the right. Unfortunately it was a pendulum swing . It’s not the Republicans that would disappoint him.

@RetiredVet2020 День назад

@@roughhabit9085 not entirely true

@RyanFowler-mw4rk 9 дней назад

Excellent interviewer. Snark, condescension aside, let guests speak.

@roughhabit9085 2 дня назад

He never did an interview.

@rumplestilskin5776 16 дней назад

Our times cry out for a Wm F. Buckley.

@katherinea.rodgers8366 16 дней назад

Yes!

@roughhabit9085 16 дней назад

Such a man does not belong in these vulgar times.

@leoanthony7947 15 дней назад

Amen to that !!!

@denali9643 10 дней назад

We have. Douglas Murray.

@rumplestilskin5776 10 дней назад

@@denali9643 True but he's not an American

@scoop1127 16 дней назад

He never used a comb.

@johnnotrealname8168 3 дня назад

Why did it go out of air? An interview about the Iraq War would have been interesting from him.

@roughhabit9085 2 дня назад

Um he took himself off the air after 33 years. Is that okay with you?

@johnnotrealname8168 2 дня назад

@@roughhabit9085 What?

@kurtgubitz 12 дней назад

That’s not Allan Ginsberg! That’s David Cross.

@WintersWar 5 дней назад

Marx says he resents jokes towards various denomination, then goes on to lampoon Catholics. He was an incontinent fellow.

@dogcowrph 16 дней назад

“Coloured” people. 😂

@AndyLehrer 16 дней назад

As in the NAACP. As times change so does what language is acceptable.

@wwbuirkle 16 дней назад

@@AndyLehrer I think it made a comeback. I keep hearing people of color

@AndyLehrer 13 дней назад

@@wwbuirkle not the same.

@wwbuirkle 13 дней назад

@@AndyLehrer Oh yea do you make the rules up?

@AndyLehrer 13 дней назад

@@wwbuirkle It's just a fact, it's not the same thing.

@conradgaarder2789 12 дней назад

Groucho resents Myron Cohen? That’s ridiculous.

@tarnopol 16 дней назад

My favorite moment was when he screamed at Chomsky backstage after being exposed on air by him as the superficially urbane, uninformed rightwing hack he was, saying he’d have him in again to tear Chomsky to pieces. Never got around to it somehow. What a jewel he was, Buckley!

@kaustabhkalita2476 15 дней назад

This never happened

@tarnopol 15 дней назад

@@kaustabhkalita2476 Except that it did. Chomsky’s talked about it.

@kaustabhkalita2476 14 дней назад

@@tarnopol what did happen, according to chomsky was that, buckley seemed angry after the show and said he would have him on later again. Buckley was an epistemological optimist, he believes that ideas that are preposterous should be discarded and not be given the day of light in an individual capacity. In the first decade of firing line, when liberalism was still rampant in american discourse and the american people were it could be argued forming a liberal character he had on people of the liberal dispensation and greatly discredited most of them and their ideas as not having to deal with anything close to reality, and in doing so he distinctly changed the american character to more conservative dispensation.

@tarnopol 14 дней назад

@@kaustabhkalita2476 So, it did happen. Buckley was a PR package designed to launder monstrosities, like Vietnam, for audiences easily bamboozled by baroque diction. Like you.

@kaustabhkalita2476 13 дней назад

@@tarnopol just being seemingly angry for not being able to completely skewer an outwardly polite man in a 40 minute discussion doesnt mean he was right about vietnam. They were talking about vietnam ad nauseam in those days, to be interesting every show buckley tries to come at it from different avenues. He gave the american people too much credit and in doing so failed to predict chomsky could have an influence on the self destructive boomers and some of their children. He should have sticked to his tedious but strong points about vietnam for posterity' sake, at thr sake of being boring and disrespectful to his audience, a thing he greatly despised being. Your quarrel with bill seems to be his willingness to use words that other people might not know. Words come into existense not by jury or a standing committee. Words are formed because there is a felt need for it. Its an ode to freedom and to the people who came before us.

@AlexKomnenos 59 минут назад

Noam Chomsky is such a wind bag

@R.Kinney1492 6 дней назад

Too, Jewish for me.

@larryparis925 16 дней назад

Groucho was a fine entertainer and commentator, particularly in the era he grew up and performed in. Not perfect, but well-worth watching. Buckley, on the other hand, was a F***ING bore. Groucho had much higher standards than that jerk.

@777jones 16 дней назад

Well said. Groucho was electrifying. Norman Mailer is an annoying pest and Buckley strikes a pose without really putting it to use.

@2nostromo 16 дней назад

If you find WFB boring there is no hope for you.

@larryparis925 16 дней назад

@@2nostromo On the contrary, I am optimistic and hopeful for a progressive future. Sorry for your loss.

@WillhelmBuddesweir 13 дней назад

@@larryparis925 How much more progressive? Most of the West has been extremely progressive these last few decades, some more than others. And at this point in time, things are clearly regressing. What are you hoping for exactly, in your own words?

@larryparis925 12 дней назад

@@2nostromoWell, so much the worse for you. But thank you for your irrelevant comment.

@WilliamByronIs 16 дней назад

Buckley was the proto Tucker Carlson- at least Buckley had served in the military, I suppose- and Norman Mailer continues to show how out of touch the literary intellectual sect has always been with his pretentious wording. Great footage though, I'm appreciative.

@isaacslomski-pritz3116 16 дней назад

Would Tucker Carlson have had Noam Chomsky and Allen Ginsberg on his show?

@darbyheavey406 16 дней назад

Tucker not in the same zip code as Buckley.

@jec1ny 16 дней назад

Tucker Carlson is a clown and demagogue for hire. Buckley, was the real deal. Agree with him or not, he was a very serious intellectual and a man who always showed great civility towards those with whom he disagreed, provided he saw them as basically honorable people. He was also extremely well grounded in facts and never trafficked in loony conspiracy theories. Nor would he have given the time of day to a conman like Donald Trump. Buckley was at the forefront of the move to purge the lunatic right from the ranks of the GOP in the late 50s and early 1960s. He was a savage critic of groups like the John Birch Society (the MAGA of that era).