Gore Vidal on Jew-Tool Buckley

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Friedrich Braun
on March 22, 2008
in Conservatism , Jewish Diaspora , Obituaries , The American Right and The Jewish Question
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I remember reading in the early ’90s Buckley’s pathetic screed in his outfit the National Review on the alleged anti-Semitism of the Old Right; particularly, Buchanan, Sobran, etc. in which he even accused his own late father of being an anti-Semite…and I asked myself the question: what kind of a man would hurl such accusations at his own late father in order to further ingratiate himself with American Jewry? Buckley was a little despicable worm. A first-rate boot-licker and a spineless coward.

I can recall that day in the 1930s when a “news” (sic) magazine appeared in Washington, D.C.; it was called Newsweek: meant to be a counterbalance to Time Magazine’s uncontrollable malice. In due course the two became sadly alike as Vincent Astor morphed into Henry Luce: Was it something in the water? I once asked Henry Luce why he called Time a news magazine when it was simply Uncle Harry’s means of venting his rage (this was 1960 or so) at liberals, and “degenerate art” like the plays of Tennessee Williams—he had no answer. At Newsweek Vincent Astor was far too stupid to answer any such complaint. Now here we are in the Newsweek of 2008, and it’s still lousy. There have been a few decent writers in between that were less nutty than today’s Newsweek hacks.

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