I encourage all to read the outstanding lead article today by David Gordon on the creepy William F. Buckley,Jr., and how he used Murray Rothbard’s death as an opportunity to smear, slander, denigrate, and lie about Murray. What a “conservative” gentleman. I have never read anything so vulgar, trashy, piggish, and just plain stupid by any other so-called “public intellectual.”
Gordon hits the nail on the head: Buckley must STILL be beside himself over the fact that the brilliant Rothbard exposed him for the fraud that he is (and was) decades ago. Namely, Buckley professed to be an advocate of “freedom” and of a “totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores” (to supposedly fight the Cold War) at the same time. This is an impossibility. Buckley’s totalitarian bureaucracy is, and always will be, the deadly enemy of freedom. He was the original neocon, which is to say, the original neoconman.
I was in attendance at the Foundation for Economic Education’s 50th Anniversery celebration at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City several years ago where Buckley was the master of ceremonies. His piggish manners were once again on display. The banquet speaker was Margaret Thatcher. After stumbling up to the podium Foster Brooks style and slurring an introduction, Buckly did not take a seat but stood directly behind Mrs. Thatcher. He then conducted a running commentary about everything she said. At one point an extremely annoyed Thatcher stopped her speech, turned around, and said something to Buckley (presumably, “Shut up, asshole.”).
3:18 pm on November 17, 2005
