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Swashbuckley sophistry

Buckley talks like he'r trying to reach a word count at the end on essay.

so american political discourse was always... intellectually wack?!

17:38 - The old 'pen scraping the armchair' when you know you've lost the debate.

My God, what an unfair intellectual match..😂😂

In the description of the video you say that they were two political super-powers. They were not. One is a thinker with a huge legacy in human sciences, the other was a clown whose existence is only due to the decaying in the popular perception of what political culture and intelligence may be.

In the adapted words of Benjamin Franklin, This is the equivalent of two twisted wolves babbling with each other over which unsavory meat should be taken off the menu.

Watch as William F. Buckley weaponizes his usual painstakingly contrived affectation to cosplay as moral arbiter, all the while struggling to flesh out the very bullet points he himself brought to the table. I see very little has changed in the world of posturing Conservative figureheads since 1969... except for the worse, of course.

Both of these two fools are morons. Simple-minded self-important buffoons .

The idea that today's college "students" would not only screech, shout, and riot to stop the great William F. Buckley from even visiting a campus, let alone speak at one, but that they also don't have the emotional and intellectual capacity to understand even one sentence of his is among the saddest tragedies of modern times.

Buckley is a bully

Maybe Mr Chomsky would like to live in North Korea

There are no shows like this any longer because the US educational system produces morons.

One a hack polemicist, Buckley, the other a truth teller trying to understand the facts of history.

If we do not do something to alleviate it we are responsible? Can u say the same about God regarding world suffering who makes no attempt to aleviate?

Pretentious.

Buckley is so intent on running the show that it totally gets in the way of any intellectual argument that he may or may not have actually had.

… now I understand why I never could stand that Buckley guy

Buckley, regardless of his position, was a vile human being. He used his intelligence to so convolute language that it was unrecognizable; all the while masturbating to his own voice.

Chomsky is as brilliant as he is naive.

Was Buckley the inspiration for Bib Fortuna from Star Wars?

Buckley, an absolute Charlton

I'm for buckley... Not because of his arguments.... Trurly said, chomsky doesn't points up the origins of colonialism, why some countries became powerfull and some others not.... This is important, and its an idea that buckley didn't pinpoint

Buckley should've prepared for this one more. There were some inconsistencies in Chomsky's arguments that he failed to address with due consideration.

If your entire political theory cannot account for war, you don't have a political theory.

The slithery-tongued one is not Buckley.

Buckley was a rude, opinionated pompous prick!

I was a waitress at belle haven country club in Greenwich, Connecticut in the late 80s and so I "met" Buckley because I was the waitress for his table. I'm from Ireland and William Buckley's "posh CT trying to sound like London" accent was always off putting to me. I could not understand why Americans would want to sound more upper class British than the actual English Royals. When Americans use this accent it comes across as massively phony and elitist instead of highly educated. I can only watch him for a short period before I start judging him as insecure because of that puffed up accent. In this discourse Chomsky sounds more intelligent and so much more grounded because he sounds like a Yank should. The voice puts Mr Buckley on the back foot when he's speaking with someone who has the same intellectual capabilities. All that said, I hope he's in heaven these days, it's not his fault he had that weird accent. God rest his soul.

I have never so much jaw boning sh_t since I told my dishwasher, beer transporter to go to her mommy and stay there.

I have admired and respected Mr Buckley since I discovered Firing Line in the 1990s. Chomsky I find risible and frankly irritating like Howard Zinn. Since the evidently despised America so much then why did they not emigrate? Because the American way of life enabled them to become wealthy and offer them security. Is it not odd that both these gentlemen, with their alleged socialist sympathies, never moved to a socialist country? No, they preferred to remain in America. That fact speaks volumes for this pair of loathsome hypocrites.

@9:44 the summary of this chat

Just like today, except the guest was a legend.

In essence, Chomsky took the Soviet postion that the US shouldn't try to contain communism. Typical of Chomsky who may as well have gotten his talking points from Stalin.

what a wanker buckley was, is and will forever be

How on earth can they debate that coloniosim is not all about money !

Sexy sexy sexy Buckley! Geez, what is wrong with me?

When your favorite gets humiliated in a debate, you celebrate the "civil discourse" and "open debate" then say "why can't we go back to this". Some old trope. This is in 1969 by the way. america then and now are not known for civil discourse. You can be an useful idiot with a whisper tone, therefore you can always sound smart without ever being smart. Chomsky is a legend.

Buckley was CIA

Two high priests of sixties opinion and analysis argue over the issues of international governmental violence. To simplify things, the problem is the problem of violence.

I'd love to see the comments from Buckley's burner account

7:47 this Lie he tells is the one moment above all else you realise Buckley was just completely and utterly devoted to America as a shining beacon on the hill, in his mind he's not just spouting propaganda nor could you reasonably sway his opinion to change, he truly believed that America was no longer interested in imperialism when matter of fact they were just getting started

Buckley was a true sadist.

Buckley was always an effete snob.

Chomsky took so much pleasure destroying Buckley.

Chomsky sounds just like Sam Harris

I dont like how the glassless man speaks the glass wearing man seems more honest.

I saw often disagreed with Bill Buckley, but never failed to realize his brilliance. This is a wonderful exchange of views and perspectives between two absolute intellects. Comparing these with what we, for the most part, see today would be laughable.

I luv this exchange because Chomsky demonstrably, in an intellectual sense places his oxfords firmly upon Buckley's throat. Buckley is clearly agitated by his failure and he evidenced his displeasure by closing the door to future debates with Chomsky. The man is a toad

Buckley’s got a very self conscious act going on while Chomsky just delivers facts. Its glaringly obvious from the posture to the tone of voice to the delivery, but if you don’t, or refuse to, see it, Buckley’s pretentious wink to the camera gives it away. Distract, distract, distract.

You can sense the smouldering of opposites between the two men. An time capsule .