The Buckley Stops Here

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I am satisfied to discontinue perambulation and contemplate my own former sentience
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Firing Flatline
William F. Buckley, the pompous pontificator who turned exploitation of the proletariat into an intellectual exercise, has seen his metabolic processes terminate at 82. Buckley, who never conceived a syllable with which he was not enamored, preached the wisdom of the market mentality, yet refused to accept it in his own business, and National Review, the conservative journal he founded, edited and published was a perennial currency hemorrhager, and subsisted on donations and Buckley’s lecturing remunerations. Hard to believe now, but Buckley’s conservative commentary in print and on the long running PBS staple Firing line, espoused a distinct and well considered point of view, compared to the pill-popping small minded right-wing nutjobs contaminating the airwaves. While few read his magazine, Buckley was very much in love with his writing, producing 50 books, and another 4.5 million words in his 5,600 newspaper columns. He donated 7 tons of his collected papers to Yale, apparently rather than hitting the recycling yard. While Buckley preached conservatism, he did it with more style and panache than Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. His endorsement of General Eisenhower in 1952: We prefer Ike. He posited to NYC politician Mark Green: “You’ve been on the show close to 100 times over the years. Tell me, Mark, have you learned anything yet?”