Re: [Pen-l] Buckley dead

To: "Progressive Economics" <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Buckley dead
From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:35:35 -0800
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c'mon! Buckley wasn't all bad. After all, without him there wouldn't
have been the famous repartee with Gore Vidal (in 1968?). Other than
that, however...


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan Scanlan wrote:
>  >
>  > Mort Sahl once said that Buckley was the only person he knew who could
>  > seal an envelope by licking it after he put in the mailbox.
>
>  Most people are aware of Buckley's shitty politics, but there is
>  something that always rankled me about him in light of his high culture
>  pretensions. In the early 1960s, his Starr Broadcasting company bought
>  the finest FM classical station in the country, WNCN in NY, and turned
>  it into an outlet for really stupid rock-and-roll. For that alone, he
>  deserves to burn in hell.
>
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