{"id":68,"date":"2008-02-29T09:52:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T16:55:39","slug":"buckley-vidal-must-see-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/29\/buckley-vidal-must-see-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckley + Vidal = Must-See TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/goingson\/2008\/02\/buckley-vidal-m.html\" title=\"click to view original article at the New Yorker\" target=\"_blank\"><em>by Ben Greenman @ the New Yorker<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The conservative author, publisher, and commentator William F. Buckley, Jr., has died at the age of eighty-two. This is not primarily a cultural story, and so shouldn\u2019t really be on this blog, but it is in some small way a television story, if only because of Buckley\u2019s decades hosting \u201cFiring Line\u201d and appearing on countless other talk shows. His most notorious appearance, of course, came in 1968, when he tangled with Gore Vidal over America\u2019s policy in Vietnam. If you think today\u2019s news-panel shows can get nasty, take a look at what things were like forty years ago: Vidal calls Buckley a crypto-Nazi and Buckley calls Vidal a queer. The incident led to further acrimony\u2014Buckley and Vidal wrote essays for <em>Esquire<\/em> attacking each other, and then each man sought damages in court.\u2014<em>Ben Greenman<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nYymnxoQnf8&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nYymnxoQnf8&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/goingson\/2008\/02\/buckley-vidal-m.html\" title=\"click to view original article at the New Yorker\" target=\"_blank\">click to view original article at the New Yorker<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ben Greenman @ the New Yorker The conservative author, publisher, and commentator William F. Buckley, Jr., has died at the age of eighty-two. This is not primarily a cultural story, and so shouldn\u2019t really be on this blog, but it is in some small way a television story, if only because of Buckley\u2019s decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}