George Will Compares Kirk To Buckley, Means It As Compliment -- Gary Legum

[erronis]

https://www.wonkette.com/p/george-will-compares-kirk-to-buckley

Also, George Will is still alive? Good for him.

Last week the United States Postal Service unveiled a commemorative stamp that it created, for God only knows what reason, to honor William F. Buckley Jr., the founder back in the 1950s of the racism brochure National Review. Which, to our mind, is really scraping the bottom of the barrel to find an American to put on a stamp. Did George Wallace’s descendants say no?

Now, we understand that the USPS is going to sometimes make stamps celebrating bigots because otherwise it would be eliminating an enormous pool of historical Americans to honor. The nation’s history is littered with milkshake ducks, and we have made peace with this state of affairs. We probably wouldn’t have even noticed the event, or if we had we wouldn’t have cared because there is only but so much outrage to go around, and it has been a week.

Then some nut shot Charlie Kirk, which motivated George Will to write an entire column for The Washington Post favorably comparing the two smug weirdos. To which the only possible response is, when is that asshole George Will going to retire? We thought he was an old dinosaur when we were reading his Newsweek columns 30 years ago, back when Newsweek was a respectable publication. Somehow, he’s still getting people to pay him for his stentorian pronouncements like the world’s dullest carnival barker.

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White men like George Will, who finished Monday’s column by calling Charlie Kirk “like Buckley, a teacher unconfined to a classroom.” And they both did it well. Bigotry is learned behavior; it has to be carefully taught.

[JCMach1]

1. Insult to Buckley...

A sentence I never thought I would have to say.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. I don't know, it's hard to be worse than Buckley.

He was a pompous asshole.

[House of Roberts]

2. 'The nation's history is littered with milkshake ducks...'

Really? This is the first I've heard that. (I had to look up what was a milkshake duck.)

[Abstractartist]

3. I can compare

I can compare both Buckley and Kirk.

They both are not around to spread their bigotry and racism.

Ok, I’m done with Charlie Kirk. Let’s get back to another dead figure in the trump shitshow… Epstein….. release the files.

[sop]

4. Buckley would debate intellectual equals, Kirk would talk over and browbeat college kids.

It would have been interesting watching Charlie Kirk actually debate the likes of James Baldwin or Gore Vidal.

[erronis]

5. I think even Buckley would rip Kirk to shreds. He didn't tolerate asses (other than himself.)

[Wiz Imp]

7. The thing is, despite how the right characterized it, he often lost those debates soundly

He really wasn't that good at real debating. He was only good at bullying. When he'd debate someone who he couldn't bully into submission, he looked like a moron.

[Ritabert]

6. George Will should stick to baseball commentary

His political commentary is pathetic.

[gulliver]

8. The word "bigot" has become a trite slur used by people who want to dominate others.

We really, really need to get a handle on it. Certainly, I don't hear any Democratic leaders using the term "bigot." So, the folks who insist on using it are, by definition, speaking for themselves, not Democrats (which I am).

I can excuse the word "bigot" if it is used in sentences that make fun of someone who uses the word "bigot." Otherwise, my acceptance of the term is rare. It's just trite, usually juvenile and hyperventilating. And it backfires on our Democratic cause for those reasons, making it, bottom line, immoral.