Bill Buckley’s son “fatwahed” by conservatives

8 comments October 14th, 2008

Christopher Buckley (above), son of the late William F. Buckley, has RESIGNED under fire from the National Review, the political magazine his father founded.

The younger Buckley has endured an avalanche of ugly response from fellow conservatives for his recent endorsement of Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy.

Nice folks, those right-wingers.

Another look back at Bill Buckley

4 comments March 5th, 2008

THIS GUY didn’t like America’s preeminent preppy any more than I did.

Bill Buckley, sniveling racist, dies

16 comments February 27th, 2008

Spare me the tearful eulogies for conservative icon William F. Buckley, who died today at the age of 82.

Buckley and his magazine, National Review, have a shameful history of promoting racism.

To wit,  consider these gems:

In a 1957 editorial titled ”Why the South Must Prevail,” the National Review said:

The central question that emerges . . . is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes — the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.

Also in 1957, segregationist Sen. Richard Russell had this to say in Buckley’s magazine:

As you know… there are some communities and some states where the Negro’s voting potential is very great. We wish at all costs to avoid a repetition of the Reconstruction period when newly freed slaves made the laws and undertook their enforcement. We feel even more strongly about miscegenation or racial amalgamation.

The experience of other countries and civilizations has demonstrated that the separation of the races biologically is highly preferable to amalgamation.

I know of nothing in human history that would lead us to conclude that miscegenation is desirable.

In 1963, the magazine carried this reaction to the murderous bombing of a black church in Birmingham:

Let us gently say the fiend who set off the bomb does not have the sympathy of the white population in the South; in fact, he set back the cause of the white people there so dramatically as to raise the question whether in fact the explosion was the act of a provocateur — of a Communist, or of a crazed Negro.

And let it be said that the convulsions that go on, and are bound to continue, have resulted from revolutionary assaults on the status quo, and a contempt for the law, which are traceable to the Supreme Court’s manifest contempt for the settled traditions of Constitutional practice. Certainly it now appears that Birmingham’s Negroes will never be content so long as the white population is free to be free.

There are many more such examples of Buckley’s racism, but you get the point.