Conservatism vs. Liberalism: William F. Buckley, Jr. vs. George McGovern Debate (1997)
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William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 -- February 27, 2008) was a conservative American author and commentator. More Buckley: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=tra0c7-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=f04d1d6c2a5254156df46ea8eb03527a&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=william%20buckley He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement. He hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, where his public persona was famous for a wide vocabulary. He also wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and wrote numerous spy novels. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American Conservative movement, states that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century... For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure."[7] Buckley's primary contribution to politics was a fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying groundwork for the new American conservatism of U.S. presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan. Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and over 50 other books on writing, speaking, history, politics and sailing, including a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself as either a libertarian or conservative.[8][9] He resided in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. He was a practicing Roman Catholic, regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass in Connecticut. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F_Buckley George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 -- October 21, 2012) was an American historian, author and U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election. McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he was a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II and as a B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe. Among the medals bestowed upon him was a Distinguished Flying Cross for making a hazardous emergency landing of his damaged plane and saving his crew. After the war he gained degrees from Dakota Wesleyan University and Northwestern University, culminating in a PhD, and was a history professor. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1956 and re-elected in 1958. After a failed bid for the U.S. Senate in 1960, he was elected there in 1962. As a senator, McGovern was an exemplar of modern American liberalism. He became most known for his outspoken opposition to the growing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He staged a brief nomination run in the 1968 presidential election as a stand-in for the assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. The subsequent McGovern--Fraser Commission fundamentally altered the presidential nominating process, by greatly increasing the number of caucuses and primaries and reducing the influence of party insiders. The McGovern--Hatfield Amendment sought to end the Vietnam War by legislative means but was defeated in 1970 and 1971. McGovern's long-shot, grassroots-based 1972 presidential campaign found triumph in gaining the Democratic nomination but left the party badly split ideologically, and the failed vice-presidential pick of Thomas Eagleton undermined McGovern's credibility. In the general election McGovern lost to incumbent Richard Nixon in one of the biggest landslides in American electoral history. Re-elected Senator in 1968 and 1974, McGovern was defeated in a bid for a fourth term in 1980. Throughout his career, McGovern was involved in issues related to agriculture, food, nutrition, and hunger. As the first director of the Food for Peace program in 1961, McGovern oversaw the distribution of U.S. surpluses to the needy abroad and was instrumental in the creation of the United Nations-based World Food Programme. As sole chair of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs from 1968 to 1977, McGovern publicized the problem of hunger within the United States and issued the "McGovern Report" that led to a new set of nutritional guidelines for Americans. McGovern later served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 1998 to 2001 and was appointed the first UN Global Ambassador on World Hunger by the World Food Programme in 2001. The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program has provided school meals for millions of children in dozens of countries since 2000 and resulted in McGovern's being named World Food Prize co‑laureate in 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_mcgovern
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Mysteriously accumulating dollar is an interesting concept that Washington just can't quit.
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It's funny how all the great federal programs McGovern touts as liberal successes have since failed, due to flaws predicted by conservatives even at the time. And it's also funny how liberals still defend these failed policies, even when all the evidence has been accounted for, and proven them to be failures.
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"Buckley/McGovern is an stupid evil nazi fascist piece of shit because I am a liberal/conservative and though I'm incapable of saying anything intelligent I just feel it necessary to insult their intelligence."
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Both great speakers, I'm partial to William F Buckley because I share more or his views, but Mcgovern is also a pretty fantastic speaker. This was great to watch.
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15:13 It's almost strange to the modern ear to hear Buckley not say "weapons of mass destruction." Buzzwords and key phrases like that carry a great deal of unrelated emotion and baggage, and it's to Buckley's great credit that he always goes for the ideas instead of the talking points.
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Wow! The kid who asks the question at the 51:00 mark is now this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_E._Boyd
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Mr. Buckley, it's not been only 10 years, but almost 20, and illegitimacy and broken families is indeed still the problem. Well called... sadly, nothing even attempting to be done about it, even 20 years later.
Hilariously... McGovern's concern about the environment in 10 years... almost 20 years later and still not an issue. However, there's still so much trying to be done about it.
Liberalism VS Conservatism in a nutshell right there. Liberals willing to throw money at a non-issue, Conservatives still trying to convince people to pay attention to the real problems, unsuccessfully. -
Buckley was more of a cuckservative than a conservative. He spent most of his time demonizing people on the Right. For example, he ran Pat Buchanan out of "Respectable Conservatism".
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Debate starts at 8:00
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McGovern's "novelist" line was so corny. I got douche chills. Typical leftist fashion, don't open with facts or logic, open with ad hominem.
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great
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I was a frequent flyer cameraman who luckily got my seat on TWA upgraded to first class. I took my seat then realized who I was sitting next to. I've set next to many celebrities so this was no big deal. But this was William F. Buckley flying from the west coast to St. Louis for this debate. He engaged me in conversation and I was thrilled. We walking together to baggage claim and he asked "You have to haul all this stuff everywhere by yourself"? Yes, but I tip the skycaps well! Great man
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Govern is quite eloquent and puts his points together with intelligence, yet there is a lack of truth and an avoidance of the hard facts in his words.he rambles on with nostalgia like a woody guthrie dust bowl days and chooses his points like the archer who shoots his arrows ,and then draws a bulls eye around where they've hit.i will say he's not a communist like what has become of today's democrats in this 21st century.just mighty boring.
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god damn that moderator...zzZZZ
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The Palestinians could have had a country multiple times since 48. The problem is they want dead drowned Jews not peace.
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McGovern said he would crawl on his hands and knees to stop the war and that probably hurt his bid to become president. Click my name to get my political commentary, etcetera.
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McGovern is a piece of shit! His monologue was nothing more than pandering and brainwashing! Fuck the goddamn liberals!
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The conservative perspective ignores any attempt at mediating the privileges of Apex predators. In their defense they offer you the opportunity to also be an Apex predator. The most bribable of us have accepted that offer. And, Viet Nam was nothing but a historical war crime, perpetrated on five foot rice farmers and former rice farmers defending their home land against invading forces. And Ronald Reagan's heroes must have been Pinochet and Mobuto having invited both to the White House.
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"The blacks" at 1:17:50? Buckley letting his true colours show
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