Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The Prevailing Bias"

Battle of 2 Great Minds!
Truly wonderful to watch great minds debate with out the screeching hysteria of today's political shows. Fun to watch the give and take and the subtle and not so subtle insults. It is like watching a heavy weight championship bout. Buckley from the get go attacks and insults Susskind and throughout tries to get Susskind on the ropes, but Susskind takes the punches holds his own and punches back. At the end it was a TKO victory for Susskind, but you have to admire Buckley's wit. Again really fun to watch. Miss the intelligence of these two men.

Solid debate though it's clear who won.
This is a 1960's episode of Firing Line which deals with (as the title suggests) the prevailing leftist bias in media coverage. Buckley has the facts on his side after the treatment of Barry Goldwater in the '64 campaign and the immediate accusations by some in the media who felt that JFK must've ben shot by a member of the John Burke society (and not a member of the US Communist Party).

Susskind tries to dance around these arguments by attacking Buckley himself. He makes fun of his failed attempt to become the Mayor of New York City. He claims his attacks arer unwarranted and that he has a "fetish" regarding the subject at all. I believe this is also the start of the backhanded compliment many (in the media) still give to WFBjr and that he is the "Pied Piper" of the Conservative movement. By definition, a Pied Piper draws in his followers by making unrealistic promises. Buckley quickly dismisses this crass compliment and the fact that it was repeated almost ina group think...

WOW!
A must see!A very intresting dance of word and debate.If Buckley Jr.thought it was bad then he should see it now.Fed Govt on steriods, states going bankrupt(libral state since this time,like Detroit have failed under purely there watch) .A middle class economy hanging on by a thread,penalties on business who hire too many employees an astronomical debt....but luckly just the other day Obama said,after over 4 years in office and 4 years of librial control of house and senate,and passing the largest tax bill in the history of the free world.....drum-roll....."we need to grow the economy".Oh he's a sharp one.I see,tear down the good free market economy and replace it with his leftist Govt one.I should have gone to Columbia University so I could understand how prosperity is bad for free people and how truths don't matter if nobody can hear it.Oh I'd be such the smarty pants:)

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