{"id":52986,"date":"2024-06-27T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52986"},"modified":"2024-06-26T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:46:06","slug":"qotd-televised-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/06\/27\/qotd-televised-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Televised debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>As televised liberal-conservative dust-ups go, this one doesn&#8217;t quite hold a candle to the celebrated Bill Buckley vs. Gore Vidal cat fight during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. After wordsmith Vidal insisted that, no, really, the author of <em>God and Man at Yale<\/em> was a &#8220;pro-crypto-Nazi&#8221;, Buckley (who famously signs his letters in <em>National Review<\/em>, &#8220;Cordially &#8230;&#8221;) stopped speaking in his native Latin and declaimed: &#8220;Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I&#8217;ll sock you in you goddamn face and you&#8217;ll stay plastered&#8221;. That&#8217;s good stuff &mdash; and it was on broadcast TV for god&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Gillespie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/2005\/08\/bob_novak_thats.shtml#010451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Bob Novak: &#8216;That&#8217;s Bullshit &#8230; Goodnight, Everybody!'&#8221;, <em>Hit and Run<\/em><\/a>, 2005-08-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As televised liberal-conservative dust-ups go, this one doesn&#8217;t quite hold a candle to the celebrated Bill Buckley vs. Gore Vidal cat fight during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. After wordsmith Vidal insisted that, no, really, the author of God and Man at Yale was a &#8220;pro-crypto-Nazi&#8221;, Buckley (who famously signs his letters in National Review, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,53,41,13],"tags":[311,768,101],"class_list":["post-52986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1960s","tag-democrat","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dMC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89970,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52986\/revisions\/89970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}