http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2003/10/12/an-american-original-appreciating-bill-buckley/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:06:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2003/10/12/an-american-original-appreciating-bill-buckley/comment-page-1/#comment-71009 A Legend - Deceased » Everything’s Better With Brentter Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:48:16 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/test.php/?p=205#comment-71009 [...] “He had a special gift for making intellectual discussion exciting because he deconstructed arguments on the run. He was a fluid thinker and debater, a man so quick on his feet that it dazzled all but the most facile of his opponents. He gave liberals and leftists a forum and all the time they needed to explain their ideas. There was only one catch. They all had to debate him, and when Buckley turned round on them, to paraphrase his own line about Muggeridge, they found themselves outnumbered.” [source] [...] [...] "He had a special gift for making intellectual discussion exciting because he deconstructed arguments on the run. He was a fluid thinker and debater, a man so quick on his feet that it dazzled all but the most facile of his opponents. He gave liberals and leftists a forum and all the time they needed to explain their ideas. There was only one catch. They all had to debate him, and when Buckley turned round on them, to paraphrase his own line about Muggeridge, they found themselves outnumbered." [source] [...]

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