Charlie Rose

SkyLarkJ  10/28/2010 11:13 PM Report

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G. Ingram  09/28/2008 02:00 AM Report

Thank you for permitting us in share but briefly the world of Wm. F. Buckley. Mr. Buckley holds a special place in my life. I suspect he holds that same place in the lives of many of my generation. Peggy Noonan describes her political epiphany as coming on a bus filled with privileged young people from the Northeast who were headed to Washington to demand "Power for the People." Looking around her, Noonan, a native of Queens, realized she was the only representative of "the People" on board. It gave her pause. William F. Buckley helped me past my own pause and was my Virgil in my journey to understanding the place of politics in the world. As an undergraduate, I was surrounded by the alienation and arrogance of political Liberalism. The South, the nation, patriotism, and certainly conservatism---all were scorned by most of my professors. Lord knows, I had been trying on that attitude for years. But I was a bright girl and a reader, and the more I read, the more ill at ease I became with it. In my freshman year in college, someone gave me a subscription to the young "National Review." It changed my life in such critical ways I cannot imagine myself without the encounter. In Buckley and his magazine, I found like-minded company. Here was a world where everyone questioned orthodoxy (by then I saw that what was called daringly Liberal was really a somewhat pallid orthodoxy). The writing was vibrant both with conviction and reason. Passion was permitted. Laughter was encouraged (ah, Victor Gold!). Thought was demanded. NR led me to Burke, to the later T.S.Eliot, to discussions of freedom, to a positive world view, and to Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind," which gave me a reading list that has lasted a lifetime. Buckley's early example kept me from becoming doctrinaire, led me to see the political world as part of a larger whole, a servant and not a master. As odd as it may seem, when WFB passed from this world, I felt a personal loss. I still do. I think of Chaucer's clerk: gladly would he learn and gladly teach. What a fine program!

pytr  04/18/2008 01:58 PM Report

Mr Hein, god did not go to Yale...he saw all the phonies and went to Reed and he would never let Buckley in...only Harvard or Yale would do that.

We can all breathe a bit lighter with the McCarthyite out of the picture...I can just see him rallying behind McCain so we can have more of the same, and the same and the same.....

carla  03/18/2008 01:44 AM Report

Ann Coulter with her Buckleyite hate for liberals and human decency would have been right at home fawning over WFB.

Remember, he never believed in giving the right to vote to every citizen of this fabulous DEMOCRACY!!!

Jane  03/12/2008 08:33 PM Report

I loved this panel discussion of WFB's life. He was a generous man--'couldn't help being born into a privileged family but helped countless others, who hadn't been, by his support and friendship--and a gentleman, two qualities sadly lacking in the media today.

I had just finished reading "Windfall: The End of the Affair" the night before he died, and felt quite bereft when my husband told me on my return from work the next day that William F. Buckley Jr. had died.

Please, more videos on the fantastic life of the talented, generous, gifted, Mr. Buckley.

CMurphy  03/12/2008 03:40 PM Report

You have my vote on a 3rd WFB installment for sure! Thank you so much for having this wonderful group at your table, Charlie. And for paying tribute to the man who personified a great tradition of smart, sophisticated talk on television. And thank you for carrying on that tradition as well.

M. W. Hein  03/12/2008 03:36 PM Report

Child of privilege, born to a family that discussed world affairs at the dinner table, sailed boats in the chill Atlantic; a youth who burned to find his Catholic faith

ridiculed at college, and wrote a book about it, damning liberals; a man who found his work

in words, who managed to extend the cameraderie of the beer-hall debate into a life style, but never understood women,

nor wanted to. He thumped the drum for America.

What did not make him happy -- poverty, most Catholics (being poor and foreign), admitting homosexuality or the possibility of a world without God or certainty -- he ignored.

Or scorned at safe distance. It seems he never

had to break the shell. I hear he was very good at encouraging young men to learn skills on a boat, or in the editorial office. I hope for his sake he finds a God waiting who also went to Yale.

eduardo  03/11/2008 05:39 PM Report

Buckley had power and he started or made careers, those who remembered him tonight included. He always struck me as an arrogant SOB... with an adolescent psyche. Shame he had so much influence; the world is a worse place because of it. He was cultured? Yes, so was Hermann Goring, another lover of Art and fine food and wine.

Perhaps a fitting heading for his obituary could have been:

Premier Pooh-bah of Passe' Pompous Polemics Protecting the Privileged Passes

Work for justice  03/11/2008 05:36 PM Report

All loss of life must be mourned, but the deeds of a misguided man need not be celebrated. Buckley was pro-McCarthy, pro-Vietnam war, pro-homophobia, pro-segregation and anti-Semitic. How often can someone preach against human decency, walk on the wrong side of history and still be revered?

Where are the multi-episode tributes to recently deceased civil rights icons like Rosa Parks, Corretta Scott King, gay rights activist Barbara Gittings and peace activist William Sloane Coffin? Let us celebrate the work of those who seek peace and justice for all.

Elisabeth Heine  03/11/2008 04:31 PM Report

One twilight evening an ordinary woman was walking along the little beach strip in Sausalito. A man came up to her and said, Excuse me, please don't think I'm rude, but I'm here for a seminar and I would like to have a companion for dinner. May I take you to dinner?

She recognized him, and her delighted speechlessness was followed by acceptnace.

He said, Where would you like to go? Anywhere would be wonderful. Please choose whatever you would enjoy. She suggested the Spinnaker, a little farther down the beach and that's where they had dinner, at one of those corner tables surrounded by glass, the gulls floating in the darkening evening. When they finished, after coffee, they said goodnight.

(His brilliant mind, elegant enthusiam, wit were unique. And that way of making one feel that his day was wonderful now that you were here to share it and he was really lucky! Wow!)

Carol  03/11/2008 09:53 AM Report

It was a moving tribute. By the end of the show, I was almost in tears as were some of the panelists. What impressed me most about Buckley was that he was not a stagnant. And unlike the conservative pundits of today, he evolved and admitted to his errors in judgement. When you tried to compare him to someone else in history, the reason it was impossible was because he was more of a gentleman from a Victorian novel--something out of Masterpiece Theatre

Carol  03/11/2008 09:38 AM Report

It was a moving tribute. By the end of the show, I was almost in tears as were some of the panelists. What impressed me most about Buckley was that he was not a stagnant. And unlike the conservative pundits of today, he evolved and admitted to his errors in judgement. When you tried to compare him to someone else in history, the reason it was impossible was because he was more of a character from a Victorian novel--something out of Masterpiece Theatre.

Savvy Sara  03/11/2008 09:20 AM Report

Unnlike Justice's comments, I appreciated Buckley for his outspoken ideas, whether I agreed with them or not. His delivery was always magnificent, fluid, and inciteful. His command of the King's English, his zest for life and its aristocratic plesures was unparalled. But, I recognize the significance of those like Rosa Parks in our history -- but I also recall she was 'selected' intentionlaly. The myth Ms. Parks just happened to be riding home from a long day cleaning someone's home, then refused to give up her seat was not spontaneous. Hence, the 'bravery' attached to her act remains a bit shallow.

But, as one who seldom hosts dinner parties on the grand scale Mr. Buckley did, I was waiting for one of the guests to at least mention the skill of those providing table service. I can't imagine Pat Buckley clening up the table or Bill doing the late night dishes. It would have been nice if someone had said his mansion staff was as devoted to he and Pat as his office crew was.

J. Weier  03/11/2008 04:25 AM Report

I missed the show due to an emergency. I saw the first one and was waiting for this panel of Bill's "friends" to see if I would enjoy it as much. I hesitate to use the word enjoy but without your remembering him as you did that night, Charlie, I would not have been able to accept his death as well as I did.

Bill Buckley was a man who spoke his truth and that was so refreshing. Hurry and get those videos ready. You have my vote for a third show on William F. Buckley.

rich dimmock  03/11/2008 01:19 AM Report

this episode on buckley was far far better than

the last ill conceived effort. this WAS BALANCED warts and all and much more insightful. i did chuckle a little about the limbaugh references.

somebody on the panel said no one would listen to bill for 3 hours! YA DONE GOOD CHARLIE(as buckley would have sans the verbage).

ps will gore vidal be scheduled to comment on the election?

Grace  03/11/2008 12:36 AM Report

What a lovely tribute to your beloved and admired friend, Mr. Bill Buckley. To this "liberal" younger person, I only viewed Mr. Buckley when I heard him speak, even on your show, as frankly a "snob," with a deep "lock jaw." I'm so pleased to be "introduced" to another side of the "gentleman" as your show so clearly "highlighted" him to be. I eagerly wrote down all the panel's favorite books that Mr. Buckley wrote and am enthused to take a look at a man who seemed to me somewhat "limited" in his "scope" and look forward to enjoying a "good laugh" at whatever he decided, in the books they admired, to turn his eye and hand toward. I must admit that there are many issues that Mr. Rose's panelists take on where I find myself "ranting" at the TV for them to "get a grip," but always, and especially tonight, I feel Charlie's "heart" and good intentions to get the "the bottom" of a subject. Tonight I'm glad that he was able to induce this one "sceptic" to find a place of "love" and warmth for his dear friend, Mr. William Buckley.... and also toward the work of his son, Chris Buckley. Thank you, Charlie for always seeking to open a viewer's "eyes."

Cynthia H. Hayes  03/11/2008 12:07 AM Report

Twp programs on WFB too many ? Nonesense!!!!!! Let us have more.

Thank you, Charlie

mr wow  03/10/2008 11:57 PM Report

good timing!