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A snob
Buckley was wrong about McCarthyism, civil rights for blacks, the Vietnam war, equality for women, and just about every other important political topic of the last fifty years. Far from being an intellectual, he was an entertainer whose art was to make snobbery seem witty and charming. Those who are impressed by obscure words and convoluted sentences thought he had a good style. In a few years I doubt that anyone will care to read him or to watch those old TV shows. RIP.