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The fantasists
Commemorating William F. Buckley, whose column had run in the Post for decades, the New York Post’s editors wrote on Thursday:
Buckley died yesterday at 82, steadfast in what he once described as his life’s work: To “stand athwart history yelling ‘Stop’ at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who urge it.”Really? Buckley was steadfast in his life’s work of standing athwart history yelling Stop? You mean, that Buckley until the very end was rallying conservatives to engage in principled, unyielding resistance to the dominant, liberal trends of our age? Could the Post’s editors produce a single column written by Buckley in the last 15 or 20 years which supports that assertion?
Could there be a clearer example of the fact that today’s “conservatives” imagine themselves and their leaders to be something that they self-evidently are not? Email entry |