Michael Hoffman on Michael Hoffman's Revelation of the Method

Well said, Roscoe. Buckley pursued Buchanan and also led an in-house inquisition against his own senior editor at "National Review," Joseph Sobran. A special issue of the magazine was devoted to it. Hugh Kenner, the literary authority and friend of Ezra Pound was permitted to write in and say that he wished Abe Foxman (then head of the ADL) would "moderate his frenzies." Sobran eventually defended himself in the Catholic "Wanderer" newspaper where he wrote an erudite weeky column, making readers aware of Buckley's contempt for working class Catholics. Mr. Buckley worked behind the scenes to elect Democrat Joseph Lieberman to the US Senate in CT. Buckley was a former CIA agent, and a member of the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale. A virtuoso con man possessed of impressive polemical skills (though James Baldwin wiped the floor with him at Oxford). Reruns of his TV show "Firing Line" continue to fascinate. He was a skilled sailor, harpsichord player and man of letters. Most of his potential was of course squandered in service to our enemies. His statement, which you reference, "I am ready to concede that in our world, in our time, Jews have inherited distinctive immunities" is vintage Talmudism. It is pandering of a particularly ignominious type, and remains in force in Gaza ,where the genocidalists proceed to perpetrate atrocities immune to interdiction by their American enablers.