Yup. That's how you insult Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley, and Richard Wagner all at once.

The dopey music kind of defeats the purpose of this doesn't it? I want to hear the conversation.

There were so many legit one liners in that entire series and you go with this one?!?

Just reinforces what I always thought, that Gore vidal was smug and enamored of himself

Wow that was brilliant! Maybe he was too busy concentrating on the gerbil in his rectum to pay attention.

Looks like a love affair.

He spent his early years in Europe and was educated in Paris and London before returning to the US and attending prep school. His first languages were Spanish and French.

his family spent much of their time in south carolina, his mother was born and raised in new orleans and his father was from texas. Yankee?

Wow, Vidal invented internet humor that day. It deserves a place down there with "not so much" and every other shit thing that people mistake for witty despite the fact that it's so empty it can be applied equally to any preceding comment.

They both have a transatlantic English accent genius.

Best one-liner ever..? Ouch!

Absolutely hilarious. Love Gore's grin @ 1:08

Please remake with no music playing in background. Made it difficult to hear their voices. Thanks for the vid

The Cohen Brothers stole Vidal's line here for "The Big Lebowski" scene when The Dude replies likewise to the cop with a gun up his ass. Just kidding, I don't think so.

PLEASE upload more Vidal VS Buckley videos!!! These are hilarious!

You should turn the music up more

I see you read the same Wiki article i did on Buckley.:))

Ramen brother, Ramen!

BUCKLEY OWNS VIDAL.....GREAT VIDEO

Oh wow, what a "great" one-liner. Are you impressed by the sun rising every day as well?

Gore Vidal aka Peter puffer 😂

Vidal could always see through Buckley's insufferable bullshit. Gore's response at the end was classic.

THAT was it? That was Vidal's brilliant repartee? Oh, who cares whether what Buckley is saying is actually substantially correct; Vidal is so much more fun! And in retrospect, we know that Nixon was indeed a stinker. Then again, so was Johnson.

No need for the Wagner music in the beginning.

damn they said 19 hundred 60 instead 1960 lol

HAHAHAHA

Vidal ... nahhhh.

As YOU will be placed upon the dinner plate of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to be deemed flavorful or not. Be Afraid! As for me, I'll be avoiding idiots with "Russell's Teapot" type cosmic threats.

That was childish, not clever. Vidal seems very egotistical and instead of debating ideas, he goes straight to insults. Gee, I wonder where our current political climate has come from.

Isn't it interesting that Buckley mispronounces Negro? Instead of Neeee-gro, he says Niggg-ro. I am a southerner, and that used to mean one thing and one thing only. In the Deep South, they said niggggrah. And for Buckley, a yankee, to say it like that is just so awful. I think even LBJ said it need-gro most of the time.