This afternoon LCP decided hat Congressman Joseph Wilson' boorish breach of Congressional rules of decorum during the President's speech to a Joint Session of Congress was equivalent to William Buckley's angry words towards Gore Vidal in a televised debate at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. I tried to leave the following message on LCP's comment thread:
"Your attempt to equate Joseph Wilson' boorish breach of Congressional rules of decorum during the President's speech last night to Bill Buckley's angry riposted to Gore Vidal in their famous Issues & Answers debate in 1968 ignored the following key distinctions between the two situations:
1. Gore Vidal unforgivably called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi". Buckley had every right to be outraged at Vidal's contemptible personal attack.
2. The President, in addressing Congress, did not call Congressman Wilson a crypto-Nazi.
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