ACERBIC WIT: Gore Vidal vs. William Buckley / “Go Back To Your Pornography And Stop Calling Me A Crypto-Nazi” / Democratic National Convention 1968

This is the well-known incident between William Buckley and Gore Vidal that occurred during ABC’s coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.

POETRY: “From Sage to Philistine”

 By Madison S. Hughes (04.11.2009)

Chomsky, Vidal, Vonnegut and Zinn
Sages of generations past.
How will their prodigious wits last?

With Philistines of today
As far as the eye can see.
Oh sad, how sad, can this truly be?