
Originally Posted by
LDAHL
Recently watched “The Incomparable Mr Buckley”, the latest installment in the PBS “American Masters” series on the life and career of William F Buckley.. I really enjoyed some of the footage, but it inevitably suffered from the PBS obsession with narrative service, trying to explain the man from a left-liberal perspective rather than on his own terms.
Too many quotes, for instance, from Sam Tanenhaus, who has built a career around misunderstanding American Conservatism. They seemed to be uninterested in allowing Mr Buckley to speak for himself in his own words.
They really lost me when they tried to draw a line from WFB to January 6.