at the time the john birch society was a major player. they had strings on advertising contract with a magazine and distributor deals for the magazine. they contribute the members wrote checks beyond the subscription and bill while he was fearless, was also a lover of danger. you got story time here? >> when he flew deplane in the dark. >> as far as i am aware -- [talking over each other] >> he didn't -- [talking over each other] >> he didn't intend to fly it in the dark. >> surprised the ninth came. >> instead of putting down new port some place, up to boston. started to fall, he decided he could safely follow new york, new haven and the railroad tracks. which he did successfully do and this put the plane down. there it was. he had a job to do. >> this is classic bill. remember the 60s? pretty sad time. people on the edge of political consensus not just getting criticized that getting shot. politicians were getting shot. we have our first briefing with our security detail. as the nypd. every cop in new york was for bill buckley for mayor

oil millionaire member of the radical anti communist john birch society and. father of charles and di of a well the threat of communism has long since passed it's striking how effective it still remains to instantly demonize opponents as evidenced in the descriptions of the climate and health care policies and right throughout the tea parties why had the a.n.c. obama spin doctors resorted to the language of the cold war propaganda. and why has it been so effective in causing the styria among tea party go was. curious and when to say not crispin miller n.y.u. professor and corporate propaganda expert there are certain techniques that that propagandists really need to use and they're so basic that you know they will leave the scene in arguable to us or we never even notice them but one thing that one must of course is cloak on this message and a kind of moral righteousness. you know we we believe in liberty we believe in free enterprise we hear that all the time but that basically means crony capitalism but it implies something that most americans will you know

at the time the john birch society was a major player. they had strings on advertising contracts, strings on distributor deals for the magazine. they contributed, their members actually wrote checks beyond the subscription fee, and -- but bill, while he was fearless, he was also a lover of danger. story time? >> what is the story about when he flew the plane in the dark? >> as far as i am aware. >> the movement. >> he did. >> he was still here. >> he was still here, and he did not intend to fly it in the dark >> was surprised at nightfall came. there he was. >> however, instead of trying to put down in newport or someplace he had flown a buddy up to boston. instead of putting down at providence or some place when i started to fall he decided that he could safely follow the new york, new haven, and hartford railroad track back, which he did successfully do and did put the plane down. but, yes. there it was. he had a job to do, so he did it. >> this is classic bill. remember the 60's. a pretty sad time. people were on the edge of political

the john birch society thought that he was a communist when he was a golfer. [laughter] this is quite controversial within the "national review," and it goes to when jeal was referring to the moral courage reading about this recently and a senior editors of postage and all my high level colleagues to say they would hurt the future of the magazine, don't do it it's hard pressed to do it as the camp relation is correct. >> i don't want to tell ritchie is wrong but i do have to ask about attention in one of the things he said one of you could address. he said the the entire state is the most difficult to overstate and he would have supported and that is probably true. on the ever hand the society showed that he had a history of purging people whose antistate is some was proportional to their obituary from ends with the line and they believe in freedom the same way they believe in god and clearly had a low view but not necessarily of rand paul with his father's interview. what antibodies did he have that prevented him from sliding into that school of conservative

line was it, the john birch society said he was a communist when he was really just a golfer?[laughter] this was really quite controversial within "national review," and it goes to what yale referred to, bill's moral courage. i was just reading about this recently, and bill rusher opposed it, a number of senior editors opposed it, and if i was in that situation and all my high level colleagues say it's a big mistake and will hurt the magazine, don't do it, i would be hard pressed to do it, but bill was bill, and he did it, and "national review" paid a short term price, i think, up to 10% of their cancellations, but he had the long view that this was important to the health of the movement, and, of course, he was correct. >> i don't want to say rich is long, and i couldn't because he's my former boss, but i want to ask about a tension in one of the things he said that probably all of you could address. rich said that buckley's antistatism was difficult to oversate, and that he would have supported rand paul, and that's probably true, but on the other hand, john birch society sh