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just one silly example, 1968, the conversations with william buckley on television at the convention, very first debate we had. 1968, republican convention, miami beach. i said there is no difference between the two parties. each is paid by the same people. paid for. >> explosion, how you can say such a thing. >> hysteria on every side. >> on every side or you mean about bill. >> oh, bill, i mean hysteria. his ferria is at home, always there but i'm speaking more what goes on. >> rose: you mean it ricocheted off the country, people saying he did it. >> all the difference in the world. >> rose: who is this writer saying that american presidents are for sale and owned by corporate america. >> yeah, and they said you know, party of labor the democrats, the party of the rich, republicans. there is not one single major politician today who does not repeat what i said in '68. there is fundamentally no difference between the two parties. >> rose: did you like aaron burr the most, was he your favorite of all the people that sort of came together in one way or another to -- >> no set only one

and could be a terrible bully and fought sometimes physically with capote and famously with william f. buckley on live television in 1968. >> the only thing i can think of is yourself. >> listen. >> let's stop calling names. >> he was born at west point because his dad worked there. after prep school he joined the army. he died believing america was in deep decline that started long ago. he got his larger wish in life to be remembered as both a polymicist and a man of letters. one of the mode agile and active minds of his generation. gore vidal died in los angeles at the age of 86. >>> up next here this evening, the young man who spent so long dreaming about wearing that team usa uniform and now he is. >>> after yesterday's women's gymnastics gold medal, tonight it is the men's turn. the all around final. one of the u.s. contenders was a man who started at the bronx which made it tough to get here in the first place. his story from nbc's chris jansen. >> reporter: you can see it from his earliest competition. john orosco was a natural. he was seven when his dad saw a flyer for free gymnastics

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here he is in a famously nasty live exchange with william f. buckley minute. >> no i won't. >> the answer is, they were wealthy by people ostracized them i'm for ostracizing people who shoot american marines and american soldiers. >> i know you don't care. [ all speak at once ] >> crypto nazi i can think of is yourself. >> now, listen -- i'm not a crypto nazi. [ bleep ]. >> gore vidal, by the way, the gladiator was 86. and still ahead, the two little brothers who showed their family what a true champion is made of. arthritis pain. and two pills. h afternoon's overhaul starts with more pain. more pills. triple checking hydraulics. the evening brings more pain. so, back to more pills. almost done, when... hang on. stan's doctor recommended aleve. it can keep pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is rudy. who switched to aleve. and two pills for a day free of pain. ♪ [ female announcer ] and try aleve for relief from tough headaches. [ female announcer ] and try aleve for many, nexium helps relieve heartburn symptoms caused by acid reflux

. >> eliot: "national review," a magazine founded by the late william f buckley is the influence leadere conservative movement. it speaks about the free market theory that overtook and then destroyed our economy. they put a caricature of me on their cover and called me the most destructive politician in america. why? my office and i were pursuing wrongdoing. we were suing coal-burning power plants who were violating the clean air act. we have suing virtually all the major wall street investment banks for committing fraud and violating their duty of honesty to the public. the feds were doing nothing about these problems until we did. lead to go billions of dollars of funds to customers and lowering fees again, something that the feds were unwilling to do. and as the article points out we were suing predatory lending companies along before 2004, and i was warning that subprime debt could be both harmful to the borrower and toxic to the economy. the federal government affirmatively tried to shut down our effort. all these actions led the "national review" to deem me the most destructive po

william f. buckley arguing that african-americans in the south don't even want to vote much less should be granted to vote. so that's a very, very long tradition of questioning african-american citizenship. the highest right of any citizen, be he or she, white or black or yellow, red, whatever, is to serve as president. president is a different sort of power. when you're president, you're head of the american military. you're head of enforcement in this country. it's the highest aspect. and the notion that given our particular history that we would have a black president and there would be no blowback, we would take this in stride that it would end in 2008, is ludicrous, and i didn't realize how ludicrous myself until i got into the piece. >> right. and people wished for it so hard. i feel like -- >> we all wished for it. >> we all wished for it. and i feel that's been one of the blockages. every time people bring up race, it's almost treated in the political session like a betrayal, like a betrayal of

he was known for his feud with william f buckley. he was 86 years old. a relative says the cause of death was pneumonia. >>> up next, oakland sued. >> i predicted it. i said somebody will get hurt on this road. >> why friends and family are blaming oakland's bad roads for the death of a cyclist. and a nervous day in the air. what a steb word ease found -- stewardess found that forced them to get back to to the ground. >> from dance moms to little league drama there is >>> the family of a cyclist killed in a tragic accident last year is now suing the city of oak lands. they said the city was warned of the dangerous road conditions and did nothing to fix them. the accident happened last september at grizzly peak boulevard and clairemont avenue. alan wang joins us live from the oakland hills now. alan? >> larry, this is typical of what many cyclists have to dodge up here on grizzly peak boulevard. now the widow of the cyclist killed here is suing oakland claiming it violated a government code by failing to fix a dangerous road. a rut in the road less than t

here he is in a famously nasty live exchange with william f. buckleyf american democracy is you can express any point of view you want. >> what if you're pro nazi? >> shut up a minute. >> no, i won't. some people were pro nazi and they were well treated by those who ostracized them. and i'm for ostracizing people who egg on other people to shoot american marines and american soldiers. >> i know you don't care. >> as far as i can think of the only pro or crypto nazi i can think of is yourself. >> now listen you queer. stop calling me a nazi or i'll sock you in the [ bleep ] face and you'll stay plastered. >> gore vidal, bli ty the way, gladiator was 26. >>> still ahead, the boys who showed their family what a true champion is made of. with more pain. more pills. triple checking hydraulics. the evening brings more pain. so, back to more pills. almost done, when... hang on. stan's doctor recommended aleve. it can keep pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is rudy. who switched to aleve. and two pills for a day free of pain. ♪ [ female anno

nation has made came despite conservative efforts to block it as famed conservative thinker william f. buckley said a conservative is someone who stands up for work history yelling stop at a time when no one is inclined to do so at each turning point to give more and more rights to americans to give more and more economic opportunity to more americans to make the workplace safety or for more americans you name it conservatives have tried to stop it while progressives have fought bled and died to make sure these progressive things happen and today nothing has changed today conservatives are yelling stock when it comes to marriage equality they're yelling stop when it comes to climate change legislation they're yelling stop when it comes to equal pay for equal work for women they're yelling stop when it comes to critical lifesaving stem cell research they're yelling stop when it comes to providing health insurance at an affordable cost to all americans they're yelling stop when it comes to immigration reform they're yelling stop when it comes to ending the failed richard nixon's failed drug war

but more than anything else, he will be remembered for this fight that he had with william f. buckleyl have to listen because they do fight. and they are talking over each other. but vidal said something to buckley that he doesn't like. listen to william buckley's response. >> this is a novelty in chicago that is too bad but i assume the point of the american democracy -- >> as you can express -- >> shut up. >> no. >> some people will and the answer is they were well treated by people who ostracized them i am for os tra sizing other people who shoot american marines. >> all you can think of is yourself. failing that, i can only say we can have -- >> listen. >> now. >> now, listen, you queer. >> you will see stay plastered. >> no. back to his pornography. any illusions in the last war. >> i will [. >> that sounds like bill press and bob novak on crossfire. >> crossfire right there. >> look. aside from the hate speech call somebody a queer, you don't see that on t.v. any more, just a real spirited. he said i am going to punch you in the face. >> it's pretty direct. >> that's pretty in-y

william f. buckely in a series of televised debates. >> i should say to that first to correct mr. buckley'sntaneous inaccuracy, you have almost a stalinist desire to revise history. >> it wasn't spontaneous, it was planned. >> ha. your calculated desire. >> reporter: into his later life, in essays and on television he offered barbed commentary on the state of american politics and life, here in 2000. >> i see the world having been raised in a political family, i know the mixture that people are. harry truman did more harm to the united states than any president in our history and was one of the nicest and most honorable of men. but he replaced the old republic with a national security state, with a cold war, as charles beard the historian said we are now set for perpetual war for perpetual peace and we've had 50 years of that. >> brown: at times, his quips offended, as here on oklahoma city bomber timothy mcveigh. >> he was trying to balance what he considered one terrible act by a government that he disliked, and he had been a highly decorated veteran in the gulf war, and this was sending

club for growth and columnist and abc news commentator will and "national review" founded by william buckley, jr. ted cruz was backed by establishment in its own right. >> thanks for standing up for texas. thanks for standing up for texas. we got beat up a little bit but we never gave up. we can stand tall in knowing that we never compromised any of our values. [applause] >> reporter: cruz will compete in november against democratic former state senator, paul sadler. jenna. jenna: james rosen in d.c., thank you. rick: turning our attention overseas now and syrian warplanes are firing on opposition fighters in the city of aleppo. that is according to observers working for the u.n. rebels are claiming major wins there as president assad makes a new push to rally his government troops in the bloody battle for the nation's largest city. world affairs contributor dominic di-natale has the latest from the region jerusalem. dominic. >> reporter: rick, this is the first time we've hadn't confirmation from the ground that indeed jet fighters and attack helicopters are being used against the rebels th

critic was not a bleeding heart liberal but attrition leader of the conservative movement, william f. buckley jr.. he was so appalled by her rejection of christian morality that he assigned whitaker chambers to write a scathing review of "atlas shrugged" for the national review, quote, sins a great many of us dislike what miss rand dislikes, quite as part of the as she does many are inclined to take her at her words said chambers. in fact he said her vision was the plan repulsive. from any page of "atlas shrugged" chambers said a voice can be heard from painful necessity commanding to a gas chamber go. a story of conflict in which it is easy to hate both sides to secure attention and when it has a. harangues them page after page said the new york times book review critic brendel hicks. despite the scathing reviews "atlas shrugged" sold in the millions and remains a best-seller to this day. biggest sale recently was 2009. it sold something like half a million copies. two major novels are thematically very different. "the fountainhead" in 1943 made her a success hardly a word about capitalism.

william f. buckley arguing that african-americans in the south don't even want to vote much less should be granted to vote. so that's a very, very long tradition of questioning african-american citizenship. the highest right of any citizen, be he or she white or black or yellow, red, whatever, is to serve as president. president is a different sort of power. when you're president, you're head of the american military. you're head of enforcement in this country. it's the highest aspect. and the notion that given our particular history that we would have a black president and there would be no blowback, we would take this in stride that it would end in 2008, is leudicrol, and i didn't realize how ludicrous myself until i got into the piece. >> and people wished for that. >> we all wished for it. and i feel that's been one of the blockages. every time people bring up race, it's almost treated in the political session as a betrayal of the last election. and one of the things you've wrote a lot about, you do

chicago, which turned into rioting in the streets, gore vidal debated conservative republican william f. buckleyheight of the vietnam war on abc news. if you think debates get rough on cable news, wait until you hear these two distinguished gentleman throwing around terms like "crypto-nazi" and "queer." >> people in the united states happen to believe that the united states policy is wrong in vietnam and that the vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their own country in their own way politically. this happens to be pretty much the opinion of western europe and other parts of the world. it is a novelty in chicago, and that is too bad. but i assume that the point of the american democracy is something you can express any point of view you want. >> shut up for a minute. some people are neo nazi and they were well treated by people who ost tracize them. >> as far as i'm concern, the only crypto-nazi i can think of is yourself. >> listen, stop calling me a crypto-nazi. you stay plastered. >> gentleman, let's -- >> go back to his pornography and stop making any allusions of nazi infantry in the

conservative, period, is from the mission statement from the "national review" magazine, which william f. buckleye said the national review would stand athwart history yelling, stop! well, if being conservative means you're standing athwart history yelling stop, stop with the progress, keep things as they are, conserve what exists and fight efforts to change things. if that's what a conservative is, what's a fiscal conservative? the way we use fiscal conservative, it's supposed to be not somebody opposed to progress whole scale, but somebody opposed to profligacy. that's the label that everybody is affixing to paul ryan. saying his fiscal conservatism is why he was chosen for vice president and why we should expect him to be around for a long while. if we really are going to be stuck with paul ryan as the face of republicanism for a long time, and if the term "fiscal conservative" is supposed to mean anything, we should get clear there may be a lot of great stuff to say about this guy, but fiscally conservative is not one of the things you really can say about him. during the bush/cheney area, mr

to conservatives which is precisely that, that i'd like them to return to a time when, say, william f. buckley, jr., who in many ways was the founder of modern conservatism, could write a book called gratitude in which he talked about what we all owe back to the country that has protected and nurtured us. i wonder if bill buckley, the great conservative, would lose the primary these days if you tried to run on his book gratitude but it's also an argument to all of us. there had been moments when liberals put such heavy emphasis on individual rights that we -- and i think of myself as a liberal -- that we forgot about importance of building community at the local level, at least as much as at the national level. and so i think if we came to think of ourselves as... all of us in some ways divided by these twin loves, it might be a little easier to talk to each other. i don't have any... i'm under no illusions that a book by a lumnist would bring some revolution but i would like people to sort of sit back and say, you know, i'm not a complete individualistic or i'm not a complete community-person

vidal called william f. buckley jr.ppearance during the 1968 democratic national convention. it was crypto-nazi, not crypto-fascist." they both sound insulting. here's more. "it also described incorrectly mr. vidal's connection with al gore. although mr. vidal frequently referred jokingly to mr. gore as his cousin, they were not related." i thought everybody knew that. and finally, "and mr. vidal's relationship with his longtime companion was also described incorrectly. according to his memoir, they had sex the night they met but did not sleep together after they began living together. it was not true that they never had sex." so they only did it, well, you get the point. "new york times" certainly determined to correct the record. that's it for this edition of "reliable sources." i'm howard kurtz. if you miss a program, go to itunes eve