In an excruciatingly lengthy piece from 2008, Gore Vidal, famous for writing liberal polemics and throwing rhetorical bombs, had to insult the father of the modern conservative movement one last time. The two were famously enemies from the time that ABC pitted them against each other at the DNC convention in 1968. Their public feud led to lawsuits and a mutual disdain for one another. Vidal even criticized Buckley for taking pity on a friend who had been caught up in a sex scandal, which moved Buckley to loan him money for his debts; Vidal implied that it was gross hypocrisy on the late Buckley’s part and wrote, “RIP WFB — in hell.” Gawker, not to be outdone, recounted the story with the headline, “Gore Vidal Does Happy Little Jig Upon William F. Buckley’s Grave.”
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