"Best of Enemies" is a documentary featuring the hyperverbal battled between two superlative brains that hated each other. This was a 1968 product of ABC featuring 10 television debates between Gore Vidal (Myra Breckinridge) and William F. Buckley during the Republican and Democratic conventions. I vividly recall these debates as many of you may too.

Buckley could hardly bring himself to pronounced the title of Vidal's polysexual book Myra Breckenridge while Vidal referred to Buckley's "Latinate style" with a further ad lib of Buckley being the "Marie Antoinette of the right wing".

The ad hominem attacks escalated to a point where Vidal was calling Buckley a "crypto-Nazi" and Buckley responding "Now listen you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in the (gd) face and you will stay plastered". Review by Joe Morgenstern 7/31/15


Now What Do You Suppose Would Happen Today In This Politically Correct, Trigger Warning Micro Aggressions Society With An Open Debate Such As This?

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