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Quotes like that make you understand why during the 68 convention, the normally dry and stoic William F Buckley told him "Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I will sock you in your goddamn face, and you will stay plastered."
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And before I'm accused of anti-Semitism or being a crypto-Nazi or whatever, it is some of my Jewish friends who have explained things are a bit more complicated (in fact one of them is an Israeli citizen, or his parents are), although no doubt on this blog that just makes them self-hating or traitors or some such nonsense.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I do recall his 1968 Gore Vidal faux pas rejoinder, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I will sock you in your goddamn face.”
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Then, it tried to portray Cardinal Castrillon as a crypto-Nazi disloyal to the Pope.
Bishop Arborelius on the SSPX and the newest Swedish TV attack on the Pope 2009
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Matters came to a head when the two traded insults on ABC during the 1968 Democratic convention, with Vidal calling Buckley “a crypto-Nazi” and Buckley threatening to “sock” him “in the goddamn face.”
Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Colacello, Bob 2009
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The gang also took aim at the supposedly crypto-Nazi rulers of West Germany, hoping to force a release of its imprisoned compatriots.
A Time of Terror David Gress 2009
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That narrow self would have been sure to state loudly, 'why, it's because your husband is a crypto-Nazi, as you know!'
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Matters came to a head when the two traded insults on ABC during the 1968 Democratic convention, with Vidal calling Buckley “a crypto-Nazi” and Buckley threatening to “sock” him “in the goddamn face.”
Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Bob Colacello 2009
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I don't think Del Close was any kind of crypto-Nazi.
Jeff Dorchen: Holocaust, Shmolocaust - Just Fix the Car, I'll Wait in the Ashtray 2008
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So quipped Gore Vidal, after being told by William F. Buckley, Jr. that if he didn't stop calling the effete reactionary a crypto-Nazi, the "queer" would get socked "in the goddamned face."
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