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re: #295 Blind Frog Belly White

Tom’s problem here is not recognizing that ‘Conservative Intellectual’ was always an oxymoron.

As an earnest young conservative, I was dazzled by Buckley’s erudition and eloquence——— until I went to Cornell and found out how erudition and eloquence were supposed to work. There are many terms for Buckley’s technique, but “baffle ‘em with bullshit” is my choice.