{"id":1013,"date":"2008-02-27T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2008-02-27T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T17:17:11","slug":"william-f-buckley-joins-dead-homophobe-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/02\/27\/william-f-buckley-joins-dead-homophobe-club\/","title":{"rendered":"William Francis Buckley, Jr. Finally Joins Dead Homophobes Club &#8211; November 24, 1925 &#8211; February 27, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/buckley.jpg?resize=338%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"338\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Back in the beginning of the AIDS crisis, Buckley suggested all HIV+ Americans get visibly tattooed to warn and protect the public. Very soon after this Machiavellian suggestion, Buckley had a biopsy sent to a laboratory where an AIDS activist from ACT-UP was a technician. When becoming aware it was Buckley&#8217;s biopsy, the diagnosis of &#8220;Kaposi Sarcoma&#8221; was sent out. To Buckley&#8217;s horror, that he may have contracted an AIDS related cancer, he was re-biopsied and coincidentally, the same lab tech received the specimen and the same diagnosis was sent. Biopsy Terrorism. Ah. Sweet Revenge. Good riddance to bad karma.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nomoremister.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/abc-whitewashes-buckley-neo-nazis-dont.html\" target=\"_blank\">READ No More Mr. Nice Blog&#8217;s posting!<\/a><br \/>\nABC Whitewashes Buckley &#8211; Neo-Nazis Don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweetness-light.com\/archive\/lofty-william-f-buckley-called-gore-vidal-queer\" target=\"_blank\">Buckley Calls Gore Vidal A &#8220;Queer&#8221; on Live TV 1968<\/a> &#8211; <em>But during one of the TV debates at the 1968 Democrat Convention between the highly erudite William F. Buckley, Jr. and the celebrated novelist Gore Vidal, Buckley called Gore a \u201cgoddamn queer\u201d and threatened to beat him up. &#8211; Sweetness &amp; Light<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">&#8220;Now listen, you queer- stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I&#8217;ll sock you in your goddamn face and you&#8217;ll stay plastered.&#8221;\u2014To <strong>Gore Vidal<\/strong>, 1968\u00a0 Ooooh! I&#8217;m sure Gore was just shakin&#8217; in his go-go boots!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dcrepublican.com\/2008\/02\/27\/leftist-blog-happy-about-death-of-william-buckley\/\" target=\"_blank\">DC Republican calls us a &#8220;leftist blog.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ RADAR&#8217;S <a href=\"http:\/\/radaronline.com\/exclusives\/2008\/02\/william-f-buckley-dead-remembered.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY&#8217;S GREATEST HITS<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the beginning of the AIDS crisis, Buckley suggested all HIV+ Americans get visibly tattooed to warn and protect the public. Very soon after this Machiavellian suggestion, Buckley had a biopsy sent to a laboratory where an AIDS activist from ACT-UP was a technician. When becoming aware it was Buckley&#8217;s biopsy, the diagnosis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-dead-homophobes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-gl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}