I can imagine what it would look like if William F. Buckley Jr. interviewed President Trump. Buckley would normally ask a question and then sit back....so to speak....and listen to the answer. He would then look up....maybe jab the air with his tongue a few times.....then slowly and deliberately respond. Now with President Trump he would get a quick and very short answer...maybe....followed by three to five addendums straying off the subject.....to confuse the situation. Buckley might pick one of those subjects and repeat his ritual which would be answered with another three to five additional topics from the President meant to bolster his case by changing the subject. So Buckley would have six to ten haphazard sound-bite responses to deal with.
I don't think that Buckley would put up with it. He wouldn't play the game and stab at the President's comments as Leslie Stahl did....(a sorry imitation of a journalist by the way.) I believe that he would continue the conversation....but only with the listening audience. He would dissect President Trump's camouflage and speak to the camera....if the President wanted to come along....fine....if not....that would be fine also. Unfortunately few of us would be able to do this....for it would take tremendous powers of concentration that few people have on a level as did William F. Buckley Jr.
Conversation is all but gone in America. Spin hammered down some nails....sound-bites some more....talking points almost finishing it up....the 'Tweet' was probably the final nail in the coffin....and political campaign ads then threw up all over the box. Conversation is just a board game today. All that's missing is a dial to spin and a thirty second sand timer. It's almost as if God came down and confused language just as He did at Babel. We had no choice but split off into two groups....and that's exactly what happened. If my theory is correct....or even near correct....then all this talk about America coming together is a waste of time. When two groups of people process information in totally different ways then it's not unusual that they come up with totally different conclusions.
Only God can bring us back on the same wavelength again....but alas....we are the same as the rebellious Israelites whom God spoke to through Zechariah. Oh they talked a good game....as we do....'God bless America'....but God challenged them with...."When you fasted and mourned.....these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?" But they "refused to pay attention"....and...."stopped their ears from hearing......and made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts."
I don't think that Buckley would put up with it. He wouldn't play the game and stab at the President's comments as Leslie Stahl did....(a sorry imitation of a journalist by the way.) I believe that he would continue the conversation....but only with the listening audience. He would dissect President Trump's camouflage and speak to the camera....if the President wanted to come along....fine....if not....that would be fine also. Unfortunately few of us would be able to do this....for it would take tremendous powers of concentration that few people have on a level as did William F. Buckley Jr.
Conversation is all but gone in America. Spin hammered down some nails....sound-bites some more....talking points almost finishing it up....the 'Tweet' was probably the final nail in the coffin....and political campaign ads then threw up all over the box. Conversation is just a board game today. All that's missing is a dial to spin and a thirty second sand timer. It's almost as if God came down and confused language just as He did at Babel. We had no choice but split off into two groups....and that's exactly what happened. If my theory is correct....or even near correct....then all this talk about America coming together is a waste of time. When two groups of people process information in totally different ways then it's not unusual that they come up with totally different conclusions.
Only God can bring us back on the same wavelength again....but alas....we are the same as the rebellious Israelites whom God spoke to through Zechariah. Oh they talked a good game....as we do....'God bless America'....but God challenged them with...."When you fasted and mourned.....these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?" But they "refused to pay attention"....and...."stopped their ears from hearing......and made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts."
