Trial by Firing Line

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

You didn't have to agree with William F. Buckley to marvel at his intellect, his swiftness, and his wit. Starting in 1966, Buckley got to show off his skills every week on Firing Line, his pioneering television show devoted to debate. Heather Hendershot watched nearly 1,500 episodes of the show, and though she still doesn't agree with Buckley, she admires how he created a place for high-minded argument. Hendershot is the author of Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line. For the Spiel, is the circus shutting down or will confirmation hearings be going for a bit longer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Twinsday, January 18, 2017 from Slich, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca, a little upset.
0:14.8	Was it because President Obama gave his last press conference today?
0:19.1	We'll have a whole bunch of mixed up presence at some point that nobody really knows what
0:24.4	to call.
0:26.2	No true.
0:27.2	And then there was yesterday when the incoming Secretary of Education announced her
0:31.9	bare policy.
0:33.6	You can't say definitively today that guns shouldn't be in schools.
0:37.8	Well I will refer back to Senator Enzi and the school that he was talking about in
0:43.7	Wapiti, Wyoming.
0:45.1	I think probably there, I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school to protect
0:51.5	from potential grislies.
0:53.6	But those things are not why I'm upset.
0:55.9	I'm upset because the circus is leaving town permanently after 146 years.
1:00.9	The wringling brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus has announced that it's pulling
1:05.8	up stakes, folding the tent, no longer performing without a net.
1:10.0	The circus has given us so much.
1:12.0	And when I attended a circus, as I have many times, I'd always get transported back to
1:17.1	a place of blunter pleasures and un-conflicted delights.
1:21.1	Yes, I know the treatment of animals was harsh.
1:25.0	So I think the circus should adapt wringling phased out the elephant program.
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