{"id":18262,"date":"2021-07-23T05:21:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18262"},"modified":"2021-07-23T05:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:21:16","slug":"firing-line-friday-the-question-of-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/07\/23\/firing-line-friday-the-question-of-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: The Question of South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With the recent chaos in South Africa, let us look back on a very different South Africa as <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussed<\/a> by William F. Buckley, Jr. and a very, very defensive Prime Minister B. J. (Balthazar Johannes) Vorster to see what has changed, and what hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVWh01yCoIQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: The Question of South Africa\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"With the recent chaos in South Africa, let us look back on a very different South Africa as discussed by William F. 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