Sam Tannenhaus

National Review hated Israel early on.

And your viewers and listeners should know this.

I've got it in the book.

National Review referred to Israel in 1956 as, quote, the first modern racist nation, unquote.

Catholicism was one aspect.

Another came from a writer that people knew only as a pro-McCarthy, anti-communist named Frida Utley.

And she had covered the Middle East and she said something.

to Buckley, I'm going to write a piece that defends the group nobody else is looking at.

There are these displaced Palestinians there and they have a case to make.

And she wrote a book about it.

And there was one columnist in Washington, of all people, Mary McGrory, the liberal, picked up on it.

Or it was Dorothy Thompson, that's who it was, another great liberal columnist, picked up on it.

That's this part of the Algonquin crowd.

Yeah, and she said...

She said, Frida Utley is making a case here.

No one's paying attention to the Palestinians.

So Buckley, she sends the story to Buckley.

And Buckley says, what do we do with it?

And he says, I know what we'll do.

We'll just invent a new column.