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A Word on Christopher Buckley
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Chris is up with a post at The Daily Beast, "Sorry, Dad, I Was Fired." I d like to clarify this firing business. Over the weekend, Chris wrote us a jaunty e-mail with the subject line "A Sincere Offer," in which he offered to resign his column on NR's back page and said that if we accepted, there "would be no hard feelings, only warmest regards and understanding." We took the offer sincerely. Chris had done us the favor of writing the column beginning seven issues ago on a "trial basis" (his words), while our regular back-page columnist, Mark Steyn, was on hiatus. Now, ...
Remainders: 21 days
Ben Smith's Blog —
That 'Chicago' ad — which Steve Schmidt said would air across the country — only aired 11 times.
Sorry, Dad: Christopher Buckley resigns from the National Review.
Mike Thomas says Charlie Crist's finely tuned political barometer indicates that McCain will lose.
A CBS producer sneaks anti-Fox riffs into his sitcom.
Sargent points out that Palin mistakenly waged culture war on her supporters.
A guy involved in part of McCain's transition (I don't think he's the "chief") is tied to Saddam.
Over 40 percent of Americans can't name Obama's religion, ...
Christopher Buckley Resigns From National Review After Obama Endorsement
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Looks like Tina Brown's The Daily Beast may have lucked into the chance to grab up some major full-time talent, as conservative author Christopher Buckley has left the National Review in the wake of his publishing an endorsement of Barack Obama on the Beast. Apparently, despite the pains Buckley took to disambiguate his private endorsement from the Review, his momentary wander off the reservation brought the same sort of hailstorm of oppobrium earned by Kathleen Parker when she criticized GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Buckley took it upon himself to offer his resignation. The way he describes it, it looks like this ...
Christopher Buckley Resigns From National Review After Obama Endorsement
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Looks like Tina Brown's The Daily Beast may have lucked into the chance to grab up some major full-time talent, as conservative author Christopher Buckley has left the National Review in the wake of his publishing an endorsement of Barack Obama on the Beast. Apparently, despite the pains Buckley took to disambiguate his private endorsement from the Review, his momentary wander off the reservation brought the same sort of hailstorm of oppobrium earned by Kathleen Parker when she criticized GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Buckley took it upon himself to offer his resignation. The way he describes it, it looks like this ...
The Liberal Media's Conservatives
Ross Douthat —
Various folks have already gone round on this subject, but I think it's worth saying something further about the way figures like Mark Levin, Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson and others have responded to those right-of-center pundits who have harshly criticized the McCain-Palin ticket and/or the GOP in general lately. I think this Hanson line is worth quoting: ... with Obama now with an 6-8 point lead, some in the DC/NY corridor these
last three weeks figure it's time now to jump on, or at least sort of
jump, since the train they think is leaving the station and there might
be still be some space at the ...
Chris Who?
If I Ran the Zoo —
... Chris is up with a post at The Daily Beast, "Sorry, Dad, I Was Fired." I’d like to clarify this “firing” business. Over the weekend, Chris wrote us a jaunty e-mail with the subject line "A Sincere Offer," in which he offered to resign his column on NR's back page and said that if we accepted, there "would be no hard feelings, only warmest regards and understanding." We took the offer sincerely. Chris had done us the favor of writing the column beginning seven issues ago on a "trial basis" (his words), while our regular back-page columnist, Mark Steyn, was on hiatus. Now, Mark is ...
William F. Buckley's son leaves National Review after endorsing Obama
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
From Christopher Buckley: I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded must now distance itself from me. But then, conservatives have always had a bit of trouble with the concept of diversity. The GOP likes to say it’s a big-tent. Looks more like a yurt to me. While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster ...
Buckley Out At National Review
Hit & Run —
Christopher Buckley, that is, son of the magazine's founder William F. Buckley. For the sin of endorsing Obama. He explains what led to his decision to resign, and their eagerness to accept: I had gone out of my way...to say that I was not [endorsing Obama] in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page column, because of the experience of my colleague, the lovely Kathleen Parker. Kathleen had written in NRO that she felt Sarah Palin was an embarrassment. (Hardly an alarmist view.) This brought 12,000 livid emails, among them a real charmer suggesting that Kathleen’s mother ought to have aborted her and tossed the fetus ...
Whither Wingnuttery? (Or: Can there be a decent Right?)
The Poor Man Institute —
Laura Rozen muses:
I know some see this election as representing the shift into a new era of Democratic ascendance. My own unacademic sense is that the right won’t be out of power very long, that human nature itself will make an opposition party viable sooner than many think. The economy will hopefully recover in a year or two. ...
In the wake of his Obama endorsement, Christopher Buckley exits National Review, and the right-wing blood-letting is on
DownWithTyranny! —
“You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.” -- the late William F. Buckley Jr., as recalled by his son Christopher last week in his endorsement of Barack Obama "The only thing the Right can’t quite decide is whether I should be boiled in oil or just put up against the wall and shot. Lethal injection would be too painless. . . . "I retain the fondest feelings for the magazine that my father founded, but I will admit to a certain sadness that an act of publishing a reasoned argument for the opposition should result in acrimony and disavowal. . . . "I no longer have any clear idea ...
Christopher Buckley Tossed from Dad’s Magazine
Firedoglake —
No room for thinking here
NRO: More Buckley than Buckley
The National Review accepted the resignation of columnist Christopher Buckley last week, shortly after the humorist and editor -- son of the conservative biweekly's late founder, William F. Buckley Jr. -- endorsed Democratic presidential ...
Peggy Noonan finally caught the "Stop Sarah Palin" virus
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily —
Peggy Noonan was caught back in August saying that Sarah Palin was a cynical choice for a running mate. Not only did she say off-the-record but while the audiotape was still rolling that Palin was not fit to lead, she also said the Republicans just blew it. Watch it :
Well, she's putting her nail on that McCain-Palin campaign coffin and it's worth a read from top to bottom. I am particularly impressed by her saying what I've been thinking for months about Palin : She is an ambitious woman, that's for sure, but only for her own sake.
We know nothing about her core values, about what exactly she ...
