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The Sins of the Father
Opinionator — ... , Tina Brown’s new online magazine, in a column titled “Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama,” Christopher Buckley writes about the repercussions of his decision in a new column, “ Sorry, Dad, I Was Sacked. ” “Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands,” Buckley writes. “So the next morning, I thought the only decent thing to do would be to offer to resign my column there. This offer was accepted – rather briskly! — by Rich Lowry, [National Review’s] editor, and its publisher, the superb and ...

Buckley Resigns National Review Column Over Obama Endorsement
News — ... after announcing that he planned to vote for Barack Obama. After writing in the web startup "The Daily Beast" that he would vote for Obama, scores of letters poured into National Review, where Buckley writes a pack-page column, criticizing the libertarian writer for his endorsement, prompting his resignation offer to the magazine's editors. "Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands," Buckley wrote in a followup post for the site. He said he offered his resignation the following morning, ...

Buckley leaves National Review over Obama
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Christopher Buckley, who last week endorsed Obama, has now resigned from the National Review -- the conservative magazine founded over a half-century ago by his father, the late, great William F. Buckley. ...

Quote of the Day
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — ... In a piece for the Daily Beast, Buckley explains how he was fired from the National Review, the magazine his father founded, for endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president. ...

Buckley’s apostasy - Pick your poison
Roger L. Simon — ... Being an apostate myself, I read with interest Chris Buckley’s defense of his apostasy in The Daily Beast today. After having come out in favor of Obama, the esteemed son of the esteemed William F. Buckley  has been “sacked” (in Chris’ words) by his father’s magazine the National Review. ...

Christopher Buckley quits National Review over Obama endorsement
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... It’s hard to second-guess Lowry and Fowler without knowing how much fallout NR had absorbed from Buckley’s endorsement, but instinctively I hate this . It’d be one thing if his politics had changed, but they haven’t. Or so he says. From the ...

Christopher Buckley, Meet the Conservative Mob
The Stump — ... to The Daily Beast so as not to offend his National Review readers? Well, no such luck. It looks like the aggrieved readers got to him anyway. Buckley writes about his abrupt departure from the magazine in his latest Daily Beast column. ...

Matt Lewis: Christopher Buckley Bows Out
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... "Tuesday in a phone interview with the Austin American-Statesman he revealed another surprise: After NR readers raised holy heck over his perceived betrayal of the right, he offered to resign his column - and it was accepted." According to 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."

NR vs ... Buckley?
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... of Obama in the Daily Beast. Today, Buckley writes : Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands. So the next morning, I thought the only decent thing to do would be to offer to resign my column there. This offer was accepted--rather briskly!--by Rich Lowry, NR’s editor, and its publisher, the superb and able and fine Jack Fowler. 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 ...

Christopher Buckley Leaves National Review After Firestorm Over Obama Endorsement
The Moderate Voice — ... Christopher Buckley, son of conservative icon and National Review founder William F. Buckley, has left the magazine his father founded following a firestorm after he endorsed Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama instead of Republican Sen. John McCain. ...

Chris Buckley 'fatwahed' by conservatives
The Swamp — ... has been dropped by the National Review, the magazine his father founded, after writing this week that he is supporting Barack Obama. Buckley posted his endorsement of Obama on The Daily Beast, the Huffington Post doppleganger started by former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown, earlier this week. He was then, he says, bombarded by email accusing of him of betraying the conservative movement. Writes Buckley in another Beast post Tuesday: As for the mail flooding into National Review ...

Remainders: Three weeks
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Bob Barr campaigns in Virginia. Mark Penn says change is coming. McCain's Wall Street donors resent the populism. Christopher Buckley breaks with National Review. Lowry clarifies. Ben sketches the outline of the voting rights debate that will clog the airwaves for the next few weeks. Jill Biden gets the Vogue treatment. All the pandering has made Chadwick Matlin dizzy. Terry Eastland worries about Obama's judicial appointments. Science funding ...

A Conservative Profile in Courage
TPMCafe — ... Even though I always thought that William F. Buckley, Jr. had a first-class temperament but a second-class intellect, and even though I know little of what his son Christopher has accomplished and/or written over the years at National Review, the magazine his father founded, I was somewhat surprised to learn of the reaction he got from its readers (and its editor, Rich Lowry) yesterday, after endorsing Obama on his website. ...

Buckley Bails on Pop’s Rag
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Christopher Buckley and the sad goodbye
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley son has resigned from National Review after a ruckus he caused by endorsing Obama. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I am not. William F. Buckley Jr. probably did more to bring me into the conservative movement than any other writer out there. I started reading National Review when I was 21, over 25 years ago. Buckley made me think. He made look at personal responsibility and the role of government as my politically active Democratic family never had. William F. Buckley literally changed my life. He made me want more ...

Deadheads For Obama
Newshoggers.com — ... By Cernig By Cernig We're all DFH's now. But some of us always were. The surviving members of Grateful Dead performed together Monday night at Penn State University in support of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, reports the Associated Press. Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart jammed together for the first time since their reunion tour in 2004. ... "I believe him enough to be able to get up in front of my constituency, these people out there," Hart said, ...

Buckley In His Own Words
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Christopher Buckley on leaving his father's publication: 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 boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo ...

Right-Wing Pundit Armageddon!
Ross Douthat — ... in praise of Christopher Buckley, saint and holy martyr - almost incline me to switch over to the "don't let the door hit you on your way out" side of the argument, if only because Buckley's ...

Moderate Republicans, Reformist Conservatives, and Other Animals
Ross Douthat — ... any responsibility for the nasty consequences of a war that he loudly supported), among others. Others have endorsed him  for somewhat more principled reasons: If you have the politics of, say, a Colin Powell or a William Weld or a Christopher Hitchens, there's a case to be made that you basically belong in today's Democratic Party anyway. And others still have endorsed him for reasons too tangled, I think, to be applicable to anyone who wasn't born and raised a Buckley. ...

Conservatives Need a Bailout
Jon Swift — ... and the son of the magazine’s founder, Christopher Buckley, have apparently not been enough to stave off financial disaster. To stay alive, The National Review may have to narrow its definition of acceptable conservative thought even further and encourage more of its writers to quit. If readers do not ...

Conservatives Need a Bailout
Shakesville — ... and the son of the magazine’s founder, Christopher Buckley, have apparently not been enough to stave off financial disaster. To stay alive, The National Review may have to ...