Christopher Buckley is a Buckley, but he is also his own man.
He just happens to believe that Barack Obama is the best man for the job of the president of the United States.
Christopher's left leaning is not a secret to the readers of the National Review. He decided to write a fateful post on ol' Tina Brown's blog The Daily Beast on the tenth of this month detailing the reasons that he is voting for Barack Obama. You can read his blog post here
He writes in his latest blog in The Daily Beast, "I seem to have picked an apt title for my Daily Beast column, or blog, or whatever it’s called: “What Fresh Hell.” My last posting (if that’s what it’s called) in which I endorsed Obama, has brought about a very heaping helping of fresh hell. In fact, I think it could accurately be called a tsunami."
"As for the mail flooding into National Review Online—that’s been running about, oh, 700-to-1 against. In fact, 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 had gone out of my way in my Beast endorsement to say that I was not doing it 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 into a dumpster. I didn’t want to put NR in an awkward position."
"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 the opposition should result in acrimony and disavowal."
"So, 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."
Christopher was forced to resign from the magazine that his father started today by complaints from hundreds if not thousands of readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions and to never buy the magazine again.
The right wing is acting like a real fascist entity by accepting his resignation that was sort of pro forma... he literally had NO idea that Rich Lowry and Jack Fowler would accept it wholeheartedly.
This is fucking sad. :frown1:
He just happens to believe that Barack Obama is the best man for the job of the president of the United States.
Christopher's left leaning is not a secret to the readers of the National Review. He decided to write a fateful post on ol' Tina Brown's blog The Daily Beast on the tenth of this month detailing the reasons that he is voting for Barack Obama. You can read his blog post here
He writes in his latest blog in The Daily Beast, "I seem to have picked an apt title for my Daily Beast column, or blog, or whatever it’s called: “What Fresh Hell.” My last posting (if that’s what it’s called) in which I endorsed Obama, has brought about a very heaping helping of fresh hell. In fact, I think it could accurately be called a tsunami."
"As for the mail flooding into National Review Online—that’s been running about, oh, 700-to-1 against. In fact, 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 had gone out of my way in my Beast endorsement to say that I was not doing it 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 into a dumpster. I didn’t want to put NR in an awkward position."
"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 the opposition should result in acrimony and disavowal."
"So, 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."
Christopher was forced to resign from the magazine that his father started today by complaints from hundreds if not thousands of readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions and to never buy the magazine again.
The right wing is acting like a real fascist entity by accepting his resignation that was sort of pro forma... he literally had NO idea that Rich Lowry and Jack Fowler would accept it wholeheartedly.
This is fucking sad. :frown1:
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