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Buckley Goes Bye-Bye
Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, the late founder of the former conservative flagship publication “The National Review” (recently superseded in popularity among Right Wingers by “Jugs and Ammo Quarterly”), has resigned from his position at the magazine following the publication of a column he penned for The Daily Beast titled “Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama”.
Here’s Buckley, in his own (rather vivid) words, on his decision to walk:
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.
