Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 10/14/2008 11:44:46 AM PDT by publius1
Christopher Buckley, the author and son of the late conservative mainstay William F. Buckley, said in a telephone interview that he has resigned from the National Review, the political journal his father founded in 1955.
As a result, he wrote to Richard Lowry, the editor of the National Review, and its publisher, Jack Fowler, offering to resign, and “this offer was rather briskly accepted,” Mr. Buckley said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Mr. Buckley said he had “been effectively fatwahed by the conservative movement” after endorsing Barack Obama in a blog posting on TheDailyBeast.com; since then, he said he has been blanketed with hate mail at the blog and at the National Review, where he has written a column.
Mr. Buckley said he did not understand the sense of betrayal that some of his conservative colleagues felt, but said that the fury and ugly comments his endorsement generated is “part of the calcification of modern discourse. It’s so angry.” Quoting Ronald Reagan, he added, “I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me.”
Mr. Buckley has joined a growing list of conservatives who have either endorsed Mr. Obama or questioned whether McCain now stands any chance of being elected. On Monday, the writer Christopher Hitchens also endorsed the Democratic ticket.
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He was "fatwahed"? He doesn't "understand the sense of betrayal that some of his conservative colleagues felt"? He thinks that the comments he received are part of the calcification of modern discourse. It’s so angry"?
Jeepers.
Some people had thought that he had brains... how is it possible "not to understand" when you quite consciously go out of your way to betray your friends, colleagues, & the movement your father brought to adulthood? I cannot imagine how good he feels being aligned with Christopher Hitchens.
I hope he lives for a long time. I hope that at some point he comes to understand what he has done to himself.
Couldn’t have been brisk enough!
When was Buckley ever a conservative?
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Good...now somebody get his trust fund put in conservatorship before he uses his daddy’s money to start marxist foundations!
GOOD RIDDANCE!
Has Peggy Noonan endorsed Obama?
Amen! I think William F. Buckley must be spinning in his grave.
National Review may not be what it use to be. But it will survive without Chris Buckley -— more a political libertarian by character trait and thus, closer to a liberal. No significant loss.
Chris thinks Obama is a great writer.
Maybe now that Chris is between jobs he could investigate Jack Cashill’s research that suggests Wiliam Ayers wrote Obama’s books.
Peggy Who?
Buh-bye. Enjoy that tall glass of Kool-Aid that you’ve poured for yourself.
See ya, ya little twerp wanna-be. Now I don’t have to cancel my subscription.
Buckley is now “a man without a country.” When a man puts careerism and the embracing of a cult of personality before principle, all he can hope for is that Daddy kept a well-stocked wine cellar in which he can drown his troubles.
At what point did Christopher Hitchens become a conservative? He has allied himself with conservatives on some issues, but he is an aggressive atheist.
It would be quite funny if it turns out that Buckley was really impressed by Ayers, not Obama.
BS. In the past twenty years the Republican Party has been moving to the left and the Democratic Party has been moving to the left. Christopher [now looking for a new last name] just moved to the left faster than the Republicans have and fell into the arms of the 'Rats, who will use him for a night and toss him aside.
Independents and liberal republicans got to pick the GOP nominee, and he’s still not good enough? McCain is the most anti-conservative GOP nominee ever, plus he usually only works with Democrat colleagues in the Senate. But he’s still not good enough? McCain considered being the Democrat nominee for VP, and the Democrat presidential nominee wanted him, but it’s still not enough?
It would certainly suggest that the great Buckley intellect skipped a generation.
That his offer to resign was “briskly accepted” makes me very happy.
For years Hitchen claimed to be devoted to the cause of the War on Terror.
His vote for Obama shows he's not devoted to that cause at all.
Now that Mark Steyn is back from his sabbatical, I hope his Happy Warrior column reappears on the last page pronto (C. Buckley has been the place holder there).
Just a question.....is he married? Has he ever been married?? Anyone know??
I just wish he did it in person so he could go through the rest of the day with a footprint on his butt.
Not yet, but I’m pretty sure she is quite smitten by his eloquence and his ability to communicate via TelePromter.
Don’t worry Chris, you can always get a job at the Nation or any of the other various liberal rags. They love lying skunks like you.
Chris Buckley has an article in the October 20, 2008 issue of NR.
Let’s see...Andrew Sullivan, David Brock, and now Chris Buckley.
It is rather sad.
Not only is he married but he cheated on his wife and the women had a baby, which Chris refuses to have anything to do with. Dear old dad also wrote the child out of his will, saying he was dead to him.
Lovely family they are.
Is he quitting the ownership trust also? For what I hope is an obvious reason, I would hope that he is.
I don't know that he was ever on the website. He had a column on the last page of the magazine.
Really, what a drama queen.
St. Christopher, the Charred.
He doesn’t like Sarah and thinks Mac is an idiot for picking her.
Oh Geesh....I knew he had to be IMMORAL....I thought maybe he was gay.
It looks like Iraq is won/AQ is busted, so Hitchens probably figures this isn’t such a pressing issue anymore.
That, or he’s been taken in by Obama’s promises. Obama was smart enough to change his tune since the Democratic primaries. We are realists, we need to see the steak. These writer types tend not to be realists, they are easily swayed by the sizzle.
1. You’re very evil, wondering that about someone like Chris Buckley.
2. I wondered the same thing.
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Has Peggy Noonan endorsed Obama?
I don’t think so but I thought she might be close to doing so after hearing her in a telephone interview on a recent Laura Ingraham show.
He took over the last page for Mark Steyn after Mark went off to fight his free speech trial up in Canada, which was a major step down for NR, IMHO. Hopefully Steyn will come back now.
“Buckley’s article was the most naraccistic piece of professional commentary I’ve ever read.”
When I read it, I kept hearing Thurston Howell’s voice, and the title showed a glib disrespect for his father, IMO:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102328/posts
Hitchens is a liberal, always has been and always will be and he has never betrayed his liberal roots. He was and is a pro-war thinker, but the concept that only conservatives can be pro-war is complete nonsense.
Liberals have supported and created many wars in the past. The Vietnam war for instance, was the conception and creation of liberal minded anti-communist Democrats, not conservatives. Many conservatives supported that war because of it’s communist connection, but they were not liberal minded because of that support.
I fully endorse Hitchens move to support a candidate who like himself, supports anti-god like stances. Hitchen’s is a pro-abortion atheist who supports the war. Obama has done a 360 degree turn on military action and while he may not preach pro-abortion or anti-god like philosophies, he clearly is closer to Hitchens thinking than McCain is.
Buckley on the other hand is obviously delusional. Obama is a left of center liberal through and through. There are no conservatives supporting him. They may call themselves conservative, but if they truly think they are conservative then they must be deluding themselves. You would have to ignore all common sense to support such a left-wing candidate.
WFB's most famous quote is that he would rather be governed by a hundred names picked from the Cambridge phone book than by the faculty of Harvard. This election is the manifestation of that choice, when an ordinary mom, armed only with pluck, courage, great political instincts and faith in God, takes on the anointed Harvard grad whose hosannas are sung by almost every media organ in the country.
We can still poke a stick in the eye of this unworthy heir to WFB if we never give up, and devote ourselves to the cause for the next three weeks. Donate. Volunteer. Persuade. Vote.
Do it for Sarah.
My question exactly.
Hitchens is not a conservative in any American political sense of the word.
True, but Obama's intention to sit down with the President of Iran with no pre-conditions should be a big, red flag.
That and the Dems' propensity to always gut intelligence will put us back years if not further.
But libs are always led by their emotions, not their heads. Including "intellectuals" like Hitchen.
The two facts have no mutual connection.
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