Sara S
10-16-2008, 06:13 PM
Not my dad's GOP: Buckley leaves National Review
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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A week after endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president, Christopher Buckley, a writer and son of William F. Buckley Jr., is leaving National Review, the conservative magazine founded by his father more than 50 years ago.
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<!--/articlebox --> "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 blog posted Tuesday on www.thedailybeast.com (https://www.thedailybeast.com/), the online broadsheet founded by Tina Brown.
"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."
Buckley, a best-selling novelist who had been a featured columnist at the National Review, infuriated conservatives last week by declaring himself "the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon."
He criticized Republican John McCain as "irascible and snarly" and credited Obama with having "a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect."
"It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance," he wrote for The Daily Beast.
(William F. Buckley Jr., a founder of the modern conservative movement, and his longtime wife, Pat, both died within the past two years.)
On his blog posting Tuesday, Christopher Buckley — whose books include "Thank You for Smoking" and the recent "Supreme Courtship" — said he had received a great deal of angry e-mails and observed that "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."
Lowry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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<!-- end types/article/articletools.tmpl --> (10-14) 14:00 PDT New York (AP) --
A week after endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president, Christopher Buckley, a writer and son of William F. Buckley Jr., is leaving National Review, the conservative magazine founded by his father more than 50 years ago.
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<!--/articlebox --> "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 blog posted Tuesday on www.thedailybeast.com (https://www.thedailybeast.com/), the online broadsheet founded by Tina Brown.
"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."
Buckley, a best-selling novelist who had been a featured columnist at the National Review, infuriated conservatives last week by declaring himself "the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon."
He criticized Republican John McCain as "irascible and snarly" and credited Obama with having "a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect."
"It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance," he wrote for The Daily Beast.
(William F. Buckley Jr., a founder of the modern conservative movement, and his longtime wife, Pat, both died within the past two years.)
On his blog posting Tuesday, Christopher Buckley — whose books include "Thank You for Smoking" and the recent "Supreme Courtship" — said he had received a great deal of angry e-mails and observed that "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."
Lowry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.