Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The Parting of WFB's "Offspring."
So, there were ramifications from Chris Buckley's decision to endorse Barack Obama.
He apparently is no longer writing for the magazine his father founded:
And so it goes.
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He apparently is no longer writing for the magazine his father founded:
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.
“It upset a great number of people - a huge number of canceled subscriptions, apostasy, the whole thing,” he said from Washington.
When he offered his resignation to the magazine’s editors, “I was sort of hoping for, ‘Well, let’s hink about it,’ ” Buckley said. “But to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.”
And so it goes.
Labels: Christopher Buckley, National Review, William F. Buckley
