Buckley Fired for endorsing Obama
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Buckley Fired for endorsing Obama
| Tue, 10-14-2008 - 5:30pm |
Your thoughts? http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/10/a-buckley-endorses-obama/
Personally I think that puts National Review SOLIDLY in the not credible in the least category. ;o) However what do you think about him getting fired from his own late father's website for simply endorsing "the other guy" and what do you think about his endorsement?

















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Oh brother.. I got my info from the man himself on a tv interview with him. NR has no cred anyway so no loss there. If you were referring to me with your rude comment then whatever.. you don't have to read anything i post.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-14/sorry-dad-i-was-fired
"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."
The article above was posted AFTER my post. Read the whole article.. even if he wasn't fired he was just as good as fired.
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I think he has a good case for "forced resignation," which is tantamount to being fired.
But I imagine Christopher Buckley is so rich following the passing of the late, great William F., that he gets to indulge in such dramatic gestures by tendering his resignation over something so completely innocuous and then claiming not to have needed his column in the N.R. because he's just a "hack-writer."
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