Buckley Fired for endorsing Obama

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Buckley Fired for endorsing Obama
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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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Registered: 04-11-2003
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 8:54pm
He was NOT fired...this is a blatant lie.
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Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:39pm

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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Tue, 10-14-2008 - 11:18pm
I agree....people are fired but then call it a resignation all the time.

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Tue, 10-14-2008 - 11:25pm
I just don't understand it.
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Registered: 04-11-2003
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 2:44am
Again...he was NOT fired.
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Registered: 04-24-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 7:02am

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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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 7:25am
except that's not what he claimed is it?

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Wed, 10-15-2008 - 7:27am
I agree - he had every right to support Obama, every right to state it and state why.

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Registered: 06-27-2005
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 9:27am
Do people ever claim that they were forced to resign?

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 9:31am
in this particular case it would have worked in his favor to be fired .... it would have been much bigger news for one thing.

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