Buckley’s Son Leaves National Review (Good Riddance)

New York Times ^ | October 14, 2008, | Patricia Cohen

[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.

[silverleaf]

It would certainly suggest that the great Buckley intellect skipped a generation.

[nickcarraway]

When was the last article Buckley article on National Review? I check their web site all the time, and I had no idea he was affiliated with them.

[fullchroma]

That his offer to resign was “briskly accepted” makes me very happy.

[what's up]

On Monday, the writer Christopher Hitchens also endorsed the Democratic ticket

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.

[Cecily]

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).

[Ann Archy]

Just a question.....is he married? Has he ever been married?? Anyone know??

[KarlInOhio]

That his offer to resign was “briskly accepted” makes me very happy.

I just wish he did it in person so he could go through the rest of the day with a footprint on his butt.

[JimSEA]

He gets his only “gravitas” from sharing his Fathers last name. Otherwise this former White House speech writer is a rather effete writer of meaningless fluff. IMHO

[Vision]

Buckley's article was the most naraccistic piece of professional commentary I've ever read. Truly disgusting. Glad he's gone.

[Obadiah]

Not yet, but I’m pretty sure she is quite smitten by his eloquence and his ability to communicate via TelePromter.

[beandog]

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.

[gopsue]

Chris Buckley has an article in the October 20, 2008 issue of NR.

[Obadiah]

Let’s see...Andrew Sullivan, David Brock, and now Chris Buckley.

[penelopesire]

It is rather sad.

[beandog]

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.

[RichInOC]

Is he quitting the ownership trust also? For what I hope is an obvious reason, I would hope that he is.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I check their web site all the time, and I had no idea he was affiliated with them.

I don't know that he was ever on the website. He had a column on the last page of the magazine.

[Madame Dufarge]

He was "fatwahed"?

Really, what a drama queen.

St. Christopher, the Charred.

[Heart of Georgia]

He doesn’t like Sarah and thinks Mac is an idiot for picking her.

[Ann Archy]

Oh Geesh....I knew he had to be IMMORAL....I thought maybe he was gay.