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Article: National Review Boots Buckley Son For Obama Boost
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 15, 2008
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Christopher Buckley knew he was venturing into treacherous
territory when he endorsed Barack Obama: "It's a good thing my dear
old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance,"
he wrote.
The penalty turned out to be more severe. William F. Buckley
Jr.'s son said yesterday that he had lost his back-page column in
National Review, the conservative bible founded by his father.
"Within hours, poor NR was being swamped with furious mail,
'Cancel my subscription, this is betrayal, Judas, Benedict Arnold,'
" Buckley, 56, said in an interview. "I thought the decent thing to
do would be to offer to resign the column. Well, they accepted it."
Buckley can't be completely disappeared; ...