What happens when you step out of line.
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.
Mr. Buckley said he had “been effectively fatwahed by the conservative movement” after endorsing Barack Obama in a blog posting on the DailyBeast.com; since then, he said he has been blanketed with hate mail at the blog and at the National Review, where he has written a column.
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…
Buckley had to have known this was coming: only weeks earlier the National Review’s Kathleen Parker received over 12,000 emails, most of a threatening, violent nature, after she told the truth about Palin.
You can watch her talk about that experience with Stephen Colbert here.
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October 14, 2008 at 5:58 pm |
He’s not the only one. Check out my most recent blog entry. There’s a WHOLE heap of them jumping ship. I think more are on their way there.
Here’s hoping the independent voter becomes a powerful enough demographic to shake things up.
One Love,
–Reverend Manny