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Christopher Buckley Obviously Didn’t Inherit His Daddy’s Nads
Posted by: Emperor Misha I in Idiotarians5:26 PM
Which would have been strange anyway, but we digress…
We suppose you already heard that Christopher Buckley, the son of William F. Buckley, recently decided to endorse the Obamessiah, writing an uncharacteristically long and incoherent screed about his decision.
Other than “did somebody switch ol’ Buckley’s kids at the hospital?”, our Imperial reaction was a shrug and a “so what?” Well, that and “this old guy’s a bit of a drama queen, isn’t he?”
It turns out we were right. Again:
Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands.
Er… D’uh? Having a supporter of a full-blown, hard-core Marxist extremist on the payroll just might cause some readers to start wondering about their conservative magazine.
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.
Good for you. Now go away.
I retain the fondest feelings for the magazine that my father founded,
Yes, we know that he founded it. We know that he’s your father. You only allude to it every other paragraph you write. What do you want? A friggin’ marble statue?
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…
Oh give us a break, Princess Twinketoes!
You endorse a Marxist, the readers of the magazine, less than a hundred of them, write an email asking “what’s up wiff dat?”, and now you’re being “fatwah’ed” by the conservative movement and “the magazine that your father founded?” Oh, did we mention that your father founded it? That the founder of National Review was William F. Buckley who, in case somebody doesn’t know, was your father?
You, on your own, decided to offer to resign and you were taken up on the offer and this is a “fatwah?”
What? Did you get your precious little feelings hurt because Mr. Lowry didn’t get down on his knees and, crying like a whupped girl, begged you to stay while tugging on your trousers, licking your shoes and declaring “woe is me! How will this magazine that your father founded survive without you? Don’t do this to me!”
Fucking wanker.
Now go jump in the Obamatank.
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Farkin’ pissant.
Not the Author his Father (of Sainted Memory) was, either.
Oh, ALPHA!
October 14th, 2008 at 5:34 PMUsing
Wish that his father (you know his father right?) would reach down and slap the shit out of that little prissy amoeba.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:38 PMUsing
Someone got too big of a trust fund….
A friend of mine in High School was the only child of a wealthy fruit processor.
His Dad gave him two choices.
1: Do whatever you please, but you pay for it.
2: Serve not less than four years in the Infantry THEN go get a buisness degree and I’ll sign the buisness over to you.
Geo is my age (40) he just retired from the Army (Armor not Infantry) he let his Dad advise him on his finances and put about a third of his pay into various investements for the whole 22 years he was in. He is on vacation with his Dad in Mexico and starts a new job as a DOD civilian when he gets back.
As for the family fortune?… I have no idea, I don’t think its an issue.
Hizzoner had it right. Buckley Jr is a little wanker…..
October 14th, 2008 at 5:53 PMUsing
What POSSIBLE evidence does The Moose give in his voting record to even suggest that he will “surely understand?” If its there, far better and more alert minds than mine have never seen it. Is Buckley talking about the same person?
It is a shame about NR, though. Buckley’s novel The White House Mess is one of the funniest political novels I’ve ever read—he has the writing talent (although obviously not the intellect) of his father. That said, however, surely Buckley should have realized that there would be fallout from this. It’s not like he was doing what many NR writers did during the primaries and argue for one candidate over another; this is an endorsement of a candidate who goes against every principle NR was founded on. Obviously, and by his own admission, Buckley has fallen into the Libertarian trap of “Everything Goes As Long As It Doesn’t Bother Me.”
LOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 14th, 2008 at 5:55 PMUsing
Son of a Conservative columnist writes an article in which he declares he has joined the media’s “Blow here, blow now” party in Barry the Blessed™’s pants, trusting an ambitious socialist with terrorist, whitey-hating, shady money friends to somehow use his keen intellect for the good of the country and wonders why the editors do not take him up on his offer of resignation, especially since they’ll get Mark Steyn back, and this is somehow an uncalled for knee-jerk fartwa?
He and Barry the Blessed™ have something in common: An uncommonly inflated sense of self. Twiddle merchant.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:01 PMUsing
I dunno. Maybe publishing an argument that your father would so eloquently rip to sheds, smacks of pissing on his grave to me. You sure showed dear old dad.
Inherent in the Right to Free Speech is the right to shut the fuck up, junior.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:18 PMUsing
Hmmm….
One wonders why he didn’t endorse Senator Obama while his father was still alive, God rest his soul.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:25 PMUsing
And the moral of this story for adults is:
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER play like, act like or impulsively, childishly say “OKAY, THEN, I QUIT!” without being prepared, to well, QUIT.
Because right after you say that, mutter that, yell that, you’ll be unceremoniously thrown out on your ass.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:26 PMUsing
F.E.T.E.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:26 PMUsing
To bad that wasnt a real sword he threw himself on instead of a metaphorical one. Did he really think for a second they wouldnt accept his resignation? In all the years I managed people I NEVER , NEVER refused to accept anyone’s resignation unless it was becasue I already had the termination papers ready and even then I usually accepted cause you dont pay resignee’s UI benefits. Matter of fact before the words we’re finished I would already be saying “I accept you can make you last day”…… I dont play that shit.
If he had any HONOR what so ever of his fathers memory he would have kept that article to himself and just resigned on principal…. but nooooooooooo he’s got to out in a flamin homo queen blaze of glory of his own creation. I wonder when his “book” is gonna hit the stands?
October 14th, 2008 at 6:30 PMUsing
@ LC TerribleTroy, Imperial Centurion:
Troy, you have a way with words (actually swooning here…)
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October 14th, 2008 at 6:42 PMUsing
@ L.C. Mope, Imperial Offsetter:
Ja, I really like that…reminds me of something my grandfather would have told me. :em93:
LOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 14th, 2008 at 6:50 PMUsing
I cant honorably take credit Aggie Sith…. but DOG says thankee si !
October 14th, 2008 at 7:28 PMUsing
[...] Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller describes my feelings about this one much better than I can, and with much more colorful adjectives… [...]
October 14th, 2008 at 7:39 PMUsing
It seems Chris has a rather over-inflated sense of worth. Oh well- maybe he can get on at Atlantic.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:53 PMUsing
Much ado about nothing I think. If Christopher cannot recognize that Obama represents everything that his father opposed, then invoking his memory desultory. National Review has not lost anything of worth with his resignation.
October 14th, 2008 at 8:15 PMUsing
Hey Chrissy:
October 14th, 2008 at 10:41 PMdon’t let the door hit ya where the Good L-d spilt ya. :em38:
What a shame.
“ThanK You for Smoking” was a hoot. :em99:
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Hey!!
October 14th, 2008 at 11:01 PMNo need to discriminate agaist the smokers!!! :em95: :em95: :em01: :em01: :em93:
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This puke reminds me of the vermin that I just sat through watching on VH1 “classic”. They just had a “documentary” about how sexual morals have “evolved” since the ’50’s. You know, how we went from so repressive to our perfect VD ridden society of shit eating hippie spawn we have today. I see Buckley Sr. as the 50’s holdout. You know, the guy who was “wrong” in this propoganda bullshit for knowing right from wrong. Little Douche Jr. the shitbag scumfuck narrating how great things are now since we gave up our morals and had religious input on our behavior.
I was disgusted watching it then, just as I am disgusted with this prick stain who dishonors his father.
October 14th, 2008 at 11:14 PMUsing
OT, but I just read what I would consider the Quote of the Week:
“You are never too old to enjoy a target-rich environment.” — Capt. Kaff Tagon of the mercenary warship Touch-N-Go, from Howard Taylor’s online comic Schlock Mercenary
LOS!!!!!!!!!
October 15th, 2008 at 12:26 AMUsing
Marinia sez:
He has no shame, he doesn’t know what that is. His life is “All about me and what makes me feel good” he has no understanding of the concept of right and wrong. He thinks that he has evolved above the parochial rules that his father lived by. He grew up wanting nothing and it warped his mind.
Ted
October 15th, 2008 at 4:13 PMUsing
A friend sent me a link last night to his old unit’s homepage. And there was an article memorializing that Chris Buckley was a drate evader during Viet Nam. Character will out, won’t it.
October 17th, 2008 at 8:53 AMUsing