The far-ranging conversation also touched on his novel, centered around a Judge Judy type ascending to the Supreme Court – an institution Buckley conceded doesn't exactly have built-in comic appeal ("How many jokes do you know start 'three Supreme Court justices walk into a bar.'?") Buckley's time as a speechwriter for then-vice-president George H.W. The offer, he smiled ruefully, "was briskly accepted," thus leading to the rather "awkward position of being fired by something I partly own."īuckley went on to lament the self-seriousness in his father's day, he said, the appropriate response would have been to roast the dissenting voice with rigor and enthusiasm, but not to dramatically sever all ties – an indicator, he said, "of how tribal politics have become." In the wake of his Obama endorsement, which irked some NR readers so that they cancelled their subscriptions en masse, Buckley said he felt the "honorable to do was to offer to resign" – with an emphasis on offer. The occasional mock hem-and-haw that they get back to promoting his book aside, Buckley gamely recounted the spiraling madness that led to his break from leading conservative magazine The National Review – a magazine that his father started and that Christopher maintains partial ownership of. "What a kerfuffle all this has been," said the genial Buckley on Saturday in a conversation led by longtime family friend Steven Isenberg. 10 his endorsement of Barack Obama ( "Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama") and all hell broke loose. satire, but then The Daily Beast published on Oct. – was supposed to be in town to promote his new novel Supreme Courtship, a D.C. Buckley – who, by the way, is a leading conservative and son of William F. Christopher Buckley at the Texas Book Festival (by Bret Brookshire)Īt the time the Texas Book Festival booked Christopher Buckley, they couldn't have known how exquisite the timing would shake out to be.
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