An intriguing story yesterday was how Christopher Buckley, son of National Review founder William F. Buckley, was suddenly gone from the magazine his father founded after a firestorm over his endorsing Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for President — just as some other leading traditional conservatives have nixed the John McCain campaign. Here’s his account on Chris Matthews’ “Hardball”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JwInpFavxo
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.