Christopher Buckley, the terrorist appeaser liberal betrayer and soiler of the legacy of the last conservative intellectual on earth, William F. Buckley, went on Chris Matthews’ show last night and chuckled about how a bunch of mouth-breathing rubes who read National Review hate him now. He calls himself a “hack novelist,” which is a little unfair; he just needs to remember that novelists shouldn’t publish their first drafts. [MSNBC]

After Christopher Buckley insulted his dead father’s National Review magazine by endorsing a liberal black Maoist over the Crazyfarts McBombs and Sideshow Moosetits ticket, every editor at the National Review and every wingnut with an AOL account called him a traitor to his own family, Jesus, and The Cause. And so Buckley has now quit his columnist position at the magazine and written a rather brutal excoriation of Modern Conservatism on Tina Brown’s new Huffington Post, The British Space Cyclops. MORE »

Not that it matters, because the modern Republican fat-ass troglodyte with a sixth-grade education and a dollar-forty in the bank is not exactly spending a lot of time reading books, but talented conservative author and essayist Christopher Buckley is now officially in the tank. He is voting for Barack Obama. (Yes, Christopher B. is the son of William F. Buckley, the founder of both the National Review and mid-20th Century conservative intellectualism, which is 100% dead forever now.) MORE »

* Reliable Source: Author Christopher Buckley says the main character in “Thank You for Smoking” is a “very different kind of cat” from Jack Abramoff: “He’s not in it for the money. He has issues with authority — he doesn’t like being told what to do. That was the common theme among the lobbyists I interviewed while doing the book.” [WP]
* Inside the Beltway: Sens. Allen and Clinton lead ‘08 poll of insiders. . . “Republican heavy hitters” come out for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele’s Senate bid. [WT]
* Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Maureen Dowd is “flattered” that she was the inspiration for Katie Holmes‘ character in “Thank You for Smoking.” [NYDN]
* The Scoop: 5,000 witches petition Bush for recognition of Wicca faith. [MSNBC]