Like many readers, I was interested in reading Christopher Buckley's NR column following his endorsement of Obama in the Daily Beast.

Today, Buckley writes:

Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands. 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. I retain the fondest feelings for the magazine that my father founded, 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.

I guess readers are supposed to take his headline "Sorry, Dad, I Was Fired" as tongue-in-cheek since, in fact, Buckley resigned. But the picture he paints of what happened, not so much with NR as with his conservative audience, isn't flattering and he ends with Reagan's line: "I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me." He even goes so far as to say: "I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded must now distance itself from me."

NR Editor Rich Lowry responds at the Corner:

Chris is up with a post at The Daily Beast, "Sorry, Dad, I Was Fired." I'd like to clarify this "firing" business. Over the weekend, Chris wrote us a jaunty e-mail with the subject line "A Sincere Offer," in which he offered to resign his column on NR's back page and said that if we accepted, there "would be no hard feelings, only warmest regards and understanding." We took the offer sincerely. Chris had done us the favor of writing the column beginning seven issues ago on a "trial basis" (his words), while our regular back-page columnist, Mark Steyn, was on hiatus. Now, Mark is back to writing again, and--I'm delighted to say--will be on NR's back-page in the new issue.