Lowry to Buckley: You Canceled Your Own Goddamn Column

Rich Lowry, editor of The National Review, has responded to Christopher Buckley's announcement on Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Daily Beast that he was "fired," as the story's URL shows, or "sacked," as its headline read until it was recently changed to "Buckley Bows Out of National Review." (Buzz moves fast, and as The Times David Carr wrote roughly 300 hours ago, "Given Ms. Brown’s reputation for frantically changing everything in the final hours of closing every magazine she has edited, perhaps a medium that absorbs — indeed, requires — constant reiteration will suit her.")

Writing on 'The Corner' blog, Mr. Lowry claims:

It hardly seems to matter. Maybe we'll get to read all the messages—jaunty, hateful, or otherwise—when Mr. Buckley puts out a sequel to his father's 2007 book, Cancel Your Own Goddamn Subscription.