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Today’s Defendant: Christopher Buckley

Statement of the Grand Inquisitor: Like his father before him, Buckley has led a life of vilest error from beginning to end: speechwriter for G.H.W. Bush, author of reams of smug crap, wearer of that stupid hat pictured above. Today we will contemplate his most recent sin, which might seem small in and of itself, but which in our view constitutes The Last Straw. He made an announcement in The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s latest foul publication, entitled “Sorry Dad, I’m Voting for Obama”. It starts like this: “Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d have cut off my allowance.”

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October 14th, 2008 | Leave Comment