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Entry: William F. Buckley Jr.--R.I.P. Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/william_fbuckley_rip#18236 Post contents: Paleoconservatives each had their own moment when they had to give up the pretense that Buckley and his magazine were their friends. Mine came when the admirable M.E. Bradford told me National Review would no longer publish his work. Bradford had offended Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol and the rest of the neocon thugs by allowing his name to be forwarded to Ronald Reagan to head the National Endowment for the Humanities. God forbid, they responded, that a critic of the sainted Lincoln could be considered! They did their work, and Bill Bennett, brother of Bill Clinton and John McCain's lawyer, won the appointment. And so, shortly afterwards, Bradford was excommunicated by NR. Sent at: 2008 09 07