Tina Brown, founder of the new website The Daily Beast, appeared on the Colbert Report last night to discuss Christopher Buckley’s recent writings for the site:

Buckley decided to come out, on The Daily Beast, and unload the fact that he’s going to vote for Obama. And everything went crazy. And he got fired by the National Review. They said to him, If you’re going to write this stuff about Obama, you know — and he said, Well, do you want me to quit? And they said, Yes, we do want you to quit. And so they tossed him out…
It was like Christmas, as far as I was concerned. I was so — it was just, you know, a great party at the office.