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I heard Buchanan on Imus this AM and i convinced myself I must have been misunderstanding him. Guess not. He’s gone completely mad.
TheBigOldDog on May 28, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Pat must be jealous of all the attention Jimmy Carter is getting.
hepcat on May 28, 2008 at 11:39 PM
alot of irony in the title of this and it being a HuffPo piece.
jp on May 28, 2008 at 11:48 PM
I expect Pat to do a global warming ad with Palosi any time now…
chewydog on May 28, 2008 at 11:56 PM
…half the Jews had left Germany before Kristalnacht, which was in November 1938. Another half fled after that. They were outside Germany when the curtain fell.
50% + 50% = 100% so there were no Jews at all inside Germany’s [new?] borders in 1939; they were all captured outside of Germany? F#ck you, Pat.
andycanuck on May 29, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Let’s forget that Hitler’s longtime plan was european, then global, domination, per Mein Kampf. Then let’s forget the annihilation of the Jews had nothing to do with hatred, but was about confiscation of property and elimination of the evidence. That was the grand economic plan to fund Hitler’s war.
I thought that the National Socialists were responsible for the Holocaust.
darclon on May 29, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Is his cook washing the insecticide off his veggies?
He is well placed on the McCoughin Group.
Limerick on May 29, 2008 at 12:15 AM
I get nowhere in arguing policy differences with my lefty friends and colleagues. Why? “Pat Buchanan.” His name is a debate stopper, a kind of reverse Godwin’s Law in the Left’s rhetorical toolbox. Invoke his name and declare checkmate.
Me: “Let me explain why my free trade plan addresses the same societal problem as your big gov plan…”
Them: “Pat Buchanan.” [Rocks back on heels with smug satisfaction]
Me: …
Them: …
Me: “Yer not giving me anything to work with here, so let’s…”
Pat Buchanan is a joke. His placing by MSNBC as the “conservative” in their line up is certainly a touch of cynical genius. An anti-semitic, paleoconservative, ignorant and xenophonic douchebag, that’s what he is.
Baphomet on May 29, 2008 at 12:24 AM
I don’t even know who Buchanan is. But when Blitzer brought up McClellan’s book, I knew what the purpose of this “interview” was.
RushBaby on May 29, 2008 at 12:55 AM
Pat is a loon and his argument sickens me. I grew up hearing my beloved British Grandmother tell me on extremely rare occasions about the sound Hitler’s bombs made over her head when she was a little girl and how when she heard the whistle of the bombs she was actually relieved because that meant the bombs were hitting down the road. Then she felt guilty for her relief since some neighbors may now be dead.
Pat needs to crawl in a spider hole with a couple million in cash and stay there.
FireDrake on May 29, 2008 at 1:14 AM
During work today, while listening to streaming talk radio, I got to hear Rusty Humphries fawn praise over him, Dennis Miller say “Uhhhhh….that’s nuts” and Mark Levin say he wouldn’t ever have him on.
I think I fall somewhere between Miller and Levin.
After 40 min. and two posts I can’t help but wonder what the moderator has against anyone who cares to read PBs actual text so they can make up their own mind?
Anyone else here seen that recent doco “Kikes Like Me” where the director/star goes to Buchanan’s mansion to interview him on his book? Buchanan ‘called it a day’ and kicked the director out after asking him a question about the Jews.
Omega_Rage on May 29, 2008 at 1:59 AM
Um, how can anyone be surprised? Pat is well-known as an anti-semite, too. So, his perception has been suspect for a long, long time.
Never knew how much he had in common with Carter. Suppose Operation Barbarosa was all the fault of the British too.
koolbrease on May 29, 2008 at 2:20 AM
Anti-semitism rots your mind. Read some KKKoss diaries, digg or HuffPo comments and there is some baaaad mojo posted there.
.
Anti-semite brain rot is an equal opportunity disease.
.
Buchannan used to come across as a pretty articulate, intelligent conservative with some interesting views.
.
Today, he’s a ranting . . . what is the opposite negative of a moonbat? OK, anti-moonbat (as in anti-Christ)
.
Right up there (or down there) with Dinnerjacket and your average Friday evening mullah.
least1 on May 29, 2008 at 2:24 AM
Buchannan won’t quite be at rock bottom until he teams up with Carter and says that we wouldn’t have a problem today with Israel if only we let Hilter have Poland.
pedestrian on May 29, 2008 at 4:04 AM
In some EU states that would constitute Holocaust Denial and Mr. Adolf Buchanan would be sent to an Aryan College (aka Prison) for a few years.
Aristotle on May 29, 2008 at 6:01 AM
Kadnine on May 29, 2008 at 12:22 AM
Haha, that’s great. Unfortunately, it also quite adequately illustrates what having Buchanan in our “big tent” and on tv does to the image of conservatism.
I wish WFB was still around to sweep him into the dustbin of history, where he left the John Birch society. Looks like it will be up to us, though it won’t be easy since I’m sure MSNBC and co love having Buchanan front and center with “conservative” in big block letters under his mug.
joewm315 on May 29, 2008 at 7:52 AM
’bout time for old Pat to endorse Obama.
cntrlfrk on May 29, 2008 at 8:31 AM
Pat really is a Nazi. No wonder he’s the media’s favorite token “conservative”.
packsoldier on May 29, 2008 at 8:34 AM
His name is a debate stopper, a kind of reverse Godwin’s Law in the Left’s rhetorical toolbox. Invoke his name and declare checkmate.
Kadnine, perhaps that’s because as recently ago as 92 Buchanan was given a prime-time slot at the GOP convention; he’s clearly revealed himself to be what he was all along–a bona fide fascist.
Grow Fins on May 29, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Good job, Pat. You’ve got a diehard right wingnut like me agreeing with the HuffPo.
True story:
A few years back when Pat ran for president, I watched a speech of his on C-Span, in which he griped about how the name of the “Custer Battlefield” was changed to “Little Bighorn Battlefield”. Pat said that someone at the battlefield told him the change was made because “the Indians didn’t like Custer”. Pat’s response was something to the effect of, “Of course they didn’t like Custer. That’s why they shot him full of arrows.”
The trouble with this, for anyone who knows about the battle of Littlebighorn, is that the Indians were not using arrows, but guns, of a type that could fire several bullets before a reload was necessary, while Custer’s troops had single-shot rifles.
At the end of his speech, I noted the C-Span message about where to send comments, and wrote a letter to Buchanan’s campaign, stating that the Indians a Little Bighorn shot Custer full of bullets, not arrows.
A few weeks later, Pat was back on C-Span. Different place, but with the same canned speech. And including the same inaccurate line about the Indians shooting Custer full of arrows. As the saying goes, same [bleep], different day.
I suppose that the Indians could have shot Custer’s body, already dead from bullets, full of arrows. However, I never received any reply from Buchanan or his campaign staff, either conceding my point or disputing it.
In some EU states that would constitute Holocaust Denial
Some friendly advice, Pat (even though you ignored the advice I tried to give you earlier, as stated above). Don’t visit Germany or Austria any time soon. Or Israel.
Bigfoot on May 29, 2008 at 8:53 AM
I don’t get how HuffPo can be smug about him. Isn’t that exactly what they’re saying about jihadists, that they wouldn’t be killing if it weren’t for the war that we started?
Many anti-war nuts have even gone so far as to say that no war has ever been justified, and they’ve been given top honors at HuffPo.
I get the outrage here, but it’s misplaced over there.
Esthier on May 29, 2008 at 9:53 AM
Speakup on May 29, 2008 at 1:54 AM
Umm, I always regarded Buchanan as a very bright guy with a knowledge of history that embraced non-tradional ideas. This certainly would seem to confirm that. The ideas, as represented so far, seem to be both outrageous and untrue.
But I haven’t actually read them in any sort of context yet, and linking to HuffNPuff is certainly not going to get me that. That site contains more profane and ludicrous propaganda than even the most absurdly biased liberal MSM publications that are linked here so often.
Buchanan often seems to take positions that are at best knee-jerk anti-Israel and at worst anti-semitic, and his isolationist rhetoric gives me pause. But he is smarter and more knowledgeable than any of his critics, in most cases.
Here in the home of the benefit-of-the-doubt for twit Obama, I call BS on this story, to some degree.
Jaibones on May 29, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Go to yahoo news, click on opinion and then Buchanan to read his article HA won’t let me post the link. Huffpo must be be really important.
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I’ve long considered Buchanan to be loopy, but this is ridiculous.
jgapinoy on May 28, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Pat hit bottom a long time ago. He’s been digging into the mantle for quite some time now.
Krydor on May 28, 2008 at 11:25 PM
I heard Buchanan on Imus this AM and i convinced myself I must have been misunderstanding him. Guess not. He’s gone completely mad.
TheBigOldDog on May 28, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Pat must be jealous of all the attention Jimmy Carter is getting.
hepcat on May 28, 2008 at 11:39 PM
alot of irony in the title of this and it being a HuffPo piece.
jp on May 28, 2008 at 11:48 PM
I expect Pat to do a global warming ad with Palosi any time now…
chewydog on May 28, 2008 at 11:56 PM
50% + 50% = 100% so there were no Jews at all inside Germany’s [new?] borders in 1939; they were all captured outside of Germany? F#ck you, Pat.
andycanuck on May 29, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Let’s forget that Hitler’s longtime plan was european, then global, domination, per Mein Kampf. Then let’s forget the annihilation of the Jews had nothing to do with hatred, but was about confiscation of property and elimination of the evidence. That was the grand economic plan to fund Hitler’s war.
Buchanan is just plain living in la-la land.
stonemeister on May 29, 2008 at 12:05 AM
I thought that the National Socialists were responsible for the Holocaust.
darclon on May 29, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Is his cook washing the insecticide off his veggies?
He is well placed on the McCoughin Group.
Limerick on May 29, 2008 at 12:15 AM
I get nowhere in arguing policy differences with my lefty friends and colleagues. Why? “Pat Buchanan.” His name is a debate stopper, a kind of reverse Godwin’s Law in the Left’s rhetorical toolbox. Invoke his name and declare checkmate.
Me: “Let me explain why my free trade plan addresses the same societal problem as your big gov plan…”
Them: “Pat Buchanan.” [Rocks back on heels with smug satisfaction]
Me: …
Them: …
Me: “Yer not giving me anything to work with here, so let’s…”
Them: “Pat. Bew. Kaaaan. Aaaaaaaaan!”
Me: “I give up.”
Kadnine on May 29, 2008 at 12:22 AM
Pat Buchanan is a joke. His placing by MSNBC as the “conservative” in their line up is certainly a touch of cynical genius. An anti-semitic, paleoconservative, ignorant and xenophonic douchebag, that’s what he is.
Baphomet on May 29, 2008 at 12:24 AM
I don’t even know who Buchanan is. But when Blitzer brought up McClellan’s book, I knew what the purpose of this “interview” was.
RushBaby on May 29, 2008 at 12:55 AM
Pat is a loon and his argument sickens me. I grew up hearing my beloved British Grandmother tell me on extremely rare occasions about the sound Hitler’s bombs made over her head when she was a little girl and how when she heard the whistle of the bombs she was actually relieved because that meant the bombs were hitting down the road. Then she felt guilty for her relief since some neighbors may now be dead.
Pat needs to crawl in a spider hole with a couple million in cash and stay there.
FireDrake on May 29, 2008 at 1:14 AM
During work today, while listening to streaming talk radio, I got to hear Rusty Humphries fawn praise over him, Dennis Miller say “Uhhhhh….that’s nuts” and Mark Levin say he wouldn’t ever have him on.
I think I fall somewhere between Miller and Levin.
its vintage duh on May 29, 2008 at 1:24 AM
I wonder if swastika underwear is itchy?
profitsbeard on May 29, 2008 at 1:29 AM
After 40 min. and two posts I can’t help but wonder what the moderator has against anyone who cares to read PBs actual text so they can make up their own mind?
Speakup on May 29, 2008 at 1:54 AM
Anyone else here seen that recent doco “Kikes Like Me” where the director/star goes to Buchanan’s mansion to interview him on his book? Buchanan ‘called it a day’ and kicked the director out after asking him a question about the Jews.
Omega_Rage on May 29, 2008 at 1:59 AM
Um, how can anyone be surprised? Pat is well-known as an anti-semite, too. So, his perception has been suspect for a long, long time.
Warner Todd Huston on May 29, 2008 at 2:18 AM
Never knew how much he had in common with Carter. Suppose Operation Barbarosa was all the fault of the British too.
koolbrease on May 29, 2008 at 2:20 AM
Anti-semitism rots your mind. Read some KKKoss diaries, digg or HuffPo comments and there is some baaaad mojo posted there.
.
Anti-semite brain rot is an equal opportunity disease.
.
Buchannan used to come across as a pretty articulate, intelligent conservative with some interesting views.
.
Today, he’s a ranting . . . what is the
oppositenegative of a moonbat? OK, anti-moonbat (as in anti-Christ).
Right up there (or down there) with Dinnerjacket and your average Friday evening mullah.
least1 on May 29, 2008 at 2:24 AM
Buchannan won’t quite be at rock bottom until he teams up with Carter and says that we wouldn’t have a problem today with Israel if only we let Hilter have Poland.
pedestrian on May 29, 2008 at 4:04 AM
In some EU states that would constitute Holocaust Denial and Mr. Adolf Buchanan would be sent to an Aryan College (aka Prison) for a few years.
Aristotle on May 29, 2008 at 6:01 AM
Haha, that’s great. Unfortunately, it also quite adequately illustrates what having Buchanan in our “big tent” and on tv does to the image of conservatism.
I wish WFB was still around to sweep him into the dustbin of history, where he left the John Birch society. Looks like it will be up to us, though it won’t be easy since I’m sure MSNBC and co love having Buchanan front and center with “conservative” in big block letters under his mug.
joewm315 on May 29, 2008 at 7:52 AM
’bout time for old Pat to endorse Obama.
cntrlfrk on May 29, 2008 at 8:31 AM
Pat really is a Nazi. No wonder he’s the media’s favorite token “conservative”.
packsoldier on May 29, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Kadnine, perhaps that’s because as recently ago as 92 Buchanan was given a prime-time slot at the GOP convention; he’s clearly revealed himself to be what he was all along–a bona fide fascist.
Grow Fins on May 29, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Good job, Pat. You’ve got a diehard right wingnut like me agreeing with the HuffPo.
True story:
A few years back when Pat ran for president, I watched a speech of his on C-Span, in which he griped about how the name of the “Custer Battlefield” was changed to “Little Bighorn Battlefield”. Pat said that someone at the battlefield told him the change was made because “the Indians didn’t like Custer”. Pat’s response was something to the effect of, “Of course they didn’t like Custer. That’s why they shot him full of arrows.”
The trouble with this, for anyone who knows about the battle of Littlebighorn, is that the Indians were not using arrows, but guns, of a type that could fire several bullets before a reload was necessary, while Custer’s troops had single-shot rifles.
At the end of his speech, I noted the C-Span message about where to send comments, and wrote a letter to Buchanan’s campaign, stating that the Indians a Little Bighorn shot Custer full of bullets, not arrows.
A few weeks later, Pat was back on C-Span. Different place, but with the same canned speech. And including the same inaccurate line about the Indians shooting Custer full of arrows. As the saying goes, same [bleep], different day.
I suppose that the Indians could have shot Custer’s body, already dead from bullets, full of arrows. However, I never received any reply from Buchanan or his campaign staff, either conceding my point or disputing it.
Some friendly advice, Pat (even though you ignored the advice I tried to give you earlier, as stated above). Don’t visit Germany or Austria any time soon. Or Israel.
Bigfoot on May 29, 2008 at 8:53 AM
I don’t get how HuffPo can be smug about him. Isn’t that exactly what they’re saying about jihadists, that they wouldn’t be killing if it weren’t for the war that we started?
Many anti-war nuts have even gone so far as to say that no war has ever been justified, and they’ve been given top honors at HuffPo.
I get the outrage here, but it’s misplaced over there.
Esthier on May 29, 2008 at 9:53 AM
Umm, I always regarded Buchanan as a very bright guy with a knowledge of history that embraced non-tradional ideas. This certainly would seem to confirm that. The ideas, as represented so far, seem to be both outrageous and untrue.
But I haven’t actually read them in any sort of context yet, and linking to HuffNPuff is certainly not going to get me that. That site contains more profane and ludicrous propaganda than even the most absurdly biased liberal MSM publications that are linked here so often.
Buchanan often seems to take positions that are at best knee-jerk anti-Israel and at worst anti-semitic, and his isolationist rhetoric gives me pause. But he is smarter and more knowledgeable than any of his critics, in most cases.
Here in the home of the benefit-of-the-doubt for twit Obama, I call BS on this story, to some degree.
Jaibones on May 29, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Go to yahoo news, click on opinion and then Buchanan to read his article HA won’t let me post the link. Huffpo must be be really important.
Speakup on May 29, 2008 at 10:19 AM
They posted the video.
Esthier on May 29, 2008 at 10:43 AM