Would that include ignoring one telling you there is a bear trap where you are stepping? What are your standards on credible advice? Limited only to female topics, ages of consent and free speech, by the groups you mention respectively? 
Posted on 02/10/2006 10:01:03 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
Three years ago, I wrote that Pat Buchanan was "the useful idiot of the liberal establishment" and that his "wisdom and patriotism must be questioned." After I penned those words, I received a barrage of hate mail from supporters of Buchanan. Much of the mail was anti-Semitic, and most of it was ignorant babble.
Of course, it is no surprise that Buchanan's supporters compose the anti-Semitic and ignorant wing of the paleo-conservative right. Buchanan himself is anti-Semitic and ignorant. This week, he proved both his moral blindness and his myopic bigotry in a series of columns supporting American foreign aid for Hamas, castigating American presidents from Wilson and FDR and Truman to Kennedy and Bush for their interventionist foreign policies and insulting freedom of the press in Europe.
First, on Feb. 1, Buchanan stated:
Understandably, the Israelis are close to hysterical over the landslide for Hamas and are on a diplomatic campaign to have all donors end all aid to a Palestinian Authority dominated by Hamas. But that is not in our interests. It is not even in Israel's interest. For it has been Israel's behavior, and uncritical U.S. support for that behavior, that produced this victory for Hamas. To continue on that road is to arrive at, literally, a dead end.
Buchanan's arrogance is astounding. The idea that monetary support for the terrorist group Hamas is in America's and Israel's best interest is laughable. The very idea that a man who has called Congress "Israeli-occupied territory" can speak for Israel's "best interest" is laughable. Buchanan, the anti-Semite, strikes again.
At least Buchanan is consistent. He believes that capitulation to Arab terror is the best solution across the board. On Feb. 3, he condemned President Bush's State of the Union address, averring, "His victory in Iraq, like the wars of Wilson and FDR, has turned to ashes in our mouths ... Bush seeks to counter critics who warned him not to go in by associating them with the demonized and supposedly discredited patriots of the America First movement of 1940-1941 ... Who has done more to empower Islamic radicals than Bush with his clamor for elections across a region radicalized by our own policies?"
Yes, you read that correctly: Buchanan feels that World War II was a defeat for America and identifies himself with the fully discredited America First movement. Of course, this is nothing new from Buchanan – he has already declared that World War II was not worth fighting. At least Buchanan's revolting and shameful betrayal of the hundreds of thousands who died for freedom in World War II and the millions who died in death camps makes clear one thing: The same folks who despise America's interventionism on behalf of freedom in the Middle East would have let Britain fall to Hitler and the chimneys of Auschwitz spew forth the ashes of every last Jew.
But Buchanan wasn't done yet. On Feb. 6, he blamed European freedom of the press for Muslim rampaging across the globe. European newspapers, he explained, had provoked Muslim rage by reprinting a controversial Danish cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed with his turban shaped like a bomb. "What was the purpose of this juvenile idiocy by the Europress?" Buchanan asked. "Is this what freedom of the press is all about – the freedom to insult the faith of a billion people and start a religious war?" Of course, no Buchanan column would be complete without a reference to Jews, so Buchanan added this gem: "What hypocrisy ... Skeptics and deniers of the Holocaust are prosecuted, fined and imprisoned in Europe with the enthusiastic endorsement of the European press."
Apparently, Buchanan is upset that Europeans would deign to be more sensitive about a Holocaust they perpetrated than a cartoon labeling Islam as violent. Buchanan is upset that European governments have not followed the lead of the spineless State Department, deploring the cartoon while upholding the rights of the press. Note to Pat: Radical Muslims aren't really upset about the cartoon. The cartoon is a stand-in for Western freedoms as a whole. Islamists are just as offended by the very existence of an elderly white Jesuit who tends to support their hatred of Jews.
Unfortunately, Pat Buchanan represents many people on both sides of the political aisle. He is the representative of a constituency that seeks American isolationism and appeasement. He is the representative of a constituency that always blames America – unless Israel is available as a first-option scapegoat. He is more left than right, and more nuts than sane. He is important for one reason, and one reason only: He reveals the mindset of America's fifth columnists.
Of course you are right.
He supports the socialist, Louis Farrakhan supporting anti-semite for President.
I read it on WND, just did a Dogpile search and he announced this all over the place.
"why does Pat have his supporters on this forum?"
He was/is also against going to war in Iraq. His followers may well have stuff in common with the opposition. But, I find he's a lot like Mr. Magoo in more than features.
Shapiro is not alone in screaming anti-semite when it comes to Paddy.
Link for Buchanan calling for Bush impeachment August 31, 2005.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46062
And he got Joseph Farah to agree Feb 10, 2006, so I won't support WND.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46062
This helps the enemy no end.
Hitler loved his mom, Mendelssohn, and dogs.
I guess we can concentrate on that rather than all the other stuff we know about him.
He's happy to oblige.
Huh?
She and Pat were perfect together.
Buchanan has insisted that there is no way the German's could have killed the jews in the gas chambers because 'his' numbers disproved the fact.
OOPPSS...kicked out of her party for HER virulent anti semitic rantings.
I'm not at all familiar with the writings of Shapiro, although I do catch Buchanan's performances on The McLaughlin Group. It's interesting how often Pat can agree with the conclusions of Elinor Clift, but for entirely different reasons.
And it's unfortunate that he has been propped up as a standard bearer for paleo-conservatism because the negative aspects of his writings and personal philosophy are used to portray all paleocons in a bad light.
The poor schmuck fell out of a guard tower...
ROFLMAO!!!
Pat once said that "the far right and far left are natural allies" or something to that effect.
Everyone uses the hate word just way too easily. A person can be against your ideas for many reasons without hating you. Maybe Buchanan hates Jews. I just don't know.
Would that include ignoring one telling you there is a bear trap where you are stepping? What are your standards on credible advice? Limited only to female topics, ages of consent and free speech, by the groups you mention respectively?
The author has utterly discredited himself on this one. Buchanan has made a very compelling case that World War II was a defeat -- for the BRITISH. And as supporting evidence he points to the long-term economic malaise in Great Britain and end of British colonial dominance that became the recurring theme of the latter half of the 20th Century.
Utter B.S. The United States was effectively at war with Germany long before Germany declared war on the U.S. I cite the Lend-Lease Act (passed in March of 1941) and the use of U.S. naval vessels to escort British merchant ships in the North Atlantic in 1940-41 as evidence of this.
Sad, but true.
You can concentrate on whatever you like. I just find it facinating that people will hate a person for one mindset in one area and automatically discredit their opinions in all other areas.
I get odd comments from them while exploring their occlusion in detail, like here, for example.
Let me guess: you were one of the people sending him hate mail, weren't you?
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