Posted on 04/03/2006 5:21:48 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
April 3, 2006
As has been documented here before, NBC and MSNBC like to delude viewers into believing they are presenting balanced panels by pairing a partisan Democrat with Pat Buchanan. The Today show recently went so far as to mislabel Buchanan, who left the GOP to run in 2000 as the candidate of the Reform Party against George W, a "Republican strategist." See report with revealing screen shot here.
Any pretense that Buchanan is anything but a Bush administration critic more in synch with the Democrats than the GOP was stripped away on this evening's Hardball, when a Dem strategist let the cat out of the bag.
Buchanan was back, sharing the stage with Dem strategist Steve McMahon. The issue was W's paltry poll numbers, and in particular why the president doesn't get more credit for what on paper is a healthy economy. That set Buchanan off on this breathless populist riff:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Hardball/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.
He sure as hell isn't a Republican!
Here's the report on the Today show episode in which Buchanan was labelled on-screen a "Republican strategist":
http://newsbusters.org/node/4603
When it comes to neoconservative foreign policy, classic conservatives also sound like Democrats.
The basic premise neoconservatism is flawed. The basic premise of the war on terror is flawed. We are not at war with terror. We could care two rats about the IRA or the Tamil Tigers. We are at war with Islam. Until we recognize that Islamic people rather than Islamic tyrants are the problem, our solutions will fail.
Democrats sound crazy. Pat Buchanan sounds crazy. Therefore, Pat Buchanan sounds like a Democrat.
This is just patently cr@p.
Pat is a Bush-bashing nut job, therefore is beloved by the rest of the Bush-bashing nut jobs. I wonder if Pat's tiny brain can assimilate the fact that he's on the same side as the RATS.
Pat once said something to the effect of "the far right and far left are natural allies".
Bringing down the Bush administration may be bad for the Republicans, but it would be good for conservatives.
Impeach the President? He's not that bad. He certainly doesn't deserve such treatment -- especially since under his term Republicans got more seats in congress. He is going to be out in 2008 anyway.
Leave him alone!
Not, IMO, if the replacement would be a protectionist isolationist in the Buchanan mold.
Makes sense. Buchannan is anti-semitic. Demoncrats are anti-semitic. So they both sound the same.
The Hitler/Stalin pact returns with Pat doing the Hitler side and quirky Leftist Michael Lind of the Nation being the Stalin side.
The difference is from 1939 is that this time the Left -- the Stalin side -- is being more rationally caculating, while the Nazi side is just based on irrational hatred of dem Joos.
Back in 1939, it was the Nazis who were rational and caculating in getting a very beneficial relationship with the Soviet Union while Stalin was emotionally enamored with Hitler and the might of the German people.
As Stalin said during the signing of the Molotov/Ribbinitropp non agression pact (which allowed Hitler to attack Poland), "I know how much the German people loves their Fuehrer; therefore, I drink to his health."
I voted for PJB in '92 and '96--back when he was a conservative. I'm not sure what happened to him. Either senility or thirst for power. He traded principle for the spotlight and a chance, (very slim one with that ultraleftist VP), to get elected--and he was condemning Reagan when he was in office on how much of a leftist he was. Glad PJB is permanently sidelined...
You are truely absurd...
I'm no Buchanan fan, but isn't there a contradiction between your comment to WWFB and your tagline?
Do you think it would be a good idea to openly declare war on Islam?
Go Pat Go, your favorite line?
I predict he will be the Democratic nominee. You heard it here first.
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