Buchanan Isn't 'Balance': On Big Issues, Pat Prefers Dems

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

"The Democrats are better at understanding the impact of globalization on working people in America. The wages that have been arrested and halted in their growth, while, you know the boys in investment banking are making 10 times the average income of an American. I think the Democrats understand the consequences of it more than the Republicans and, frankly, another disagreement I've got with Republicans is that they are compulsive interventionists. They seem to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing from what happened in Iraq when they are talking about doing the same thing in Iran." -- Pat Buchanan, November 29, 2007

The next time you hear the MSM defending itself against charges of a lack of balance by pointing to Pat Buchanan's presence on its panels, remember his statement above. On globalization, Pat echoes the Seattle street protesters, seasoned with some John Edwards "Two Americas" rhetoric about Wall Street fat cats. On foreign policy, Pat sounds like someone auditioning for Secretary of Peace in Pres. Kucinich's cabinet.

[cripplecreek]

Not to be confused with pandering to our enemies like you do.

[1rudeboy]

Straight to the ad hominem. I suppose it's the best you can do.

[bert]

Herbert Hoover understands Pat and is applauding him from the Grave.

Pat is nearly a century out of phase

[cripplecreek]

Actually I should have given you all the respect you’re due and ignored you. Don’t worry, it won’t happen again.

[bert]

Corporate America is America. It is real, not some pipedream.

[1rudeboy]

You won’t ignore me again? Is that what you meant, my intellectually-challenged friend?

[x]

"Balance" would depend on who else is on.

And you're never going to get a perfect "balance" that would satisfy everyone.

If you've got two or three Democrats and Buchanan, he's not "balance."

But there's no way a show like that is going to be balanced anyway.

If you have a host, a Democrat, a Republican, and Pat, you could argue that the show is more or less balanced.

If the Republican and the Democrat and the host are all for NAFTA or amnesty for illegals, it's hard to see how the show could ever make a pretence of being "balanced" without someone like Buchanan being on.