Posted on 06/20/2008 9:02:50 AM PDT by Huck
The idea came up on a thread today that perhaps it would be a good idea to write to the various conservative websites/publications that currently pay/publish Patrick Buchanan, and let them know that we would like them to stop publishing him.
The thought is that PJB is basically a useful idiot for the left, allowing them to paint conservatives as racists, and tying the right wing to Nazism. He makes us look like irrational haters when we really aren't. He is used by MSNBC and others to make fools of us.
It's not an effort to silence him. He can write any book he likes, but an effort to voice our opposition and disassociate ourselves with him.
I am curious to know what this great forum thinks of this idea. It wasn't my idea. Just something that came up. I thought that if it were something worthwile, perhaps it could be a piece of Freeper activism?
Curious to know what you all think. Sound off.
What steams me is that he is often identified as a “Republican Analyst.”
Why bother reading his stuff? If you don’t click on his article, then he won’t get the numbers. I don’t read his nonsense.
I feel bad for Bay.
I threw Pat under the bus long ago. His latest book is just more evidence that the guy has lost it. When I heard him ranting about it, my first thought was “God, how wrong I was to vote for this lunatic in 1996!”
Shovelling sand against the tide would probably be equally as productive. It’s not worth the effort.
Never ask Pat about the Holocaust...
Nah! Pat is like everyone’s crazy ol’ uncle that no one wants to invite to the family reunion but shows up anyway. Just ignore him and the guys with the white coats will come for him soon enough.
PJB is the Repub’s crazy uncle. Likeable enough and part of the family, he goes off on insane rants at times, and we just can’t get rid of him.
Someone should run a cat scan on his head to find out what went wrong. A long time ago, he used to be a fairly rational guy.
Sorta like Rev. Wright, you mean? No big deal?
Fox News should have ditched Pat Buchanan.
I have stopped watching Fox News.
Not at all. I never liked the jerk. I'm curious to know if freepers want to email townhall.com, worldnetdaily, and voice displeasure at his being published there.
I think he has interesting perspectives on a lot of things, don’t agree with all he says, but his outside the box thinking is often refershing, IMO
I think that if you were successful in getting Buchanan off the pages of the press as you suggest, then our arguments about the Leftists trying to silence people with whom they disagree will become a little more difficult to defend.
Rambling and unreadable. He was a decent writer, particularly short pieces, whether he was wrong or not. Now it's just pap and smear.
He can write anything he wants. But it's a free market. Is there anything wrong with telling a publication you don't like one of their columnists? I'm not saying he should be silenced. I'm saying that conservative publications should not give him a platform. Let him go find a left wing site to publish his garbage.
IMO, Pat can’t be labeled as anyone’s spiritual mentor that is supposedly called to preach the Word of God and pastor disciples of Christ, but instead preaches strife and contention. Old Pat’s just another whacked out egomaniacal politician.
ctdonath2 - great minds think alike, eh?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.