Posted on 01/08/2009 5:34:09 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
I like Pat Buchanan. I do. He's wise, funny and charming. But every once in a while . . .
Like tonight. If Buchanan wants to criticize Israel's conduct of the current war, and its treatment of the Palestinians, so be it. But in doing so, is it really necessary to employ terms associated with the Nazis? Appearing on "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Buchanan accused Israel of carrying out a "blitzkrieg" against Gaza and turning it into a "concentration camp."
View video here.
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Buchanan’s blitzkrieg on Israel ping to Today show list.
It just so happens that the "every once in a while" occurs when he's discussing Israel. Incredible consistency.
So what post in the O/Clinton Redux Administration is Pat auditioning for??
Just lost TOTAL respect for him! :-(
And what are these: Einsatzkommando???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161264/posts
Buchanan is a drooling idiot!
I used to like Buchanan ages ago. I think he’s in dire need of some Aricept, stat!
People who still admire Pat Buchanan have a problem.
ML/NJ
I see he is still bitter he lost a relative in a concentration camp; falling out of a guard tower.
I really like listening to Monica Crowley’s radio show but when she has Buchanan on and calls him her really good friend, I question her sanity. Unlike you, I really don’t like or trust him.
Consedering that Patty isn’t a conservative and went over the cliff a number of years ago nothing he says makes any difference to me, I never listen to a thing he says.
In other words he’s an idiot, in the same class as Gnewt, the global warming idiot.
I’m long past being surprised when he pulls crap like this. In fact, the surprise for me would be if he didn’t trash Israel.
Some people will not be happy until Jews stand still while they are shot at. (Not standing still will induce undue stress in their shooters and added bullet expenses. How unthoughtful!)
Buchanan’s a nutjob, plain and simple.
Blitzkrieg was a brilliant tactical innovation by the Germans. Is he saying the Israelis are tactically superior? But we already knew that.
Blitzkrieg was a brilliant tactical innovation by the Germans. Is he saying the Israelis are tactically superior? But we already knew that.
In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler’s anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was “an individual of great courage...Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.” (The Guardian, 1/14/92)
Shocker.
I have never been able to get a visceral understanding of anti-Semitism or where it comes from. Both Buchanan and I are cradle Catholics, yet it infected his brain and never touched mine, so that’s not the answer.
I just don’t get it.
“Buchanan is a drooling idiot!”
I don’t understand him . . . I used to have the HIGHTEST regard for him and his opinions . . . what’s going on with these icons of the right?
The man has never been a friend to Israel, and he has spoken a little too chummily about Hitler than I can stomach.
Buchnazi has joined the NYT as a highly accurate bellweather: take a position contrary to everything they espouse, and you will be right 95% of the time.
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