The Ten Worst U.S. Purveyors of Antisemitism, #6: Patrick Buchanan

Pajamas Media ^ | 01/07/2014 | P. David Hornik

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The vast majority of “Isolationists” just believe we are fighting the wrong enemy.

We're broke, been on a war footing more or less for over seventy years and it's not hard to believe that some honorable people feel that a lower international profile is in the best interest of our nation. Such a policy is the philosophy of Washington and Madison, not Hitler. It is a shame that such a vital American principle of long standing is being regularly demeaned as a means to silence an unwelcome, but legitimate, competing point of view.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SeekAndFind, Pitchfork Pat ping.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.fair.org/current/buchanan-bigot.html

...On Jews

Buchanan referred to Capitol Hill as “Israeli-occupied territory.” (St. Louis Post Dispatch, 10/20/90)

During the Gulf crisis: “There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East — the Israeli defense ministry and its ‘amen corner’ in the United States.” (”McLaughlin Group,” 8/26/90)

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)

Writing of “group fantasies of martyrdom,” Buchanan challenged the historical record that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by diesel exhaust at Treblinka: “Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.” (New Republic, 10/22/90) Buchanan’s columns have run in the Liberty Lobby’s Spotlight, the German-American National PAC newsletter and other publications that claim Nazi death camps are a Zionist concoction.

Buchanan called for closing the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which prosecuted Nazi war criminals, because it was “running down 70-year-old camp guards.” (New York Times, 4/21/87)

Buchanan was vehement in pushing President Reagan — despite protests — to visit Germany’s Bitburg cemetery, where Nazi SS troops were buried. At a White House meeting, Buchanan reportedly reminded Jewish leaders that they were “Americans first” — and repeatedly scrawled the phrase “Succumbing to the pressure of the Jews” in his notebook. Buchanan was credited with crafting Ronald Reagan’s line that the SS troops buried at Bitburg were “victims just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.” (New York Times, 5/16/85; New Republic, 1/22/96)

After Cardinal O’Connor criticized anti-Semitism during the controversy over construction of a convent near Auschwitz, Buchanan wrote: “If U.S. Jewry takes the clucking appeasement of the Catholic cardinalate as indicative of our submission, it is mistaken. When Cardinal O’Connor of New York seeks to soothe the always irate Elie Wiesel by reassuring him ‘there are many Catholics who are anti-Semitic’...he speaks for himself. Be not afraid, Your Eminence; just step aside, there are bishops and priests ready to assume the role of defender of the faith.” (New Republic, 10/22/90)

The Buchanan ‘96 campaign’s World Wide Web site included an article blaming the death of White House aide Vincent Foster on the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad — and alleging that Foster and Hillary Clinton were Mossad spies. (The campaign removed the article after its existence was reported by a Jewish on-line news service; Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2/21/96.)

[Revolting cat!]

Buchanan has a corner in the salon of the commentariat, a unique position like each and everyone of them. If he abandoned it, he’d either have to find himself another hobby horse or lose the gig altogether. It’s little more than a game. Giggling all the way to the bank, bank on it!

Oh, and the anti-semitism angle is another profitable corner and gig out there.

By the way, is Pajamas Media Pajama Boy’s tribune?

[x]

Ezola Foster was never a Communist.

Please don't purvey stupid lies any further.

If she follows the site -- and she may -- she might want to consult with her attorney.

[rmlew]

As someone who defended Pat Buchanan in 2000 and debated for him at Columbia and is not a neoconservative, let me make it clear to you, Pat Buchanan is an antisemite. He sees Jewish conspiracies and blames them for almost everything he hates. Unwilling to deal with the reality of Islamic goals of subjugating America, he fantacizes and lies about Jews and Israel. And he has created a fictional history to defend Hitler and other Nazis.
One can easily oppose American foreign policy, neoconservatives, or Israeli policies without being an antisemite. Pat Buchanan never cared not to be.

[rmlew]

You are confusing Ezola Foster with Lenora Fulani. Do all Black women look and sound alike to you?