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Culture Wars Nearly Lost, Buchanan Warns
Newsmax ^ | 1/10/2001 | Wes Vernon

Posted on 01/14/2002 9:23:05 AM PST by baxter999

Culture Wars Nearly Lost, Buchanan Warns Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Thursday, Jan. 10, 2002

Editor's note: This is part four in a series on Pat Buchanan's new book, "The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil our Country and Civilization." Also read Western Civilization Is on the Way Out, Where Have All the Children Gone? and Failure to Control Borders Causes 'Death of the West.'

WASHINGTON – "Americans who look on this cultural revolution as politics as usual do not understand it,” Pat Buchanan writes in his new book, "The Death of the West.”

It means an end to the country we love, he asserts.

Those who seek to de-Christianize America, and who seek to demonize America’s heroes, trash our history and condemn our folk ways are not just presenting another "political opinion.” These people, or at least those who presume to speak for them, are revolutionaries.

Buchanan quotes that "budding social revolutionary Adolf Hitler” as saying, "Strength lies not in defense, but in attack.”

We used to think the only people within our borders who would tear down our country carried Communist Party cards or sported a long line of communist-front affiliations. Not so, although there’s a little overlap amongst a few of the older present-day revolutionaries. But this is the counterculture of the 1960s taking off where Lenin’s failed revolution left off.

"We will steal your children!” the '60s radicals howled at Middle America. "They did,” Buchanan says.

A whole generation has now grown up for whom the cultural revolution is no revolution at all, says the author, "but a culture they were born into and have known all their lives. Public homosexuality, pornography, abortion, trash talk on TV and in the movies, and filthy lyrics in popular music have been around since before they can remember.”

During the Hitler-Stalin war of 1939-1945, there were plenty of documentaries showing how Nazi Germany was aiming its propaganda at the children because it believed if it could control the children, it would control the future. But we could not imagine that it could happen here.

The cultural revolution cannot be appeased, warns the author. "Its relentless, reckless use of terms like extremist, sexist, homophobe, nativist, xenophobe, fascist, and Nazi testifies to how seriously it takes the struggle and how it views those who resist. To true believers in the revolution, the Right is not just wrong; the Right is evil.”

No person of good will enjoys being demonized night after night on television. No one wants to be branded as "insensitive," "mean-spirited,” or any of the other trigger words hurled at Middle America. So the party of Middle America seeks to emphasize that it too is "compassionate,” that it too believes in "the politics of inclusion.”

Of course, there is nothing wrong with "compassionate conservatism.” But there are those who would argue that compassion is the very essence of conservatism, as Ronald Reagan clearly showed when he pursued policies that created 20 million jobs and brought down the "Evil Empire.” What could be more "compassionate” than that?

As for America’s past, this from Buchanan: "Western Man was one of the many villains, but Western Man was also the only hero. For the West did not invent slavery, but it alone abolished slavery.” Again, what could be more "compassionate” than that?

The author thinks too many in Middle America have become too defensive.

"The intimidators failed with Clarence Thomas but succeeded with some conservatives who, like defeated peoples, no longer make demands. They just want to get along. But, in a culture war, where the other side is always making demands, and the other side is always ready to fight, this translates into endless retreats and eventual defeat.”

Buchanan’s prescription for the GOP’s political success? "Go hunting where the ducks are.” If the Republicans can raise their share of the vote by appealing to their base, he says, the GOP can regain its majority.

The bottom line: "If the GOP would come out for an end to the racial preferences and a moratorium on immigration, and appeal to the great silent majority, as Democrats appeal to minorities, the party’s chances in national elections could not but improve.”

And just in case anyone missed the point, there is this warning: "The Gore-Nader three-million-vote margin over Bush-Cheney may be the last wake-up call the Republican party will receive.”


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To: Cachelot
Sorry, but I should have used the plural in my reply. You made false statements. AOL is still a better forum for your fascist comments.
61 posted on 01/14/2002 10:40:05 AM PST by baxter999
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To: baxter999
Buchanan is plenty well-respected and is a best-selling author, and well-paid commentator. Prima facie evidence that your view is wrong. Regards.

Your criteria for arguing against the public perception of "Buchanan as wacko" are not particularly convincing. For example, the term "well-respected" is extremely vague (respected by whom?).

As for success as author and commentator, there is no functional difference between Buchanan and Ralph Nader, except that Pat got significantly fewer votes than Ralph Nader.

Of the two men, Nader is equally "well-respected" (among a certain sector of society), and is historically much more effective. He, too, is (or was) a best-selling writer and well-paid commentator.

Nader and Buchanan also occupy the same basic niche with respect to their respective political parties and, interestingly, say a lot of the same things.

All of this is quite simply beside the fact that Buchanan really is regarded by the general public, and actively portrayed by the media, as a wacko.

Pat Buchanan is damaged goods. Whatever their actual merits, his ideas are tainted by the fact that they're his.

62 posted on 01/14/2002 10:42:24 AM PST by r9etb
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To: All
As a former supporter of PJB, someone who I now would not vote for, he is correct about one thing: the culture war, at least for the moment, is lost. Although this could be reversed, most Americans have chosen the secular way, even most so-called conservatives, as the above posts prove. JC is not the focal point of most lives, even of most Christians. When the end comes, those that now chose secularism will love the Antichrist, let him put a "666" on their arms/foreheads with nary a protest, in order for them to buy, sell, hold a job, (and don't think that you won't; in that day, it will be death or the system, and all you self-professed anti-religious "conservatives" on here will be the first in line for your new "tattoo"). So revel in your anti-religious, anti-Christian nonsense while you can. PJB is wrong about much, but absolutely correct on this one item. The ultra-leftists of the 60s have poisoned even the conservatives of today, and unless a miracle occurs, the USA will be a faint carbon copy of it's once decent self, a cesspool of leftists and their conservative allies.....
63 posted on 01/14/2002 10:43:20 AM PST by Malcolm
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To: Cachelot
Read the book, plenty of refutations there. If you had even bothered to read the opening article you would see Buchanan quoting Hitler as the embodiment of the evil forces trying to destroy our civilization.

There, you're proven wrong. Does that make you willing to read the book and think about the ideas in it? Somehow, I don't think so, but I may be wrong.

64 posted on 01/14/2002 10:43:58 AM PST by baxter999
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To: baxter999
". I personally have never met Mr. Buchanan, but several people whom I admire have spent considerable time with Mr. Buchanan and say he is a wonderful man who is willing to do everything he can to be pro-american. "

By Jove you have it. Pat is for America first. That is why those for England or Israel first give Pat the Goebbels treatment.

65 posted on 01/14/2002 10:44:01 AM PST by ex-snook
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To: baxter999
What do other Freepers think, and how do we save our country?

I would submit that we need to pay attention more to our own children and our own responsibility to raise them correctly and less to debating public policy and looking to government to be the answer. The children will determine whether the country is saved or not.

67 posted on 01/14/2002 10:52:35 AM PST by Protagoras
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To: baxter999
Sorry, but I should have used the plural in my reply. You made false statements

Oh? Again, which one of them? And false in what way? Can you support what you're saying in any substantial way whatsoever, except for your personal faith that Patso is not the kind of person I think he is?

You can chew on this while you think:

In light of Pat Buchanan's recent strong showing in the Iowa, Louisiana and New Hampshire Republican presidential primaries, the following information regarding his personal and political views of Jews and the Holocaust are extremely relevant.
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FAIR Report:
PATRICK BUCHANAN -- IN HIS OWN WORDS
February 26, 1996                           Contact: Steven Rendall

     In the flap over Larry Pratt and other unsavory characters associated 
with the Patrick Buchanan campaign, journalists typically framed the 
question: Is Buchanan linked to extremists and bigots?  But there is a 
more basic question journalists should ask: Is Patrick Buchanan himself 
an extremist and bigot?

Here is a sampling of Buchanan's views:

ON AFRICAN-AMERICANS

     After Sen. Carol Moseley Braun blocked a federal patent for a
Confederate flag insignia, Buchanan wrote that she was "putting on an act"
by associating the Confederacy with slavery: "The War Between the States
was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a
people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give
allegiance,"  Buchanan asserted.  "How long is this endless groveling
before every cry of'racism' going to continue before the whole country
collectively throws up?" (syndicated column, 7/28/93)

     On race relations in the late 1940s and early 1950s: "There were no
politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes' of 
Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses,
playgrounds and churches; and we had ours." (Right from the Beginning,
Buchanan's 1988 autobiography, p. 131)

     Buchanan, who opposed virtually every civil rights law and court
decision of the last 30 years, published FBI smears of Martin Luther King
Jr. as his own editorials in the St. Louis Globe Democrat in the mid-1960s.
"We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people," he boasted (Right
from the Beginning, p. 283).

White House advisor Buchanan urged President Nixon in an April 1969
memo not to visit "the Widow King" on the first anniversary of Martin
Luther King's assassination, warning that a visit would "outrage many, many
people who believe Dr. King was a fraud and a demagogue and perhaps
worse.... Others consider him the Devil incarnate. Dr. King is one of the
most divisive men in contemporary history." (New York Daily News, 10/1/90)

     In a memo to President Nixon, Buchanan suggested that "integration of
blacks and whites -- but even more so, poor and well-to-do -- is less
likely to result in accommodation than it is in perpetual friction, as the
incapable are placed consciously by government side by side with the
capable." (Washington Post, 1/5/92)

     In another memo from Buchanan to Nixon: "There is a legitimate
grievance in my view of white working-class people that every time, on
every issue, that the black militants loud-mouth it, we come up with more
money.... If we can give 50 Phantoms [jet fighters] to the Jews, and a
multi-billion dollar welfare program for the blacks...why not help the
Catholics save their collapsing school system." (Boston Globe, 1/4/92)


     Buchanan has repeatedly insisted that President Reagan did so much
for African-Americans that civil rights groups have no reason to exist:
"George Bush should have told the [NAACP convention] that black America 
has grown up; that the NAACP should close up shop, that its members should
go home and reflect on JFK's admonition: 'Ask not what your country can do
for you, but rather ask what you can do for your country.'" (syndicated
column, 7/26/88)

     In a column sympathetic to ex-Klansman David Duke, Buchanan chided
the Republican Party for overreacting to Duke and his Nazi "costume": "Take
a hard look at Duke's portfolio of winning issues and expropriate those not
in conflict with GOP principles, [such as] reverse discrimination against
white folks." (syndicated column, 2/25/89)

     Trying to justify apartheid in South Africa, he denounced the notion
that "white rule of a black majority is inherently wrong.  Where did we get
that idea?  The Founding Fathers did not believe this." (syndicated column,
2/7/90) He referred admiringly to the apartheid regime as the "Boer
Republic": "Why are Americans collaborating in a U.N. conspiracy to ruin
her with sanctions?"
(syndicated column, 9/17/89)

ON IMMIGRANTS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR:

     "There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue
that we are a European country." (Newsday, 11/15/92)

     Buchanan on affirmative action: "How, then, can the feds justify
favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World
War II or Vietnam?" (syndicated column, 1/23/95)

     In a September 1993 speech to the Christian Coalition, Buchanan
described multiculturalism as "an across-the-board assault on our
Anglo-American heritage."

     "If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year,
or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to
assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?"
("This Week With David Brinkley," 1/8/91)

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.)

     In his September 1993 speech to the Christian Coalition, Buchanan
declared: "Our culture is superior.  Our culture is superior because our
religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free." (ADL
Report, 1994)

ON GAYS:

     In a 1972 memo to Richard Nixon, Buchanan referred to one of George
McGovern's leading financial contributors as a "screaming fairy." (Newsday,
2/8/89)  Buchanan has repeatedly used the term "sodomites," and has
referred to gays as "the pederast proletariat." (Washington Post, 2/9/92)

     "Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only
immoral, but filthy.  The reason public men rarely say aloud what
most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by
an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence
and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle."
(syndicated column, 9/3/89)

     In a 1977 column urging a "thrashing" of gay groups, Buchanan wrote:
"Homosexuality is not a civil right.  Its rise almost always is
accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a
collapse of its basic cinder block, the family." (New Republic, 3/30/92)

     "Gay rights activists seek to substitute, for laws rooted in Judeo-
Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all
consensual sexual acts are morally equal.  That belief is anti-biblical 
and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie." (Buchanan column 
in Wall Street Journal, 1/21/93)

     On AIDS, Buchanan wrote in 1983: "The poor homosexuals -- they have
declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution
(AIDS)." (Los Angeles Times, 11/28/86)  Later that year, he demanded that
New York City Ed Koch and New York Gov. Mario Cuomo cancel the Gay Pride
Parade or else "be held personally responsible for the spread of the AIDS
plague."  "With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear
literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide," Buchanan wrote in 1990
(syndicated column, 10/17/90).  In the 1992 campaign, he declared: "AIDS is
nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature." (Seattle Times,
7/31/93)

ON WOMEN:

     "Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not
endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and 
the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western
capitalism." (syndicated column, 11/22/83)

     "The real liberators of American women were not the feminist
noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping
center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer." (Right from the
Beginning, p. 149)

     "If a woman has come to believe that divorce is the answer to every
difficult marriage, that career comes before children .. no democratic
government can impose another set of values upon her." (Right from the
Beginning, p. 341)

ON DEMOCRACY:

     Attacking what he considers the "democratist temptation, the worship
of democracy as a form of governance," Buchanan commented: "Like all
idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of
process for a love of country." (Patrick J. Buchanan: From the Right,
newsletter, Spring/90)

     In a January, 1991 column, Buchanan suggested that "quasi-dictatorial
rule" might be the solution to the problems of big municipalities and the
federal fiscal crisis: "If the people are corrupt, the more democracy, the
worse the government." (Washington Times, 1/9/91)  He has written
disparagingly of the "one man, one vote Earl Warren system."

     In Right from the Beginning, Buchanan refers to Spanish dictator
Francisco Franco as a "Catholic savior."  He called Franco, along with
Chile's Gen. Pinochet, "soldier-patriots."  (syndicated column 9/17/89)
Both men overthrew democracy in their countries.

     Buchanan devotes a chapter of his autobiography -- "As We Remember
Joe" -- to defending Senator Joe McCarthy. He advocated that Nixon "burn
the tapes" during Watergate, and he criticized Reagan for failing to pardon
Oliver North over Iran-contra.

     Buchanan, shortly before he announced he was running for president
in 1995: "You just wait until 1996, then you'll see a real right-wing
tyrant." (The Nation, 6/26/95)

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     Several months ago all major newspapers and television network 
news programs in the U.S. carried the report of an incident which occurred
at a political rally where Buchanan was the principal speaker.  The
newsgroup, soc.culture.jewish provided the following synopsis by Judy
Balint:

Subject: Buchanan aides beat up Jewish protestors
Date: 20 Mar 1995 13:06:34 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)

March 20, 1995 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact Judy Balint 718-884-8499.


JEWISH ANTI-BUCHANAN PROTESTORS BEATEN AND KICKED AT CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF
RALLY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE 

Three members of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha demonstrating
against Pat Buchanan's anti-Semitism and bigotry were beaten, kicked and
thrown down stairs by Buchanan security guards and campaign workers in
Manchester NH this morning.

The three,  rabbinical student David Kalb, and college students Moshe Maoz
and Ronn Torossian were part of a CJC-Amcha group who jumped on the stage
as Buchanan was announcing his intention to run for President on the
Republican ticket in 1996.  Carrying signs saying, "Pat = Duke Without the
Sheets" and "Buchanan is a racist" the three were shoved, pushed to the
ground and beaten while Buchanan looked on.

Even after it was established that the CJC-Amcha activists were unarmed,
Buchanan guards pushed and dragged the students down three flights of
stairs and outside to the parking lot of the building where they continued
to beat, punch and kick the three until Manchester police officers
intervened and threatened to arrest Buchanan's campaign director.

Kalb, Torrosian and Maoz sustained bruises, scratches, a black eye and
ripped clothing in the attack.

The group is pressing assault charges against the Buchanan campaign at the
Manchester police department. "We hope that the rest of the campaign will
not be conducted in this manner," said Judy Balint, national director of
the New York-based Jewish activist group.    "There must be a place for
peaceful protest against anti-Semitism and bigotry without the fear of
being beaten by paid goons,"  she asserted.  "It was clear our protestors
were unarmed and had no intention of causing Buchanan any physical
harm--the treatment they received was completely unwarranted."

"Today's protest was to expose Buchanan's record of continued support for
accused Nazi war criminals including Klaus Barbie; Buchanan's "doubts
about whether Jews were gassed at Treblinka," his lauding of Hitler,
calling him "an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the
Great War" and "a leader steeped in the history of Europe." Buchanan
referred to Capitol Hill as "Israel's occupied territory," and has called
the American pro-Israel lobby, Israel's "amen corner in the US." 
Buchanan's comments raise the specter of a Jewish conspiracy and his other
deplorable comments include a statement made in 1992 that "only Israel and
American Jews wanted war in the Persian Gulf" and suggested that the Jews
would send non-Jews to fight the war,"  noted Ronn Torossian and David
Kalb.

"Our position is that even if you agree with every one of Buchanan's
programs, if he is an anti-Semite and a defender of Nazis that would make
it immoral for any decent American to vote for him," said National
president of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha, Rabbi Avi Weiss. 

CJC-AMCHA activists followed Buchanan on the campaign trail in 1992 and
were verbally and physically assaulted in New Hampshire, Georgia, Rhode
Island and Massachussetts by Buchanan supporters. In Marietta, Georgia in
answer to Rabbi Weiss' accusation that he is a racist, Buchanan said,
"This is a rally for Americans, by American's in the good 'ole USA." The
following day the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish
Committee declared the statement a clear indication of Buchanan's
anti-Semitism.
 
"As Pat Buchanan campaigns for the Republican nomination, we will campaign
against his bigotry and anti-Semitism everywhere he goes," the CJC-Amcha
group declared.

                          *************************

     On Saturday, February 24, 1996, Professor Stephen Feinberg (University
of Minnesota) posted the following piece to the Holocaust Discussion
Group:

To: Multiple recipients of list HOLOCAUS 
Subject: Pat Buchanan, the Jews & the Holocaust

From: Stephen Feinstein 


PATRICK BUCHANAN:  IN HIS OWN WORDS

 *  Buchanan told Elie Wiesel that President Reagan must not surrender to
"Jewish pressure" against visiting  Bitburg, a German cemetery where SS men
were buried.  In a White House meeting with Jewish leaders, Buchanan
reminded them that they were "Americans first," as fellow staffer Ed
Rollins later recounted to Reagan biographer Lou Cannon. Buchanan
repreatedly scrawled the phrase "Succumbing to the pressure of the Jews" on
his notepad during the meeting.

 *  In 1990 William Buckley, Buchanan's former mentor, wrote a 20,000 word
essay on Buchanan that concluded: "I find it impossible to defend Pat
Buchanan against the charge" of anti-Semitism.

 *  Buchanan has called Hitler a "man of great courage" and extraordinary
gifts."

 *  On ABC Nightline, March 11, 1992, Buchanan told anchorman, Chris
Wallace: "I'm one of the few people in this city, Chris, who's had the guts
to stand up to the agenda of the special interests, whether it's the civil
rights lobbyist or the AIPAC lobby or the gay rights lobby, and say that
their agenda is not in the interest of a good society and not in the
interest of my country."

 *  In a March 13, 1991 syndicated column Buchanan called Israel "a
strategic albatross draped around the neck of the United States."

 *  In an interview in Present Tense magazine, Buchanan stated that "if my
friends in the Jewish community feel Pat Buchanan, a traditionalist
Catholic, owes some kind of apology for the record of the Holy Father
during World War II, they can wait, because it's not going to be
forthcoming."

 *  In the Chicago Sun Times of March 1989, Buchanan criticized the West
for ostracizing Kurt Waldheim.  Buchanan rationalized,"like others in
Hitler's army, Lt. Waldheim looked the other way." (Previously, as
Secretary General of the United Nations, Waldheim had been an object of
Buchanan's scorn).

* On The McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990:
"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."

 * In Newsweek, December 23, 1991, Jonathan Alter writes that in 1983
Buchanan criticized the US government for expressing regret over its
postwar protection of Klaus Barbie.

 * In 1985 Buchanan advocated restoring citizenship of Arthur Rudolph, an
ex-Nazi rocket scientist

 * In 1987 Buchanan lobbied to stop deportation of Karl Linnas, accused of
Nazi atrocities in Estonia.

 * In a March 17, 1990 column, Buchanan wrote that it was impossible for
850,000 Jews to be killed by diesel exhaust fed into the gas chamber at
Treblinka. "Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill
anybody."  According to Jacob Weisberg in his article "The Heresies of Pat
Buchanan," October 22, 1990, The New Republic, "Buchanan stands by his
bizarre claim about the diesel engines but refuses to discuss it on the
record.  Suffice it to say that he embraces a bolder debunking claim than
he is yet willing to endorse in print...Where did he get the anecdote
("proving" his assertion about the diesel)? 'Somebody sent it to me.'
"Buchanan's source was almost certainly the July 1988 issue of a Newsletter
of the German American Information and Education Association--a known
Holocaust denial group which quotes extensively from a story of
schoolchildren who emerged unharmed after being exposed to diesel fumes
while trapped in a train tunnel.

 * On March 2, 1992, at a campaign rally in Marietta, Georgia, where Rabbi
Avi Weiss called out, "Your anti-Semitism makes America last," Buchanan
shot back, "This rally is of Americans, for Americans and for the good 'ole
USA, my friends."

 * In the New York Post, March 17, 1990,Buchanan referred to a"so called
Holocaust survivors syndrome" which he described as involving"group
fantasies of martyrdom and heroics."

 *Buchanan was a featured columnist for The Spotlight, a patently
anti-Semitic and anti-Black publication that championed David Duke.

 *  Former Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes writes of Buchanan in his
memoirs, 'Speaking Out,' "..he (Buchanan) was so blindly reactionary."

 * Buchanan repeatedly referred to Capitol Hill as "Israeli occupied
territory." (McLaughlin Report, June 1990)

 * On February 4, 1987 in The Washington Post, Buchanan wrote: "Dr. Martin
Luther King is one of the most divisive men in contemporary history..." In
an earlier article in the Globe-Democrat, Buchanan wrote that King was
"sometimes demagogic and irresponsible in his public statements."

 * In a January  16, 1986 column, Buchanan wrote:" But apartheid is not
the worst situation facing Africans today.  Not remotely.  If it were, they
wouldn't be pouring into South Africa from such "liberated" zones as
Mozambique."

 * In 1990, before the Gulf War, Buchanan wrote that if the US went to
war, "the fighting would be done by kids with names like McAllister,
Murphy, Gonzales and Leroy Brown." The National Review (December 30, 1991)
commented that "There is no way to read that sentence without concluding
that Pat Buchanan was suggesting that American Jews manage to avoid
personal military exposure even while advancing military policies they
(uniquely?) engender."

Comments? Do you need more Patso-words?

68 posted on 01/14/2002 10:56:10 AM PST by Cachelot
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To: Aristophanes
I agree that many of the Catholic schools have degraded into something more resembling a public school of 20 years ago - though most are no where near as bad as the nearby public schools are.

There are some good Catholic schools out there though. Perhaps not in your diocese, but all it takes is one good parish opening a school. Not a small task unfortunately, but it is highly likely that as soon as word gets our an orthodox parish is opening a school, that school will be filled to the brim.

patent

69 posted on 01/14/2002 10:58:08 AM PST by patent
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To: baxter999
Does that make you willing to read the book and think about the ideas in it

Of course. And of course Pat may have said that Hitler was a bad, bad person - here. Elsewhere, as you can see, he has left his options open. Frankly, the guy is obviously right in some sentences (which really doesn't take much) but I wouldn't trust him farther than I could throw him. Much better to debate the issues and leave Pat out of it. His personal baggage makes him political anathema.

70 posted on 01/14/2002 11:03:53 AM PST by Cachelot
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To: baxter999
he is a wonderful man who is willing to do everything he can to be pro-american

And that's where the definition of "Pro-American" is in question. I'm sure he is a wonderful person on a personal basis. Most people are "just folks" if you interact with them on a one-to-one basis. I've actually agreed with a few of his ideas, but from a wholistic political viewpoint, I think he is a wacko. Heck, I even found a view or two of Clinton (as badly as I detested him) that I agreed with, although it was few and far between. Isolationism in this day and age will not wash. His views on trade scare me. Like it or not this is a global economy. Extremists on the left and the right need to realize that extreme positions do not profit the whole. And when a politician runs, if he's going to be successful and truly serve the people (I know--that's an oxymoron in this day of politics) he/she cannot serve extremes or be one issue politicians. Pat has never appealed to the masses and will not because he's always on the extreme.
72 posted on 01/14/2002 11:13:03 AM PST by Ptaz
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To: Either/Or
"I believe you are winning Buchanan new recruits by posting those comments. Seriously, on a conservative forum do you really think any one is going to be put off by quotes from Buchanan denouncing Carol Mosley-Braun, the NAACP, MLK or the Amen Corner? "

He just proves that if you scratch the surface of a Buchanan hater, you will find an Israel firster. 1996? Interesting this dossier keeping business.

73 posted on 01/14/2002 11:14:07 AM PST by ex-snook
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To: Either/Or
Thanks for your service to the Righteous Cause, Cachelot.

Oh, it was so little. When you're posting proof that someone has a bond to ol' Adolph, you have to expect a few bugs to be crawling outa the woodwork and into his drawers. The important thing is that the net exchange goes the other way :)).

74 posted on 01/14/2002 11:17:10 AM PST by Cachelot
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To: Cachelot
In a desperate, ridiculous attempt to brand Buchanan as some racist buffoon, your post only makes his words and the truth shine even brighter.
76 posted on 01/14/2002 11:22:07 AM PST by ServesURight
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To: Timesink
I disagree totally. We are entering what some are beginning to call the "Post-PC Era," with people beginning to stand up and fight - successfully - against attacks on our culture.

I hope you are right. In the post 9/11 world this could become a trend. That certainly was a wake-up call as to where PC has taken us as a nation.

77 posted on 01/14/2002 11:23:54 AM PST by WRhine
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To: ex-snook
He just proves that if you scratch the surface of a Buchanan hater, you will find an Israel firster.

Now, where did I mention Israel? Is Patso's antisemitism even over-represented in that stinkheap of racial bias and galloping bigotry his own statements form? Your statement says as much about yourself, I'm afraid, as this collection of quotes says aboyt Buchanan :).

1996? Interesting this dossier keeping business.

Are you sort of slow or something? Dossier?? Go to google and do a search for your hero. You'll find enough manure to gag a brontosaur. The net is a big place. And it doesn't forget.

79 posted on 01/14/2002 11:27:33 AM PST by Cachelot
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To: VJI1
One of the things you can do is get your kids out of their brainwashing camps. Visit www.sepschool.org.

Actually, one of the most descriptive examples of liberal brainwashing in school involved a parochial school. The Separation of School and State people don't like to deal with that little conundrum.

80 posted on 01/14/2002 11:31:29 AM PST by ikanakattara
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