[sauropod]

The association of a former Buchanan aide with Holocaust-deniers is particularly noteworthy in view of Buchanan’s own troubling positions concerning Hitler and the Holocaust. He has written that 850,000 Jews could not have been gassed in Treblinka because “diesel engines do not emit enough carbon dioxide to kill anybody”; he spoke out on behalf of accused Nazi war criminals Karl Linnas and Arthur Rudolph; he wrote columns defending Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk; he described Hitler as “an individual of great courage”; and he mocked Holocaust survivors’ memories as “group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.” (The New Republic, Oct.15 and Oct.22, 1990) In his 1999 book, A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argued that the U.S. should not have gone to war against Nazi Germany.

Cheap shots and unconnected smears.

I am not a big fan of Pat anymore (mainly for economic and populist reasons) but this drivel is only worthy of Michael Moore. I am familiar w/ most of the quotes alluded to. From what I remember, his defense of Demjanjuk was rational and conservative. This is tripe of the worst order.

This smacks of a Dershowitz hit-and-run.

[steve-b]

From what I remember, his defense of Demjanjuk was rational and conservative.

Er, no. A case for that assertion could be made if Buchanan had a record of defending a wide variety of people accused of crimes. His actual record is, shall we say, more selective.

[Fatalis]

From what I remember, his defense of Demjanjuk was rational and conservative.

Only in that Demjanjuk was misidentified as Ivan the Terrible. He was a different guard in a different death camp.

[SJackson]

From what I remember, his defense of Demjanjuk was rational and conservative.

Pat's defense rested largely on his opinion that Demjanjuk was a pretty good guy, and so what if he lied about being a prison camp guard, illegal immigrants deserve amnesty, at least a select few. Same thing Pat said about Karl Linnas and other Nazis. And no, Demjanjuk wasn't Ivan the terrible, but he was a camp guard as every court involved in the case has determined. His contension that it's a worse miscariage of justice than Alfred Dreyfus is ludicrous, Dreyfus was guilty of nothing.