"You continue to talk as if Pat is arguing with a Jewsih person. You continue to play the "antisemitism" card. It's easier to smear an articulate opponent than to actually engage and refute his arguments."
This is easy... Jews are centered at the heart of almost EVERY problem pat bloviates about. I just did a Google search comprised of "Anti Semitic remarks by Pat Buchanan". Wow!
Are you denying that buchanan is an anti Semite? I think that the evidence that he is an anti Semite is voluminous, and spans decades. No less than William F. Buckley himself has written on the subject. He wrote an article that appeared in the National Review (no lib rag BTW), December 30, 1991, accusing buchanan of exactly this.
I do not have an on-line subscription to the archives of that publication, but I did find a link to a message by someone who lifted direct quotes from the article. Google has page after page of articles and quotes covering this very subject. Most comments come from Conservatives distancing themselves from this impostor.
I have provided the link to the post, and excerpts from the article.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/b/buchanan-pat/buckley-1991.html William Buckley's essay in the National Review, In Search of Anti-Semitism, dated December 30, 1991.
In the article, Buckley concludes that Pat Buchanan was ... "a Gentile who said things about Jews that could not reasonably be interpreted as other than anti- Semitic in tone and in substance."
Buckley quoted TV comments regarding the Persian Gulf War in which Buchanan said, "'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.'" Buckley called this "a massive inaccuracy, namely that 'only' two specified groups favored military action against Hussein."
Buckley also writes, "again on television, (Buchanan) came in with the wisecrack that Congress was 'Israeli- occupied' territory."
Buckley adds that Buchanan "pronounced the names of four important men who influence public policy, whom he identified with the hyper-bellicose wing of the anti-Saddam forces. They were. . . A.M. Rosenthal ... Richard Perk ... Charles Krauthammer ... and Henry Kissinger." Buckley says that the most conspicuous thing they have in common is that they are all Jewish.
Buckley continued, "Pat Buchanan went on to write that if we went to war, the fighting would be done by 'kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales, and Leroy Brown.' 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."
Buckley says that in the ensuing controversy, "Buchanan told a reporter from Time magazine, 'I don't retract a single word'."
Individually, Buckley says, these comments could possibly be defended, but, taken together, they present a clear pattern of anti-Semitism. The comments suggest that the Jewish lobby unduly influences American foreign policy and this can inflame resentment against Jews.
I was further concerned upon hearing about the bulletin in the news today that Buchanan's campaign manager had just resigned because he had been speaking to Aryan and militia groups. Once again, this could be defended by Buchanan by saying he didn't know anything about it. But the pattern speaks for itself. And why would these groups seek to support Pat Buchanan? Does he vocalize the opinions of these hate groups?
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I've certainly seen Buchanan described as an antisemite. But it's a word that is very seldom defined by those who wield it against him. -- like "racist", in Jesse Jackson's vocabulary, the failure to define makes it easier to use against people for vague and unspecified reasons.
How do you define the word, "antisemitic"? Does opposing the Iraq war make one "antisemitic"? If so, why? And if so, does that mean Pope John Paul II was antisemitic, because he opposed the Iraq invasion as vehemently as Buchanan did.