Pat Buchanan Finally Called "White Supremacist" On-Air

There's so much fun to be had playing with the race card! And our media is only now getting around to the most fun games, like say the one that starts with a reasonable discussion on the stance of the Congressional Black Caucus, only to veer wildly off the rails and reach a point where Pat Buchanan is shouting, "I want equality!" Bill Press had to play the role of "normal human being" and tell Buchanan that "white people are not discriminated against in this country...get over it!" Then he called Buchanan a "white supremacist" while Tucker Carlson clapped and cheered and forgot all about how that mean comedian once told him he was hurting America. Later, Buchanan went home and settled in for an evening of reading through his collection of Ron Paul Newsletters. So it goes!

Comments

[dax49]

07:57 PM on 01/19/2008

To GREGJONES: are you seriously quoting robert novak, with his little bitty pecker and his great big thrist? pat buchanan has always been a racist, that is why he and super-geek tucker carlson were laughing. it saved them both from stating the truth of the matter.

[gregjones]

12:15 PM on 01/19/2008

Should Hillary Apologize to Blacks ?????
Blacks Learning 'Goldwater Girl' Hillary Was AGAINST
the Civil Rights Act of 1964....Feel Deceived !

An article by Washington columnist Robert Novak (Google: 'Hillary, King, Goldwater) reveals that Hillary Clinton was a staunch supporter of Sen. Barry Goldwater (who was adamently against the civil rights act and a segregationist) during the same period she claims in all black church appearances that she was for the civil rights movement. Blacks feel that it was impossible for Hillary to have been a Goldwater Girl and pro civil rights at the same time which leads to the assumption that Ms. Clinton is re-inventing her past. Many blacks feel deceived by The Clintons. Should Hillary Clinton make a public apology to blacks ?

[acudoc]

04:28 PM on 01/18/2008

Ron Paul: There are no black rights, no women's rights, no gay rights----there are only individual rights.

That says it all. Our Constitution, with all its amendments, now protects the rights of every individual American. It does not propose that everyone be made economically equal; the forced egalitarianism, to which we are tending today and which is failing utterly, could not have happened unless we were prepared to give the Federal Government unconstitutional authority, and this is exactly what our corrupt politicians have allowed to happen over the lifetime of our (former) Republic. Downsize government before it is too late. You cannot legislate wealth, you cannot legislate away the wrongs of previous generations, you cannot force a bigot to love the ethnic group he or she opposes. The only thing that can be done by government is the protection of the individual against predation. And that alone is enough to generate peace and prosperity, as opposed to the divisiveness of the perverted political process.

[Sacsile]

03:32 PM on 01/18/2008

Go Press! I love to see white men stand their own ground and stand up for what is right! I personally think a lot of white males are tired of playing the game. A lot of white men just go with the status quo..even when they feel differently. I think this campaign has made a lot of them feel free to speak their minds now! I Love it!
Yes, Buchanan is a racist.....he didn't say anything that wasn't well known.

[chirps]

02:52 PM on 01/18/2008

Nonsense.

[outnow]

01:45 PM on 01/18/2008

I am beginning to think that Democrats should redefine what our party is about. We can all agree that we don't like George W. Bush, for example, but being against something in a Hobbsian sense is not the same as being for something.

Our country is multi-ethnic and multi-racial. The Cold War was great for many politicians because they defined themselves as being against something. But what were they really for?

It turns out that the free market was elevated to a non-secular God. It was supposedly "free" and that word "free" means freedom and liberty, right? Well, not quite.

It turns out that the security documents that govern our countries strategic defense are rooted in aggressive economic and commercial concerns that often place the economic interests of multi-national corporations above those of the citizens. An example would be the the interests of ITT in installing General Augusto Pinochet or the interest of British Petroleum in installing the Shah of Iran.

Are we in favor of protecting domestic manufacturing in the United States? Or should the interests of investment bankers trump our domestic citizens and their jobs?

I am for following the founding fathers' vision of an America with a healthy middle class with a strong manufacturing base. I am for a limited foreign policy without the 1,000 military bases we now support. I am for a strong dollar not based on a non-sustainable petro-economy that drags us into every Middle Eastern conflict. I am also for eliminating the nuclear arms race.

The vision of John Edwards is closest to what America needs to go forward. Systemic change, not cosmetic change is needed. Economic reform is key.

[MajorKong]

01:07 PM on 01/18/2008

"The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not." - Pat Buchanan

I don't agree with Pat very much, but he sure nailed it here.

[dawlishgal]

12:54 PM on 01/18/2008

Good for Press. I wonder if he was listening this morning when Scarborough was trying to explain the states' rights position re the SC flag flying from public buildings. Huckabee was all for it, apparently. My own feeling is that if SC continues to depend on federal public handouts (way more to them than they actually pay in, to the point of the relationship being a parasitic one), then they had better get a little more FEDERAL in the matter of NOT flying their bigotry from the tops of their public buildings.

GAWD, I wish the whole damn south would secede, and that this time the rest of us would let them do it.

[MajorKong]

12:52 PM on 01/18/2008

Don't be too hard on Pat. One of his ancestors was killed at Auschwitz - poor guy fell out of a guard tower.

[LVGuy]

12:28 PM on 01/18/2008

It's way past time that someone called out this old racist, gay hater and contemptable political dirty trixter. Right haters like O'Reilly, Tucker, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. get a free pass and are held to no standard of decency . Too bad nobody saw. It was on Tucker.

[outnow]

11:53 AM on 01/18/2008

Reading Pat's new book confirms that he fears dilution of the culture and possibly the "white genes." But he argues against the neoliberalism that is the underlying engine of neoconservatism.

Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Ron Paul also comes to some very good constitutional conclusions with the assistance of Bruce Fein.

It may surprise many liberals that the results of the neoliberaal economic imperialism are not racially neutral. The people who are getting bombed are usually people of color.

Outsourcing slavery or torture is a very clever way of sweeping it under the rug - out of sight; out of mind.

But in our latte-drinking mode as liberals, let's not blind ourselves to the necessity to protect out nation's economic interests and let's not abandon everything to the "invisible hand of the market." Some regulation is highly desirable.

Anything that uses the word "liberal" or "free" as in "free trade" is not necessarily either. That "free" lunch does not connote "freedom."

Pat Buchanan is sounding an alarm like other patriots did, "The free traders are coming!" Capitalism is the engine of slavery as well as freedom. Never forget that fact.

[amberglow]

11:51 AM on 01/18/2008

So far, every news channel has their pet white racist--Buchanan on MSNBC, Dobbs on CNN (with Beck on Headline News), and Gibson at FOX (most of Fox, actually).

It's appalling that all these people and the hate they spout is so acceptable, while discussion of real issues and actual news isn't.

[Nyla785]

11:33 AM on 01/18/2008

I've been watching Pat Buchanan prolly since the late 80's, and it's always occurred to me that if you let him talk long enough, he always veers into some semi-racist speech--from his use of the word 'folks' to delineate people into groups--to his arrogance in speaking for what blacks in America think, want and need.

[michael098762001]

11:29 AM on 01/18/2008

The Ron Paul newsletters as reported on Hit and Run, the Reason magazine blog, were written by Lew Rockwell. Guess who has been dating that paleo-libertarian? Cindy sheehan. Yes, that Cindy Sheehan.

[HollywoodBill]

11:19 AM on 01/18/2008

Pat Buchanan a racist? Impossible. During World War II he lost a relative at Auschwitz. Fell from the guard tower.

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