Pat Buchanan

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Thank You for (Not) Running for President

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Politics, Joe Scarborough, C-Span, Sean Hannity, 2012 Election, John Edwards, Jimmy Carter, Joe Klein, Hamilton Jordan, Newt Gingrich, Presidency, Barack Obama, Media News

In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.

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Pat Buchanan's Disagrees With 'Obama Is The New Nixon' Comparisons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Pat Buchanan, Video, Richard Nixon, Judd Gregg, Barack Obama, Media News

Pat Buchanan, who was a close confidant of Nixon, recently scoffed at the idea that the Obama White House is comparable to Nixon, calling it "idiotic," because, duh, Nixon was a historically unlovable bastard-creature, who left trails of foul-smelling ichor all over the Oval Office, like a slug. And no one liked Nixon, except for the "Perotistas, and what you might call the tea-party folk" who loved him immensely. Irony!

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Keep Going, Republicans! You're Doing Great!

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pat Buchanan, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Democratic Party, Michelle Malkin, Mark Halperin, Michele Bachmann, David Brooks, Political Parties, Blue Dogs, Erick Erickson, David Frum, Glenn Beck, Christopher Buckley, Republican Party, Chris Cillizza, Republicans, Politics News

If recent polling is any indication, people don't want to be associated with the party that elevates the self-satirical wackaloons. Especially when they refuse to be honest about who they are.

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Pat Buchanan Worries The White People Are Losing Their America, Like Always

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Racial Politics, Fearmongering, Oath Keepers, Race, Pat Buchanan, Media News

Pat Buchanan has a post up today on WorldnetDaily, about the "Oath Keepers," the latest strain of extremist nimrods who have lost their minds over the...

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Rush Limbaugh: Why the NFL Just Said No

Dave Zirin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: St. Louis Rams, Nfl, Rush Limbaugh, Dave Checketts, Msnbc, Pat Buchanan, Rush, Glenn Beck, Democratic Party, Media News

It was almost jarring to hear Rush whine about "tyranny" on the left, when it was his compadres on the right who just said no, and rejected Limbaugh's bid to buy the St. Louis Rams.

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Is Dr. Fox-enstein - Roger Ailes - Building Another Monster?

Karl Frisch | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Birthers, Msnbc, Cnbc, Lou Dobbs, Crossfire, The Glenn Beck Show, Immigration, Roger Ailes, Fox Broadcasting Company, Tucker Carlson, Fox Business Network, RFD TV, Fox Business, Chris Wallace, Rutgers Womens Basketball Team, Cnn, Don Imus, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Savage, Fox News, 20/20, John Stossel, Glenn Beck, ABC News, Dancing With the Stars, Fox News Channel, Media News

For months now, Roger Ailes has been putting the finishing touches on his first monster, Fox News Channel, just as its bride, Fox Business Network, is showing signs of life.

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Class Warfare: Ruth Reichl vs. Rachel Ray

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Condé Nast, which sells its advertising based on the size and demographics of its subscribers, decided to go with mass instead of class, and closed Gourmet down.

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An Open Letter to Mark Lilla: Yes, We Should Take the Right Seriously

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chronicle of Higher Education, White Nationalism, Pat Buchanan, White Supremacy, Mark Lilla, Wall Street Journal, Carl Schmitt, UC Berkeley, Racism, The Public Interest, Politics News

Palin's anti-elite style embodied a particular form of nationalism that abjured both elites and the "undeserving" poor. It is precisely this nationalism that animates Tea Partiers today.

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The Impeachment of President Obama

Bob Cesca | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

I've been following the Republican descent into the realms of the bizarre for some time now, and I'm convinced that if they retook Congress the Republicans might try to impeach the president.

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Pat Buchanan, William F. Buckley Jr., and Right-Wing Anti-Semitism

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Msnbc, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Rachel Maddow, William F. Buckley Jr., Racism, Conservative Movement, Hitler, Politics News

World conquest was a pipe dream for Hitler, but Buchanan's whitewashing is an unconscionable distortion of the truth. Why did Hitler invade Poland? Easy. Because it was there.

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Happy Birthday, Dad: My Father's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

Tony Sachs | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Pat Buchanan, Sharon Stone, Joe the Plumber, George W. Bush, Absinthe, Alex Rodriguez, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, The Beatles, Fox News, Max Baucus, Ll Bean, Republican Party, Rolling Stones, Living News

Last year, for my dad's birthday, I trawled through his hundreds of comments on HuffPosts ranging from Sarah Palin to baseball. With that in mind, here's the sequel to "My Dad's Greatest Hits."

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Robert Reich, Pat Buchanan Agree: We Should Have Let Some Big Banks Fail (VIDEO)

Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Pat Buchanan and Robert Reich, Video, Morning Joe, Robert Reich, Pat Buchanan, Capitalism: A Love Story, Business News

Professor Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration, and Pat Buchanan had a rare moment of agreement this morning when they w...

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Republican Strategist Backs Miller Over "Disrespectful Partisan Idiot"

The Daily Beast | Mark McKinnon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Republican Leadership, John McCain, Mark McKinnon, Rush Limbaugh, George W. Bush, Joe Wilson, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Rob Miller, Politics News

Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon wants the congressman who shouted at Obama out of office and out of his party--and he's donating $1,00...

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MSNBC Showcasing Pat Buchanan's Hitler Apologia [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Pat Buchanan, Pat Buchanan Hitler, Media Criticism, Media News

Yesterday, the world was appalled anew by Pat Buchanan, as he commemorated the 70th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland by offering up one of h...

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Why is Pat Buchanan Defending Hitler?

Aaron Keyak | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Pat Buchanan, Ethan Porter, Msnbc, Anti-Defamation League, Hitler, Worst Person in the World, National Jewish Democratic Council, Keith Olbermann, World War II, Media News

You might think that Buchanan would have stopped using this sort of unrepentant rhetoric as his career moved from a Republican firebrand to a to cable news commentator -- but you'd be wrong.

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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Gates, President Obama, Obama, The Nation, Race, Institutionalized Racism, Obama Town Hall Meetings, Officer Crowley, Town Hall, White Privilege, Racism, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates Arrested, African-Americans, Privilege, Health Care, African Americans, Whites, Leonard Zeskind, Pat Buchanan, Barack Obama, Driving While Black, White Nationalism, Lynching, People of Color, Sarah Palin, Sonia Sotomayor, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Erik Ward, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Inequality, Town Hall Meetings, Eric Alterman, Healthcare, Class, Politics News

Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

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The Mad Men (and Women!) of Morning Joe

Rachel Sklar | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Mad Men, Betty Draper, Joe Scarborough, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, January Jones, Morning Joe, Mad Men Premiere, Pat Buchanan, Pete Campbell, Joan Holloway, Willie Geist, Mad Men AMC, Media News

In the tradition of merging the media beat with whatever pop culture sensation has captured the Zeitgeist, I thought it would be fun to cast the Mad Morning Men (and Women) of Morning Joe. Hey, what else are you gonna do until next Sunday at 10?

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On Health Care Hearings: A Little Perspective, Please

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Tea Party, Health Care, Barack-Obama-Opposition-Research, Health Action, Politics News

Progressives have badly underestimated the strength and resilience of their opposition. Republicans and conservatives retain the ability to stop the drive forward -- like scabs on a union workplace strike.

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O'Reilly, Beck, Olbermann and Maddow: Venomous Snakes?

Charles Warner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Msnbc, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Bill O'Reilly, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Lou Dobbs, C-Span, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Sean Hannity, Jim Lehrer, David Brooks, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, Media News

No one wants to watch normal, well-adjusted, happy, rational, reasonable people on TV; they're boring -- like C-SPAN or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.

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Pat Buchanan, Katie Couric, And Arianna Huffington Get Auto-Tuned (VIDEO)

Posted 09.03.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Video, Auto Tune the News, Katie Couric, Pat Buchanan, Arianna Huffington, Autotune the News, Funny Videos, Comedy News

Michael and Andrew Gregory, brothers who have an affinity for R&B, politicians and Sunday talk shows, are back with their SEVENTH installment of "Auto...

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Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard, Pt. 2

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Pat Buchanan, Ethnicity, Mark Krikorian, Sonia Sotomayor, Racism, Assimilation, Race, Barack Obama, Politics News

From the moment Sotomayor's nomination was announced, it's become evident that varied shades of white have blended into a much paler, but more uniform, color.

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Slavery, Abolition, Rebellion: A Reading List

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: African-American Issues, History Books, Pat Buchanan, African American History, Books, Slavery, Reading List, Skip Gates, Sally Hemings, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Living News

All of these books should provide some correctives to the deep misunderstanding -- or desperate ignorance -- of this extremely important chapter in American History.

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Maddow Revisits Buchanan Segment, Adds Corrections (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Maddow Duels With Buchanan, Pat Buchanan, Media News, Maddow Buchanan, Pat Buchanan Affirmative Action, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Maddow Affirmative Action, Media News

Rachel Maddow took some time last night to revisit last week's segment with Pat Buchanan, in which they argued over affirmative action policy in the c...

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Maddow Demolishes Buchanan's Surreal Facts About America's Racial Past (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan, Pat Buchanan, Video, Rachel Maddow, Maddow Affirmative Action, Affirmative Action, Pat Buchanan Video, Rachel Maddow Video, Rachel Maddow Slams Pat Buchanan Video, Politics News

Several days ago, Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan had a heated debate about the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and the fairness and...

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Colbert Mocks Conservative Pundits For Claims Of Reverse Racism; Calls Buchanan A 'Reverse Civil Rights Leader' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Video, Stephen Colbert, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Tancredo, Colbert Buchanan, Colbert Reverse Racism, Colbert Reverse Racist, Comedy News

Stephen Colbert eviscerated Tom Tancredo, Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh last night for claiming Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is racist and t...

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