At some point the cable news programs have stop letting Pat Buchanan be a guest or fill in as a host.
Either that, or they should just give free reign to every sort of extremist. Even progressives!!
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
…with Pat Buchanan since the Nixon days. I love his pugilistic polemics. Seriously. I love the way he writes an Op-Ed. He’s got it down perfectly, and a lot of pundits could learn from him.
Politically, of course, he’s a Nazi-enabler, and that’s not hyperbole in his case: he actually sought to protect Nazi war criminals at one point in his career. And he once wrote that apartheid and colonialism in Africa was GOOD for Africans. So, this white supremacist bullshit is nothing new. In fact, given his background, he would have been a good Brownshirt.
But not such a good Klansman; they didn’t like Catholics.
Let’s end immigration now! I mean, the influx of Irish into this country is a threat to English dominance!
Er, wait, the influx of Poles, Slavs and Swedes into this country is a threat to Anglophone dominance!
Er, wait, the influx of Chinese into this country is a threat to White dominance!
Er, wait, the influx of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Russians into this country is a threat to . . . ah, screw it, I just can’t do this anymore.
He, Buchanan is just a sad man….?And then compare to Andrew Young’s remarks..who apologizes for his remarks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/18/AR2006081800096.html
Both of these comments make me wonder, but about what I’m still not sure?