I’ll never understand why TV networks invite wackjob conservatives like Pat Buchanan (who have shown admiration for Nazis) and get surprised when they pull stupid crap on the air.
Who knew the feces-flinging monkey would throw feces?
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What I truly don’t understand is the number of pundit/wonks on the left that I have heard in the past month talk approvingly of this guy. Including several Air America hosts.
Now this is totally lookist of me, but in that clip, Dan Abrams looks like a vampire. And Keli Goff, who I have never seen or heard from before? Wow!
(However, I remain in love with Rachel Maddow. And Stephanie Miller too, so sue me.)
I blame Dan Abrams. He did nothing. Thank goodness for Rachel Maddow.
Rachel Maddow is really great. First I have seen of her. Buchanan should not be allowed near a microphone… ever… for any reason.
What is even more depressing to me is reading through the comments at Taylor Marsh where our Democratic “teammates” are agreeing with Buchanan. Tell me how it’s possible to bridge that gap after Obama wins the nomination. Tell me why I would want to be associated with people like this.
You guts need to check Ben Smith at Politico showing a video showing Jeremiah Wright giving a sermon. It looks like a hit piece.
What I truly don’t understand is the number of pundit/wonks on the left that I have heard in the past month talk approvingly of this guy. Including several Air America hosts.
Having met Pat Buchanan, I know for a fact you can see him as a smart, friendly guy, assuming of course you’re not having an argument about brown people with him. That’s sort of where it all goes to shit.
Smart is the other key word here- Buchanan is a smart person. He was one of the few conservatives and remains one of the few conservatives who have been right the whole time on most of the foreign policy issues over the last seven years. The problem is what I’ve phrased as “being right for the wrong reasons.” Buchanan is an anti-war isolationist, and, without a doubt, a terrible, terrible racist. He frames his foreign policy beliefs around his domestic policy beliefs, which are, to put it lightly, batshit insane. (Essentially, the Mexicans and Muslims are coming to kill us all)
And as people like Ferraro are proving, when you’re a racist and don’t want to admit it, and are openly challenged on your dated and silly belief that you (i.e. white people) are somehow “losing the country,” you become painfully defensive about it.
August, Buchanan is definitely not right on foreign policy. He’s a strong economic nationalist who supports high tariffs with our trading partners. He supports very aggressive and unhelpful anti-immigrant/anti-Mexico policies. He happens to oppose all foreign wars, which made him right on Iraq but that has not been enough for him to drop his broader support for our current president. It also made him very wrong about Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda.
Having been a college Republican, I can tell you that I met many, many smart and friendly famous and not-so-famous conservatives, most of whom would probably run you off the road on a dark night if the situation called for it. Just sayin’.