Look who Pat Buchanan's hanging out with
June 11, 2009 7:24 pm ET by Jamison Foser
In a column on Monday, I detailed Pat Buchanan's 40+ year history of inflammatory comments about women, minorities, the Holocaust and a variety of other topics.
Now David Holthouse of the Southern Poverty Law Center notes that Buchanan is hosting a "prominent white nationalist" at an upcoming conference:
MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan added to his decades-long history of racist activism by inviting a prominent white nationalist to speak at the upcoming national conference of Buchanan’s immigrant-bashing organization The American Cause (TAC), the white nationalist hate website Vdare.com announced earlier this week.
According to a bulletin on its homepage, Vdare.com owner Peter Brimelow is now scheduled to speak at The American’s Cause’s “Building A New Majority Conference” in McLean, Va., on June 20.
The conference plans to ponder the question, “Has the culture, economy, and demographics of our country passed a tipping point where Conservatives can no longer rule with a mandate?”
Although Brimelow’s name does not appear on The American Cause’s website, the keynote speaker for the conference is not identified, and Brimelow was a panelist at a symposium hosted by TAC last January.
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Conspicuously absent from the speaker list for the June conference is TAC Executive Director Marcus Epstein, a frequent speaker at the group’s events. Epstein may be keeping a lower profile this time around because he’s scheduled to be sentenced on July 8 for drunkenly calling an African-American passerby a “nigger” at a major intersection in Washington, D.C., before attempting to strike her with a karate chop.
If you don't want to hang out with the likes of Peter Brimelow at the American Cause conference but still want to hear Pat Buchanan's nuanced views on race and gender, you can tune in to MSNBC, where he inexplicably has a gig as a regular commentator.
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How is it that wishing to retain a white ethnic majority in America is a bad thing? What if non-white countries were being colonized by whites, would that make it OK? There are plenty of reasons to be opposed to multi-culturalism and diversity, unfortunately its impossible to have a sober rational conversation about race without being shouted down as a racist. I am happy that mainstream figures are finally speaking openly of the trouble created for our Republican Democracy in a frank and open way. Good for Peter and Pat!
One who obviously cares is the main-stream-media as evidenced by their making of the iconic American bigot, Mr. Buchanan, into an Irish-Catholic all these years when he's more German than anything else by ethnic heritage and he has no close ancestor who was an actual Irish-Catholic. No knock on German-Americans intended by the way. He could just as well be mostly Swedish or Russian or anything else as far as I'm concerned. My complaint would be the same -- don't call him an Irish-Catholic if he's mostly something else both genetically and culturally. I have a hard time understanding how one can't see the problem there and also not wonder what is on the minds of the people who have been putting on this fraudulent morality play for decades in front of tens of millions of people. It speaks to their credibility and in my mind it's evidence of their anti-Irish-Catholic feelings.
Juliajayne says: "Are you in a 150 year old time warp or something?"
Buchanan is falsely being portrayed as an Irish-Catholic today, not 150 years ago.
But let's say, just for the sake of the argument, that Irish-Catholics are not discriminated against today and haven't been for the last 150 years in this country as it sounds like you're implying but not outright saying. And I guess corollary to that is that we are so strong that this false characterization of Buchanan's ancestry can't hurt us. Even if one were to believe all that, isn't this a site which questions where the media is coming from? Wouldn't it still be pertinent that they mislabeled him for decades? Wouldn't it at the very least call into question their competence? Would it not be worthy of discussion on that basis alone? Of course incompetence has nothing to do with it.
Juliajayne says: "Sheesh!"
I think I understand; you're bothered by my comments yet my guess is you know I'm right and hence you make another passive-aggressive short comment -- implying your point without actually saying it outright. Hey, flag my comments if you like. Do what you feel you must as a patriot. If I was to get kicked off I at least know that I tried also to do what I felt was the right thing. (BTW I did see your reply to my 'Fighting Irish' comment.)
Juliajayne says: "Move on with your life."
I think it's important to stand up for what one thinks is right and speak out against injustices to others -- but also injustices to ones' self and ones' own group. Your comment puts me in mind of the archetypal wife-beater or bully who becomes all the more angry when his poor victim tries to defend herself or himself.
I'm a long-time Democrat. I proudly voted against Reagan both times for example. But I'm not deaf, dumb and blind either. Parts of the Left dislike Irish-Catholics in a visceral way. Others of the Left use us as a whipping-boy to safely take out their anger with Christian Caucasians in this country. Those particular people are anti-Irish bigots. Being of the party of the out-groups does not exempt them. One cannot immunize or absolve one's self in that manner. And the upshot of course is that when Irish-Catholics sense this, they become less energetic Democrats. Perhaps that's good socially and psychologically for some but it's just that kind of self indulgent and exclusivist attitude which loses Democrats elections.
I do recall Molly Ivins writing, after Buchanan became a presidential candidate and spoke at the convention that within a few years the Republican party would be openly fascist. She was correct.
Shouldn't we all be asking Olbermann and Maddow why a Buchanan clip is NEVER used on their shows? Goodness knows they could have their pick of "Worlds Worst" from him every week. Why should we be such devoted followers of these people when they refuse to criticize their own. Some "truth tellers".
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Colmes: ...you then said, I asked for whom else are you praying in that fashion and you said President Obama. Are you praying for his death?
Drake: Yes.
Colmes: So you're praying for the death of the president of the United States?
Drake: Yes. Are you concerned that by saying that you might find yourself on some secret service call or FBI most wanted list. Do you think it's appropriate to say something like that or even pray for something like that?
Drake: I think it's appropriate to pray for the will of God. I'm not saying anything, what I'm doing is repeating what God is saying, if that puts me on somebodies list then I'll just have to be on their list.
Colmes: You would like for the president of the United States to die?
Drake: If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around I am asking God to enforce in imprecatory prayers throughout the scripture that would cause him death, that's correct.
Am I reading that right? Even for religious extremism that's off the deep end.