“he has never denied the Holocaust”
I wish it were true, but ...
“Worst of all, Buchanan did not shrink from affirming in his own voice the vicious and lunatic theories of Holocaust deniers. For example, Buchanan wrote that “the Israeli court... concluded the murder weapon... was [a] diesel engine ... which drove its exhaust into the death chamber .... The problem is: diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.” This is sheer nonsense. Roughly a third of the six million Jews exterminated were done in by diesel exhaust, and if it is non-lethal then the Holocaust is what the people who taught this stuff to Buchanan say it is—a hoax. The same holds for Buchanan’s bizarre assertion that 1,600 medical papers have been written about “Holocaust survivor syndrome,” which involves “group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.” In short Buchanan made himself the mouthpiece for Holocaust revisionists and the tribune of accused Nazis, and thereby marked himself with a shame that no verdict can erase.”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n23_v45/ai_14753228/pg_2
By such logic then Buckley who was editor at the time and has had his own issues with the "Jewish Lobby" as folks called it then.. and his magazine NR must be Holocaust Deniers too?
I believe folks should be able to question whatever the conventional wisdom is and not have to be smeared simply for doing so.
All I get from this is that Buchanan is smeared as a Nazi for simply daring question at all what other so called experts declare and who have their own dog in the hunt....bigtime.
As with most uber-contentious issues, the truth is probably in there somewhere between.
and to qualify as one must always do on FR....I am not a Pat supporter...