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The Ten Worst U.S. Purveyors of Antisemitism, #6: Patrick Buchanan
Pajamas Media ^ | 01/07/2014 | P. David Hornik

Posted on 01/07/2014 6:49:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/07/2014 6:49:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

1) On many of his points you cannot call him a liar.

2) He wrote a book on how we could have avoided WW2. Hard to believe we had that much control.

3) His choice for ‘running mate’ in the Reform Party(2000?). A communist. It tells me that he’s in it for the publicity-shock value.

Still he is a voice that should be heard.


2 posted on 01/07/2014 6:57:46 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Who would benefit from a “war of civilizations” with Islam?

It's not a 'war of civilizations', it's a war WITH civilization.................

3 posted on 01/07/2014 6:59:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s a vile man. William F. Buckley actually wrote the definitive work about Buchanan’s anti-Semitism. He compares Buchanan and Joe Sobran, and concludes that Sobran is psychologically obsessed with Jews, and also hates Israel, but is not technically an anti-Semite, but Buchanan is.


4 posted on 01/07/2014 7:00:03 AM PST by babble-on
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To: SeekAndFind

OK This is wrong...

Buchanan is more of an ‘isolationist’ who thinks the USA should not be poking its head into the business of every country on the planet, including Israel, but that does NOT make him an “anti-semite”

He is not a jew-hater any more than he is a muslim hatrer or anythign else.

He just disagrees that the USA has a policy to interfere in other countries (all of them, not just israel, and he has been consistent in that belief for decades)

I am not saying I AGREE with him, I think the USA has National Interests in helping to protect Israel, that he does not see. I just disagree with that making him an ‘anti-jew’ (which is what anti-semite means)


5 posted on 01/07/2014 7:00:43 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry, but Buchanan opposing the Neocon obsession for perpetual U.S. war in the ME does not make Buchanan an anti-Semite.

I am not familiar with the author, but I suspect his attack on Buchanan has a lot to do with the author’s agreement with Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, George W. Bush, William Bennett, the Wall Street Journal, James Woolsey, John Bolton, Lindsey Graham, Trent Franks, John McCain, etc., etc. in never-ending involvement in wars in that part of the world.

Instead of the author’s obsession with tarring Buchanan for not wanting to get involved in ME wars, how about the author directing a little attention to the internal rot in our country? Buchanan has been fighting that, particularly the mass importation of bottom feeders to our country by our leftist immigration policy. Which policy is supported by several of the persons that the author names as opposed to Buchanan.


6 posted on 01/07/2014 7:02:06 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Hitler and Himmler photo is too much.

It detracts from the author’s point and undermines his objectivity.


7 posted on 01/07/2014 7:03:46 AM PST by ifinnegan
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Being an isolationist does not make one an anti-Semite, but Buchanan is an anti-Semite.


8 posted on 01/07/2014 7:04:01 AM PST by babble-on
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To: SeekAndFind

He was right with regards to the persecution of Demanjuk. A former Red Army soldier whose only choice was either cooperate with the Nazis, or face death at their hands.

The Germans went after Demanjuk, only because they were so anxious to try to tell the world that it wasn’t only Germans that participated in the Holocaust.


9 posted on 01/07/2014 7:04:30 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

And there certainly are Jews who hold Israel in even more contempt than Buchanan does.

I do think he does fall too much though for the “International Jew Finance Rules the World” garbage, though.


10 posted on 01/07/2014 7:06:36 AM PST by dfwgator
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Buchanan offers a point of view, and while I do not agree with all of them I do agree with most.

Besides, it bothers me when our side employs the same censorship by name calling tactics of the left.

11 posted on 01/07/2014 7:06:49 AM PST by skeeter
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To: babble-on
He’s a vile man. William F. Buckley actually wrote the definitive work about Buchanan’s anti-Semitism. He compares Buchanan and Joe Sobran, and concludes that Sobran is psychologically obsessed with Jews, and also hates Israel, but is not technically an anti-Semite, but Buchanan is.

I read Buckley's essay, and as best I can recall it concluded BJP was guilty of nothing more than insensitivity.

Sobran's case, Buckley apparently concluded, was different and Buckley kicked him off the NR staff.

12 posted on 01/07/2014 7:10:13 AM PST by skeeter
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I just ignore those who spew vile neo-Nazi crap. Such a person wouldn’t last long on FR for sure.


13 posted on 01/07/2014 7:13:46 AM PST by darkangel82
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To: skeeter; babble-on
I think this is the book of which you speak:



Here is one of the Editorial Reviews ( via Amazon ):

From Publishers Weekly This volume reprints Buckley's lengthy, genteel, circuitous National Review essay, in which he reached the pained conclusion that his fellow conservative Patrick Buchanan, the reactionary former presidential candidate, is anti-Semitic .

In the same piece, Buckley levels charges of anti-Semitism at his friend and fellow conservative, syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran, and at left-liberal Gore Vidal, who asserted in a Nation article that American Jews have twin loyalties. Further, Buckley exonerates of charges of anti-Semitism the Dartmouth Review, which in a 1988 article compared Dartmouth's Jewish president, James Freedman, to Adolf Hitler, and which once ran a Nazi slogan on its masthead. Also included is Sobran's indignant, defiant rebuttal, as well as letters to the National Review, praising or condemning Buckley's essay, by Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, A. M. Rosenthal, Robert Novak and others. Buckley's rejoinders to the letters and an afterword round out this colloquy.
14 posted on 01/07/2014 7:14:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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. . . statements that are perilously close to, or actually cross, the boundary of the legitimate.

The Ten Worst U.S. Free Speech Opponents, #6 ?

I recall when liberals and Rockefeller Republicans called us Goldwater supporters Purveyors of Hate because we dared to disagree with them.

15 posted on 01/07/2014 7:21:28 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess I recollect wrongly - it was a long time ago.


16 posted on 01/07/2014 7:21:34 AM PST by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind
Pat told it as he saw it. On the facts he was right but on some of his conclusion he goofed bigtime.

Pat was a fine Republican in the eyes of the establishment until he ran for president. Then suddenly he was an isolationist and an anti Semite.

Pat did nothing compared to a bottle of urine in a New York museum or the constant war against Christianity by the ACLU.

Pat is effective and speaks honestly to many Americans.

17 posted on 01/07/2014 7:25:05 AM PST by duckln
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To: SeekAndFind; babble-on
From a 1991 book review in the NYT:

Mr. Buckley resists the simple conclusion that Mr. Buchanan is an anti-Semite. His own formulation is more carefully hedged, and the care with which it has been formulated is indicated in the fact that he repeats it four times: "I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism, whatever it was that drove him to say and do it: most probably, an iconoclastic temperament."

18 posted on 01/07/2014 7:26:09 AM PST by skeeter
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it bothers me when our side employs the same censorship by name calling tactics of the left

Yep. If you criticize Obama, many on the left will call you a racist. If you criticize Israel, many on the right will call you antisemitic.

19 posted on 01/07/2014 7:27:32 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have always found that any criticism of jews, criticism of blacks, etc. no matter how well reasoned and accurate is either anti-semitism or racism.


20 posted on 01/07/2014 7:32:04 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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