Pat Buchanan - Super Bigot

[lame54]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/12/buchanan-old-bigotry/

Buchanan argues against affirmative action: ‘One prefers the old bigotry.’
Today, in a Human Events column titled “Miss Affirmative Action,2009,” MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan continued his attack on Judge Sotomayor. He declared that affirmative action is worse than the “old bigotry” against African Americans:

Thus, Sotomayor got into Princeton, got her No. 1 ranking, was whisked into Yale Law School and made editor of the Yale Law Review — all because she was a Hispanic woman. And those two Ivy League institutions cheated more deserving students of what they had worked a lifetime to achieve, for reasons of race, gender or ethnicity.
This is bigotry pure and simple. To salve their consciences for past societal sins, the Ivy League is deep into discrimination again, this time with white males as victims rather than as beneficiaries.

One prefers the old bigotry. At least it was honest, and not, as Abraham Lincoln observed, adulterated “with the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

This is the newest in a series of racists comments made by Buchanan since Sotomayor’s nomination. He has told senators to oppose Sotomayor’s nomination and “stand up for the white working class.” He even went so far as to assert that, because of affirmative action, “what is happening now to white men right now is exactly what was done to black folks for years.”

– Claire Teitelman

[peekaloo]

1. Good gawd.

I would respond further but I need to get my whip and go outside because the field whiteys are engaged in a croquet tournament behind the guest house. :eyes:

[AspenRose]

2. Poor oppressed old rich white guys, can't catch a break.

:eyes:

[Stephanie]

3. Please use blockquote or italics to identify the exact Buchanan quote

Put (blockquote) before "Thus" and (/blockquote) after "hypocrisy" so we can easily see that these are Buchanan's exact words. Use square brackets instead of my parens for the tags. Click on "HTML lookup table" to see how to do it. And here is the link to Buchanan's original article which Teitelman is quoting:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32264

Unbelievable. One prefers the old bigotry." I bet you do, Pat.

[Mrs. Overall]

4. Didn't that "old bigotry" involve some hanging, murdering, and lack of any civil rights?

Buchanan is batshit crazy and I can't believe his rantings are published.

[iamjoy]

5. When We Torture White Men

When we abuse and lynch white men for looking the "wrong" way at a black woman, then maybe we can say it's like what was done to black folks for years. When white people are lawfully denied the right to eat in certain restaurants, made to use separate (and substandard) bathrooms and must give up their seats on public transit, than maybe we can say it like it was, only reversed. Hey, here's an idea, let's round up some white folks and cram them into the holds of ships and send them far away to be sold as slaves - never to see their families again. Oh, and those that are later born and form families can be torn apart at any time as they are sold to different owners. Then Pat Buchanan and his chums can say how bad white men are treated.

"one prefers the old bigotry" Yes, I imagine if one were naive or bigoted he might prefer the old ways.

You can tell me affirmative action is wrong, and I'll probably agree with some of your points. But don't try to tell me that affirmative action is anywhere near as bad as the "old bigotry."

Oh, and just in case you are curious (not that it should matter): I am a white woman and don't normally carry a chip on my shoulder about what our country did to minorities. But when I hear or read crap like this...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Pat Buchanan a bigot? Naawww.

"Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism." (Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 11/22/83)

"The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer." (Pat Buchanan, Right from the Beginning, p. 149)"

"Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody." (Pat Buchanan, challenging the "notion" that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by Diesel exhaust in Treblinka, New Republic, 10/22/90)

"...despite Hitler's anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was an individual of great courage...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path." (Pat Buchanan, from a 1977 Syndicated column

"If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?" (Pat Buchanan, "This Week With David Brinkley," 1/8/91)

" an across-the-board assault on our Anglo-American heritage." (Pat Buchanan, in a September 1993 speech to the Christian Coalition
"George Bush should have told the that black America has grown up; that the NAACP should close up shop, that its members should go home and reflect on JFK's admonition: 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather ask what you can do for your country.'" (Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 7/26/88)

"There is a legitimate grievance in my view of white working-class people that every time, on every issue, that the black militants loud-mouth it, we come up with more money.... If we can give 50 Phantoms to the Jews, and a multi-billion dollar welfare program for the blacks...why not help the Catholics save their collapsing school system." (Pat Buchanan, Boston Globe, 1/4/92)

After Sen. Carol Moseley Braun blocked a federal patent for a Confederate flag insignia, Buchanan wrote that she was "putting on an act" by associating the Confederacy with slavery: "The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance," Buchanan asserted. "How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?" (Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 7/28/93)

White House advisor Buchanan urged President Nixon in an April 1969 memo not to visit "the Widow King" on the first anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, warning that a visit would "outrage many, many people who believe Dr. King was a fraud and a demagogue and perhaps worse.... Others consider him the Devil incarnate. Dr. King is one of the most divisive men in contemporary history." (Pat Buchanan, New York Daily News, 10/1/90)

[lame54]

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:cry: :puke: :wtf: :argh: in no particular order

[Stephanie]

8. Thanks!

Much clearer. :hi:

[lame54]

12. thank you...

I learned something new

:fistbump:

[spanone]

9. pat can be all the bigot he wants to be...i fault m$nbc for giving him a forum

to spew his hateful screeds

[mopinko]

16. well, yeah, but then again

it is so hard to find anyone to represent the side of unreality. :crazy:

[Rage for Order]

10. Like Wile E. Coyote...Super Genius n/t

[lame54]

13. exactly...

always wrong

[marmar]

11. Does anyone doubt that Herr Buchanan would have been a gas chamber attendant.....

....in a different time and place?

[bigpenguin]

14. "One prefers the old bigotry."

Of course Pat says that "one" prefers it. He's the "one", and when it was the old bigotry, it wasn't aimed at him - he was doling it out.

What a fucking joke this guy is. How can any one take him seriously anymore?

[Berry Cool]

15. This man is SO friggin' disgusting.

I am SO sick and tired of his whining about how Sotomayor didn't accomplish shit on her own--how it was all just "affirmative action." He doesn't know that! He just assumes she got into Princeton and was "whisked" into Yale Law and made editor of the Law Review JUST BECAUSE SHE'S HISPANIC AND FEMALE.

Doesn't he realize how reverse racist that is? To NEVER take a woman's or minority's achievements on face value--to just assume, right off the top, that they were unfairly given, and that some more qualified white guy was cheated out of what should have been rightly his to give it to someone else instead? Instead of assuming that she was, possibly (and I say only "possibly") chosen from among others of equal (not superior) merit because of her race and sex?

Damn straight that when he says "One prefers the old bigotry," the only "one" he means is himself, and white men like him! Of COURSE they prefer "the old bigotry"--not because it was less hypocritical, but because it privileged THEM! Because it allowed unqualified WHITE MEN to have things that rightly should have gone to qualified women and minorities! Of COURSE he and his fellow white men liked things better that way! Duh! But it doesn't mean things WERE better that way!

It's a lucky thing he isn't on camera with Olbermann when he says this stuff, because I'm not sure Keith could hold up for long before he ended up saying "Oh, Pat, for God's sakes, get yourself a super-absorbent crying towel..."

[lame54]

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[bridgit]

18. wurd! he tries to conceal it but it's just right there

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