PAT BUCHANAN DOUSED WITH SALAD DRESSING *ROFFLE*

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oh, i see, hilarious.

JD from CDepot, Friday, 1 April 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think Pat is a moderate. I just think his brand of morally authoritarian Catholic jingoism is sometimes at odds with the Mammon worshipping plutocrats in the Bush administration. A Buchannan administration would justify it's tyranny as protecting American families from Jewish 'sodomites' as opposed to the Bushes who are just in it for the money. Pat's 'patriotism' and his brand of legalism (like Scalia's a product of the study of years of Canon law and of thinkers like Aquinas) will make him always skeptical about liberalizing immigration whereas Bush, as the ex-governor of a border state, knows that you can't get business done cheaply without a large pool of easily intimidated, poor immigrants.

His anti-war stances are the product of a mixture of anti-semitism and old-fashioned isolationism. He wrote a fascinating article during the Clinton administration casting doubt on NAFTA and pointing out that the Republican party for most of its history was a high-tariff party to protect maufacturing and labor at home.

He may be a throw-back, Father Coughlin type, but I cannot agree that the best way to resist him and his ideas is through sophomoric acts of violence or puerile attempts at political theory. His ideas can be resisted and anything that might remotely be perceived by his base as making him a martyr should be avoided. They love that shit. Pat graciously deferred his opportunity to press charges, which makes him look magnanimous to his people, so in terms of hearts and minds, I think this stuff actually backfires.

M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay for Kalamazoo, my former home!!

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

on the other hand, Boston Teaparty to thread... Not an attack on an individual, but a demonstration/statement..

dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

people ain't property

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

puerile attempts at political theory

That was meant to read 'political theater'.

M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Worthier targets of viscous condiment tossing:

- ROBERT FUCKING NOVACK
- Ann Coulter (obv.)
- Joe Scarborough
- Peggy Noonan
- Rush Limbaugh
- Sean Hannity
- Michael Savage
- Rev. Jerry Falwell
- Kudlow (of Kudlow & Kramer....hell, throw one at Kramer too)
- Dan Abrams
- Paula Zahn

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

But was this salad tossing art?

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Salad tossing is always art!

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

the kind of salad tossing i'm thinking of is more of a science.

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/imgmec/tra3a.gif

mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

WTF, are we just skipping over Kristol eating a pie?

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Pies are passe.

n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

But hot tub farts are still funny, damnit.

Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Not as funny as that picture of Pat Buchanan, though.

Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

It's too bad that hitting someone with salad dressing is far more dangerous, more insidious, and more hateful than covering up the torture of thousands of detainees. Ask anyone. I haven't looked, but I'm guessing the Corner will have more lines of text devoted to the salad dressing than to the torture reports. Or anything else really important.

Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

buchanan was against the invasion of iraq, too.

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, Buchanan's views on foreign policy bear more resemblance to leftist takes than the current tides on the right, if only because he has some recognition of how our clumsier uses of American power wind up doing us more harm than good. And while his social and domestic views haven't significantly changed (I don't think), they've gotten overshadowed by those more let's say "administrative" kinds of opinions; the guy is less and less a politician and more and more just a commentator -- and one with more nuanced historical knowledge of how administrations work than firebrand social shit-to-say -- and that puts him in a position that's kind of strikingly independent, maybe even "apolotical."

I'm glad kids on the right haven't gotten into pranking, cuz I'd be really steamed if someone did this to Eleanor Clift.

nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Do the winners prank?

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

he's never been a "politician" because he ain't been elected to shit.

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Yup, still batshit

Muammar for the road (Michael White), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link

And still on MSNBC and elsewhere

saw this online too:

conservative Pat Buchanan referred to President Obama as “your boy” while talking with Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC.

curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link

someone just discovered Jay-Z

do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link

I'm sure that's it

curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link

imagine Pat Buchanan rocking out to "Big Pimpin'"

do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, Joan Walsh goes into detail about the weird racial batshit that is Buchanan's book:

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/19/pat_buchanan_declares_defeat/singleton/

Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link

"weird"

you're acting like you're talking about someone who isn't Pat Buchanan

do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link

he really barfs up some amazingly shameless "separate but equal" nostalgia stuff about segregation, it's not a surprise but it's still annoying, stupid, and (now) self pitying

the tune is space, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link

"look at all of this weird anti-Semetic stuff Louis Farrakhan is saying in his new book"

do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link

I use the word weird here b/c of the deep obsession dude has with this stuff, and obviously disproportionately large amounts of time he's thought about it.

Maybe "creepy" is a better term.

Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link

It irks me that an Irish Catholic doesn't uinderstand the dangers of glossing over racism in American history and identity - but then it always has. Same for his sister, too.

Muammar for the road (Michael White), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link

^^^ Still dead jftr

Food! Trends! Men! Hate! (Phil D.), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link

catholic fascism isn't, if pat can help it

ban moves like jagger (goole), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link

dan itt is killing me

J0rdan S., Monday, 24 October 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

Sniff sniff

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

Look homeward, angel.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mclaughlinfrown-screen.jpg

clemenza, Friday, 17 February 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link


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