{"id":4619,"date":"2009-09-04T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/09\/04\/pat-buchanan-adolf-hitler-yeah-we-knew-that-already\/"},"modified":"2009-09-04T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T20:10:08","slug":"pat-buchanan-adolf-hitler-yeah-we-knew-that-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/09\/04\/pat-buchanan-adolf-hitler-yeah-we-knew-that-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Buchanan. Adolf Hitler. Yeah, we knew that already."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 Pat Buchanan.\u00c2\u00a0 Hitler Apologist.\u00c2\u00a0 He penned an editorial entitled, “Did Hitler Want War?”<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 The answer, I think, is round about “Yes.”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don’t know why everyone’s in such a furry<\/a> over this.\u00c2\u00a0 He wrote a book expounding on his views on Hitler in this stuff down in his last book.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps he added something new in his column, but I doubt it.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess he’s chomping at the bit, waiting for a grand debate in Great Britain <\/a>to knock down Winston Churchill<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s not at Michael Savage level in getting banned from the nation, it appears, because he’s a lovable bigot.<\/p>\n

How did Buchanan manage to keep this out of Sprio Agnew’s speeches, we’ll never know.<\/p>\n

A few months ago, Pat Buchanan white-washed American history, essentially removing black soldiers out of all of America’s wars.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a bit strange, as all anyone needed to do was roll through the National Archives and pull out some photographic evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pat Buchanan was long run out of the Republican Party.\u00c2\u00a0 He won a third of the New Hampshire primary vote in 1992 and 1996, the latter enough for the win.\u00c2\u00a0 He made a blistering speech in 1992, such that he was locked out of Bob Dole’s convention in 1996.\u00c2\u00a0 I recall an NPR news feature\u00c2\u00a0of alarm over Buchanan’s\u00c2\u00a0advisors hailing from such groups as the “National Association for the Advancement of White People”,\u00c2\u00a0the organization founded by David Duke.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0(I got a haircut once at around that time, television was on in the corner and an NAACP ad went on.\u00c2\u00a0 The barber asked that question “Why isn’t there a National Association for the Advancement of White People?”<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 I stared\u00c2\u00a0ahead in\u00c2\u00a0awkward silence as he continued clipping my hair, not sure what response I could possible give.)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the rev up to the Iraq War, some liberals noted his strong opposition to the Iraq War,\u00c2\u00a0with added\u00c2\u00a0with his Protectionist views on trade gave him a bit too much sympathy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0In her round up of strident voices at the dawn of the bombing, Amy Goodman on Democracy Now included in a couple sentence quote from Buchanan, blasting those “neo-cons” (for … Israel).\u00c2\u00a0 It is good to see the balance met back to square one, we can all now remember his 1992 RNC speech.<\/p>\n

Notable, and I don’t know what can be noted with this, The American Conservative magazine — Buchanan helped found and remains published on the website and in print, a cover-story panel focus on his anti-Churchill book, for instance (a little loopy was that!)\u00c2\u00a0— has published this thing to their blog on Health Care<\/a>, and I find no mention of Buchanan’s Hitler apologia and controversy from their stable of bloggers.\u00c2\u00a0 That strikes me as very odd indeed for a controversy that every political magazine’s blog has tossed, regarding one of their central figures.<\/p>\n

… Who deserves a good biography by now, incidentally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 Pat Buchanan.\u00c2\u00a0 Hitler Apologist.\u00c2\u00a0 He penned an editorial entitled, “Did Hitler Want War?”\u00c2\u00a0 The answer, I think, is round about “Yes.”\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know why everyone’s in such a furry over this.\u00c2\u00a0 He wrote a book expounding on his views on Hitler in this stuff down in his last book.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps he added something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}