Pat Buchanan Attacked With Salad Dressing

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by DanS
This isn't the right way to express your opinions.

There's the right way, the wrong way, and the visually impressive way. Frankly, anyone getting hit by anything edible is funny.

[DanS]

Well, was that in the context of a debate, or just a show?

I edited the post in the meantime. He was making a speech. A campaign event. It's just not kosher.

[Wycoff]

Way to show class


Buchanan gave a speech at my school last October. He was very dignified, answered questions fairly, without rancor, and even the left wing students treated him with respect. In fact, the left wingers applauded his position of a more equitable treatment of Palestinians in the Israel-Palestinian situation. It's a shame that some jackasses don't know how to express their disagreement with someone. I guess that's what you get when you go give a speech at a crappy school.

I think Buchanan gets a bad rap in the media. He's neither Republican nor Democrat, so both sides are free to take swings at him. He's always tarred as an anti-semite because he's on the right. If he were a left winger, his anti-Zionist views would be completely acceptable. Since he's on the right wing, he gets painted as the second Hitler. I'd take Buchanan over W. any day.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by DanS
Smart, but raising a gun above your head at the Mexican border isn't a kosher speech style, IMO.

When did this happen?

[Dis]

anyone else sexually aroused by that picture?

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Wycoff
I'd take Buchanan over W. any day.

What a ringing endorsement.

[chequita guevara]

Buchanan's a borderline Holocaust denier. Rodney Dangerfield deserves more respect than Buchanan.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Wycoff
I'd take Buchanan over W. any day.

Then you're an idiot. The man's a fascist, a real fascist.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Buchanan's a borderline Holocaust denier. Rodney Dangerfield deserves more respect than Buchanan.

Dangerfield

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Buchanan's a borderline Holocaust denier.

That's BS.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara Then you're an idiot. The man's a fascist, a real fascist.

Again, I call BS.

...and a good way to keep things civil, BTW.

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Buchanan's a borderline Holocaust denier. Rodney Dangerfield deserves more respect than Buchanan.

isn't that the dude out of caddyshack?

funny guy

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Wycoff
That's BS.

No it's not. In the 1980s, Buchanan sent out a newsletter saying that the Nazis couldn't have gassed people at Treblinka.

The way the Nazis killed people was by using mistimed diesel engines, which produced large amounts of carbon monoxide. Well, Pat got it in his head that because some kids survived in a subway with a diesel engine for a number of hours, that the Nazis couldn't have gassed anyone using diesel engines and so he wrote that it didn't happen.

But hey, way to stick up for Buchanan, Wcoff. Next you'll tell us David Irving's okay too.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Wycoff
...and a good way to keep things civil, BTW.

I don't respect people who support Holocaust deniers.

[chequita guevara]

http://tedbarlow.blogspot.com/2002_12_08_tedbarlow_archive.html#85842739

From Pat's own pen:

This so-called "Holocaust Survivor Syndrome" involves "group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics." Reportedly, half the 20,000 survivor testimonies in Jerusalem are considered "unreliable," not to be used in trials.

Finally, the death engine. During the war, the underground government of the Warsaw Ghetto reported to London that the Jews of Treblinka were being electrocuted and steamed to death.

The Israeli court, however, concluded the murder weapon for 850,000 was the diesel engine from a Soviet tank which drove its exhaust into the death chamber. All died in 20 minutes, Finkelstein swore in 1945.

The problem is: Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody. In 1988, 97 kids, trapped 400 feet underground in a Washington, D.C., tunnel while two locomotives spewed diesel exhaust into the car, emerged unharmed after 45 minutes.

Buchanan's source was almost certainly the July 1988 issue of a small (six-page) pamphlet: the G.I.E.A. Newsletter of the German American Information and Education Association (P.O. Box 23169, Washington D.C., 20026). The agenda of this newsletter becomes clear on page two:

The May Newsletter which discusses the Holocaust Museum continues to generate the greatest response. Approximately 95% of the response has been favorable; 5% negative. Evidently, that museum has a lot of people stirred up. It is obvious that the issue that sticks in the craw of so many is the hypocrisy blatantly displayed and practiced by the American Jewish community.

It is very clear that if enough people would write their senators and congressman [sic], and demand that rooms be set aside for other holocausts, something could be accomplished. Write them and point out that the German people were "holocausted" after WW II, especially by the Bolshevics, originally a Jewish/Zionist movement…



I am not aware of this May 13, 1988 article being cited in any Holocaust-denial material other than this newsletter. It looks, therefore, suspiciously like it was this newsletter that Buchanan received in the mail and, accepting its claims as true, reprinted them in his nationally-syndicated column.