Pat Buchanan Attacked With Salad Dressing

[Jaguar]

Che PWNS j00

[mindseye]

Coincidence, yesterday I was working on rounding up images of pies because my students (adults included) all think traditional western pie is the same as the "pie" you purchase at Mcdonalds (remember, McDonalds is everywhere in China).

I decided I should write a short piece for classroom discussion on the odd western tradition of throwing a pie in someone's face. It was wonderful to once again enjoy that footage of Anita Bryant earning her just dessert.

So seeing political troglodyte Pat Buchanan get his salad tossed was unusually timely.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by mindseye
Pat Buchanan get his salad tossed

I am going to be sick now, thanks.

[Urban Ranger]

Food attacks are non-violent and amusing, but they get the job done.

Too bad it's a waste of good food. Rotten food, on the other hand

[Alexander's Horse]

Is the salad dressing okay?

[mindseye]

Oops, Wycoff just got the equivalent of a pie thrown in his face.

Seriously Wycoff, Buchanan's ideas about the holocaust have been pretty widely reported, I'm not sure how you could have read much about him without encountering it before. It's not as if this kind of thing is wildly atypical for him.

[Alexander's Horse]

I was at an international meeting where Michel Camdessus, then the head of the IMF, got a pie in the face.

After that, security guards started checking bags for cream pies

[Berzerker]

"Stop the bigotry!" the demonstrator shouted as he hurled the liquid

"He could have faced a felony assault charge, but Pat Buchanan decided to not press that charge," university spokesman Matt Kurz said.

oh the irony

[TCO]

Let's throw bottles.

[Berzerker]

che

Can you quote him claiming the Holocaust didn't happen? I looked thru your links and I don't see what he said to qualify him as a Holocaust denier...

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara I think that's enough . . . unless Wycoff wants to challenge me again.

And there's nothing passive about my aggressiveness.

I wasn't aware of that crack-pot Treblinka article. That's pretty indefensible, I'll admit, and it does lower my opinion of him. Anti-semitism charges make more sense when there's that to back them up, and that article seems to provide the main basis in the anti-semitism charges. I spoke to him in October when he visited campus; I wish that I had known about that because I would have asked him about it. It would have been interesting to see if he'd recant.

However, much of the anti-Israeli stuff that he's quoted as saying makes sense when you view it as intended and in context, as reference to neo-conservativism and the US' unqualified support for Israel rather than old-fashioned anti-semitism. (EDIT FOR CLARITY: the quotations that I am talking about are quotations I found doing a Goole search for Buchanan and Holocaust Denial, not quotations in this article)As people have pointed out on here ad naseum, opposing American support for Zionism doesn't equate to anti-semitism.

Again, that Treblinka article is shameful, and he deserves to be taken to task for it (it's probably why I've never seen him mention it), but even it did not say anything about denying the total Holocaust. It is 15 years old (I would have been 8 when it was written, which explains why I didn't know about it). Maybe he's grown milder as he's aged, because I've never seen him say or write anything as blatantly anti-semetic as that article.

[Agathon]

Buchanan is a ****er but I can think of worse than him.

[TCO]

Am I an anti-Semite if I don't like the Liberty attack...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Berzerker
che

Can you quote him claiming the Holocaust didn't happen? I looked thru your links and I don't see what he said to qualify him as a Holocaust denier...

That's why I said borderline Holocaust denier.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by TCO
Am I an anti-Semite if I don't like the Liberty attack...

No, you're just a good American.