Sparky:
Heh, Damn Some Xtians
Are Sure Touchy - Look It's Pat!


Sparky's uncle Arthur took the Vatican to task about the Holocaust and its' long silence. It seems to have rankled old Holocaust denier Pat Buchanon.


Pat is such a tool of the so-called anti-everyone Hate Groups that follow in his wake - it's just so sad. It's beyond explanation at this point.

His Anti-Semitic Statements:

1. Buchanan knows his words, and even his most outrageous statements always fall just short of blatantly going over the line. But one group always seems to bother him -- Jews.
2. Anti-Semitism isn't cut or dried: Lots of Americans grew up hearing anti-Jewish slurs, and many keep some of that with them. William Safire (Buchanan's colleague on the Nixon speechwriting team) put it this way: Buchanan is an extremist whose anti-Semitism would rank at level four or five -- on a scale that has Adolf Hitler at 10 and Black Muslim leader Rev. Louis Farrakhan as a seven.
3. When he attacks the Supreme Court, he always names "Ruth (pause) Bader (pause) Ginsburg", though she is the newest and least influential member. When he attacks Wall Street investment firms, he always names Goldman Sachs, the only major Jewish-run firm in a WASP dominated industry.
4. He described Congress as "Israeli-occupied territory", and opposed the Gulf War by saying only "the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States" wanted to fight Saddam Hussein. (Which was crazy, apart from any Jewish angle. Desert Storm was one of the most popular wars in U.S. history.)
5. And Brock Meeks, reporter for Hotwired, broke the story that Buchanan included in his official World Wide Web page an article claiming that Hillary Clinton is a spy for Israel. After ABC News ran the story, the Buchanan campaign pulled the article off their site. You can see the article, exactly as it appeared on Pat's web site, by clicking here.
6. Buchanan also seems to relish Catholic vs. Jewish antagonism, one part of pre-Vatican II Catholicism that most Catholics don't miss. During the controversy over a proposed Carmelite convent at Auschwitz, Buchanan wrote some of his most frightening words:
7. "If U.S. Jewry takes the clucking appeasement of the Catholic cardinalate as indicative of our submission, it is mistaken. When Cardinal O'Connor of New York seeks to soothe the always irate Elie Wiesel by reassuring him, 'there are many Catholics who are anti-Semitic...it's deep within them,' when he declares this 'is not a fight between Catholics and Jews,' he speaks for himself. Be not afraid, Your Eminence; just step aside, there are bishops and priests ready to assume role of defender of the faith."
8. Appeasement means trying to stall an attacker by making concessions -- what attacks were Catholic groups "appeasing"? What did Pat think the faith should be defended against? The only issue was that Jewish groups thought it disrespectful to build a convent right next to a major Holocaust death camp. The man clearly has a king-sized chip on his shoulder.
9. Then, of course, there is Buchanan's defense of Nazis, his praise for Hitler,, and his Holocaust revisionism.
10. It isn't a statement here or there that reveals Buchanan's fixation with Jews -- it's the consistent theme of it that appears in his statements over the years. Even William F. Buckley reluctantly concluded that Buchanan was an anti-Semite after carefully reviewing dozens of his statements about Jews in a very long National Review article. And John Muravchik, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, concluded a similar review in Commentary Magazine by saying that "Taken cumulatively, Buchanan's rhetoric about Jews pretty clearly betrays an underlying sense of grievance or irritation."

• References:

• Anti-Semitism: "Buchanan and Anti-Semitism", by Norman Podhoretz, The Wall Street Journal, October 25, 1999, pA52
• The Auschwitz controversy -- "The Heresies of Pat Buchanan", Jacob Weisberg, The New Republic, October 22, 1990 p22
• "Buchanan Caught In the Web", David Einstein, San Francisco Chronicle, February 20, 1996 pB1
• "Campaign Dispatch", Brock Meeks, Hotwired Magazine, February 19, 1996
• "Four Years Later, Buchanan's Advisers, Not His Words, Draw Cries of Extremism", Glenn Simpson, Wall Street Journal, February 22, 1996 pA20
• "Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner" quote - McLaughlin Report TV show, August 26, 1990
• "Congress is Israeli-occupied territory" quote - McLaughlin Report, June 1990
• "Bilious Buchanan open to attack", Ian Brodie, London Times News Service, in SF Examiner, February 23, 1996 pA1
• "Buchanan: The Us against Them Candidate", Christopher Matthews, San Francisco Examiner, February 25, 1996
• " Buchanan Likes a Good Fight", Kenneth J. Garcia, San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 1996 pA6
• Safire - from Meet The Press, February 25, 1996, quoted in newspaper article:
• "Buchanan is the Press' Favorite Son -- And Its Whipping Boy", Eleanor Randolph, Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1996
• "In search of anti-Semitism", William F. Buckley, National Review, December 30, 1991 p20
• "Patrick J. Buchanan and the Jews", Joshua Muravchik, Commentary, January 1991 p29
• Keyes - "Buchanan: The Peasants Are Revolting", The Hotline, February 19, 1996 in "Updates" section.
• Bennett -- " If I said what I meant, I'm sorry", Time, April 3, 1995 p17

• Praise for Hitler source

• "A lesson in tyranny too soon forgotten", Pat Buchanan, Chicago Tribune, August 25, 1977, Section 3 page 3
• • Defender of Nazis sources
• "Buchanan on Trial", Joshua Muravchik (letter), National Review, November 29, 1993 p2
• "The Demanjuk fallout" (editorial response to above letter), National Review, November 29, 1993 p18
• "Patrick J. Buchanan and the Jews", Joshua Muravchik, Commentary, January 1991 p35-36
• The column defending Waldheim was reportedly in the Chicago Sun Times, March 1989.

• Holocaust and Historical Revisionism sources

• "Ivan The Terrible -- More Doubts?", Pat Buchanan, New York Post, March 17, 1990
• "Denying the Holocaust", Deborah Lipstadt, ISBN 0-452-27274-2, p 5-6, p 26, p 238 notes 13 & 14
• "The Heresies of Pat Buchanan", Jacob Weisberg, The New Republic, October 22, 1990 p26-27
• Jamie McCarthy, USENET, April 8, 1995
• "Buchanan on Trial", Joshua Muravchik (letter), National Review, November 29, 1993 p2
• "The Demanjuk fallout" (editorial response to above letter), National Review, November 29, 1993 p18
• "Patrick J. Buchanan and the Jews", Joshua Muravchik, Commentary, January 1991 p35-36
• "The Beltway Populist", Jonathan Alter, Newsweek, March 4, 1996 p26

Next we'll look at the "Christian Blue Yonder" ala Jonathan Chait's recent editorial in the Los Angeles Times.
- Sparky o&o