Pat Buchanan's new book full of racism

[ck4829]

Since the start of his latest book tour, Patrick Buchanan has appeared on just about every major television and cable network in the country, often more than once. He's been on NBC's "Today" show, the three most watched news programs on FOX, CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," and countless radio programs. During one four-day period in late August, the author was welcomed on no less than five NBC-affiliated programs. Together, these appearances have made Buchanan's new book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, a runaway bestseller.

The three-time presidential candidate is no stranger to the major media, being personally acquainted with many of those who interviewed him. A veteran columnist with the Creators Syndicate and an analyst for MSNBC, Buchanan was a founding member of three prime-time network or cable channel talk shows and has written for many of the nation's major newspapers and magazines. That might explain the kid-gloves treatment he got from virtually all his interviewers, most of whom did not seem to have read or understood the book they were helping to publicize.

In fact, the book reflects racial views that have now veered to the extreme. White America is changing color, Buchanan argues -- "one of the greatest tragedies in human history." The Mexican government is involved in a plot to take over the Southwestern United States, and parts of this country already look like the "Third World." The segregated South wasn't all bad "culturally" -- blacks and whites were united, after all. America, despite what its founders wrote, was a nation formed not on the basis of creed but rather a homogenous ethnic culture. To put it plainly, State of Emergency is a white nationalist tract. The thesis is that America must retain a white majority to survive as a nation. It is rooted in a blood-and-soil nationalism more blood than soil. The echoes of Nazi ideology are clear and chilling. As Buchanan helpfully explained to John King, who was interviewing him in one of his several CNN appearances: "We gotta get into race and ethnic questions."

State of Emergency unapologetically reflects Buchanan's insistence on the centrality of race to the United States and its culture. "This idea of America as a creedal nation bound together not by 'blood or birth or soil' but by 'ideals' that must be taught and learned ... is demonstrably false," Buchanan writes in the book.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=83

[WCGreen]

1. The older he gets... The more he looks like Joe McCarthy....

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. So was his last book.

:shrug:

[redqueen]

3. Sickening that so many are helping him promote it.

Surprising? Not so much.

I'll be writing some letters today, just to make sure these people know that we know what they're helping to sell.

[wryter2000]

4. As Gomer Pyle used to say

"Surprise, surprise!" :)

[Ian David]

5. Find it at the bookstore and hide copies in various dark corners...

and behind obscure books on feline diseases.

I used to enjoy going to the supermarket and re-shelving "Doctor" Laura's books with the feminine hygiene products.

[FormerDittoHead]

6. At least you can tell he wrote it himself!

My problem with his 'invasion' thesis is that he offers no PROOF.

No "downing street memo" no witnesses, etc. The "invasion" is in his MIND, and I haven't heard one of his interviews ask him if he has any PROOF to support his claim(s).

[Zenlitened]

7. "Pat Buchanan's Head Full of Excrement, Plus Clinical Signs of Insanity"

:puke:

[Lexingtonian]

8. The central conceit of the book is

that {white European-descent people} <=> {civilization for all time}. As a white man born and raised in Europe and the U.S., and relatively well informed as concerns Western and world history, this idea transcends mere ridicule. No satire could do justice to this vanity and conceit.

I've met a lot of Pat Buchanans. They live in the little rural villages and backwaters of Europe, everywhere. They're full of the vanity, the xenophobia, the wierd rationality, and the deep occultism of Pat. Their way of thinking predates Christianity in that part of the world- they still have the old pagan attitudes and opinions and point of view, in many respects. A sort of peudospiritualized materialism (which stuff like racism and creationism and scientism are- and all things Christian Right "values") combined with a predestination dogma are the central tenets of the Faith. (And yes, Four Points Calvinism is the Old Religion with a Christian patina.) And of course Pat essentially confuses what we call 'technical civilization' with human civilization proper.

I like watching Pat. He's born a millenium or two too late for the world he belongs to, really. He belongs into the age of wars of King Arthur, or the invading hordes of Horsa and Hengist, or the Crusades.

[Skidmore]

9. Pat is consistent, if nothing else.

He's essentially the same person he was when he worked for Nixon, only a lot older.