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Pat Buchanan - Racial Arsonist

By Remi from Tracy, CA - Apr 1st, 2008 at 4:06 pm EDT

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Patrick Buchanan, racial arsonist 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 dozens of radio programs. Together, these appearances have made Buchanan's new book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, is a white nationalist tract and a runaway bestseller. He has received 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. "Congratulations on the response to your book," said Lou Dobbs, the CNN anchorman who has made a profession of attacking illegal immigration as he introduced his old CNN colleague. "The book is State of Emergency. It's No. 3 on the best-selling list. … I'm going to repeat it one more time. The book is State of Emergency. Pat Buchanan, always good to talk to you. … [Y]ou've got a lot of readers, so keep it rolling." Dobbs isn't the only one helping Buchanan to keep his book rolling. James Edwards, a former volunteer in Buchanan's 2000 presidential campaign and currently host of the Memphis AM radio show "The Political Cesspool," did his part, too. But this show was no mainstream broadcast. It has featured an array of past and present Klansmen and neo-Nazis, a veritable "Who's Who" of the radical right. In an exultant E-mail sent out by the radio show after Buchanan was featured, long-time white supremacist Harold Covington, writing under the alias Winston Smith, celebrated. "Don't ever let anyone tell you that this broadcast doesn't matter, my friends," he wrote, "because when the likes of Pat Buchanan agrees to be on your program, he does so only after his people have researched the program and decided it's in their interest." Once again, to make his case in State of Emergency, Buchanan relies on a trove of extreme-right sources. His urgent call for thwarting the "invasion" of non-European immigrants leans heavily on material written by hate group members or postings on hate sites, with citations to nearly every sector of the hate movement, from neo-Nazis to neo-Confederates. He cites the work of white supremacist James Lubinskas; Edward Rubinstein of a white nationalist think tank called the National Policy Institute; Clyde Wilson, a board member of the racist and secessionist League of the South; and Wayne Lutton, a veteran immigrant- and gay-hater. Buchanan also quotes Lutton's anti-immigrant hate journal The Social Contract.

Should Pat and major media outlets get a “Hall Pass”.

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