Buchanan: Sotomayor= racist, Hitler= Misunderstood

[Harlowe]

Oh silly Pat, I don't know what his motive is, but wow

Pat Buchanan: Did Hitler Want War

Hitler Misunderstood

Following Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Pat Buchanan went to eleven. He said that Sotomayor “believed discrimination against white males is okay”; he said she believed in “tribal justice” and “preached and practiced race discrimination against white males”; and he generally spent a great deal of time accusing Sonia Sotomayor of being a racist. He didn’t even attempt to give her the benefit of the doubt -- being Puerto Rican in a country built by white people, Sotomayor was by definition the enemy.

But you know who Buchanan does think deserves the benefit of the doubt? Adolf Hitler. No, I’m not breaking Godwin’s Law or comparing conservatives to Nazis. Here's Pat, in a column titled, "Did Hitler Want War?":

Comes the response: The war guarantee was not about Danzig, or even about Poland. It was about the moral and strategic imperative “to stop Hitler” after he showed, by tearing up the Munich pact and Czechoslovakia with it, that he was out to conquer the world. And this Nazi beast could not be allowed to do that. If true, a fair point.

Americans, after all, were prepared to use atom bombs to keep the Red Army from the Channel. But where is the evidence that Adolf Hitler, whose victims as of March 1939 were a fraction of Gen. Pinochet ‘s, or Fidel Castro’s, was out to conquer the world?

That whole invading Poland thing was clearly just a big misunderstanding. He didn't want war, he just wanted to arbitrarily annex whatever part of Europe he felt like having -- the response was clearly overblown, and maybe even a little rude.

Just read Pat Buchanans Column on Hitler and My Eyes are Bleeding

I can’t even begin to parse the ridiculousness of Pat Buchanan’s latest piece, which argues that Hitler had no interest in conquering the world but was forced into war in Poland and then prevented from making peace by the recalcitrance of the Allies. “Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years before the trains began to roll to the camps,” Buchanan intones, as if the Holocaust was also forced on the Germans by lack of cooperation.

This is the kind of appalling historical piece that leaves me thinking that I’ve fallen through into a bizarro world, and wondering what on the earth Buchanan thought the point was? To rehabilitate Hitler? To excoriate those uncooperative Poles?

[Lurker]

Absolutely disgusting. Not that it'll stop cable news from inviting him on the air to give his opinion on current political events.

[Harlowe]

He's a regular on MSNBC no less, in fact they also have this article in the editorial area on their site.

This isn't anywhere near the first time he's said something nazi-sympathizer-holocaust-denier-esque. This almost sounds like a Hitler Fanboi.

1977: "Those of us in childhood during the war years were introduced to Hitler only as a caricature…Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier in the Great War, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him. But Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path."
- St. Louis Globe – Democrat, Aug 25, 1977

Borderline Holocaust Denier
http://www.holocaust-history.org/~jamie/buchanan/

From just 4 years ago - Was World War II Worth It
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44210

The Holocaust wasn't Hitler's fault it was Churchill's
http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buc ... table.html

[Partha]

Just remember kiddies, Obama is Hitler!*

*-this message brought to you by the Right Wing Wurlitzer. This message approved by the GOP and it's ideological allies.

[Harlowe]

I wish Inhofe didn't look like my uncle, because he's (as my dad would say) another politician crazier than a shithouse rat.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article. ... 9&allcom=1

He is also alarmed, he said, by the proposed closing of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Obama administration wants to shutter the camp because of its association with torture.

Inhofe said: “There has never been a case of torture there. The people there are treated better than in the federal prisons.”
He continued, “I don’t know why President Obama is obsessed with turning terrorists loose in America.”

I think he's a bit miffed about this...

Obama, at the urging of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, also scrapped one of Inhofe’s pet projects, a cannon that was to be assembled at Elgin in southwestern Oklahoma.

Gates, a holdover from the Bush administration, advocated abandoning high-tech systems such as the cannon and the F-22 for cheaper, more reliable weapons.

But he's winning the "Global Climate Change is a Hoax" war....well, according to him. Oh golly!

He also said he continues to be proven correct in his claim that global climate change is a hoax.

“More and more, with each month that goes by, more scientists agree with me,” he said. “We are winning.”

My favorite one-liner was from Wonkette

In the words of Lenin: “A lie told often enough helps Jim Inhofe manage a chubby.”

[Ddrak]

But where is the evidence that Adolf Hitler, whose victims as of March 1939 were a fraction of Gen. Pinochet ‘s, or Fidel Castro’s, was out to conquer the world?

Is Buchanan conjuring the ghost of Chamberlain or something?

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