{"id":1346,"date":"2009-01-09T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2009-05-07T18:42:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T22:42:33","slug":"pat-buchanan-anti-semitic-crackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/pat-buchanan-anti-semitic-crackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Buchanan: Anti-Semitic Crackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a time when I liked Pat Buchanan (although I can’t remember when or why) but over the years he’s said a variety of things that caused me to classify him as an crackpot… Like this summer when he blamed America for Russia’s invasion of Georgia<\/a>. Or like last night on MSNBC’s “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” when he accused Israel of carrying out a “blitzkrieg” against Gaza and turning it into a “concentration camp.”<\/a><\/p>\n

This isn’t the fist time Buchanan made thinly veiled anti-Semitic comments the Anti-Defamation League has a catalog of his comments on American Jews and the pro-Israel lobby<\/span><\/a> and on Nazis and the Holocaust<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pat Buchanan does not speak for me or the majority of conservatives, the fact that MSNBC continues to give him pulpit from which to spew his hatred speaks volumes about their motivations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time when I liked Pat Buchanan (although I can’t remember when or why) but over the years he’s said a variety of things that caused me to classify him as an crackpot… Like this summer when he blamed America for Russia’s invasion of Georgia. Or like last night on MSNBC’s “1600 Pennsylvania […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,73,7],"tags":[402,401,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-1346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture","7":"category-international-affairs","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-hamas","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-patrick-j-buchanan","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-lI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3463,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/26\/oliver-stone-anti-semitic-crackpot\/","url_meta":{"origin":1346,"position":0},"title":"Oliver Stone: Anti-Semitic Crackpot","author":"Jeff","date":"July 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Lets not mince words here: Oliver Stone is\u00a0 and anti-Semitic crackpot... 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