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Pat Buchanan Has A Hearty Chuckle Over Disenfranchising Black Voters

Oh Pat Buchanan! He may be a cranky old racist fraud, but at least he’s an honest one who knows how to enjoy himself instead of being all dour and righteous about it. Toward the end of last night’s Special Emergency Weekend Edition of Hardball, Buchanan says his methods for encouraging black turnout would include radio ads telling people the election’s on Friday. Even Eugene Robinson has to laugh. Funnies start around the 7:20 mark. [MSNBC]


3:00 PM on Sun November 2 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. WTF? What a total ass- and no one there notices.

  2. trondant says at 3:09 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Ha ha, voter disenfranchisement is teh funniez.

  3. StephanieInCA says at 3:10 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    I’m Pat Buchanan and I CANNOT CONTROL THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE.

  4. Oh, those silly negroes! Always trying to vote and such. Won’t they ever learn?

  5. DoctorCulturae says at 3:13 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Sorry, Russert would not have stood for this bs. It is amazing how msnbc kowtows to this behavior all because they need to “balance” the points of view. Funny and pathetic how on the teevee hate looks like strength.

  6. We promised them all 40 acres and a white woman. Oh for the fun!

  7. HuskyMescan says at 3:16 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Buchanan, our favorite racist conservative with Tourette syndrome.
    “SOCIALIST!!!! FUCK SALT!!”

  8. choinski says at 3:17 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Don’t forget Lieberman and the Socialist!!! SOCAILIST!!!!!!!! SSSSSOOOOCCCIIIIAAALLLLLIIIISSSSSST!!

  9. SayItWithWookies says at 3:17 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Every so often they trot Pat out of the museum to reminisce about what the Willie Horton days were like. Just remember, Mr. Buchanan — after Tuesday, it’s four more years of The McLauchlin Group.

  10. What a fucking sack of human-shaped excrement.

  11. nmmagayar says at 3:19 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    don’t you have to own a mule, or something, to vote

  12. chascates says at 3:22 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    He can chortle about his racist views and get away with it but when I mention how we should raise taxes on the rich to the level they were during the Eisenhower administration I’m called a ‘class warrior.’ Come the revolution . . .

  13. ZombieRichardFeynman says at 3:37 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Haha, Pat calls Oregon O-re-gone. Another Eastern effete who has apparently never been in the western half of the US.

  14. 2druk2phluq says at 3:39 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Special Emergency Weekend Edition of Wonkette, now a Special Weekend Emergency Edition of Hardball. We’re gonna have a real emergency and nobody’s going to believe it, thanks to Tweety and the Wonketteers.

    Buchanan, “Yeah (giggle), we fooled the black people (giggle)… they think the election is Friday [chuckle, giggle] because black people don’t know how to read. Those silly, uneducated nigras will believe anything an old bigot says (giggle).”

  15. itgetter says at 3:49 pm, November 2nd, 2008
  16. Chief Grinning Eagle says at 3:49 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Buick-anons name sounds better Spoonerized: Bat Puke-Cannon.
    It’s also a fact that we remember his name perfectly, it’s his face we can’t seem to remember.

    Bat Puke Cannon. Wouldn’t he really drive a Pu-ick - next year?

    In that case one had better vote for O’bama like everyone one at GM in Detrurt and the Ford plant in Lorain, Ohio.
    Where the fuck is my flex fuel?

    God helps those who help transportation - not just those who warm a seat. The only throne for them is a John Douglas “Gloria” and those are disappearing fast from the salvage places - faster than crappers and W.Cs. “What Trenton makes the world takes.”

    We all must have Standards, I say. Flush early and flush often!
    In the words of Frank Zappa, ”

    I’m not black but there are a whole lot of times I wish I wasn’t white!”

  17. OzoneTom says at 3:53 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Probably just amused by memories of “Sunshine Sammy” Morrison’s reaction when spooky things happened in “Ghosts on the Loose”

  18. schvitzatura says at 4:04 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Dole sez: Hagan/Nietzsche 2008

    Libby can eat an economy sized bag-o’-viagra-enhanced-schlong…she’ll likely have the time.

  19. AlexTrebeksGirl says at 4:06 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    BORAT: do you own any slaves?

  20. phillyman says at 4:19 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Hey Zeus Chris Toe, did Tweety already get his free cuppa Starbucks? Let them finish at least one answer…..

  21. O.K. here is the thing those negroes who keep believing this crap about the election being cancelled or date of the election changing or they will be arrested if they show up should not be allowed to vote on the first place. WTF is up with that – how could you fall for the same crap every election.

  22. Uncle Al says at 4:24 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Pat is so far out there, he doesn’t even pretend to have any scruples. Any time Tweety or Rachel Maddow asks him about the latest 100-percent bullshit racist commercial by McCain, Pat always says, “You’re missing the point. It doesn’t matter if it’s true. The point is that these commercials WORK!”

    But I enjoy it when once in a while Tweety or Rachel will embarrass Pat by reminding the audience that Pat was a Nixon lickspittle and say something like, “Well yeah but that’s how you ended up with Watergate, right, Pat?” And Pat grins but you can tell he hates it.

  23. Hooray For Anything says at 4:34 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Pat also thinks it’s funny when they disenfranchise old Jewish voters in Florida by coming up with confusing ballots that make them vote for crazy anti-semites by accident as opposed to nice, friendly, environmentally conscious VP candidates who won’t get people into two wars.

  24. slappypaddy says at 4:48 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Oh, Ms. Pat, you just go after all those silly black folk, I’m sure they’ll believe everything you say and it will make all the difference come Tuesday. Meanwhile, here’s a wedgie for your panties: white folk are voting for Hopey, too, and there’s a lot of us.

  25. smellyal8r says at 4:50 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Hooray For Anything: Well, ya gotta admit that was a classic bit. Seriously. Talk about the “perfect storm”. Dumb Al Gore couldn’t win his home state, for gawd’s sake, because he and Tipper were too high and holy to let the “philanderer” Bill Clinton out of the box to campaign for him in really winnable states (TN, WV, etc.), so it would have never come down to Pat’s “supporters”.

    But I digress. Pat Buchanan is a douchebag.

  26. Lazy Media says at 5:21 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    I just can’t get over that Northern Virginia o. How do you spell that phonetically? oeu? Tweety has pretty much the same accent.

    Tell um tha election’s oahn Frahdy!

  27. gurukalehuru says at 5:43 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Has Pat heard about the hanged raccoon? He’d probably bust a gut laughing at that one.

  28. Dreadful Gate says at 5:56 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Pat Buchanan is every righteous lefty’s favourite demon, but he’s also the only conservative they sometimes, secretly, agree with in their hearts

  29. InKnockYouUs says at 6:02 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Tweety combed his hair or something. He was looking quite well-groomed for a change. And they all laughed at this stupid joke! Even the black guy was over there chortling over it. Hunh, hunh, hunh, that Buchanan is a scamp.

  30. Itsjustme says at 6:22 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    I for one am giving Butt-canon a slide today. It’s his birthday and he is like 100.

  31. lampadadog says at 6:53 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    What’s with Tweety’s comment about rain and the marshalls? Is he trying to say that black voters are afraid of the rain?

  32. ShortShadey says at 8:06 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Buchanan laughs the way I imagine Cheney laughs in private… and about the same jokes. “Election’s on Friday! Bwahh haah hah!”

  33. DemmeFatale says at 9:27 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Oh come on, Wonkette! Can’t the old racist xenophobe laugh at himself?

    Now take some deep cleansing breaths.

  34. aaaaaaaaaa says at 10:04 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Voter_suppression_humor.html

    In Fort Collins, Colo., Obama asks members of the student-heavy crowd to raise their hands if they’ve early voted; most raise their hands.

    He urged the others to vote early — especially “if you’re voting for me.”

    “If you’re voting for the other guy, you should just wait until Nov. 5,” he said, pausing.

    “I’m just teasing,” he said, noting that Election Day is Nov. 4.

    Yeah it’s different for Buchanan to make this joke about African-Americans, but I still laughed at this.

  35. Oh, that’s an encounter with Bugs Bunny and Pat Buchanan where, what…Nixon or somebody comes along.

  36. Yanno, when all those Black kids down South exclaimed “You’re not White, you’re Jewish!” I knew they were paying me a gigantic compliment.

  37. the invisible woman says at 5:48 am, November 3rd, 2008

    guangho: I’m black so I can tell you; yes, they were. They were telling you they could trust you. This makes you different from Pat Buchanan who isn’t even trusted by white people anymore.

    Actually, this is really happening to people. Black people are being told they can vote by phone, that they aren’t really registered, that they can’t vote if they have a parking ticket, etc. It would be funny if it weren’t scary.

  38. the invisble woman: First, kudos on a literary name. I’m still kinda amazed that reading is allowed by the government. As for the Jewish thing, it did have it’s downside like the guy in the New Orleans bar who reeked of booze and meth and insisted, in all his corpulent glory, that I tell him whether or not I “go to Jewlane.” (Tulane.) Second, thanks for the trust thing, especially the non ironic kind. And finally, let us all pause to reflect on the fact that the party of a President who started two major wars with democracy as their stated goal has been getting its rocks off on suppressing certain voters for…oh fifty years now.

  39. the invisible woman says at 9:10 am, November 3rd, 2008

    guangho: Thank you for getting the name!!! Antisemitism sucks no matter who’s spewing it. I’m just saying that for every black person who harbors Antisemitism, there are three of us who secretly trust Jewish Americans more than we trust a lot of other groups of people. My mother’s favorite book was The Diary of Ann Frank, which she read as young black girl in the late 40s/50s. It spoke to her. There’s a history there that still really matters to a lot of black people.

  40. DrSithMirth says at 11:40 am, November 3rd, 2008

    I know this is bizarre, and what can I say:

    If I were forced to hang out with a racist right-wing kook, out of all of them I’d choose Buchanan. What can I say? At least he can poke fun at himself for his crappy misgivings.

  41. the invisible woman: the guy in the bar was white. (White Southerners generally treat me like a leper. Which is fine especially since I’m in NYC now.) Speaking of history, my family had a none too fun time in southern Poland in the 1940’s so we have authority issues, which is one reason why none of us are republicans.

  42. huffybike says at 1:36 pm, November 3rd, 2008

    Ha ha, what a card! http://tinyurl.com/5abjmx

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