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Aww doggonit now I got all a-this cum on mah faceEH IT’S JUST AN OLD PERSON PHRASE: What is this thing in our inbox: “In a new column, MSNBC pundit Pat Buchanan refers to the Nicaraguan president as ‘the scrub stock of the hemisphere.’ What does ’scrub stock’ mean? It turns out it’s an antiquated phrase referring to an inferior breed of farm animal — and eugenicists once extended the use of the phrase beyond animals and into humans.” For the 1,000-word insanely over-researched etymological report that ultimately concludes that Pat Buchanan probably meant nothing racial was a terrible, snarling racist when he used this old-timey metaphor, TPM Muckraker has the scoop! [TPM Muckraker]


4:13 PM on Fri April 24 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. taylormattd says at 4:16 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Exactly. He’s not a racist, he’s just a holocaust denier.

  2. danadevin85 says at 4:20 pm, April 24th, 2009

    why doesn’t he just go somewhere and take a long nap?
    do we really need his opinion on anything?

  3. forgracie says at 4:20 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Lots of money shots lately…

  4. Texan Bulldoggette says at 4:21 pm, April 24th, 2009

    He wasn’t being racist; he was being PC, right NoLeeps?

  5. ManchuCandidate says at 4:24 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Having read a bit about the Irish in US America, I’m not surprised that a number of them (O’Reilly and Buchanan among them) are picking up what folks used to do to the Irish.

    It wasn’t long ago when Olson Johnson’s words in Blazing Saddle weren’t a joke.
    “All right… we’ll give some land to the niggers and the chinks. But we don’t want the Irish!”

  6. magic titty says at 4:25 pm, April 24th, 2009

    I’m sure he used it crudely, for the express purposes of its derogatory connotation. But so what?
    I like Pat Buchanan. He’s a racist old coot, and does this all the time, but is now harmless and elderly. Meh. I’m sure he’s willing to admit Mexicans make very good boxers and 2nd basemen, so he can’t be all the way racist, right?

    Right?

  7. Hooray For Anything says at 4:26 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Eh, wake me when he says something like jigaboo, spear chucker, or pickaninny. Until then, he’s just your garden variety anti-semitic wanna-be fascist.

  8. Nerdalicious says at 4:27 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Klan/Teabaggers/Wingnut code words. They probably have a bible full of them. There’s a million of them on the Nixon tapes. Right Pat???

    Bu-Bye Grand Am, I hardly knew ya:
    http://blingee.com/blingee/view/89279512-R-I-P-PONTIAC

  9. Custerwolf says at 4:28 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Holy shit Buchannan! I tried telling you that if you started dirty dancing with that Fluzey pig this was gonna happen.

  10. liquiddaddy says at 4:28 pm, April 24th, 2009

    I guess my momma was way wrong when she referred to his type as “shanty Irish white trash.” Even people up from the trailer park need somebody to look down on.

  11. Nerdalicious says at 4:31 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Custerwolf:
    Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

  12. Mad Farmer Manifest says at 4:33 pm, April 24th, 2009

    I’m pretty sure he meant it as a racial slur. Pat’s well versed in the Eugenics movement which basically considered brown people to be “scrub stock”.

  13. Wait. Shouldn’t Pat Robertson just have a Twitter just like all those other closet-case wrinkle fucker Christ clowns?

  14. Jukesgrrl says at 4:35 pm, April 24th, 2009

    And our President is a mutt, so they should be proud.

  15. Harvey Birdman says at 4:35 pm, April 24th, 2009

    The Newell alt-texts don’t come often, but when they do they sing.

  16. SayItWithWookies says at 4:36 pm, April 24th, 2009

    “Scrub stock?” That’s one tar baby to stay away from.

  17. chascates says at 4:37 pm, April 24th, 2009

    What is it with these rightwingers and animal sex?

  18. Custerwolf says at 4:37 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Nerdalicious: Picturing you laughing makes me laugh.

  19. Nerdalicious says at 4:38 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Crab1:
    “Well, ya know Chris (slobber, slobber), when I was Dick Nixon’s Press Secretary, blah, blah, blah, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Run out of the room screaming.

  20. Come here a minute says at 4:39 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Buchanan didn’t mean anything by it — it’s just a pet name, like “macaca”.

  21. Jamie Sommers says at 4:41 pm, April 24th, 2009

    I guess it would be too much to hope that he meant “scrub” in the hangin’-out-the-passenger-side-of-his-best-friend’s-ride sense.

  22. Nerdalicious says at 4:43 pm, April 24th, 2009
  23. bitchincamaro says at 4:43 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Since “sweatin’ like a nigger on election day” was taken away from PaBu by Berry’s coronation, this racist epithet will have to do. But I’ll bet he’s got a million of them.

  24. Nerdalicious says at 4:47 pm, April 24th, 2009

    bitchincamaro:
    PaBu love it! PaBu is just one degree of separation from the beloved George Wallace let’s face it. He even looks like him. “Picture of Dorian Grey”. All those haters start to look alike at some point.

  25. Scandinavian Fetus says at 4:48 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Why does Pat have such a generous dose of male discharge on his head?

  26. Custerwolf says at 4:48 pm, April 24th, 2009
  27. Custerwolf says at 4:50 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Harvey Birdman: Thanks - I never remember to check those!

  28. Nerdalicious says at 4:50 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Custerwolf:
    &*%#!!$#@!!!!!!!!!

  29. Nerdalicious says at 4:51 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Scandinavian Fetus:
    Custerwolf says cuz he was dirty dancing with fliry pig.

  30. Nerdalicious says at 4:53 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Sissy Poo Bay during her “freshening”
    http://www.schoebel-net.de/starsx/katherine_helmond_x.jpg

  31. Custerwolf says at 4:57 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Nerdalicious: “fliry pig.”

    ‘pears some wingnut’s stole yer ‘t.’

  32. Custerwolf says at 4:59 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Nerdalicious: Honey - that was both cruel and unusual.

  33. Nerdalicious says at 5:13 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Custerwolf:
    Yeah, Bay’s “procedure” is on the list of the torture memos you will be hearing about at Cheney’s, Rove’s & Gonzalez’s trial. Unfortunately, the “enhanced interrogation technique” did not enhance Bay’s “look”, so she wears these ginormous glasses to hide the fail. Note the “surprised” look that never goes away even during sleep. Well, hot damn! Those “t” crazy bastards. I’ll git ‘em.
    http://creepyla.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/baypalin.jpg

  34. El Pinche says at 5:17 pm, April 24th, 2009

    He wears Tucker’s load quite well. Eat your heart out Belladonna!

  35. He has some nerve calling the guy scrub stock, when Pat’s wearing a bucket of bull sperm on his punkin’ head.

  36. Scandinavian Fetus says at 5:22 pm, April 24th, 2009

    “Fliry pig?”

    I love to have no idea what people are talking about.

    It took a lot of asking around my rural Ohio community to finally find out what a ‘rimjob’ was (for those of you who aren’t aware, priests know A LOT about these categories of definitions).

    What the hell is a fliry pig?

  37. Custerwolf says at 5:27 pm, April 24th, 2009

    “Shelley, dearest, should I part my cum-wad over to the right side or to the left side today?”

  38. Nerdalicious says at 5:30 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Scandinavian Fetus:
    My bad. I left the “t” out of flirty, which Custerwolf has berated me publicly for. Thanks Custerwolf! Upstream Custerwolf made a funny about the previous hilarious post a few hrs ago, about the pig (see video). So, Custerwolf said:
    “Holy shit Buchannan! I tried telling you that if you started dirty dancing with that Fluzey pig this was gonna happen.”
    Then I said:
    “Custerwolf says cuz he was dirty dancing with flirTy pig.” I really should have said Fluzey which was much funnier than “flirty”.
    My posts are so f****d up that I have to explain them ad nauseum Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

  39. Nerdalicious says at 5:32 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Damn nab wingnuts stole my “t” & f****d up this entire blog!

  40. Nerdalicious says at 5:34 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Scandinavian Fetus:
    See previous hilarious post (video with pig)
    “EL CERDO BAILARĂ­N Terrible New Mexican Pig Flu To Kill Us All”

  41. Scandinavian Fetus says at 5:38 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Nerdalicious: No problem.

    Thank you for the explanation.

    You should hear, or see, what my priest says a “fliry” is….or maybe, he thought I said “furry.”

  42. Scandinavian Fetus says at 5:41 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Scandinavian Fetus: I don’t mean “my” priest. I mean, the local priest.

  43. TLC - no scrubs.

  44. One Yield Regular says at 5:43 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Yee-gads! That photo! Did Pat win the Glenn Beck auction?

  45. Nerdalicious says at 5:44 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Scandinavian Fetus:
    What does he say “fliry” is?

  46. Bearbloke says at 5:47 pm, April 24th, 2009

    taylormattd: One of my proudest moments ever was the Sunday before the ‘92 election, when CBS Face The Nation ran a clip of me, your humble-but-handsome secret lover Bearbloke, calling ol’ Pat a Fascist on national tv… of course, I didn’t see it first-hand since I was still asleep when it aired, but I got a msg from my uncle later that day about it, and when I went to work on Monday, as I passed through the cafeteria on the way to my office, one of the lunch-ladies came out and told me “honey, I saw you on tv yesterday tellin’ the truth!”

  47. Lazy Media says at 5:54 pm, April 24th, 2009

    I know this will shock a lot of people, but Pat Buchanan was a big fan of The Bell Curve, that piece of eugenicist pseudo-pop-science crap that made a brief splash in 1994.

  48. Scandinavian Fetus says at 6:01 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Nerdalicious: You’re kidding, right?

    Anyway, a “fliry” is that thing between men’s legs that can be raised “like Lazarus” by the “Hand of God” or the sacred right hand of one of his adolescent male servants…while wearing a nylon and reading from Summa Theologica.

    Anything else I can define from rural Americana?

  49. Nerdalicious says at 6:11 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Of course I’m kidding!
    What does this mean?
    “Well that just dills my pickle!”

  50. sarcasticusername says at 6:15 pm, April 24th, 2009

    pat is definitely in my top 5, when it comes to my favorite half dead, racist crackers.

  51. Scandinavian Fetus says at 6:21 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Nerdalicious: Cheers :-)

  52. Nerdalicious says at 6:29 pm, April 24th, 2009

    sarcasticusername:
    C Crazy
    R Redneck
    A Asswipes
    C Commiserating with the..
    K lan
    E Extinguishing all
    R Reason &
    S Sanity

  53. Nerdalicious says at 6:31 pm, April 24th, 2009

    Scandinavian Fetus:
    Well, butter my butt & call me a bisquit!

  54. bunnyhead says at 11:33 am, April 25th, 2009

    Scrub stock? That better describes the Wall Street and bankster crowd. Pat is a good-natured fun guy, a populist, and a voice for the working and middle class folks in America. His honesty on matters of race and Israel get him in trouble from time to time. But he is sincere, and not a racist or anti-Semite. Pat is a breath of fresh air among the media and chattering class. Go Pat!

  55. Schadenfried says at 11:59 am, April 25th, 2009

    Pat and his ilk crack me up with this shit. I’m sure there were alot of people in the 19th Century US the Irish immigrants when the set foot on American soil. In fact, weren’t they on the level of freed blacks back then?

  56. bunnyhead says at 1:56 pm, April 25th, 2009

    Schadenfried: Yes, my grandmother, born 1903, remembered a sign in front of a business that no “Irish dogs” need apply for jobs.

  57. Boojum says at 7:04 am, April 26th, 2009

    This is why Barton is against teh hybrids, because of race mixing.

  58. hobospacejunkie says at 2:26 pm, April 26th, 2009

    bunnyhead: But he is sincere, and not a racist or anti-Semite. Pat is a breath of fresh air among the media and chattering class. Go Pat!

    No, actually, at best, PaBu is an amiable racist and certified nutjob. But a racist nonetheless. Check out his latest book for further proof, where he advocates for Britain giving Hitler a free rein in Eastern Europe during WW2 rather than fighting him. Or go back and read some of his speeches from his failed run for president. He is the classic divide & conquer politician, pitting pissed off and fearful (of losing their jerbs) whiteys against whoever is the day’s hated minority. Usually Mexicans. He was Lou Dobbs before Lou was Lou Dobbs. Please do not defend this assclown by calling his racism ‘honesty’ which just gets him into trouble every now & again. Dress it up however you like, it’s still racism.

  59. Custerwolf says at 4:26 pm, April 26th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: Racist? How can you call him racist when he obviously loves doing Aunt Jemima in the raw?

  60. Custerwolf says at 4:29 pm, April 26th, 2009

    Schadenfried: Yeah, but we were too drunk to care.

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