WorldNetDaily has a sense of energy about it these days, fueled by the discerning public’s new appreciation for the art that is birtherism. “Compare the Flex Belt & Contour Belt – 2 leading ab belts,” its front page proclaims, educating the abless on exciting innovations made in 2003. Yesterday, it announced that stuffy American scholar Charlie Sheen had seen Donald Trump on teevee and begrudgingly accepted the birthers’ conclusion. Today, it says chief MSNBC grandfathering correspondent Pat Buchanan has also decided Obama needs to release his birth certificate. Wait, wasn’t he just criticizing Donald Trump for doing that the other day? Yeah, but he forgot. He’s not really sure where he is or what he’s saying these days.
Buchanan, of course, is a WND columnist himself. The last op-ed we saw on there was him arguing that American schools are struggling because they have too many minority kids in them. Pat Buchanan is “Leaning Forward” out of his chair and is about to fall into one of those modern chamber pot things you find in nursing homes.
But there are moments of lucidity. Just two weeks ago, he was sitting in the corner of the MSNBC Morning Joe studios napping when he heard the younger guys jabbing at Donald Trump on the birther issue. Wanting to fit in with the hip 50-year-olds, he sat up his chair and said this to Trump:
“But, you know, Donald, they would have to travel, you’d have to bring the kid out of Kin-ya, and bring him back to the United States. You’ve got documents for all that, do you not? I mean, the mother would have to travel within a short period of time. There would be records of all of that.”
Fast forward two weeks, and this is now Buchanan’s position:
He really has no idea what is going on. He will just pick up any narrative thread he hears and goes with it. Cue this Ali G video up to 2:20 and listen to Buchanan expound on the problem of Saddam Hussein’s BLTs:
Isn’t this why our country has Social Security? Put the man on the dole and give him a nice sandwich. He’ll be just as happy. He doesn’t belong on television. [WND]
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He's probably disoriented after they changed the time slot for Matlock on the Hallmark Network.
Hell, i was too. Murder She Wrote my ass.
That b had better stand for بابا غانوج.
Was he ever?
Well his speech at the 92 convention helped bring down the first Bush, so yes he was relevant then.
A little piece of me dies every time Rachel has him on as a guest.
Eh, Maddow and Buchanan clearly like each other as individuals notwithstanding their political views (that was apparent during the 2008 election coverage), so I'll cut her some slack for letting him on.
Now that the birthers have such straight thinkers on their side as Buchanan and Sheen, we need to start taking them seriously.
Pat Buchanan Has No Idea Where He Is, What He’s Saying
Same old, same old.
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Pat Buchanan
is stillwas ever relevant?All fixed.
It's sad to see Mr. Buchanan suffering from the obvious effects of Alzheimers. I hear that stem cells forcibly taken from aborted babies cures that.
These were not intended to be factual statements.
Hurry Pat, Pied Piper Trump's minions have been waiting for you. Like one wharf rat waits for another.
"Today, it says chief MSNBC grandfathering correspondent Pat Buchanan."
I thought Buchanan was the Alzheimer's correspondent.
Edit. Sorry upfist.
Genial fucking racist…
I don't know. I don't find him all that genial.
Perfect, he reminds me of my Dad.
Bucky’s birth certificate is the front label from a bottle of VAT69.
Maybe the Mornin' Joe! crew will take him to London for the blessed nuptials next week and he'll get the fucking vapors from all the moslims wandering around freely. One can hope.
So, there's a chance the London tabs will capture a Mika B. upskirt?
"Pat, Pat, Pat–take your damn meds, let them work, take a nice nap, watch that rerun of Hogan's Heroes that you enjoy so much, and stop yapping about anything."
"But, but, but I'm relevant! I'm with it! The parade is going on. I must try to keep up!"
Pat, you can't keep up. You can't even keep it up. Just shut up.
Buchanan/Bachmann 2012
Similar names. Similar crazy.
Buchanan/Buchanan 2012
He can run with his sister Daisy, she was wonderful in "The Great Gatsby".
Buchanan, Sheen, Trump, and sometimes Bachmann; the birther movement certainly has amazing intellectual heft, why between the four of them there might be half a brain.
Hair slightly worse than Trump.
Didn't he immigrate illegally from Buchananistan?
I think it was Novackistan.
Sorry, you're both incoorect. It was Berzerkistan.
All this time, I thought it was Vichy France.
I put an onion on my belt as it was the style at the time.
Was that back when nickels had bumblebees on them?
"Gimme five bees for a quarter", you'd say.
Now, you couldn't get white onions because of the war, so all you could get were those big yellow ones…
I'm beginning to suspect that I wasn't born in this country that these people live in.
'Course not. None of us are "Real Americans," remember.
August 31, 2012 – Republican Party has just named some crazy birther as the candidate.
Later that night Obama calls a national news conference in front of poster sized copies of all the documents showing he was born in Hawaii that all the Republicans claim are the real birf certificate. He then drops his trousers to proove why he does not have a circumcision certificate.
November 2, 2012 Obama 88% – Crazy Republican Birther – 12%
Two words: Death panel.
Needz moar splooge!!!
Dick Cheney turned him onto transfusions of Iraqi war orphan tears. Good stuff!
the southern strategy, the birthers, this guy!
always on the right side of history.
It's in their party's platform, right after "Any war, anytime (if oil involved).
Or killing brown people. We didn't need that oil excuse in Nicaragua back in the 80s.
Didn't count, those Central American excursions were just target practice.
Buchanan knows where of he speaks, as he was burned before when he found out that Hitler was born in Austria.
Yes, but much like John McCain, they changed the law so that he was eligible to run.
Pat probably is in late stage amnesic-confabulatory syndrome due to alcoholic dementia.
Needs moar TRIG!!!!
I think that photo is of Pat Bukake, not Pat Buchanan.
Judging by the picture Buchanan was the pivot man in a circle jerk.
The last time we had a President Buchanan, we got a civil war out of it.
Also, we invaded Utah.
We nominally won that Civil War, although some of the losers haven't accepted it yet, so maybe we really haven't. Utah's so weird that it surpasses description: Salt Lake City sold the public streets around the Mormon Tabernacle to the Mormons so they could legally kick people off.
So on the whole, with respect to another President Buchanan, my overall feeling is: no.
BTW, that picture looks like he was holding the bagel at his fraternity reunion.
Pat the Bunny is more erudite.
Cuter, too.
Damn! Now I'm Jonesin' for a BLT. This salad isn't going to cut it.
Jack's going after kids with ADD now? Has he already forgotten about yesterday's Retard Fun-A-Thon?
I AM EMAILING PAPA JOHNS RIGHT NOW ADD KIDS ARE ALL PRECIOUS ANGELS WHO ARE AUTOMATICALLY HEROIC BECAUSE OF THEIR DISABILITIES YOU HATEFUL RETARDS.
"You hateful retards" made me yodel green tea.
One correction–Ali G. pronounced his name as "BOOK canon".
We Americans pronounce his name "PUKE canon".
WESTSIDE!!!!
"Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan's speech; it probably sounded better in the original German." –Molly Ivins
Thanks, Dok. Need more Molly.
Needs moar yelling at clouds.
Most comedians do.
How big was the bird that crapped on Pat's head in that picture?
Naw, that's more like 30% for the birther. As long as there's an "R" after its name, it gets nearly a third of the vote.
And yes, time is running out, the party's nearly over.
If you get Alzheimer's and no one can tell the difference, does it s till count?
*eyeroll*
I suppose now we'll get 300 downfists, tons of indignant posts about our morals, and calls for boycotts for making fun of someone who only had half a brain to begin with, and is now senile on top of that…
Oh, wait, his last name is something other than "Palin".
Carry on.
To buy a new heel for my shoe.
Now in those days, you had to take the ferry over to Shelbyville…
Because there is no God?
Bob Dole likes this.
He's the comic relief on The McLaughlin Group.
Only the good die young?
Judging from that picture, I guess Pat giving the Donald that handy J went wrong somehow…
Racist politician agrees with racist idea, news at 11
Anyone else remember that time Buchanan said Hitler was not such a bad fellow?
Not that those times, that one specific one.
He's a legend in his own mind.
Pat Buchanan made his bones in the sixties by tossing J. Edgar Hoover's salad behind Clyde Tolson's back. Tolson was tipped off about the dalliances and got even with Hoover by tossing Robert Novak's salad in a broom closet at the Justice Department Building on Sundays while Edgar was taking his nap. It's all in my upcoming book titled: "Atlas Shat". That is all.
Seems to me that they are giving the doddering old fool the Bob Novack treatment, poor thing. You know, the whole sticking him in a dark corner of the media world until he keels over. And, let me tell you, MSNBC's Morning Joe is a dark corner despite it's cheery name. Joe's there because he could never make it in primetime; Mika is there to pretend-balance him, but she's really there for a check; Willie Geist is putting his time in while he climbs the latter…it's a miserable little early morning hell, and yet I sometimes watch it because I'm something of a masochist but more for the train-wreck value of the whole thing.
What more needs to be said? From Wiki:
"Buchanan has written about the Holocaust and engaged in the defense of Nazi war criminals. For example, Buchanan wrote that it was impossible for 850,000 Jews to be killed by diesel exhaust fed into the gas chamber at Treblinka. When George Will challenged him about it on TV, Buchanan failed to reply. Buchanan's long battle with Nazi-hunters is conspicuous. In 1983 he criticized the U.S. government for expressing regret over its postwar protection of Klaus Barbie. In 1985, Buchanan advocated restoring the citizenship of Arthur Rudolph, an ex-Nazi rocket scientist accused of employing slave labor at a V-2 plant. In 1987, Buchanan lobbied to stop deportation of Karl Linnas, accused of atrocities in Estonia. Buchanan could well be right that John Demjanjuk was wrongly accused of being Treblinka's "Ivan the Terrible." Soviet documents suggest he may have been merely a camp guard. But this respect for civil liberties is allegedly selective. Buchanan is accused of being a hardliner on all accused criminals except Nazis. Buchanan has called Hitler a "man of great courage and extraordinary gifts." In 1990 William F. Buckley, Jr., Buchanan's former mentor, wrote a 20,000 word essay on Buchanan that concluded: "I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge" of anti-Semitism."
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