Every now and then Pat Buchanan wakes up and decides to defend Hitler. Like Actual Hitler not just Synonym Hitler (Barack Obama).  Today is just such a day! Well, this new column is tied to the the extremely important and memorable 70th anniversary of Britain declaring its official involvement in WWII. (By the way if you’re thinking of doing something special, the traditional gift for 70 years is a bomb shelter… or possibly amethyst.) And speaking of Britain, why did Britain force Hitler to participate in the war and refuse his many sincere peace offerings? Why were they being such, like, Nazis about it? It’s a good question to ask, of History! And Pat Buchanan has the most retarded answers this side of AP Euro. MORE »

People are cold goin’ nuts over this Pat Buchanan article on some web site and why? Because he’s writing something about Richard Nixon or whoever? No, because it features this ridiculous picture of Barack Obama and a certain beloved molesting bear approaching him from the rear. Given the name of the photo file — “BHORainbowBear2_med.jpg” — it seems possible that whoever decided to combine Pat Buchanan’s Nixon column with a picture of Pedobear did not fully understand what that little cartoon character is really “about.” [Taki's Magazine]

• PAT BUCHANAN URGES MORE RACISM AGAINST SOTOMAYOR: Former Nixon racism strategist Pat Buchanan does not understand why a few of these current Republican leaders continually reject the obvious political benefits of just being completely racist all the time: “Had McCain been willing to drape Jeremiah Wright around the neck of Barack Obama, as Lee Atwater draped Willie Horton around the neck of Michael Dukakis, the mainstream media might have howled. And McCain might be president.” [Human Events]

We kind of like the young Alaskan who mistakenly knocked up Alex Rodriguez, which is why it’s so difficult to watch Pat Buchanan uttering this wild-eyed suggestion to drown him, in the crick. Buchanan is such a racist against the descendants of gold miners. [Media Matters]

Black Irish immigrant leprechaun Patrick “Sinead” Buchanan knows what kinds of immigrants he hates: all the ones who showed up after his ring-kissing potato-drunkard parents were dumped by the British in New York Harbor as a final retaliation for the American Revolution. That’s why Buchanan and his wacky white-supremacist friends are, these days, mostly concerned with keeping the Puerto Ricans out of our nation’s courtrooms — them don’t speak good English! Also, these lamers failed to notice their own “The American Cause” conference banner does not spell “conference” correctly, but at least it’s not a dirty, dirty Mexican. [Think Progress/Shakesville]

• TANCREDO RACIST DUDE IS LIKE FOUR: Marcus Epstein, the executive director of Tom Tom Tancredo and Bay Buchanan’s PAC, Team America — *ahem* HAHAHAHA like the movie — and also the executive director of Pat Buchanan and Bay Buchanan’s (other) PAC, The American Cause, is going to law school this fall, to karate chop and shout the n-word at more black ladies! And Bay Buchanan says that Epstein was a 21-year-old at the time of the 2007 incident, meaning he is now, what, NINE? Donate money to this young clown’s various racist groups! [Washington Independent]

Monster-Emperor of Targeted Polls and Hillary Clinton’s personal Iago, Mark Penn, went on the Morning Joe program today because his important book from 90 years ago, Microtrends, is now in paperback. Hooray! (And if you blog about it, you win ten million dollars!) MORE »

EH 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]

Pat Buchanan has written a real ripsnorter of a column in the American Conservative about how the Republicans are a bag of salty dicks, for hating Detroit. Detroit could be worse — for example, they could be Japs: “But why this ‘Let-them-eat-cake!’ coldness toward U.S. auto companies? General Motors employs more workers than all these foreign plants combined. And, unlike Mitsubishi, General Motors didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor.” [American Conservative]

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]

Enh, what the hell. Here is a YouTube of Chris Matthews’s show in Charlie Brown’s Outdoor Park in Minneapolis: a fitting place for Chris Matthews, because his head is exactly the size and shape of Charlie Brown’s (large, spherical). Norah O’Donnell looks, zoiks, sort of indignant! Rachel Maddow makes terrible feedbacks on her microphone! Pat Buchanan is exasperated! Gene Robinson wonders where the other bodies are buried! We are going back to bed for two hours or so, good night/morning. [MSNBC via YouTube]