Stay with me on this: You’re talking with someone about an issue or event and, with a perfectly straight face, he or she says something so outlandish, so outrageous, so ridiculous that it leaves you speechless because not even your wildest imagination had prepared you for something as beyond-the-ozone as that.

And then, when the shock wears off, and what you heard sinks in, you come up with loads of pithy rejoinders that you wished had occurred to you at the moment.

But then, you decide that it was just as well that you were speechless since what’s the use in wasting your breathe on someone who, clearly, does not have the capacity for reason?

That has to be how much of America felt last week when Pat Buchanan, the ineradicable political commentator and repeatedly failed presidential hopeful, turned his mouth and his pen against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and affirmative action.

First came the column in which he implored conservatives to use the Sotomayor nomination (and probable confirmation) as a hook for stirring up racial tensions as the foundation of an “us-against-them” political platform in 2010 and 2012.

That quickly put Buchanan on the boards and, for the next few nights, he was a popular “get” on the political talk shows, snarling about Sotomayor, whom he denounced as the personification of anti-white revenge.

“Affirmative action is to increase diversity by discriminating against white males,” he told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

“Why do you think it is that, of the 110 Supreme Court justices we’ve had in this country, 108 of them have been white?” Maddow asked.

Buchanan: “I think white men were 100 percent of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100 percent of the people that signed the Declaration of Independence, 100 percent of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.  Probably close to 100 percent of the people who died at Normandy. This has been a country build basically by white folks in this country who are 90 percent of the entire nation.”

Later in the exchange, Buchanan tried to explain his monochromatic preferences by allowing that he doesn’t automatically assume discrimination is afoot when the U.S. track team at the Olympics is all black. “I will say, ‘I think maybe those are the fastest guys we got,” he said.

Maddow – a true scholar as well as a made-for-TV charmer – seemed taken aback by Buchanan’s blunt and naked bigotry, but bless her smart heart, she was not dumbfounded.

“Pat,” she said, “when I look at the United States Supreme Court and I see 108 out of 110 white people … I don’t look at that and think, ‘God, white guys are naturally better at this type of work than other people who aren’t getting these jobs.’”  

Buchanan, of course, would not budge from his prejudice, but wallowed in it. And why not? It has long been his comfort zone. This, after all, is the Pat Buchanan of the “Barbarians are at the gate” rant against immigration. The same one who, as a presidential candidate in 1992, praised the Confederacy and rallied rednecks to “lock and load.” The same one who, after then-candidate Barack Obama delivered his famously compelling Philadelphia speech on race, wrote a column asking when black America was going to show some gratitude for having been saved from Africa and brought to this country.  White supremacy is the man’s calling card.

Buchanan has an encyclopedic command of history and can regale audiences with a litany of significant events at the drop of a hat. That comes in handy in political discourse.

Still, it’s a riddle that otherwise respectable, mainstream media outlets keep Buchanan on as a .....

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Pat's butthead,and rush is beavis......

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Rubinisk
July 20, 2009, 8:23 pm
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It's just a matter of time,until we all see the track marks in Butt-head Buchananan's drawers---tracks so thick and LARGE, an airplane could land on them.........

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Rubinisk
July 20, 2009, 8:21 pm
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"Pitchfork Pat" belongs on Fox where his kind talks this kind of garbage. He, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly are made for each other. As people of color become more powerful worldwide, Pat Buchanan will eat his words.

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SPF
July 20, 2009, 1:47 pm
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Look now a days on the tube you have to say the most outragous things jsut to get noticed..there are like a trillion channels...it'a all about getting you to watch...whatever it takes....the bar has been lowered so far it doesn't even exist anymore...
got to get you to watch those ads...check out how long the ads run on any program ..you will be shocked...try it...it will blow you away....

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Player
July 20, 2009, 12:50 pm
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The only history that Pat Buchanan is great at is the fairy tale history that has been taught in our schools. When has he ever checked his facts against the real and truthful history of this nation? How can he say that the white man built this country? First and formost, this country was already inhabited by Indians, Hispanics and yes Africans before the English came over and contaminated this country. Will someone please send him a copy of this country's ture history. And many thank to Ms Maddow for standing up to him.
Sobee

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SOBEE
July 20, 2009, 12:12 pm
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Why boycott the network? I praise them for allowing Pat Buchanan to spew his venom. Be disgusted by what he says, but listen. It's better to know who your enemies are rather than wonder.

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Raywil3
July 20, 2009, 11:04 am
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Many people continue to Listen to the TJMS, to get Black related info they may not get anywhere else, despite O J Brown (he calls himself J. Anthony) ridiculing and Mocking Black history. HOWEVER, some people actually enjoy Brown’s buffoonery and listen explicitly for that. Likewise, some people continue to listen to such shows for info, despite racists like Buchanan and others listen explicitly for racist slants. I decided LONG AGO, not to listen to that CRAP!

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Sevennotrump
July 20, 2009, 10:17 am
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I will not stop watching any media outlet just because some person says stupid things. I can make my own decisions, it is better for him to be heard than not to be heard. It gives people who disagree with him a chance to respond.

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KeithCompany
July 20, 2009, 10:01 am
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He's probably being hailed as a hero on the "conservative" media circuit--just as he expected. What's really funny is that they all seem to be consumed with entertaining themselves. They have no other solutions. He is a failed politician--what a joke! Can you believe what he said about the Supreme Court nominee! She is 3 times smarter than he is. He never mentioned the millions of people who were murdered to achieve this so-called white man's achievement. Watch out--next up--somebody is going to write a book about the inferiority of African Americans--the media will eat it up

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Dkg316
July 20, 2009, 8:40 am
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I am in favor of freedom of speech but there is also something called freedom of choice and MSNBC choose to have this Klansman to apear on their show spewing hatred to justify his anti affirmative action beliefs. Well I too have a choice and choose to discontinue to watch MSNBC. We must all write, call boycott or whatever it takes.

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MKV4201
July 20, 2009, 7:50 am
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After watching that racist tirade,I've decided that I will boycott MSNBC as long as this fool appears on the network. He is stirring up this anti- white theme, which only feed into hate and violence.

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Tammyleachma
July 20, 2009, 5:24 am
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