Pat Buchanan has come in for quite a bit of criticism over the years for remarks about Israel and American Jews. He’s still a sharp observer of the political scene, though, which is why MSNBC hired him several years ago
Dear Pat, I like you, I really do. You were a ground-breaking pundit on “The MacLaughlin Group” and “The Capitol Gang” THIRTY YEARS AGO. But, something happened after your bitter, fruitless and destructive presidential runs in 1992 and 1996. You
CHRIS MATTHEWS: “This guy goes pretty far. I think he fits in the tradition of Father Coughlin and McCarthy and, of course, maybe to a lesser extent, Pat Buchanan and, of course, O’Reilly. These guys are hard right-wing guys. They
In 1982, CNN debuted a current affairs debate show titled Crossfire. The show starred Tom Braden from the left and Pat Buchanan from the right in a raucous debate on the issues of the day. The show continued until 2005
With Democrats poised to ram former Senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination through the Senate, despite Hagel’s refusal to turn over all relevant financial records and speeches, all eyes should now turn to the Democrats who portray themselves as pro-Israel. If a
While a vast majority of Americans side with Israel in their current conflict with Hamas, only 41% of Democrats do, according to a new CNN poll today. That poll shows that 57% of Americans believe Israel is right to take
Earlier today Breitbart TV featured a man on the street video from our own Rebel Pundit showing scores of Univ. of Wisconsin students saying it was unfair that President Obama was not allowed to use a TelePrompter in Wednesday’s debate.
Is TheWrap.com in the tank for President Barack Obama just like the rest of the Hollywood industry it covers? You’d think so after reading the site’s loopy article this morning trying to spin away the damaging video of then-Sen. Barack
In The Hill, Bernie Quigley writes that the future of the conservative movement is essentially the Tea Party movement, and Sarah Palin is the movement’s natural leader. “If Obama wins this year, Palin will lead (against Christie/Bush) in the Republican
NEW YORK, July 9 (UPI) — Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and Martin Short paid tribute to the late writer-director Nora Ephron at a memorial in New York’s Alice Tulley Hall Monday. Ephron died June 26 of complications from
Earlier this week, Breitbart News reported that Arkansas state Democrats might attempt to disenfranchise the state’s voters by refusing to award delegates to John Wolfe, a Tennessee attorney who was on the ballot challenging President Obama (Wolfe is also on
When you have a failed president on your hands and a re-election just a little over five months away, it’s easy to panic and rationalize and do everything you can to convince yourself the problem isn’t your candidate but rather
Part of my job is to monitor CNN and MSNBC. So, 14 to 16 hours a day, wave after wave of The Stupid and The Corrupt washes over me. One benefit, though, is that after doing this for a few years,
Pat Buchanan told Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift that the reason President Obama gets along with Prime Minister David Cameron is because he is a “Republican in name only.”
One of the speakers at Occupy AIPAC has a long history of anti-Semitic statements, and was a backer of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. From 5:30-7:30 on Saturday, Occupy AIPAC presented “AIPAC: What it is, who its allies
BUCHANAN: “What does racism mean? Do I hate black folks? That’s what racism means. ‘I hate black folks. I want them discriminated against.’ You know, ‘I dislike them. I used bad words with them.’ No it’s not that! … Ronald
Pat Buchanan told Sean Hannity on Fox News, “It is quite clear that the people of Media Matters and the others are saying is ‘what Buchanan says doesn’t deserve to be heard. We don’t want to challenge him, it simply
Yesterday, MSNBC announced that it had dropped Pat Buchanan as a political analyst based on the release of his newest book, Suicide of a Superpower: Will American Survive to 2025? “After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left
Regardless what you think of Pat Buchanan’s controversial and questionable views, it’s troublesome when the First Amendment is abridged by small, partisan groups who’ve made it their mission to streamline diversity of thought to less voices, not more. Buchanan announced last
Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw is featured prominently in a new ad from the Romney campaign focusing on Newt Gingrich’s House ethics violation in the mid-1990s. The ad, entitled “History Lesson,” is a 30 second excerpt from NBC Nightly
Stoking the Fire: Despite the fact that the comment was taken out of context, opportunities still abound to seize on Romney’s ‘I like to fire people’ gaffe. Cue Vice President Biden and DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Out in far
In his victory speech on Tuesday night, Rick Santorum highlighted his visits to the Granite State, a place he says that he has visited more often than any of the other candidates, excepting Jon Hunstman. In the campaign for New
– Powerful cover from the New York Times Magazine: Today’s cover is a sneak-peek at this Sunday’s coming edition of The New York Times Magazine, featuring the story “The Human Swap: How a single Israeli came to be worth 1,027
A puzzled Martin Bashir asks Pat Buchanan why commentators are interested in Governor Christie running for President.
Jonathan Chait at New York magazine [corrected – see below], about “Why Bibi Hates Obama“: Netanyahu thinks a lot like a Jewish-American Republican….What’s more, Republican Jews tend to have an overdeveloped sense of black anti-Semitism. Indeed, they generally regard traditional
Media Matters Senior Foreign Policy Fellow MJ Rosenberg unleashed a stream of anti-Israel vitriol today, calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “terrorist” and accusing pro-Israel activists of being un-American. As Netanyahu gave a stern but statesmanlike response to President
Media Matters Senior Foreign Policy Fellow MJ Rosenberg unleashed a stream of anti-Israel vitriol today, calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “terrorist” and accusing pro-Israel activists of being un-American. As Netanyahu gave a stern but statesmanlike response to President
Chilling thought for the day. Recall the election of 1948, when the Republican Party’s heavily-favored, moderate and uninspiring nominee lost to Truman in a race in which he was heavily favored to win. The tragedy is not that the Chicago
Gawker, that pit of disgusting, published an anonymous hit piece on Christine O’Donnell today. I refuse to link to it; y’all can google and find it yourself. I’m a mean girl like that. The ‘exclusive’ – exclusive in this case
The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor. -Ronald Reagan Website World Net Daily (WND) has decided to drop conservative pundit and author, Ann Coulter
I have to admit, when I first heard about the Oliver Stone interview where he accused the Jewish Lobby of controlling the Media and US foreign policy, an uneasy chill ran down my spine. In editorials across the Arab world,
When I was a kid, the only time I was allowed to say “bad words” was when I was tattling on someone else (usually my older brother or sister), such as “Mommy Paul said F**K.” These days it has become
The Atlas Economic Research Foundation – a libertarian leaning organization – recently released a video featuring Foundation Vice-President Tom G. Palmer. Titled “Free Trade: The Great Prosperity Machine,” the video aims to make a compelling case for why free trade
When I learned of Helen Thomas’ retirement I was tempted to head my column with, ” Ding, Dong, the **^ is Dead …..” but then I remembered that I’m not a liberal journalist who resorts to personal attacks instead of
How do you call someone a racist without actually calling them a racist? By inventing, jujitsu-style, a euphemism that says just as much. Witness the spectacle of all those “Senior Fellows” stuffed into the clown car known as “Media Matters
Over at Salon, that’s the question on editrix Joan Walsh’s lips as she continues to believe the MSM alternate-reality view of the Tea Parties instead of her own lyin’ eyes. Naturally, she begins with that CBS/New York Times poll that’s
A CNN political analyst has called on President Obama to go “gangsta” against the Republicans. In a post dated Feb. 11, Roland S. Martin writes, For me, I’m sick and tired of Democrats having power and being unwilling to use
A national coalition of Tea Party activists called Thursday for rallies in several states to announce their dissatisfaction with the Grand Old Party. In an October 22 press release they state: We are extremely disappointed that the Republican Party (and
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