Selling Racism... Pat Buchanan's latest book is a white nationalist screed

[RedEarth]

Oct. 6, 2006 -- Since the start of his latest book tour, Patrick Buchanan has appeared on just about every major television and cable network in the country, often more than once. He's been on NBC's "Today" show, the three most watched news programs on FOX, CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," and countless radio programs. During one four-day period in late August, the author was welcomed on no less than five NBC-affiliated programs. Together, these appearances have made Buchanan's new book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, a runaway bestseller.

The three-time presidential candidate is no stranger to the major media, being personally acquainted with many of those who interviewed him. A veteran columnist with the Creators Syndicate and an analyst for MSNBC, Buchanan was a founding member of three prime-time network or cable channel talk shows and has written for many of the nation's major newspapers and magazines. That might explain the kid-gloves treatment he got from virtually all his interviewers, most of whom did not seem to have read or understood the book they were helping to publicize.

In fact, the book reflects racial views that have now veered to the extreme. White America is changing color, Buchanan argues -- "one of the greatest tragedies in human history." The Mexican government is involved in a plot to take over the Southwestern United States, and parts of this country already look like the "Third World." The segregated South wasn't all bad "culturally" -- blacks and whites were united, after all. America, despite what its founders wrote, was a nation formed not on the basis of creed but rather a homogenous ethnic culture. To put it plainly, State of Emergency is a white nationalist tract. The thesis is that America must retain a white majority to survive as a nation. It is rooted in a blood-and-soil nationalism more blood than soil. The echoes of Nazi ideology are clear and chilling. As Buchanan helpfully explained to John King, who was interviewing him in one of his several CNN appearances: "We gotta get into race and ethnic questions."

State of Emergency unapologetically reflects Buchanan's insistence on the centrality of race to the United States and its culture. "This idea of America as a creedal nation bound together not by 'blood or birth or soil' but by 'ideals' that must be taught and learned ... is demonstrably false," Buchanan writes in the book.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=83

[marmar]

1. He's nothing but a Klasman without the white sheet.

He's completely paranoid about a non-white majority in this country.

[TlalocW]

2. Funny story about Pat

Dave Barry came to Tulsa to give a talk about his latest book, and he set up at a table to sell and autograph said book. I bought a copy and made the remark that he was the second famous author's autograph I got, but the first one I liked. He asked what that meant, and I told him Pat Buchanan had come to town when he was last running for president, and I had bought the book and had it autographed for a conservative friend of mine (I also had a picture taken of me sticking my tongue out at him while Pat stared directly at the camera when the photo was taken).

Dave laughed and said, "Yeah, well I gotta tell you that Pat is really a nice, charming guy in person... But underneath it all, he really is batshit insane."

TlalocW

[John Gauger]

3. Wow.

White nationalism. Kind of Nazi-ish. This is where that no Nazi rule breaks down. When your opponents are Fascists or white supremecists.