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Here is @TuckerCarlson over 20 years ago calling out Pat Buchanon for his antisemitism and paranoia about jews https://t.co/mDGwGnTEXM
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Pat Buchanan raises important issues, such as American military sovereignty, but does so in a way that discredits them. When attacked, Buchanan claims a cabal controls American politics and dislikes him for speaking truth to power, casting himself as a victim.
While questioning America's relationship with Israel and criticizing its lobby are valid, Buchanan is labeled antisemitic due to his relentless focus on topics related to Judaism. He attacks Goldman Sachs but not Morgan Stanley, and while he hasn't explicitly stated dislike for Jews, he has defended accused Nazi war criminals, attacked Israel, criticized American Jews for supporting Israel, and implied they push America into wars.
There is a pattern of Buchanan needling the Jews, which suggests thematic antisemitism. Buchanan discredits conversations about immigration and the Israeli lobby by giving the sense that he has another agenda, believes in conspiracies, and thinks Jews are a sinister force trying to affect American politics.
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Speaker 0: I mean, this is part of the sad thing of Pat Buchanan as far as I'm concerned. And just to restate, I mean, Pat does raise issues that I think are important. I mean, I think that, you know, the sovereignty of the American military, etcetera. I mean, these are not just crank issues. But, unfortunately, Pat Buchanan raises them in a way that I think is discredited.
And when attacked, he can always fall back on the line, well, the, you know, the tiny cabal that controls American politics doesn't like me because I speak truth to power. This is actually, incidentally, almost verbatim what he said the other day, that I offend the plutocracy, that I'm a wanted man by the inside the Beltway people, and in in in in every sense cast himself as a as a victim who is sort of a Karen Silkwood of politics, someone who's, so truthful that he's being hunted down by the, by the conspiracy that runs Washington. I mean, it's it's all a bit much. Maybe Pat Buchanan just says things that are kinda kooky, and that's why he's being criticized. It's perfectly valid to to question America's relationship with Israel.
Israel has a lobby. It's perfectly fair as far as I'm concerned to beat up on Israel's lobby. But that's I don't think that's the reason that Buchanan is being labeled an anti Semite. It's this kind of as I've said, this this relentless this relentless bringing up topics related to Judaism. I mean, famously, Pat, you know, always beats up on Goldman Sachs, but never Morgan Stanley.
I mean, it's it's really hard to there is no point at which Pat Buchanan has held a press conference and said, you know, I really don't like the Jews. I think they're a sinister force in America. But I think, and it took me years to come to this, to this position. I mean, I'm not throwing the the term anti Semite around. But you you reach a point when you say, gee, you know, here's a guy who, has gone out of his way to to defend to Mianjuk and other accused Nazi war criminals who's constantly attacked Israel, who's attacked American Jews for supporting Israel unduly, who's implied that American Jews push America into wars in which non Jews die.
There really is, and again, I'm not hysterical on the subject, but I I I do believe, that there is a pattern, with Pat Buchanan of needling the Jews. Is that antisemitic? Yeah. I mean, after a while, conclude it is, in some sense, antisemitic. I mean, Pat Buchanan obviously has a lot of personal and affectionate relationships with people who are Jewish.
So on a personal level, perhaps he's not. But on a on a different, maybe thematic level, I think he probably is. I think that people should be allowed to have differing views on immigration. I think people should be allowed to point out the fact that there is an Israeli lobby, and, yes, it's powerful and debate the merits of that, I I guess. I don't think they're strictly speaking anything wrong with that.
But, again, I think Pat Buchanan is part of the reason it's so hard to have that conversation because he discredits it by his by his presence, because he, gives people who watch him carefully the sense that he has another agenda that has to do with personal dislike and that he believes in conspiracies and and that he believes that the Jews are this sinister, secretly organized force, trying to affect American politics. And those aren't discussions I think normal people, sober people should be having because I think they're ludicrous.