Yes.  Pat Buchanan.  Hitler Apologist.  He penned an editorial entitled, “Did Hitler Want War?”  The answer, I think, is round about “Yes.” 

I don’t know why everyone’s in such a furry over this.  He wrote a book expounding on his views on Hitler in this stuff down in his last book.  Perhaps he added something new in his column, but I doubt it.  I guess he’s chomping at the bit, waiting for a grand debate in Great Britain to knock down Winston Churchill.  He’s not at Michael Savage level in getting banned from the nation, it appears, because he’s a lovable bigot.

How did Buchanan manage to keep this out of Sprio Agnew’s speeches, we’ll never know.

A few months ago, Pat Buchanan white-washed American history, essentially removing black soldiers out of all of America’s wars.  It was a bit strange, as all anyone needed to do was roll through the National Archives and pull out some photographic evidence.

Pat Buchanan was long run out of the Republican Party.  He won a third of the New Hampshire primary vote in 1992 and 1996, the latter enough for the win.  He made a blistering speech in 1992, such that he was locked out of Bob Dole’s convention in 1996.  I recall an NPR news feature of alarm over Buchanan’s advisors hailing from such groups as the “National Association for the Advancement of White People”, the organization founded by David Duke.  (I got a haircut once at around that time, television was on in the corner and an NAACP ad went on.  The barber asked that question “Why isn’t there a National Association for the Advancement of White People?”  I stared ahead in awkward silence as he continued clipping my hair, not sure what response I could possible give.) 

In the rev up to the Iraq War, some liberals noted his strong opposition to the Iraq War, with added with his Protectionist views on trade gave him a bit too much sympathy.   In her round up of strident voices at the dawn of the bombing, Amy Goodman on Democracy Now included in a couple sentence quote from Buchanan, blasting those “neo-cons” (for … Israel).  It is good to see the balance met back to square one, we can all now remember his 1992 RNC speech.

Notable, and I don’t know what can be noted with this, The American Conservative magazine — Buchanan helped found and remains published on the website and in print, a cover-story panel focus on his anti-Churchill book, for instance (a little loopy was that!) — has published this thing to their blog on Health Care, and I find no mention of Buchanan’s Hitler apologia and controversy from their stable of bloggers.  That strikes me as very odd indeed for a controversy that every political magazine’s blog has tossed, regarding one of their central figures.

… Who deserves a good biography by now, incidentally.

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