Buchanan runs roughshod over Canukistan

[npchilds at connect.ab.ca]

It's hard to tell what's sadder here, a 'national' newspaper that feels
compelled to comment on his lunatic ravings, or that the federal Minister
of Immigration felt he had to give a cogent response.
Sometimes we're just too fucking polite, I just wish someone here had the
cajones to say 'Pat Buchanan said what? Why should I care what that raving
fascist race baiter has to say? Hezbollah in Canada? I would have thought
he would be glad to have someone dedicated to killing Jews in such close
proximity, sounds like the kind of thing he'd support'.
But that'll probably never happen.

PC


>From globeandmail.com, Saturday, November  2, 2002

Pat Buchanistan

 It's hard to remain upset with conservative U.S. commentator Pat

 Buchanan. He tries so hard to make a dent in that country's presidential

 race, and limps away with so little to show for it. He joins the

 Microsoft-NBC cable-television channel MSNBC, billed as "America's

 NewsChannel," but finds his talk show Buchanan and Press trailing so low

 in the ratings it's a wonder he and Bill Press don't get the bends.

Every once in a while he notices Canada and growls at it. In 1990, he
said that if Canada splintered because of the collapse of the Meech Lake
accord, "America would pick up the pieces." Two days ago, when Canada
asked the United States not to target Canadian citizens just because they
were born in certain countries, Mr. Buchanan griped to Mr. Press that
Americans didn't need a lecture "from Soviet Canuckistan."

So what if Ottawa's argument was persuasive enough to win over the U.S.
government? Mr. Buchanan was on a roll, trotting out his complaints that
Canada relies on Washington for defence and "is a complete haven for
international terrorists," conveniently forgetting that the Sept. 11
hijackers didn't make their home on this side of the border.

But that's Mr. Buchanan's way, and we don't mind giving his views an
audience. Heaven knows he could use one.
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