Pat Buchanan, a failed multiple-time candidate for president and currently a commentator for MSNBC, has said more than his fair share of offensive things over the years.
But, reading this article from Media Matters for America, chronicling Buchanan’s history, should leave most rational people feeling nothing short of disgusted.
Here’s one sample:
Last year, Buchanan suggested that slavery worked out pretty well for “black folks”:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Nice. He attempts to portray the brutal Middle Passage, that forcibly brought slaves (those who were not among the millions who died) to the present-day United States of America, as some luxury-liner cruise to paradise.
Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200906080008
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