Pat Buchanan Chokes on Deep Throat
Pat Buchanan Chokes on Deep Throat
The identity of Deep Throat, the secret source “whose insider guidance was vital to The Washington Post’s groundbreaking coverage of the Watergate scandal,” has now been revealed. Many call him a hero but Pat Buchanan…well, he had other words for him.
On Scarborough Country, 5/31/05: “Well, I don`t think he is a hero at all…[H]ere`s a man who has been entrusted with a high honor, deputy chief of the FBI, sneaking around at night, handing out materials he got from a legitimate investigation to ‘The Washington Post,’ Nixon`s enemy, in the middle of a campaign…I think it was payback. I think it was a nasty thing to do on his part…But let me say this. The people that went after Richard Nixon day in and day out to use anything to bring him down hated him long before Watergate…And they were doing anything to bring him down.”
On MSNBC, 5/31/05: “Well, I wouldn’t used the term ‘traitor,’ because I don’t know that he was ever a Nixon loyalist…Yes, I think he’s sneaky. And I think he`s dishonorable in what he did…He’s buttering up The Washington Post, which is the most hostile institution to the president. He’s undercutting the president in the middle of a campaign…Well, look, it brought down a president. And I think that cost us Vietnam, frankly.”
On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, 5/31/05: “And so his motivation, I think, is not good. His deeds are dishonorable, if not criminal. And I don’t know what he thought he was doing for his country. My sense is he was probably ashamed of what he did.”
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I saw Buchanan on the news last night and commented to my wife on his statements about the dastardly leaks of Deep Throat.
Buchanan is a supremely intelligent man, with a lifetime of political experience. His appearances on McLaughlin add much to the show. Yet he is a devout xtian and is loyal to his faith. I’ve never resolved how a man can be that intelligent and still accept the superstitious nature of the Catholic Church (or the Christian religion), but that’s just another example of “there ya are”.
And he’s probably correct in that it was “payback” – but so what?
June 1st, 2005 at 11:25 amI took Buchanan’s position to mean he is still personally offended at having the Nixon applecart upset as it was. I’m not too sure any comparison to his religious beliefs can be made as it seems to me that what he is saying is a paradox to what the church preaches.
I don’t know about payback, buckshot. I suspect that Mr. Felt’s loyalties were above a person or party but to the office and country.
June 1st, 2005 at 11:31 amIf the Deep Throat revelations are making you nostalgic for Watergate and presidential corruption, here’s a look back at the results of the “Name That Bush Scandal Contest.”
June 1st, 2005 at 11:33 amI would never vouch for Pat Buchanan’s intelligence, because I don’t really know the man, but the implication that Deep Throat cost us Vietnam is a really dumb thing to say.
June 1st, 2005 at 11:43 amintelligent=to the right of Eisenhower
June 1st, 2005 at 11:45 amSo, the Buchanans out there are suggesting that once they’re part of the inner circle of the power elite, their duty to protect the arch-law breaker is supreme, over the laws of the country! So, if you see laws being broken, repeated criminal activity, you should shut up because the leader is to be protected from petty laws applicable only to the peons…..
Nice! This shows what kind of government the Buchananites envision for our country. And, no, it’s not only Pat who thinks that way…. unflortunately, there are too many of them…. and too many ordinary people who sheepishly follow this kind of leaders……
June 1st, 2005 at 12:03 pmB.S. thinks he will get points here by playing the ’secular, Godless atheist card” . Progressives are never devoutly religious or spiritual people. What an asshat!
June 1st, 2005 at 12:16 pmOh how I wish we had a Deep Throut or Howard Baker or a Woodard or Berstien now. Someone with enough patriotism to investigate the Britsh Memo and follow the money, the lies and the cover up.
June 1st, 2005 at 2:13 pm“Buchanan is a supremely intelligent man,”
This and other troll lies from ‘buckshot’ available for a one-time charge of what’s left of your brains.
‘Buchanon is a supremely intelligent man.’ Wow, how come no one ever told the poor schmo who has to shovel away his mile-a-minute RACIST horseshit?
Yeah, Deepthroat cost ‘us’ Vietnam. It wasn’t the genocide, the lies, the ecocide, the spreading of the war to neighboring countries by the CIA. It wasn’t According to Bolton, who said that the Vietnam war was lost by 1970. It was according to supremely-inteligent Buchanon, that Great Icon of televised inanity. Who, in the service to Pentagon traitors and their backers in government, has smirked at the deaths of millions.
What a goddamned hero.
June 1st, 2005 at 5:14 pmRobert F. Kennedy once famously said, “Richard Nixon represents the dark side of the American spirit.” Well, RFK never met George W. Bush.
The reactions of Nixon contemporaries and today’s Bush sycophants to yesterday’s Deep Throat revelations are predictably – and eerily – similar. But the Bush team’s own overt war against anonymous single sources and brutal retribution against whistle-blowers is no joke. The tragedy for American democracy is very real indeed…
For the full story, see:
“Gagging on Deep Throat: The Nixon Legacy in the Bush White House”
June 1st, 2005 at 6:30 pmPaul,
Learn how to spell his name – THEN come educate us about him. Go ahead and tell us all you know about him – write a whole paragraph.
June 1st, 2005 at 6:44 pmIs that what you think you do here, Buckshot? Educate the poor, ignorant masses? Please, indulge me. I am curious to see some of your attempts at edification. Your grammar, syntax and usage left much to be desired on the other thread I just responded to. I generally ignore the odd typo. At least you can spell, so far.
June 1st, 2005 at 6:54 pmHey Mark D,
Grammatically and syntatically correct or not, at least Buckshot had something intelligent and meaningful to say, unlike your nitpicking sarcasm.
June 1st, 2005 at 7:05 pmWould you care to enlighten us which of the many pearls of wisdom Buckshot has cast before the lowly swine here that you found so…meaningful, Lindon? Or was that just a feeble attempt at nitpicking sarcasm?
June 1st, 2005 at 8:39 pmPat Buchanan reminds me so much of Cheney and Rumsfeld. They each held prominent positions in previous adminstrations and no matter what scandal or evil they were accomplice to in the past, you just can’t get rid of them. They just keep coming back to spew hate, ignorance and lies. I’ve seen Buchanan challenged (but not by his good buddy Chris Matthews that fraud) and he’s so arrogant he won’t even acknowledge the question. Just brushes past the ones that he can’t defend.
June 1st, 2005 at 8:45 pmTom Brokaw smacks By=uchanan down.
June 1st, 2005 at 9:56 pmhttp://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/06/01.html#a3223
Jay,
I see you are back, and you seem to be shying away from finishing our conversation about the taxes paid by our “poor” folks. What’s the deal?
You spent two weeks lamenting how they are getting the shaft, but now you don’t want to explain HOW they are getting the shaft?
June 2nd, 2005 at 1:32 amThe buckshot troll just keeps on zipping those zingers. Nevermind that Buchanan is an admitted racist. That’s just fine. He’s a towering intellect! Just like O’Reilly.
June 2nd, 2005 at 5:30 amBOO Hoo Hoo Buchanan. Pat’s pissed because Felt did his duty to country before his “duty” to Nixon. I presume that Buchanan wanted Felt to disclose what he knew to either Nixon and Mitchell.What a joke!!!!! All these two would have done is what they did,swept it under the rug.I only wish we had a media with the balls that Woodward and Bernstein did in 1972. Buchanan’s whining because Felt committed the ultimate crime,they got caught. Felt is great American hero.
June 2nd, 2005 at 9:08 ambuck,
There was no conversation, that would require that you respond to valid counterarguments and facts that refute your claims. As far as you’re concerned, we are only here to be lectured in the ways of greed and selfishness.
You have your beliefs and I have mine. Multiple non-partisan sources and ideas have been provided that debunk your storyline.
I’ve had it with buckshot.
June 2nd, 2005 at 9:39 amI am a big fan of Pat Buchanan, who is a living example of a timeless virtue: loyalty. There’s simply no debate over the question of his intelligence; whether you agree or disagree with him, the man is extremely bright, knowledgeable and articulate. As for “Deep Throat,” I do not believe that Mark Felt acted honorably or that his intentions were honorable. I believe that he acted out of spite as he was passed over for Director of the FBI. If he was so proud of what he did, why did he keep it a secret for 30 years?
June 2nd, 2005 at 9:41 amBuchanan is just pissed off that he couldn’t ride Nixon’s gravy train any longer.
Bob, if you had read any articles regarding Felt’s admission, you’d realize that he wasn’t proud of what he did. Personally, I think Felt is a criminal who abused his power as an agent of the law (conveniently pardoned by Reagan), but in this instance he did the right thing. It doesn’t matter who is in power, constant lying, intimidation of the opposition and trying to rig an election is simply wrong, and Felt did the right thing in proving evidence to the fact.
June 2nd, 2005 at 10:12 amStop the lies.
Viet Nam was not a worthy cause. Viet Nam was Ho Chi Minh’s country; it was not Nixon’s. Ho had a right to be there; Nixon, nor, for that matter Johnson, had a right to impose our puppet regime over Ho.
Now, this stupid issue even influenced the 2004 elections.
When are you bobbleheads for Bush going to realize that you, your party, and when your party is in power, your country, is wrong about invading other countries to ’spread democracy.’
Buchanan et al were part of a failed administration, which had an opportunity to do the right thing. Nixon ran on a promise to ‘get USA out of Viet Nam.’ Most of the deaths there occurred AFTER Nixon knew we were wrong.
Nixon turned the country away from doing the right thing to politics of personal destruction. His vile reign is being eclipsed by Junior.
June 2nd, 2005 at 10:13 amBob,
Slowly move away from the television, sit down, relax and let the deprogramming begin.
Yes, of course Felt was bitter about being passed over for Director. Just like Richard Clarke was bitter about being passed over (when he blew the whistle on Bush) and Joe Wilson was bitter and that’s why he blew the whistle on the Niger story and nobody’s ever telling the truth when they blow the whistle on GOP’ers….just bitter.
Wake up and smell the fascism.
June 2nd, 2005 at 10:16 amI am a big fan of my dog, who is a living example of a timeless virtue: loyalty. There’s simply no debate over the question of his intelligence; whether you agree or disagree with it, my dog is extremely bright, knowledgeable and articulate. “Woof!” “Down boy! quiet!” As for “your dog” I do not believe that he acted honorably or that his intentions were honorable. I believe that he acted out of spite as he was passed over for leader of the pack. If he was so proud of what he did, why did he keep it a secret for 30 years?
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He never barked as loud or as much as your little junkyard dog, Bob. But he sure knew how to bite.
June 2nd, 2005 at 10:20 amI thought Buchanan died, oh, just wishful thinking.
June 2nd, 2005 at 11:14 amI hope Nixon is rotting in hell. As for Pat Buchanan: a bigot and a piece of feces.
June 2nd, 2005 at 11:16 amThere ARE reporters out there with the cojones to investigate and write about Bush & Co. However, their editrors either nix their reports, bury their articles on page 37 under meaninigless headlines, or fire them. Media management in general is willingly or unwillingly obedient to the administration.
As for Buchannan, he has gone the way of Wm. Buckley and J. Kilpatrick, real conservatives (with admittedly wierd christian churchy distorted morals) who have open enough minds to write about the stupidity of Prohibition, then and now, and, for these sorts of beliefs, have themselves been dropped from the editorial pages of American newspapers.
June 2nd, 2005 at 11:32 amI was told that Pat Buchanan, in a television interview, was ranting and raving that Felt was a traitor and he should not have blabbed about such top-level government affairs. In the middle of this tirade, Buchanan said something to this effect: “J. Edgar Hoover knew who was behind the President Kennedy assassination  and he didn’t spill his guts to the public.”
June 2nd, 2005 at 11:45 amDid Buchanan say that  and has anyone followed up on it?
Apparently I am the only one who sees the Watergate break-in as a deliberate attempt to control Nixon from within the government…a mechanism either to remove him from office after the election or to force him to continue under heavier blackmail conditions…that which Nixon already had submitted to in regard to Cuba and Kennedy. Nixon’s decision to go through with his planned trip to China was a direct challenge to those who would control him and his attempt at enhancing his own power through an independent foreign policy.
June 2nd, 2005 at 11:47 amOh, lonely me.
I think it’s possible that felt was just the conduit for several sources, who had some motives, not necessarily like R.R. harris suggests, but necessarily not, either. In any case, who and why are less important than the outcome of the whole affair. Someday, we may know if there is more to this story. I think there always is.
June 2nd, 2005 at 12:22 pmI am so glad that Nixon opened up China, aren’t you? Cheap stuff and slave labor. Our economy is in the state of now because of him. R. Reagan, G. Bush Sr, W. Clinton, and now Bush jr. have sold our work into the world at bargain prices. The corporate entities still want to sell us stuff but not give us compensation to pay for it. Oh, yeah, we can become slaves of our credit card companies to pay for all that cheap stuff. Thanks, Dick.
June 2nd, 2005 at 12:37 pmFelt is absolutely a hero. The beef some have with him is that he used the press to draw attention to illegal activities at the highest level of govenment. Who was he supposed to go to? The director of FBI was probably privy to the conspiracy, the Executive branch was executing the conspiracy. He did what he had to do to ferret out a corrupt regime. Much like Daniel Elsburgh, and the Pentagon papers, he bypassed the government to get information to the people. Once the people had the information it could no longer be ignored, and congress was forced to take action. What would the death toll in Vietnam have been if Elsburgh had not come forward? Too bad the media today won’t be a tenth as diligent as these folks were. Elections have been altered, stolen, and forever corrupted, and the administration lies with impunity, and the press is nowhere to be found.
June 2nd, 2005 at 12:40 pmMr. Buchanan’s comments, I do not believe, are his own. Loyalty is protecting someone else. Who is Mr. Buchanan still loyal to? That is who is providing him his words. I wonder
June 2nd, 2005 at 1:14 pmI can’t believe what Bob is saying..he is saying that its all right to perform criminal activities if you are in the government…that the President is “above the law” that there should be no accountability in government….what a fool…I wonder about the thought process of some of these righties…..the government is made up of a group of mortals, not Gods, and they supposedly work for us, of course they should be held responsible to the same laws as the rest of us…high on drugs or Jesus?
June 2nd, 2005 at 1:51 pmJay,
What you are telling me is that you are going to continue believing what you believe regardless of facts. That’s too bad for you. It doesn’t affect me, of course, but it’s a shame for your kids.
You just go right ahead with your fellow “progressives” and believe that the poor pay high taxes, contribute to society, and are pitiful victims.
Meanwhile, while you spend your life being envious of those who have succeeded in life, your kids will observe their father settle for mediocrity, always living hand to mouth, complaining loudly about how bad he’s being shafted, and how a guy “just can’t make it” in this evil country.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans will continue to become millionaires, sending their kids to college, buying houses, boats, cars, and real estate, joyful and happily teaching their kids how to succeed.
These people are also the people who dig into their pockets when legitimate charities need funds. (the poor don’t have much money to give, remember – that’s what poor means)
Just before you cash in your chips, it may occur to you what you could have had with a little attitude adjusment.
Well, I will leave you now. In five years, I wonder if you’ll still be crying about the victims of the world, demanding further entitlements be paid to all of them; or whether you will concentrate on providing the best life possible for your family.
I’ll guarantee you one thing – these young “progressives” have absolutely nothing positive to offer you, in any way. There is not a positive statement in ANY of the threads, and not a single positive note in any of the posts. (except mine)
I see the threads are now being trashed by repetitive trolls who have nothing constructive to say. It’s sort of like kids who kick over the sand castles because they don’t have the discipline or ability to build their own and to enjoy it – so they destroy the others.
Anyway, I have a feeling you will start paying attention to what people on this blog are saying, and what they are accomplishing. (it ain’t much).
Is that what you plan to give your wife & kids?
Think about it. Good luck, Jay.
June 2nd, 2005 at 2:16 pmBuckshot,
Have you considered medication? Your internal rage is palpable.
Since you are (apparently) a millionaire, how much have you donated to charity to help the poor, care for the sick, clothe the naked? Or, are they just lazy slobs, and they deserve what happens to them?
Let me teach you a word. It’s “empathy”. Try to feel for people who do need help to lift themselves out of a bad situation. Oh, I know, YOU have never had a bad thing happen to you, NEVER.
I also know, since you are a strong (but, sadly, confused) Republican that you NEVER went to a Public School (that would be stealing from the Goverment, right? YOUR parents sent you to PRIVATE school, right?) I know that you NEVER got a break anywhere, and that you, by gum, worked you ass off to reach the exalted state you now inhabit.
I’ll guarantee you one thing – these young “conservatives” have absolutely nothing to offer you, in any way. There is not a positive statement in ANY of the threads, and not a single positive note in any of the posts. (except mine)
In face, I see the threads are now being trashed by repetitive trolls (like bozoshot) who have nothing constructive to say. It’s sort of like kids who kick over the sand castles because they don’t have the dicipline or ability to build their own and enjoy it. Of course, bozoshot has TREMENDOUS amounts of dicipline, and he will SHOW YOU what a HE-MAN he is! He was born is a cross-eyed hurricane! He single-handedly made every PENNY he has, he has NEVER been given a good turn by anybody (and, frankly, who would WANT to give this guy a good turn?). This fact gives bozoshot the willies! That’s why he feels so inadequate, and feels the need to lecture others.
So, PLEASE bozoshot, take your meds, and keep making money – after all, THAT is your true love.
June 2nd, 2005 at 3:25 pmCost us Vietnam? I didn’t realize we had paid for it. So . . . can we take it over now? Perhaps Buchanan was talking about blood and lives. Isn’t that the currency of world domination. May I have change please?
June 2nd, 2005 at 5:56 pmJay,
I think Buckshot has to fill his quota of “libertarian conversions” for the month. I’m not sure if it’s a peronal issue with him, or if they will drum him out of the cult, operhaps a little of both. maybe if you humored… you know, let him give you some links to the libertarian websites, he might cheer up.
June 2nd, 2005 at 8:37 pmbuckshot,
Anyone who speaks in such absolute terms about how there is ” absolutely nothing positive to offer you, in any way. There is not a positive statement in ANY of the threads, and not a single positive note in any of the posts. (except mine)” exposes himself as a close minded fool.
June 2nd, 2005 at 9:26 pmYou disagree – we get it.
I think its pretty apparent when you speak of how ” millions of Americans will continue to become millionaires, sending their kids to college, buying houses, boats, cars, and real estate, joyful and happily teaching their kids how to succeed.” If that is your idea of joy and happiness – have fun. For many, joy and happiness are found through making the world a better place for everybody, not just themselves; helping people who need it – without feeling sorry for them; creating a legacy that transcends our own individual accomplishments.
So continue on, we won’t miss you…
SJS,
I think you had buckshot pegged from the outset. The more he typed, in my opinion, the tighter the noose became. I think all of us strive to be self-reliant and hard-working, etc. but so many generalizations and assumptions about people he didn’t know anything about really exposed him as a selfish bigot.
Jeff is right, it’s about something bigger than any individual. Soon, community will become more important than it’s been in a long time and those that don’t strive for the commonwealth will be part of the problem. Why do the righties/libertarians/wingnuts expend so much enrgy pushing the myth that the left is full of anger and hatred when the very soul of our arguments are about empathy, humanity and peace?
June 2nd, 2005 at 9:52 pmTo the dark side leads loyalty at all costs.
June 2nd, 2005 at 10:15 pmLooking at Buchanan on C-SPAN this morning.
He indicated that Felt going the press was an action worst than Nixon’s crimes.
Nixon attempted to trash our constitution, Felt exposed this crime.
For someone supposedly so intelligent, how can he make this comparison?
June 3rd, 2005 at 12:14 pmSadly, it’s all about “me and mine” to far too many people.
June 3rd, 2005 at 1:09 pmWhy do the righties/libertarians/wingnuts expend so much enrgy pushing the myth that the left is full of anger and hatred when the very soul of our arguments are about empathy, humanity and peace?
Peace is dangerous. Peacemakers are generally put to death. I personally think peace is a great idea, but I also don’t think it’s possible until the warmongers are put to death. Bit of a paradox there. Such is life. Maybe you should google Bill Hicks, the comedian. Not as well known to some. He died in the 90’s.
June 3rd, 2005 at 1:14 pmBuckshot,
June 3rd, 2005 at 2:14 pmWhat does your rambling sediment in #36 have to do with the posted blog on Buchanan? If you don’t like the subjects posted why not start your own blog site instead of always changing the subjects on this one?
I thnk the reason buckshot ticked so many of you off so bad was that he was completely honest. Not much of a diplomat, tho. He made more sense than anthing else I’ve seen here in the comments section.
June 3rd, 2005 at 2:45 pmShort on time right now to respond to all of your loving comments, but, first, let me generally say that many of you seem to me to be enraged gay men who don’t like Pat Buchanan because he does not support gay marriage. That’s my sense. You are all blinded and will not allow the fact to confuse you! As to one of your comments about the outrage in the supposed atrocities by the Nixon Admiminstration against the Constitution and laws of our land, nothing that the Nixon Administration did was unprecedented in former Democratic Administrations. The Watergate break in itself was really just a Mickey Mouse Misdemeanor. As for one writer’s mocking of the virtue of loyalty, your comment speaks for itself. As for one questioner’s query about what is Pat Buchanan loyal to: Faith, Family, Country. A man unafraid to stand up for traditional vlaues, values that were inculcated in him in his formative years.
June 3rd, 2005 at 4:50 pmYes, Mary (Buckshot’s daughter or grandaughter), we like an open and honest bigot. We find it quite refreshing, even if his facts are recycled and bowdlerized racist compost.
Thank you, Bob (Buckshot’s son or grandson). May I call you, Bob?
There is a comma there Bob. Leave your number.
The two comments above deserve no dignified response. You get what you pay for and you don’t pay for this blog.
June 3rd, 2005 at 6:21 pmOne final thought, Bob. (Notice the comma) Since I’m sure my jab at your sexual preference went over both your heads, let us know how you feel about burlary being a “mickey mouse misdemeanor” the next time your house is burgled. I do appreciate Pat’s jailhouse philosophy on “rats”, though. Perhaps jail is where he belongs, being tortured to see how quickly that soft, old doughboy would “rat out” his own “faith, family, and country”. You too, Bob.
June 3rd, 2005 at 6:31 pmMary K, since you apparently live in the same reality as buckshot, of course he didn’t come across as a bigot with a libertarian agenda that was trying to convince everyone here of the evils of the poor, paying taxes and helping out your fellow man. Makes perfect sense to me. Now if you have a specific argument or a point to make, go ahead and make it. If you want to discuss an issue, open it up.
Damn Bob, you nailed us. All of us limp-wristed progressives running around trying to push the homosexual agenda by pointing out Pat Buchanan’s hypocrisy and ignorance. How did you see through the charade? I must be typing with an effeminate lisp again. You jackass.
June 3rd, 2005 at 7:08 pmBy Mary’s logic and arguments, an extension of those espoused by Buckshot’s corrupted objectivism, Ayn Rand’s. She supports rape and sexual assault:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1230539&lastnode_id=162913
I wonder if she knows that. I doubt it.
June 3rd, 2005 at 8:38 pmI must be typing with an effeminate lisp again. You jackass. He-he! No wait… giggle.
June 3rd, 2005 at 8:40 pmAnd Bob, all homophobes like you and Buchanan are exactly what you claim progressives are : “enraged gay men” but in the closet. Just google “outed anti-gay conservative or Republican resigns from political office”. you will get tons of hits.
Adams, Henry E. (Ph.D.); Wright, Lester W., Jr. (Ph.D.); and Lohr, Bethany A. ‘Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal?’ Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 105, No. 3, pp 440-445.
A press release describing the findings is at:
http://www.philosophy-religion.org/handouts/homophobia.htm
The abstract from the article reads:
Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal? Henry E. Adams, Lester W. Wright, Jr., and Bethany A. Lohr University of Georgia
The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980). The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. They also completed an Aggression Questionnaire (A. H. Buss & M. Perry, 1992). Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.
The whole article online, but it is only accessible to subscribers and supporting institutions.
June 3rd, 2005 at 11:15 pmThat other bit is called projection Bob. Where you project your rage onto others. The cause of your rage is your latent homosexual tendencies, although you may or may not be consciously aware of them. I don’t have a problem with what other people want to do in the privacy of thier own homes. If your heterosexual marriage is harmed by something like gay marriage, you are going to be divorced and re-married as often as Zsa Zsa Gabor, but you are going to pay through the nose for it. Become a drag queen and have sex re-assignment surgery. You know you want to.
June 3rd, 2005 at 11:22 pmGood show SJS. Now that is what I call a counterpoint. ow do you like your homophobia now, Bob,.
June 4th, 2005 at 9:04 amGood Grief. Talk about madness! Is the man really serious?
Completing the Watergate Picture
by Patrick J. Buchanan
June 6, 2005
And so it turns out that the two most famous investigative reporters of all time were a pair of stenographers for an FBI hack who was ratting out President Nixon for passing him over as director.
That corrupt cop, Mark Felt, should be named co-winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize given to the Washington Post. For it appears Felt swiped the research for the Post’s Watergate stories from FBI files, while Woodward did rewrite and Bernstein was on the coffee-and-Danish run.
The Post was scooped on the outing of “Deep Throat” by Felt’s family. Understandably. The Felts resent that Woodward and Bernstein got rich and famous, while 91-year-old Mark, who did the dirty work, is feeding pigeons at the nursing home. The Felts now want their cut of the swag. Deep Throat was right, “Follow the money!”
And so the great mystery, “Who was Deep Throat?” reaches its anticlimax. He turns out to be a toady who oversaw black-bag jobs for J. Edgar, violated his oath and, out of malice and spite, leaked the fruits of an honest FBI investigation to the nest of Nixon-haters over on 15th Street, then lied about it for 30 years.
Why did Felt lie? Because Felt knew he had disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for. He didn’t want his old comrades to know what a snake he had been. Linda Tripp, savaged by the same press lionizing Felt, at least had the moral courage to go public and take the heat when she blew the whistle on Bill Clinton.
But to Bob and Carl and Ben and Sally, Felt is a “hero,” a real Medal of Freedom man. And to them, perhaps, he is. For in the 1970s, a hero was any turncoat who would sink teeth into a president who was ending with honor a war into which the Liberal Establishment had plunged this country, and then cut and run when the body bags started coming home and their Ivy League kids started calling them names.
From the time Nixon nailed Golden Boy Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy and ran over all the liberal icons from Helen Gahagan Douglas to Adlai Stevenson, Nixon was the great hate object of the Left, second only to Tailgunner Joe.
In 1960, they thought they buried him in Cook County, when the graveyard wards came in for JFK. They thought they had the casket sealed when he held that “last press conference” after his defeat for governor of California.
But after 1964, Nixon led his party back to victory after victory, culminating in the 49-state landslide of 1972 over the anti-war movement propagandized by the Post. By 1973, all U.S. troops were home, the POWs were headed for Clark Field, every provincial capital was in Saigon’s hands and Richard Nixon was at 69 percent. And the Establishment was beside itself with hatred.
And so they resolved to finish him. And by his failure to act decisively and ruthlessly to clean his campaign and White House of loyalists who had blundered and, yes, committed crimes, he became ensnared in a cover-up that would destroy his presidency. He gave them a sword, and they ran it right through him. And when he went down, Southeast Asia and everything 58,000 Americans had bled and died for went down with him.
And that is upon the conscience of us all.
But the Establishment did not care, for it had gone over the hill the day Nixon became commander in chief.
When you look back at it, what was Watergate all about? A black-bag job at Larry O’Brien’s place like the ones “hero” Felt used to run for Hoover. Liddy and Hunt on an escapade to get Daniel Ellsberg’s file from his shrink, which probably would have been too heavy to carry anyway. And, oh yes, 200 pizzas Segretti sent with those 30 African ambassadors in native costume to Ed Muskie’s D.C. fund-raiser.
Not one miscreancy committed by Nixon’s men did not have its antecedent in the White Houses of JFK or LBJ. But they got away with it, including the distribution to the press of dirt on Dr. King, picked up by secret FBI photo and wiretap. What Segretti dirty trick remotely approaches that one, which the liberal press covered up?
Wednesday night, sipping a Chalk Hill, I watched as Ted Koppel, at his most oleaginous and unctuous, fed up one cheese ball after another to Ben Bradlee. What do you think of Buchanan calling Felt a “traitor,” said Koppel, misquoting me.
“Gimme a break!” croaked Bradlee.
Well, you give us a break, Ben. All this bullhockey about how you and the Great Stenographers saved the republic is getting so thick the tourists will need to rent chainsaws to cut through it.
© 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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My comments above were in response to the crazy comments about homophobia, and of course not in response to the splendid column by Patrick Buchanan!
June 6th, 2005 at 2:03 pmYes, Bob. Science is “crazy”. Pat Buchanan is a “sane man”. Pardon me while I neglect to read the ravings of the lone sane man. You go right ahead. The two of you are the only sane people on the planet.
June 6th, 2005 at 3:45 pmGreat Scott, You’ve finally got it right, SJS! I knew you’d come around.
June 7th, 2005 at 4:52 pmPat Buchanan couldn’t get elected Dog Catcher in Salem, Mass. during the witch trials. Which is where they would have burned his hag of a sister at the stake, incidentally.
June 8th, 2005 at 2:28 pmHey Manny Pesto why the ad-hominem attacks? Pat Buchanan is a great American and his sister is a very bright woman. Bob is right on the money!
June 9th, 2005 at 4:19 pmMary, you would float if we threw you in the bay. Then we would have to burn you as a witch.
June 13th, 2005 at 9:43 amHey Alfred, how is Batman doing these days?
June 13th, 2005 at 9:47 amYou would read comic books. You have no idea who Prior Alred was. Much less what a prior is. An ad hominem attack on you is a compliment.
June 13th, 2005 at 9:56 amAll I know is that the prior comment to this one was written by a chump!
June 14th, 2005 at 11:18 amComments was written? You da chump, hump.
June 15th, 2005 at 7:43 pmI hate the left. I truly hate the left–and you want to know why? Cause there is no loyalty to this country or nation (and you know what I mean by nation) whatsoever. Irrespective of the consequences one may suffer, the left does not care. Think about the positions the left has articulated: gay marriage, civil unions, abortion on demand w/o parental consent, total gun control, euthanasia, assisted suicide, unrelentant porn, uncontrolled immigration, and of course, my favorite, interracial marriage. (which means black men with white women) Unbelievable. Now think about the consequences of each–slowly–and realize that Buchanan’s message in death of the west is right on cue.
You want to know why buchanan is both feared and loathed by the left? b/c he does not indulge in liberal fantasies. He understands, correctly, that this country is Anglo-based. He also understands, correctly, that loyalty ought to go to the country as a whole. No individual is above the country. Felt apparently did what he thought was best–but look at the “unintended” consequences! And not apologizing for it years later! Had he no loyalty to the govt? Was the fact that he is a Jew make a difference?
I say this to the left: be consistent! if you hate the values the right espouses, well, then, fight those same values everywhere! you hate slavery so much, go to Sudan and scream your wimpy liberal heads off! Watch how quickly they deal with you. You hate discrimination–they KILL gay men in the streets, in public, in India and Jamaica. Go fight there.
You hate fundamentalism so much? Fight Al-Queda.
Oh, what’s that sound I hear?
You fakes.
June 20th, 2005 at 8:06 amI hate the left. I truly hate the left–and you want to know why? Cause there is no loyalty to this country or nation (and you know what I mean by nation) whatsoever. Irrespective of the consequences one may suffer, the left does not care. Think about the positions the left has articulated: gay marriage, civil unions, abortion on demand w/o parental consent, total gun control, euthanasia, assisted suicide, unrelentant porn, uncontrolled immigration, and of course, my favorite, interracial marriage. (which means black men with white women) Unbelievable. Now think about the consequences of each–slowly–and realize that Buchanan’s message in death of the west is right on cue.
You want to know why buchanan is both feared and loathed by the left? b/c he does not indulge in liberal fantasies. He understands, correctly, that this country is Anglo-based. He also understands, correctly, that loyalty ought to go to the country as a whole. No individual is above the country. Felt apparently did what he thought was best–but look at the “unintended” consequences! And not apologizing for it years later! Had he no loyalty to the govt? Was the fact that he is a Jew make a difference?
I say this to the left: be consistent! if you hate the values the right espouses, well, then, fight those same values everywhere! you hate slavery so much, go to Sudan and scream your wimpy liberal heads off! Watch how quickly they deal with you. You hate discrimination–they KILL gay men in the streets, in public, in India and Jamaica. Go fight there.
You hate fundamentalism so much? Fight Al-Queda.
Oh, what’s that sound I hear?
You fakes.
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