Buchanan on GOP and Fox linking Obama to Nixon: ‘It is the most idiotic comparison I’ve ever seen.’
Buchanan on GOP and Fox linking Obama to Nixon: ‘It is the most idiotic comparison I’ve ever seen.’
Taking cues from their communications shop over at Fox News, GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) yesterday attacked the White House’s campaign against Fox’s unethical journalistic practices by comparing President Obama to President Nixon. “Let’s not start calling people out and compiling an enemies list,” Alexander said, touting his days as a junior staffer in the Nixon White House as credentials for his charge. Gregg said he was “fascinated” by Alexander’s criticism and wondered if Obama is “Nixon-fying” the White House. But yesterday on MSNBC, top Nixon aide Pat Buchanan dismissed out-of-hand any comparison of Obama to Nixon:
BUCHANAN: It is the most idiotic comparison I’ve ever seen. Barack Obama won 95 percent of Washington DC, he comes in with both houses Congress behind him, the media love him, the country loves him. Nixon came in with both houses of Congress against him, he probably got 8 percent of the vote in Washington DC, the media loathed him. … I don’t see any comparison between Obama and Nixon whatsoever. … [T]here’s no comparison. Barack Obama’s got enormous press support, he’s got problems with Fox News but for heaven’s sakes there is no comparison here.
Watch it:
“I also have to laugh,” liberal talk radio host Bill Press said during the segment. “When two Republicans want to hurt a Democrat, what do they do? They compare him to another Republican. It’s crazy.”
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And Buchanan would know what an Enemies List is and how to implement it, wouldn’t he?
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:56 amMy guess is we get long-nosed Obama pictures at the next tea party with the quote “I am not a crook” under it.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:00 amI thought they liked Nixon, isn’t he one of their own? So far Obama has been compared with Hitler, Stalin,the anti-Christ, and Mao, why not add Nixon to the list? Are they just stuck on stupid, or unable to rise above name calling?
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:02 amYeppers… there’s lots of Republicans to choose from.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 amShorter Buchanan: It is the most idiotic comparison I’ve ever seen. Nixon was white.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 amlarkohio – yes, they are like children, stuck on name calling. Remember the old saying, “sticks and stones may break my bones”? They haven’t progressed beyond that mentality.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:05 amZooey@5- funny but true.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 amI suppose that the villagers moved on to this because the Obama/Hitler comparison didn’t catch on…
If the Obama/Nixon comparison doesn’t stick, I suppose they could start comparing Obama to Ford, Reagan, Bush I, or Bush 2….
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 amNixon got elected because the population was sick of the current president
Obama got elected because the population was sick fo the current president
Nixon got saddled with a crappy war
Obama got saddled with a crappy war
Nixon talked to our sworn enemies, the commies
Obama talks to our sworn enemies, the islamofacists
Obama has a hot wife
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 amNIxon had a hot…ah well the comparison was bound to fall down at some point.
Current: President of FOX NEWS Roger Ailes
Past: A natural networker, Ailes quickly parlayed his setback into a successful business as a media consultant to corporations and Republican politicians. He had started in the business with a stint (WORKED FOR) producing TV for the 1968(Richard Nixon)campaign.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:07 amYou can’t make this stuff up.
Cats r Flyfishn says:
Zooey@5- funny but true.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 am
Buchanan is one of the most putrid racists in this country, but he’s given some credibility by being allowed to spew his crap on television. It makes me sick.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:08 amI tend to trust Buchanan’s judgment on this. The guy knows Nixonian politics like few others…and he’s not exactly a fan of FNC, either.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 amBobwurst@9 – you almost have it correct. Obama got elected because the voters knew that the nation couldn’t continue with the Reagan/Bush failed policies which nearly collapsed our economy. We are still hanging on by a thread.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 amNobody here, and I mean NOBODY, needs Pat fcukwit Puke-cannon to differentiate between “right and wrong” for us, thanks.
Petulant, tiny-headed little mole-man…
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:10 amR1: Let’s compare Obama to the most hated persons in history.
R2: Great idea.
R1: Who’s on the list?
R2: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Nixon.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:13 amI’ve noticed Pol Pot gets no love from the GOP. Why is it always Hitler/Stalin/Mao? I mean, Pol Pot killed a full 20% of his people and I only remember once comparison between the worst butcher Southeast Asia has ever known and our enormously popular, democratically elected President. Shameful, just shameful.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:16 amObama doesn’t have a problem with Fox, Fox has a problem with the TRUTH.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 am“It is the most idiotic comparison I’ve ever seen. ”
No, comparing GW Bush to anyone other than Alfred E. Neuman would be more idiotic.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 amSo in other words, the GOP is saying: Obama is as bad as us?
They really aren’t self-aware sentient beings are they.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 amBuchanan is one of the most putrid racists in this country
You don’t understand, Zooey. Pat Buchanan has accepted Jesus Christ, the only beggotten Son of God, into his heart as his Lord and Savior. Since Pat loves Jesus Christ with all his heart, with all his soul and with all his might, it’s ok that he’s a putrid racist, because that’s what God put into his heart for him to be. Pat’s racism is all part of God’s plan, born out of His love for His children.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:20 amAnd a Republican that the party apparatus and others (yes, Monica Crowley, I’m lookin’ achoo) have spent a good deal of effort, ink and air trying to rehabilitate through historical revisionism over the past 30 years. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m really enjoying watching these thugs in suits mow each other down.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 amPoor Pat, he’s been looking a little defeated lately, hasn’t he? It is almost as if he doesn’t want to be pulled into the twentith century.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 amCroxNews – a total crock…
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Tricky Dicky opened the door to trade with China.
China is now the largest creditor of the United States.
Whoa dude, what just happened?
;)
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 amPoor Pat, he’s been looking a little defeated lately, hasn’t he? It is almost as if he doesn’t want to be pulled into the twentith century
Life’s hard when you know Judgment Day is 12/12/12, but the two witnesses who are supposed to show up 3 1/2 years ahead of time haven’t appeared yet. It’s all in Revelations – and the Mayan Calendar.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 amBriseadh na Faire says:
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:20 am
It worries me how well you do that. :|
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 amBuchanan isn’t defending President Obama. He worked for Nixon and doesn’t want his idol compared to the black man.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:25 amI guess the right is comparing Obama to Nixon now because they are running out of bad people to compare him to. Pretty soon Glenn Beck will draw a line on the chalkboard between Barack Obama and Glenn Beck
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:25 amI’m glad the gop is hitching their broken wagon to the faux network. Let faux succeed and the gop fail, it’s a relationship.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 amTaygee says:
Pat Buchanan, who very recently said something along the lines of “whites are afraid they’re losing this country. And they’re right.” is now being quoted as a supportive argument on ThinkProgress?
even a broken clock is right twice a day, idiot.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 amDoes judgement day 12/12/12 have anything to do with 666?
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 amLooks like I could do some division and voila!
OT – Anybody else see Lawrence O’Donnell kick Joe Scarborough to the curb this morning when Joe was defending Dick Cheney and O’Donnell pointed out he lied us into war?
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:28 amYes, well, there’s also the little fact that Obama ISN’T a crook.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:28 amlarkohio says:
I thought they liked Nixon, isn’t he one of their own? So far Obama has been compared with Hitler, Stalin,the anti-Christ, and Mao, why not add Nixon to the list? Are they just stuck on stupid, or unable to rise above name calling?
Oh, hell, no. Just ask them: Nixon wasn’t a “real” conservative. And by today’s standards they’re correct. We recently had a troll trying to prove the legitimacy of “conservatives” (or Republicans, he was very confused about the distinction) and he provided a long list of accomplishments from the Nixon administration, including the creation of the EPA and OSHA and authorization of the Clean Air Act. He was a paranoid a-hole, but in retrospect was the most efficient Republican president we’ve seen in a long long time.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:28 amwhat’s the difference between the germans wiping out jews and americans wiping out indians?
Americans were WAY more successful.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:28 amYou know, maybe Pat saw the results of the latest poll where the Repugs are down to 20%. The lowest in decades. People like Pat and his ‘Consevative’ cronies threw their lot in with the ‘Birthers’, ‘Tea-Baggers’ and ‘Tenthers’. These guys honestly believed they would score political points by enticing theses nut-jobs. Now guess what? It back-fired horribly. Old whites screaming at young people, Representative making light of people who have no insurance, and of course, the heckling of that poor woman in a wheelchair. The average American saw these people for what they were. A bunch of mostly paranoid, older white bigots.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:30 amTaygee, thanks for your concern.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:30 amThis really shows how truly fragmented and damaged the Repugs are. What’s even more idiotic is the continued claims that Obama is a socialist, a communist, a nazi and a Muslim. They all ignore that George W. ranks right up there with FDR and Lincoln at the ones who most restricted our constitutional (and human) rights (although the latter two had real wars to contend with) in the mold of socialists, communists and nazis. The Muslim claimants and birthers are just nuts.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:30 amThis Mayan calendar is a bear, trying to hang it on the wall.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:31 amIt’s hard to see the nail from the forklift.
larkohio says
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:02 am
Are they just stuck on stupid, or unable to rise above name calling?
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Yes. To both.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:35 am36 spearNmagicHelmet says:
what’s the difference between the germans wiping out jews and americans wiping out indians?
Americans were WAY more successful.
Although I’ve never seen a lot of Jewish casinos in Germany.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:37 amThis is off-topic, but it made me laugh. Big Food is targeting Michelle Obama because she wants to go organic and promote healthy eating! The Horror! It’s a conspricy I tell you! LOL! Can’t these peole find a legitimate conspiricy to obsess about?
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:37 amRegardless of what everyone thinks of Buchanan, and I am no fan of his, it is interesting to see the people that were the prominent parts of the GOP in the recent past fighting back against the hard conservative pull to the far right. Dole, Frist, Buchanan. It will be interesting to see who comes out against the GnoP wack jobs next. This isn’t a new thing for the GOP or this country unfortunately. Just think back to the crazies (Dole, Frist, and Buchanan) that railed against President Clinton in the 90’s.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:38 amI can’t help but compare the GOP to someone drowning and thrashing around violently. Eventually their heads will slip beneath the surface and things will become calm, quiet, and serene again as if they were never here. Maybe someone should row out to them and put a foot on their heads and push them down to the inevitable. I mean GOP does stand for Grand Oldparty. I think the OLD party needs a death panel to decide it time to pull the plug on these grandpas.
buchanan is aligning himself with us.
People like you just don’t get irony. It’s a sure sign that you are a republican.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:40 amNixon was the bane of the old boys club that managed the GOP then. despite his ambitions, Nixon was just a proxy for those patriarchal CIA oilmen (Bushes & Cheneys included), who never brought him into the fold. when Nixon became a nuisance, he was back-stabbed by Dean, Haldeman and Erlichman, all old boy plants in the administration. so it is very telling that Rove compares Obama to Nixon – Rove was groomed by old boy Poppy Bush, who had nothing but contempt for Nixon, who in turn as we listen to his tapes, called Bush a dumbass. I see Rove’s remark as acknowledging the real threat Obama poses to the GOP:’s political future
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 amI really doubt that our little holy roller troll Taygee will stay away very long.
It’s just too tempting for the holy rollers to visit sites such as ThinkProgress, to lay on all their GOPshite and nonsense.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 amHere’s the story, Fox is desperate, the Rove/Ailes technique is to keep throwing anything at their opponent until they find something that will stick. Next week they’ll try comparing him to Agnew.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:48 amLet me see if I got this straight.
Both the gNOpigs and the Fox Republican Propaganda Network are throwing NIXON under the bus.
Could they dig a little bit more and find a BIGGER LOSER than Nixon?
Clue: He’s the moron that single handed destroyed the gNOpigs.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:49 amNot Robbies. The OTHER moron.
Taygee says
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 am
Think Progress is aligning itself with a race-baiter, if not an outright racist?
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No, Think Progress is acknowledging that this race-baiter/racist said something they agree with. It doesn’t mean that Think Progress agrees with Buchanan’s racist views.
It’s the OTHER guys who are the “if you’re wrong, you’re always wrong” crowd. We can accept that even people we normally find loathesome say something we agree with once in awhile.
I remember the “Million Man March” of several years ago. I remember hearing part of Louis Farrakhan’s speech — where he was telling the men they shouldn’t beat up their wives and girlfriends, they should take responsibility for all children they happen to sire, they should straighten up and be good role models for their children, and they should serve their communities in positive ways. Now, Farrakhan isn’t somebody I agree with a whole lot (and I find his racism and anti-Semitism to be particularly repugnant), but I wasn’t going to disagree with what he said here merely because it came out of his mouth.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:49 amObama is more like Emperor Palpatine damnit! If only glen beckwalker could finish his jedi training in time to save us!
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 amchrislvb says
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:38 am
Regardless of what everyone thinks of Buchanan, and I am no fan of his, it is interesting to see the people that were the prominent parts of the GOP in the recent past fighting back against the hard conservative pull to the far right. Dole, Frist, Buchanan. It will be interesting to see who comes out against the GnoP wack jobs next.
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Oh, man — I wish Barry Goldwater was still alive. I’d LOVE to hear what he would have to say about the state of his party today. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be pretty, and he wouldn’t mince words.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 amAt the top left of the Google News page, right now, a typical smear masquerading as a headline:
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:59 am“Is Fox Part of a Larger White House Enemies List?”
missmolly says:
Oh, man — I wish Barry Goldwater was still alive. I’d LOVE to hear what he would have to say about the state of his party today. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be pretty, and he wouldn’t mince words.
He is doing back flips in his grave at this very moment. If only resurrection was possible. I would save that tirade for posterity. I think he would kick Glenn Beck in the balls for 2 weeks straight if he could.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:01 amGreg Brady says:
Here’s the story, Fox is desperate, the Rove/Ailes technique is to keep throwing anything at their opponent until they find something that will stick. Next week they’ll try comparing him to Agnew.
If they do that will they recount this quote attributed to Agnew?
“The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.”
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:04 amBriseadh na Faire says:
Life’s hard when you know Judgment Day is 12/12/12, but the two witnesses who are supposed to show up 3 1/2 years ahead of time haven’t appeared yet. It’s all in Revelations – and the Mayan Calendar.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 am
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I think it’s 12/21/12, isn’t it?
Speaking of ridiculous religiously-significant dates, I hope everyone got something nice for Earth – it’s her birthday tomorrow, according to the Creationist idiots.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 amchiroptera toasterhead says: I think it’s 12/21/12, isn’t it?
Actually the Mayan descendants came out last week and said that they wish people would stop with the 12/21/12 B.S. The date is taken from a statue found by a construction crew while building a road and that the date was not calculated until after the construction crew plundered the individual pieces off of the statue that made up the years and days. The real date of significance is not for 4,000 more years (and that is just a restart point for their time keeping method), but because the pieces were missing some numbnut calculated it with what was there and tada 12/21/12. I bet it was a Republican that figured the date out. Sounds just like their way of governing. Take out the relevant facts and then add up the stuuf that’s left to make our point and scrae everyone.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:12 amIn my post at 57 I misspelled stuff and scare. Had to correct them.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:17 am57 chrislvb
Yesterday I saw an article in the Huffington Post mentioning said lunacy and an upcoming world disaster movie, a total turd.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/fox-news-chyron-highlight_n_328622.html
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:28 amScaring people is always good for ratings and profits. Remember how everything was going to fall apart on January 1, 2000?
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:31 amWill the new nose still have a bone through it?
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:32 amThe GOP base is a bunch of wild monkeys. Stuff like that resonates with them, because they lack critical thinking skills and find repetition as some badge of erudition. They only know how to mock, so what difference does validity or credibility make.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:32 amGOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Judd Gregg (R-NH)…comparing President Obama to President Nixon.
Wow! I didn’t know Nixon was a Stalinist Nazi!
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:39 am55, Mary, back then the village had journalists and integrity. Today it’s populated with partisan hacks marking off their territory with their piss.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:40 amSo far, President Obama has been Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Mao Tse Tung.
I lost in the office pool for who he was going to be next. I had Idi Amin. Funny thing is, nobody had Nixon.
Since nobody won I think we will just double the pot for guessing his next identity.
Oh, that gives me an idea. Maybe I’ll take Pol Pot for the next one.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 amNixon was paranoid because he thought the Press was against. In contrast, Faux IS against Obama.
Reich-wingers = imbeciles.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:10 pmWe must remember, since websites the troll usually visits only post things they 1000% agree with, they don’t understand that TP posts stories they consider interesting and/or relevant to the discussions of the day.
Sucks to be them.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:23 pmBuchanan: “It is the most idiotic comparison I’ve ever seen.”
What Pat meant to say was that “it is the most idiotic comparison I’ve ever seen this week.”
Just wait ’til next week.
Trust me, the wingnuts have yet to hit their stride.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 pmI think the Nixon comparison is a logical one only Nixon didn’t whine so much. Jimmy Carter is another good comparison.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 pmYou continue to prove that inbred terrorist hicks have no concept of “logic”.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm69 – what was that?
i couldn’t hear you over the screaming, bawling, and whining of the righties.
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:26 pmYet another twist.
Not only is President Obama Stalin/Hitler, maquignon says he is also Nixon/Carter.
I personally think President Obama is Grant/Lee.
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:34 pmThe logic of Buchanan’s statement is lost on the current crop of Republicans who are ideologues rather than pragmatic politicians.
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:52 pmSounds like Pat is having a moment of lucidity.
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm#72 shoeless says:
I personally think President Obama is Grant/Lee.
What about Abbott/Costello? Or Martin/Lewis? Penn/Teller?
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:19 pmJohnson/Johnson?
This is because of the republicans inability to get their collective heads out of the sixties and seventies. Obama, as far as they’re concerned, will make our country weak and end up embarrassing the country; like Nixon? All the moral decay in this country today began in the sixties and seventies and now Obama is just the height of all that we lost then. However, do not ask a republican cause they can’t explain it to you.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:16 pmThe “tit for tat” crap that goes on and on between politicians is no different than what goes on at 6th grade recess. The vocabulary ‘may’ be a little higher but the dignity isn’t.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:24 pmSo now it’s enemies list made public?? Tut! Tut!
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October 29th, 2009 at 6:29 am