New York – MSNBC A Disgrace For Still Hosting Enabler For Holocaust Deniers Pat Buchanan

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    New York – One week ago, I outed Patrick Buchanan, the former senior White House official in the Nixon and Reagan administrations, erstwhile reactionary candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and now a highly paid political commentator on MSNBC, for sponsoring a Holocaust denial forum on his website. Within hours, the forum in question, entitled “Disinformation, Deception and Other Tricks: Discussion about ‘The Holocaust'” (with The Holocaust in quotes, of course), mysteriously vanished from Buchanan.org, and the link to it was disabled.

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    The Buchanan website’s forum followed the standard Holocaust deniers’ playbook, complete with such gems as “Most historians believe it was LOGISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GAS 6 MILLION JEWS AND REDUCE THEIR BODIES TO ASHES;” “We have known for some time that the Auschwitz myth is of an exclusively Jewish origin;” “The same blinded people that believe that the Germans intentionally killed Jews – also believe the myth of the Anne Frank Diary;” and “Rightly or wrongly – the Jew was blamed for a lot of the problems that Germany suffered. The Jews were given years of warnings that they were unwelcome in Germany. A lot of Jews fled Germany in the late 1930s. The United States was not very anxious to accept very many. This was when White Christians still had a little control of our Nation.”

    One might have expected the disclosure of this forum to at least raise some eyebrows at MSNBC. After all, two years ago, the news channel summarily fired talk show host Don Imus for making a racially insensitive remark about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. Sponsoring a Holocaust denial forum on one’s website strikes me as no less offensive. But not a single member of MSNBC’s management has deigned to publicly address Buchanan’s association with anti-Semites, White supremacists and other assorted bigots.

    One would also have expected Buchanan’s MSNBC colleagues to take him to task for aiding and abetting Holocaust deniers. They have not done so. Not once.

    If Fox News’ Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly had sponsored a similar forum, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews would have been all over them. If Buchanan had been a CNN or Fox News fixture rather than an MSNBC pundit, Olbermann would most certainly have excoriated Buchanan as the “worst person in the world.” So the question to Messrs Matthews and Olbermann has to be, how can you justify giving Buchanan a pass?

    Since Buchanan’s Holocaust denial forum became public, I have watched him on three popular MSNBC programs: Morning Joe, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Andrea Mitchell Reports. Neither Joe Scarborough nor Mika Brzezinski, the co-hosts of Morning Joe, asked Buchanan to explain why he provided a platform for Holocaust deniers. Matthews did not ask Buchanan whether he approved of or agreed with the Holocaust denying screeds that were posted on Buchanan.org. Andrea Mitchell did not ask Buchanan how and why the Holocaust denial forum was so suddenly removed from his website.

    Matthews would never have remained silent in the face of slurs directed at Irish-Americans, or Scarborough at Southern conservative Christians, or Brzezinski at Polish Catholics, or Mitchell at women. Holocaust denial by definition is toxic, and Buchanan’s MSNBC colleagues have an obligation to confront him on their shows with the vitriol he allowed to be disseminated under his auspices.

    MSNBC’s audiences for the most part have no idea that Buchanan is not just another affable, well-spoken if arch-conservative television personality. They do not know that he has compared John Demjanjuk, the Nazi guard at the death camps of Sobibor and Majdanek who has just been deported from the United States to stand trial in Germany, to Jesus Christ. They do not know that he wrote in his March 17, 1990, syndicated column that Jews could not have been murdered in the gas chambers of Treblinka, and dismissed the Holocaust survivors’ experiences derisively as “group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.”

    They do not know that Buchanan has referred to Capitol Hill as “Israeli-occupied territory” and called Israel “a strategic albatross draped around the neck of the United States.” They do not know that he told the Christian Coalition in 1993 that “Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.”

    They do not know that he has actively lobbied on behalf of Nazi war criminals like Demjanjuk, Karl Linnas and Arthur Rudolph. They do not know that Buchanan called for the abolishment of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which prosecutes and seeks to deport Nazi war criminals from the United States, because he considered the unit to be “a shark force . . . running down 70-year-old camp guards.” They do not know that he once wrote that “Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier . . . a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him.”

    Patrick Buchanan has no greater credibility or respectability than David Duke, the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, or Louis Farrakhan, the grotesquely anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam. If, however, MSNBC’s executives insist on retaining him as a fixture on their news channel, he must be clearly identified as an enabler of Holocaust deniers and a defender of Nazi war criminals whenever he appears on the air.

    Menachem Rosensaft, the son of two survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, is General Counsel of the World Jewish Congress and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    the republican party enabeled this bloke for years. if anyone is a disgrace its the darned GOP

    Obvious Insult to American Jews
    Obvious Insult to American Jews
    14 years ago

    I am so angry I could scream “Murderers” to MSNBC, NBC Networks, and the famous General Electric Company who owns the two TV networks. I do not know how these American Companies can support a known Holocaust denier and Nazi Supporter. ALL AMERICAN JEWS MUST COMPLAIN TO THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS, THEIR SHULS, THEIR NEIGHBORS. This is an attack on the Jewish Community. What will NBC do next? Will they have a KKK and NAZI Skin Head on a news program? Patrick Buchanan will rot in eternal hell for supporting Nazi Murderers. I want to throw away my GE appliances they make me sick. Who said Jews have influence in the US? We have none. GE will be financing and building gas chambers next for us. WAKE UP YIDDEN !!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    MSNBC has shifted so to the left and their ratings are so low. Mathews, Shuster, Olberman, Maddow, are the worse journalist out there. They have no class. They have turned into BBC CNN and the New York Times. Watch Fox News, they are honest, good ratings and a friend of Israel. Oreily and Hannity. Read the Wall St. Journal.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    try makingthis a FOX NEWS vs. MSNBC issue…

    meanwhile this man is a cult like CHRISTIAN right winger NUT JOB

    like the rest of the born again yiddishe kinderlich from Brooklyn NY

    enjoy yurselfes with this CONSERVATIVE…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Hey! The guy’s got his own personal ‘Rabbi’ – Yehuda Levin who claims to also represent 10,000 rabbis across America whenever he makes a buffoon of himself.

    How can you demand MSNBC remove him from their show when you all tolerate a ‘rabbi’ who kisses up to this anti-Semite bigot???

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    The biggest Problem is, that the Jewish people don’t have enough guts – chutzpa – to protest against this Hateful guy!

    bigwheeel
    bigwheeel
    14 years ago

    …I can see that Mr. M. Rosensaft of the Huffington post, in his attempt to enumerate all the negative, hateful quotes and inciting statements of that monster in sheep’s clothing, Patrick Buchanan (ymshv”z) [Translation of this Acronym; May his name and his memory be eradicated, Amen] has barely scratched the surface; Among his other inciting statements, when the First Iraqi war in 1991 was heating up, and he (yms”h) being against the US taking action, said something very inciteful, which I don’t want to repeat, to the effect that Christian boys will die in a battle that was orchestrated by Jews!. Some naive Jews, like Rabbi Yehuda Levin went along with him initially on the campaign trail when that nazi, anti-Semite the son of an anti-Semite was running for the Presidency of the US! One day, when PB was not present at his HQ, the good (and naive) Rabbi had a run-in with one of PB’s Lieutenants! And he got an earful that will last him (hopefully) a lifetime!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    He is a very religious Catholic, and by definition he hates Jews, it’s a basic part of that religion. He can’t escape from it.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Shame on Fox News!! Didn’t they know they’re only supposed to listen to Menachem Rosensaft?!!! Didn’t they know who calls the shots in the media! Remember, only pro-Zionist personalities are allowed on American television!!

    abi gezint
    abi gezint
    14 years ago

    as a sidenote , he once mentioned in one of his bookes the village of “kiryas yoel” . the phregraph was highly supportive but it had a racist touch to it , he was saying that communitys around d cuntry shuld establish thier own image and it shuld not be ethnicly mixed, and thats where he mentions kj as its some sort of racist enclave.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    So William F. Buckley is the posek achron of anti-semitism? I thought it was Marvin Hier. I thought no one was allowed on US media outlets without the approval of the Holocaust Museum in LA. Can someone set me straight? Where is the I-Love-Israel Thought Police when you need them?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    General Eisenhower saw this scenario in advance. He made sure to film and photograph everything. He also ordered as many U.S. troops as possible to visit the camps (my dad included) to give a living eye witness account along with the victims. My dad is still alive at 85 years old and can recount as if it was yesterday what he saw.