{"id":185339,"date":"2011-07-26T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/26\/pat-buchanan-has-disappointed-me\/"},"modified":"2011-07-26T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T23:19:00","slug":"pat-buchanan-has-disappointed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/26\/pat-buchanan-has-disappointed-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Buchanan Has Disappointed Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not think that he could actually disappoint me, Molly Ivins had him nailed when she said that his infamous &#8220;Culture War&#8221; speech at the Republican convention, &#8220;It probably read better in the original German.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, he is an appalling person, and it is even more appalling that he is treated as a font of wisdom by the Washington punditocracy.<\/p>\n<p>So I expect him to appall me.<\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t expect is for him to say something that is so outrageous that he actually exceeds my already lowered expectations, but he has outdone himself.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/media\/2011\/07\/26\/279171\/pat-buchanan-breivik-may-be-right\/\">excused the mass murder in Norway<\/a>, saying that Anders Breivik might be right.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this man on cable TV?  Why is he not a social pariah?<\/p>\n<p>Why he is published in any paper with more credibility than the <i>Moonie Times<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not think that he could actually disappoint me, Molly Ivins had him nailed when she said that his infamous &#8220;Culture War&#8221; speech at the Republican convention, &#8220;It probably read better in the original German.&#8221; Needless to say, he is an appalling person, and it is even more appalling that he is treated as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,969,1064,988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-evil","category-media","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}