While talking about RNC Chairman Mike Duncan’s promise to go negative on Barack Obama Thursday night on “Verdict,” conservative dinosaur Pat Buchanan made the astute observation that the GOP’s only shot at winning this year is to trash Obama for his “associations” with controversial figures, and raise doubts among the electorate about choosing an “exotic” (code word for black) guy. Luckily, Tanya Acker was there to call him out on it right away and make him look like the racist “exotic” fool that he is. Buchanan’s stammering definition of exotic is equally as absurd.
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Buchanan: The only way the Republicans can win this — when everyone wants to throw the Republicans out — is to raise questions, raise doubts about the alternative. They’re gonna use his associations, and they’re gonna use his statements, his elitism, they’re gonna use the fact that hes exotic. That’s what’s gonna happen.
Acker: Exotic? What does exotic mean? Is exotic code for black? I dont understand what exotic means.
It’s pretty fascinating to watch someone like Pat Buchanan opine on the 2008 Presidential race with Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee. It’s almost seems at times like Pat is living in a different country, in a different era. One which doesn’t resemble 21st century America, and one in which he undoubtedly would feel more comfortable.
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2 requirements for being a Republican:
1. Liar
2. Bigot
Yeah, Barack Obama is “exotic”: neither his spouse nor father were Presidents, and none of his ancestors were scions of inherited wealth. What a weirdo un-American.
BuCANNON shoots off vitriolic slurs.
El Cid @ 2:
hes remotely related to cheney…believe it or dont
Buchanan and that other gay-looking Republican hick, know that they have to keep stirring up their new base: the toothless, overweight, barefoot, no education hicks to even have a snowballs chance of beating Sen Obama!
However Sen Obama’s campaign won’t get “swift-boated” this time around!
Maybe he means like an exotic pet. He’s saying Obama is an iguana. Still not sure how that would make sense though.
Some of these political cable shows are going to need to “mothball” these old white guys until after the election. I mean, this guy can’t make it 72 hours without saying something that sounds racist. And there are a few more like him.
Of course, he can always go over to Fox News and discuss Obama and his “baby Mama”. Outrageous and transparent.
Buchanan is a racist!? *GASP*
buchanan is a racist and ant semite….that is no surprise
someone needs to explain to me how a man raised mostly by a single parent is not of middle america
my god, he was born in the heartland
so he pulled himself out of that and has risen to possibly become the prez of the us
isnt that the american dream?
All these talking heads are like dinosaurs trudging their way to the tarpits of history. Gone are the days when folks like Pat Buchanan, Chris Matthews, etc…could just rattle off some insane jargon, assume we’d swallow it whole, and move onto the next topic.
I almost feel bad for them. Too big and cumbersome from years of habit and to stupid to realize it and change course.
Someday this kind of footage will find it’s place in a museum of the extinct where children can marvel that such creatures ever existed much less thrived.
Unfortunately, I don’t think Buchanan is living in different century, different country. I just saw an ad for an “Obama Sock Monkey” Not to mention the all the Curious George t-shirts, and the “Obama’s baby mama” slur. It’s not even two weeks since he became the nominee and it’s getting really ugly.
Buchannan’s future is all behind him.
Why does anyone listen to him, anymore?
He’s proof positive there is no intelligent design.
He’s also a good argument for abortion.
The Republicans know they can’t beat Obama on ideas, raising money, or in the debates. This means the only thing they can do is race bait. I wonder when someone will just come out and say well damn he is a n*gger you know!
Free Obama ‘08 bumper stickers!
Uncle Joe Hussein Mccarthy @ 4:
Now THAT’S pretty exotic.
Would someone please tell me where and when the angry mob is assembling? I want to be there.
Now, if I could just remember where I left my pitchfork…..
El Cid at#2:
You forget, however, ….Obama, who grew up middle class, played basketball in high school and came from a broken home, is, somehow, an “elitist”. Not to mention that he’s not the kind of guy you’d meet and an Applebee’s Salad Bar.
These folks will say anything.
Buchanan makes a lot of dough spouting his hate. Pat, Tucker and of course we can’t forget Pat’s sister Baye who turns up on CNN every now and then. If only we could have their jobs, but then again, we C&Lers have scrupples.
Uncle Joe Hussein Mccarthy @ 9:
Yes, It’s the AMERICAN Dream, but it is the Republican Nightmare.
At least Pat’s stopped using the term “Zulu”.
Buchanan’s GOP buddies threw him under the bus after his “stellar” performance at the GOP convention in 1992. Why anybody would be asking his opinions on ANYTHING 16 years later is completely incomprehensible, and that goes double for his equally insane sister Bay.
I’m so distressed by the “coding” of racial issues in this election. How many times have we heard the question, “Is America ready for a black president?” Why not come right out and suggest directly, bluntly, that America is too racist to elect a black man? It seems to me that the press should take seriously their responsibility to SHAME our country into progressing beyond our worst qualities.
This guy gets on my nerves big time. When he comes on a station I reach for the remote. For whatever reason the video doesn’t play for me. Who says Friday the 13th is an unlucky day?
Did you notice that even Brad Blakeman laughed at Pat for the “exotic” thing? He may have been agreeing on the terminology, but I think he was just amused at Pat’s code words.
And was Pat being sexist to tell the Democratic strategist to go along and run her “little” campaign? Maybe I’m just hypersensitive because my dad labels everything I do “little” (he’s really tall and I’m really short), but I don’t think Pat would have said that to a man.
As much as they try to smear Obama, we and many more are going to have to support him. That’s how it seems to work.
Exotic!?? Obama looks kinda like the all-American guy next door to me. But then, I’m just a white guy who’s fortunate enough to live in a racially mixed neighborhood in AZ. The funny thing is that Bush IS a uniter! Because black, hispanic, indian or white - we all believe that the Repugs have got to go!
Maybe he was an exotic dancer for Empire Club VIP.
Racism = Republican
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Hasn’t Pat PukeCannon been rejected by the REPUBLICAN electorate several times already ??
Get a clue and GET OUT !
Buchanan: The only way the Republicans can win this — when everyone wants to throw the Republicans out — is to raise questions, raise doubts about the alternative.
Yeah Pat, that’s really going to help this country isn’t it?
At its plainest meaning, exotic is that which is introduced from another country, and not native to where it is found.
This not only shows the GOP to be a party of desperate, old white men wailing and gnashing their teeth as the curtain goes down on their own ‘inevitable’ show, but how shallow and ridiculous America has become. It wasn’t that long ago that some of these same critics were denouncing Obama for not being black ENOUGH. Now, he’s so black as to be exotic. Foreign. Oooga-booga scary, vote for the doddering white guy just so’s you’s all safe.
We may laugh and point at FOX News as they begin to implode, but the sad truth is that their stock in trade are leech-like memes that will continue to suck the life’s blood from the American people and honest dialogue, spreading infection until they are burned off and cut free.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 20:
Have you ever seen Pat and Bay together in the same room at the same time ?
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 20:
Isn’t BAY a red horse?? Found this in the American Heritage dictionary::
Could also be a howling hound…………
bay3 (b³) adj. Color. 1. Reddish-brown: a bay colt. –bay n. 1. Color. A reddish brown. 2. A reddish-brown animal, especially a horse having a black mane and tail. [Middle English, from Old French bai, from Latin badius.]
bay4 (b³) n. 1. A deep, prolonged bark, such as the sound made by hounds. 2. The position of one cornered by pursuers and forced to turn and fight at close quarters: The hunters brought their quarry to bay. 3. The position of having been checked or held at a distance: “He has seen the nuclear threat held at bay for 40 years” (Earl W. Foell). –bay v. bayed, bay·ing, bays. –intr. 1. To utter a deep, prolonged bark. –tr. 1. To pursue or challenge with barking: “I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon” (Shakespeare). 2. To express by barking or howling: a mob baying its fury. 3. To bring to bay: “too big for the dogs which tried to bay it” (William Faulkner). [Middle English, from abai, cornering a hunted animal, from Old French, from abaiier, to bark, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *abbai³re : Latin ad-, ad- + Vulgar Latin *bad³re, to gape, yawn. V., from Middle English baien, to bark, from abaien, from Old French abaiier.]
pissed off patricia @ 22:
Is it his Whiney Voice that irritates you. It does me.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ in Chiang Mai @ 32:
But I like horses Bangkok Bob. Bay Buchanan -not so much!
Well, at the beginning of the clip I was going to defend Buchanan for simply making the case for what the Republicans are going to do, but by the end of it he made it clear that these kinds of attacks are what the Republicans should do. All and all, pretty pathetic.
Pat is using the word exotic to insinuate that Obama is not only black and an “elitist” (Republican word for educated) but also unamerican, super liberal, Muslim, antisemite, a crazy Christian antiwhite racist, marxist, far left radical, terrorist sympathizer etc etc. To give xenophobic paranoid voters lots of bogus excuses not to vote for a black man
Of course Pat is kinda correct. This is Republicans only chance to win
exotic? 50 years ago he would have said “colored” or worst. clueless pat buttchanan is one of those ol’ time racist dinosaurs that should never be allowed on the air because he gives nothing to any debate. as a wealthy loser who has no idea what he’s talking about i wonder why no one has EVER called him out on his blatant racism or sexism; maybe consider him comic relief. i’m dissapointed in rachel maddow because she should get in his face at every chance.
take his wrinkly old pasty ass off the air!
pissed off patricia @ 22:
‘Tis bad luck to be superstitious.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 34:
Then we’ll go with the hound dogs howl. That fits her pretty good anyway.
Bill Norton @ 35:
And exactly what Pat the pathetic was doing himself in that clip
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ in Chiang Mai @ 33:
Yes, and he just gets louder and louder until he pulls a Chris Matthews and starts dripping spit from his mouth. If he is losing an argument he starts laughing at his opponent. All of that drives me nuts.
Pat showing his true colors.
Repugs are very desperate and it’s showing like a bad face lift.
Sorry, Pat: “old white men” is the new exotic, and as a white person, I’m ready for something less exotic, like Obama.
pissed off patricia @ 41:
I’d like to invent an automatic mute button for certain voices.
Anytime anyone wants to think kindly of dear old Tricky Dick Nixon, keep in mind Buchanan was one of his speechwriters. I’d almost be willing to bet ol’ Pat was an unindicted co-conspirator. He, Haldemann and Ehrlichmann should be stamping out license plates at Leavenworth.
This ’senior political commentator’ skin he wears is camouflage for the bigot inside that skin. Rachel Maddow has treated Pat with some respect but has had the good sense to nail this jerk when he deserved it.
By the way, I’ve been dying to ask David Brooks if Applebees really did have a salad bar, exactly how we tell whether someone (i.e., Barack Obama or anyone else) looks either out of place or totally at ease at a salad bar.
Is there really some sort of cool, hip, insider crowd somewhere who knows how to really kick it at a franchise chain salad bar?
Have I secretly been missing out on the coded “cool” signifiers while choosing between honey mustard & light ranch?
Poor old fat bigot. Missing the grand old days way back when when real white men would say whatever they wanted, pissing all over anyone who wasn’t like them. Progress sucks, doesn’t it Pat. Racism is so deeply embedded in this Nazi’s skull that he has no clue to how wrong his sick comments are.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ in Chiang Mai @ 33: