― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)
Friday, April 1, 2005 Posted: 9:48 AM EST (1448 GMT) Pat Buchanan cut short an appearance Thursday after a student threw salad dressing on him.
KALAMAZOO, Michigan (AP) -- Commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan cut short an appearance after an opponent of his conservative views doused him with salad dressing.
"Stop the bigotry!" the demonstrator shouted as he hurled the liquid Thursday night during the program at Western Michigan University. The incident came just two days after another noted conservative, William Kristol, was struck by a pie during an appearance at a college in Indiana.
After he was hit, Buchanan cut short his question-and-answer session with the audience, saying, "Thank you all for coming, but I'm going to have to get my hair washed."
The demonstrator, identified by authorities as a 24-year-old student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, was arrested and faces a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. He was released on a $100 cash bond, pending his April 14 arraignment.
"He could have faced a felony assault charge, but Pat Buchanan decided to not press that charge," university spokesman Matt Kurz said.
Buchanan's visit had evoked controversy on campus because it fell on the birthday of the late Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez. Buchanan favors tighter controls on immigration.
Kristol, editor of the influential conservative magazine The Weekly Standard and former chief of staff to Vice President Quayle, was splattered by a student during a speech Tuesday at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.
Members of the audience at the Quaker college jeered the student, then applauded as Kristol wiped the pie from his face and said, "Just let me finish this point." Kristol then completed his speech and took questions from the audience.
The student, who was not immediately identified, was suspended and could face expulsion following a disciplinary review, Earlham Provost Len Clark said Wednesday.
Clark also issued a written apology complimenting Kristol for his "graciousness."
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)
― Leon Bluth (Ex Leon), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)
Wash your own hair, you pussy.
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)
did you know pat buchannan used to hang out and drink wild turkey with hunter s. thompson?
― JD from CDepot, Friday, 1 April 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)
As if douchebag whorowitz wouldn't just make something up if he didn't have any ammo.
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)
(not you dave)
― cntfce., Friday, 1 April 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)
who should shut up?
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)
just because you dont agree with him (and please believe, i dont either) doesnt mean you get to be as disrespectful as you want to be. this is why democrats lose elections: complete jerk off college students who think their idiotic pranks count as political dialouge.
― JD from CDepot, Friday, 1 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)
― cntfce., Friday, 1 April 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
― JD from CDepot, Friday, 1 April 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)
anyway, to his credit, pat seemed to handle this pretty gracefully.
i think the "this is why democrats [x]" comments are a red herring, but yeah, this was a dumb thing to do.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)
― Ha ha, it is teh funny oh yes it is (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)
of course, pat buchannan is on the fringe of the republican party now, and im not saying that THIS particular action will have any real effect on anything.
and democrats have consistently lost elections (with the exception of clinton and carter) since a democratic president signed the civil rights act in 1964.
― JD from CDepot, Friday, 1 April 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)
Really depends on who is doing the farting and who else is in the hot tub.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)
yes politics are personal, but more importantly they are about comprimise. the sign of any good political decision is that both sides walk away mildly unhappy (the quote is something like that, i think). but for people who are naturally liberal like you and I it seems disgusting that we would have to comprimise anything with someone who says such vicious and disgusting things.
but the only reason he has power is because in the bedrooms and dinning rooms of america there are millions who think even worse things. many of them are family. i know i can count my parents amongst the anti gay bush supporters, my mom once visited maine just to see where barbra bush vacationed. but should I smear their cars with shit and egg their houses? no, i allow them their opinions, however backward, and do my best to promote and support what i see to be right, because that is the idiotic justice of america. "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." HL Mencken
― JD from CDepot, Friday, 1 April 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)
― JD from CDepot, Friday, 1 April 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)
His anti-war stances are the product of a mixture of anti-semitism and old-fashioned isolationism. He wrote a fascinating article during the Clinton administration casting doubt on NAFTA and pointing out that the Republican party for most of its history was a high-tariff party to protect maufacturing and labor at home.
He may be a throw-back, Father Coughlin type, but I cannot agree that the best way to resist him and his ideas is through sophomoric acts of violence or puerile attempts at political theory. His ideas can be resisted and anything that might remotely be perceived by his base as making him a martyr should be avoided. They love that shit. Pat graciously deferred his opportunity to press charges, which makes him look magnanimous to his people, so in terms of hearts and minds, I think this stuff actually backfires.
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)
That was meant to read 'political theater'.
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)
- ROBERT FUCKING NOVACK- Ann Coulter (obv.)- Joe Scarborough- Peggy Noonan- Rush Limbaugh- Sean Hannity- Michael Savage- Rev. Jerry Falwell- Kudlow (of Kudlow & Kramer....hell, throw one at Kramer too)- Dan Abrams - Paula Zahn
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)
― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)
I'm glad kids on the right haven't gotten into pranking, cuz I'd be really steamed if someone did this to Eleanor Clift.
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/twelve_pretty_racist_or_just_crazy_quotes_from_pat_buchanans_new_book.php
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago)
Yup, still batshit
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago)
And still on MSNBC and elsewhere
saw this online too:
conservative Pat Buchanan referred to President Obama as “your boy” while talking with Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago)
someone just discovered Jay-Z
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago)
I'm sure that's it
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago)
imagine Pat Buchanan rocking out to "Big Pimpin'"
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah, Joan Walsh goes into detail about the weird racial batshit that is Buchanan's book:
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/19/pat_buchanan_declares_defeat/singleton/
― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago)
"weird"
you're acting like you're talking about someone who isn't Pat Buchanan
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago)
he really barfs up some amazingly shameless "separate but equal" nostalgia stuff about segregation, it's not a surprise but it's still annoying, stupid, and (now) self pitying
― the tune is space, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago)
"look at all of this weird anti-Semetic stuff Louis Farrakhan is saying in his new book"
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago)
I use the word weird here b/c of the deep obsession dude has with this stuff, and obviously disproportionately large amounts of time he's thought about it.
Maybe "creepy" is a better term.
― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago)
It irks me that an Irish Catholic doesn't uinderstand the dangers of glossing over racism in American history and identity - but then it always has. Same for his sister, too.
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falangehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco
― ban moves like jagger (goole), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago)
^^^ Still dead jftr
― Food! Trends! Men! Hate! (Phil D.), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago)
catholic fascism isn't, if pat can help it
― ban moves like jagger (goole), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago)
dan itt is killing me
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 October 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago)
Sniff sniff
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 18:45 (thirteen years ago)
Look homeward, angel.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mclaughlinfrown-screen.jpg
― clemenza, Friday, 17 February 2012 18:51 (thirteen years ago)