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...Sadly, Buchanan has not been relegated to the oblivion of the fringe, as demonstrated by the IOP's recent invitation, an honor it would not have extended to a David Duke. Harvard students therefore had a responsibility to demonstrate that they do not consider Buchanan an acceptable part of the political spectrum. Although Buchanan has usually been more circumspect in his incitement than the likes of Duke, his history as a demagogue is just as long and unambiguous. Buchanan has repeatedly used the rhetoric of patriotism and conservatism to spread the cause of bigotry. For example, Buchanan's opposition...
...Charles Krauthammer (not exactly a flaming liberal himself) wrote, "[Buchanan's] technique is to convey raw prejudice to his followers, who understand his code, than go on respectable media [and now to Harvard], smile and pretend he never meant it. His trademark is the wink. The wink is interpreted by his friends in mainstream media as 'I'm fooling the mob.' It is understood by the mob as 'I'm fooling the pointy-heads...
Indeed, even Buchanan's legendary oratorical skills (admittedly superior to that of his questioners) could not completely hide his dark side at the ARCO Forum on Thursday. Buchanan stood squarely behind his remarks in praise of Hitler, his crack that Holocaust survivors have "group fantasies of martyrdom" and his support of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. As Neal Sher, the former director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations said, "Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America...
...response by Harvard students could not have been an attempt to divert attention from Buchanan's conservative message because his address was devoid of conservative issues. Whatever its merits, campaign finance reform, with adherents and detractors amongst both left and right, is not a conservative cause. Buchanan's new alliance with Marxist and extremist of the left, Lenora Fullani, who accompanied him to the ARCO Forum, is not a sign of moderation but rather of the completion of his metamorphism into prejudice-preaching populist. The only thing missing was his usual demagogic attachment of Jewish-sounding names to the Washington...
...suggesting that Buchanan does not have the right to articulate his views, even the racist ones, only that the IOP should not have given him a soapbox. Once it did, the proper response--conservative or liberal--to the appearance of this Nazi sympathizer at Harvard was to question the invitation by confronting him with the hate-filled rhetoric Buchanan saves for audiences he thinks receptive to bigotry...