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...glaring inaccuracy is your charge that Buchanan is an anti-Semite, which you backed up solely by saying, "even his archconservative pal William Buckley admits it." I am happy that you trust Buckley, but I don't think that's what he meant at all when he wrote about Buchanan in the December 30 issue of National Review, although his words have been misinterpreted. In the March 16 issue of National Review, Buckley wrote the following in response to a letter signed by 13 prominent conservatives...
...glad. In fact, we're downright scared. A vote for Pat Buchanan is a vote for anti-Semitism (even his archconservative pal William Buckley Admits it), a vote for isolationism (Buchanan's spin on the Gulf War: a travesty planned and financed by Jews, fought by real Americans), a vote for Japan-bashing protectionism (America First, dammit), a vote for Dukesque racial codewords (what was that about Zulu immigration...
According to Pierce, the University denied an initial request for the information on the basis of the Buckley Amendment, a nearly 20-year-old law which says that universities do not have to release information on individual students...
...hard for friends and colleagues to square the private Buchanan with the public one: the Rottweiler who has turned nostalgia for the days of Ike and Elvis into attacks on anyone who is not white, male, Christian and straight. Even supporters like National Review editor William J. Buckley Jr. found it difficult to defend Buchanan after his comments about Treblinka and the alleged dual loyalties of Jews during the gulf war. Michael Kinsley, Buchanan's Crossfire co-host for two years, points out that it is a pundit's business to spew out provocative opinions like an open fire hydrant...
...questionable statements, they don't necessarily impugn his character--but they do call his judgment into question. A litany of offensive remarks have been credited to Buchanan by friends and critics alike in recent months. Even William F. Buckley, a hero of Buchanan, found it "impossible to defend [Buchanan] from the charge of anti-Semitism...