Do you think Pat Buchanan is Sean Hannity’s Pal? By Geniusofdespair

Here they are on the Holocaust and Xenophobia:

I got Sean Hannity’s book from the $1 store: “Deliver us from Evil.” He is pretty much obsessed with evil and devotes a lot of his book to Hitler, Nazism, and the Holocaust. He retells the stories of Holocaust survivors, and believes them. The hypothesis of the book is that there is a lot of evil out there in the world from which Republicans can save us (with the help of belief in God) and Democrats minimize that evil and have no clue about how to deal with it.

But, the Hannity book got me thinking: "Have I painted ultra-conservatives with too broad a brush?"

Pat Buchanan belief in the Holocaust is marginal at best. In his March 17, 1990 column in the New York Post, he cites 1,600 medical papers that call testimony about the concentration camps “Holocaust Survivor Syndrome.” He parrots the information he found in these 1,600 medical papers, that the recollections of survivors are not actually lies but are “Group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.”

According to the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies:

“The association of a former Buchanan aide with Holocaust-deniers is particularly noteworthy in view of Buchanan’s own troubling positions concerning Hitler and the Holocaust. He has written that 850,000 Jews could not have been gassed in Treblinka because “diesel engines do not emit enough carbon dioxide to kill anybody”; he spoke out on behalf of accused Nazi war criminals Karl Linnas and Arthur Rudolph; he wrote columns defending Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk; he described Hitler as “an individual of great courage”; and he mocked Holocaust survivors’ memories as “group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.” (The New Republic, Oct. 15 and Oct. 22, 1990) In his 1999 book, A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argued that the U.S. should not have gone to war against Nazi Germany.”

So on the one hand ultra-conservative Sean Hannity believes and another ultra-conservative, Pat Buchanan, does not. Interesting. I thought "I had better get some more brushes." Wait! Maybe I don’t need brushes because here is the good news: It appears they have put aside their Holocaust differences and have come together on Xenophobia on Hannity’s show on November 27, 2007 (and by the way, in this book release interview, Hannity says about Buchanan: "we’re friends" which answers my "Pal" question posed in the title):

HANNITY: Look, I've said this to you many times. We're friends. Pat Buchanan is often ahead of his time. You were way ahead of your time on immigration in the debate in this country. Here's what you say in the book, and it scares me because a lot of — having read the book now, I'm afraid this may be true.

"America is coming apart. Decomposing. And the likelihood of her survival as one nation is improbable and impossible if America continues on its current course."
Pat Buchanan, that's a scary scenario for all of us who love this country.

BUCHANAN: It is. But take a look at the unity we had, say in the 1950s and early 1960s. What have we gone through? You had a cultural war that's divided us completely on matters of morality. You've got a wholesale invasion, the greatest invasion in human history, coming across your southern border, changing the composition and character of your country. You've got the melting pot that once welded us all together, which has broken down.

All of these things are happening, Sean, and frankly we've got have the kind of solid, firm, national leadership you need to deal with this crisis.

HANNITY: You say we're on a path of national suicide. I want to ask this question directly because you say it's a day of reckoning. Do you really believe that America, the country we all love as we know it, is in jeopardy of existing?

BUCHANAN: Here's what I think. I think America may exist, but I tell you this. I do believe we're going to lose the American Southwest. I think it is almost inevitable. If we do not put a fence on that border.

HANNITY: I agree with you.

BUCHANAN: You're going to have 100 million Hispanics in the country, most of them new immigrants from Mexico which believes that belongs to them. What's going to happen to us, Sean, in my judgment, is what is happening right now. We are Balkanizing. We are dividing and separating from one another politically, morally — on issues like abortion, or Terry Schiavo — racially and ethnically when you get Jena and then you get Don Imus, and all of the things ripping us apart. All these things that used to pull us together and hold us together, no longer do.

HANNITY: You say that the greatest invasion in history of the Third World, etc., etc., talking about the invasion on our borders, and I agree with you. That to me is the number one security issue we have.

-snip- I have had enough even if you haven’t.