Background To Iraq Policy/Buchanan vs the Administration.

[Warriorbird]

Thought this might contain some useful information for various folks. The irony here is where the administration has gone really isn't a very conservative place, all told. Be it in domestic or foreign policy, reprehensible as I think he is, Buchanan represents a much more conservative ideal.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6954712/

[xtc]

I have heard Pat Buchannan on this subject before and I was suprised that I agreed with him on some issues. Buchannan is more of an isolationist than Bush. Now whether or not that is a Conservative ideal or not is another story.

I read part of the interview....not all of it....as it was rather long

[Latrinsorm]

I thought Buchanan was supposed to be a nut job. Should I be alarmed that both he and O'Reiily strike me as pretty reasonable fellas? Then again, I've never seen them in their own element, only in someone else's.

[Warriorbird]

I think he's tamed as the Republican Party's gone in different directions. He slammed Bush's fiscal policies in his book, yet definitely isn't a liberal.

[xtc]

Originally posted by Latrinsorm
I thought Buchanan was supposed to be a nut job. Should I be alarmed that both he and O'Reiily strike me as pretty reasonable fellas? Then again, I've never seen them in their own element, only in someone else's.

I find it depends on the topic. I can remember Buchannan saying a few years America should invade Canada, hardly an isolationist stand. Yeah maybe he's mellowed.

O'Reilly stills spews his crap, cutting off his guests and telling then to shutup. He seemed reasonable on The Daily Show, however he wasn't in charge and the audience was vastly different from his own.

[Edited on 2-16-2005 by xtc]

[CrystalTears]

Heh, O'Reilly amuses me. He just won't take bullshit and will try to have the guest get to the point and answer the question rather than dodge it and spew off their own crap.

[Ravenstorm]

The world is a strange, strange place when I actually agree with Pat Buchanan on something.

Raven

[DeV]

:yeahthat: Spooky.

[Edited on 2-16-2005 by DeV]

[xtc]

Originally posted by CrystalTears
Heh, O'Reilly amuses me. He just won't take bullshit and will try to have the guest get to the point and answer the question rather than dodge it and spew off their own crap.

I guess it depends on the guest.

I saw O’Reilly interview Heather Mallick a reporter for The Globe & Mail (which is a national paper in Canada). O’Reilly mercilessly attacked her and never gave her an opportunity to respond. Heather has written against the war in Iraq. O’Reilly then went on to say the Globe and Mail was so left wing it should be renamed The Havana Post. Here O’Reilly really showed his ignorance. I have been reading The Globe for years and it is known for being a conservative voice not a left wing one.

On another occasion O’Reilly interviewed a Canadian an ultra right wing radio wing show host a Miss/Mrs Marsden. It was such a fluff interview and O’Reilly was so effusive with his praise it was sickening.

On a side note Miss Marsden has twice been convicted for stalking.