The Emergency Room

Recently, The New York Times went out of its way to bash Pat Buchanan for his book, State of Emergency, which was written about the struggle to face illegal immigration. Before I bash the Sulzberger Sewerpipe, I do want to clarify that I haven't read the book myself, although I've been reading Buchanan's blog.

I can't endorse everything Buchanan advocates for. It puzzles me that he fears whites will obtain minority status in the United States, but he has the ability to think outside of the mainstream. One thing I don't get - why do we want to change the world, but yet we have so much animosity towards those who take on the "extremist" label? It takes an extremist to change the world, for better or worse.

Anyways, here's what the Sulzberger Sewerpipe had to say about this right-wing extremist:

"The doomsayer's torch has lately been grabbed by cultural sentinels like Pat Buchanan, whose new book warns the United States is being reconquered by disease-carrying Latinos. Unless Americans of white European descent can Ziploc the borders and start churning out babies, he says, their age of civilizing domination is done for."

Thankfully, Bill O'Reilly interviewed Buchanan about these menacing accusations. Was it a "fair and balanced" interview? No less than the New York Times article. If O'Reilly did not lean to the right, he would have asked Pat Buchanan why minority status matters.

In any event, Buchanan spoke out in favor of everyone who advocates border security.

"These terms — racist or xenophobe or nativist — that are used on folks that want to secure the border, these are the cusswords of the establishment that has lost the country."

Pat is dead-on. It's gotten to the point where we are distracted from any true form of racism, because we are conditioned to dismiss any cry of "racism," whether it's real or not.

For example, Steny Hoyer used the word "slavishly" to describe Michael Steele's loyalty to conservatism. This is equally as scandalous as George Allen's "mukaka" comment, and equally as inflammatory. Both have apologized, and just like that, we move on.

Memorably, John McCain made headlines within the alternative media for attacking "nativist" elements within the Republican Party, citing Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs and Michael Savage as the root cause for the demand for border security.

If the "Turncoat Mole" is right, then give the alternative media credit. Talk radio's impact on the handling of illegal immigration should be applauded, rather than scorned.