Despicable Pat Buchanan just one of many who get a pass

Recently their paid service started carrying the column of Pat Buchanan, a Holocaust revisionist and anti-Semite. When Buchanan’s hatred was pointed out to their editors, they replied with a lack of interest, an indication that they either agreed with Buchanan’s hatred or didn’t care about bigotry toward Jews.

In a column titled “In Search of Anti-Semitism,” published in December 1991 (and subsequently made the cornerstone of a book) conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr. concluded that Buchanan was indeed an anti-Semite: “I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism, whatever it was that drove him to say and do it, most probably, an iconoclastic temperament.”

Buckley’s words are damning, but even more incriminating are Pat Buchanan’s own words. For example, Buchanan has challenged the historical record that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by diesel exhaust at Treblinka, writing in 1990 that “Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.”

From July 1942 through November 1943, the Germans killed between 870,000 and 925,000 Jews at Treblinka. Perhaps the editors of Rasmussen should run a poll asking all those dead Jews how they were killed.

In his book, “A Republic, Not an Empire” (Regnery Publishing), Buchanan analyzes the history of American foreign policy and questions whether Hitler sought war with the West or was driven to it. “Hitler made no overt move to threaten U.S vital interests” after his initial victories across Europe in 1939 and 1940, Buchanan wrote.