Video is 16 minutes long, Buchanan comes in around 4:30.
If you've ever wondered what it looks like when a racist is afraid that the 200+ year history of white male dominance in this country is over, check this out. In this fascinating interview, Rachel Maddow keeps her cool while Pat Buchanan rants and foams at the mouth.
Buchanan: I don't think Judge Sotomayor is qualified for the United States Supreme Court. She has not shown any great intellect here or any great depth of knowledge of the Constitution. She's never written anything that I've read in terms of a law review article or a major book or something like that on the law. And I do believe that she's an affirmative action appointment by the President.
Apparently the fact that Sotomayor has more experience on the bench than any currently sitting SCOTUS judge had at their confirmation does not count for much, nor does the fact that she was very rarely overturned during her career by higher courts. Buchanan apparently believes the purpose of affirmative action is to discriminate against white males. He feels that the fact that historically 108 of 110 supreme justices are white males simply reflects the inherently superior abilities of white males.
Buchanan: ...white men were 100% of the people who wrote the Constitution, 100% of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably close to 100% of the people who died at Normandy.
His racism blinds him to the contributions of other groups. Where I see a history of disenfranchisement and unfairness he sees the natural order of things. Buchanan unfairly dismisses all of Sotomayor's qualifications as the product of affirmative action. Maddow asks if Buchanan sees the nomination of a latina to the SCOTUS as a positive thing for this country and he dodges the question.
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