Buchanan's latest furball was coughed up about more recent events. With Teabaggers, Militias, anti-abortion fanatics and other right-wing miscreants making death threats, hurling bigoted abuse, and other hooligan acts, there is understandable alarm among the targets of these cowardly thugs.

However, since it is a mandatory requirement for media figures to be fallacious at best and intellectually dishonest at worst, the Golden Mean Fallacy is trotted out to pooh-pooh the threats and violence. The one mentally deranged man who threatened a Republican Congressman (as well as President Obama and others) is taken as evidence that the Right and Left are equally at fault. This kind of dishonesty is typical.

Buchanan had to go one better on Morning Joe, a show aired on the "liberal" MSNBC, claiming that the biggest outbreak of anti-government violence was the riots that followed the acquittal of four L.A. policemen who beat Rodney King like a piñata.

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First of all, politics had nothing to do with the looting and killing that happened in Los Angeles. People loot and pillage for fun and/or profit, not to advance a political agenda. There were protests against police brutality, but there's no evidence the protesters were the ones sacking and burning Los Angeles and killing fifty-three people.

It is interesting to note that Buchanan chose not to remember the Oklahoma City Bombing that took place fifteen years ago and killed 168 people. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols blew up the Murrah Building to (a) avenge Waco and (b) to incite an armed insurrection and race war, as detailed in The Turner Diaries -the playbook McVeigh and Nichols used to form their game plan.

Buchanan also chose to ignore the several abortion doctors who have been hunted down and assassinated by Fetus Christers -including the recent assassination of Dr. George Tiller.

Instead, he wants to bring up the political violence of the 1960s and early 70s. Again, his memory is selective. The overwhelming majority of the violence back then was carried out by the pro-war and anti-civil rights crowds, whether it was the Southern racists who blew up churches, lynched blacks and assassinated whites who tried to help them; or it was the police and National Guard beating and killing anti-war activists.

Maybe Buchanan would prefer NOT to remember the right-wing violence from that era, since he worked for Nixon along with Charles Colson, the man who organized the so-called Hard Hats, a mob of violent thugs who started a riot in New York City, where scores of people were injured:

On May 26, Brennan led a delegation of 22 union leaders to meet with President Nixon at the White House and presented him with a hard hat. Nixon general counsel Charles Colson, in charge of developing a strategy to win union support for Nixon in the 1972 presidential election, identified Brennan as a friendly labor leader due to his role in organizing the counter-protests of May 8 and May 20. Brennan later met privately with Nixon on Labor Day. Brennan later organized significant labor union political support for Nixon in the 1972 election. Nixon appointed Brennan as his Labor Secretary after the election as a reward for his support.

Rick Perlstein describes the period in detail here.

Pat Buchanan's fondness for racism and fascism is well-documented and well known. So it's not surprising to see and hear him cough up this latest furball. What IS amazing is that none of the other panelists called him on it. Not one thought of Oklahoma City? I find that hard to believe. They had an agenda and facts were the last thing that would get in their way.