"No Country for Old (Catholic) Men"

A friend sent me the link to an e-article with this headline -- "No Country for Old (Catholic) Men" -- with a note saying it appeared to be about me. Naturally intrigued, I immediately checked out the web page only to find that the old Catholic man the writer (R. Cort Kirkwood) is talking about is Pat Buchanan! In fact, the subtitle of the piece is "The Real Reason Pat Buchanan Got Fired from MSNBC".

Although too long to copy and paste here, Mr. Kirkwood's article is well worth reading in its entirety. He writes about MSNBC's firing of Pat Buchanan as a commentator in February, after he published Suicide of a Superpower: Will American Survive to 2025?.

What's wrong with this book? To hear the lamestream media (including MSNBC) tell it, Mr. Buchanan's book -- which expands on an essay he wrote last October (which you can read here), ventures beyond the acceptable bounds of debate. Of course the leftists, liberals and "progressive thinkers" believe in free speech... but only for their opinions, not for those of Pat Buchanan or Walt Whiteman.

Mr. Kirkwood says, as the fact is, that the American left, controlled by anti-Christians, feminists and homosexuals, won’t brook disagreement with its core principles: racial politics and sodomy, fornication and abortion on demand. Disagree with anything the left says, and one is labeled a racist, misogynist or a homophobe. Those are "vices" which Buchanan represents to the left. And that's why MSNBC gave him the boot... with the left foot, of course.Suicide of a Superpower has chapters entitled “The Death of Christian America” and “The End of White America.” According to Buchanan, the demographic dispossession of the white Christian majority will spell the end for the America in which he grew up.

But few on the right have the courage to defend Buchanan on the grounds that he is right. Rather, they argue the abstract principle that his freedom of speech was abridged, pointing out the hypocrisy of the left on free speech. But their argument implicitly suggests that Buchanan’s thesis is wrong. They may believe Buchanan to be right, but they defend only his right to be "wrong".

What American conservatives do not seem to grasp is that the left does not believe one has a right to be "wrong", even in the confines of one's mind. Thus the "progressives" are succeeding in their quest to forbid absolutely not just freedom of speech but freedom of thought. God save the USA!

Footnote: Suicide of a Superpower is available for Kindle too. Tell `em Walt sent ya!