{"id":297,"date":"2009-06-23T23:46:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T23:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/under-misspelled-banner-pat-buchanan-and-peter-brimelow-argue-for-english-only-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T23:46:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T23:46:38","slug":"under-misspelled-banner-pat-buchanan-and-peter-brimelow-argue-for-english-only-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/under-misspelled-banner-pat-buchanan-and-peter-brimelow-argue-for-english-only-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDER MISSPELLED BANNER, PAT BUCHANAN AND PETER BRIMELOW ARGUE FOR ENGLISH-ONLY INITIATIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"conferenece\"This is why we call them boneheads. Seriously, you would think that Pat Buchanan just said screw it and gave up, but just goes through the motions because that’s all he has left. It’s not just that it is obvious how much of a white supremaicist he is. That has always been the case. Now he is making himself the best example of how silly they can be. Bad enough his American Cause Executive Director Marcus Epstein is dealing with hit after hit over his hate crime conviction being revealed by us, but a simple thing like a banner for the American Cause conference this weekend can’t even be pulled off without making them look stupid. Think Progress zeroed in on what you see in the picture here. That’s Pat and Peter under the banner, so it’s not like they didn’t see it. Well, now everyone has, and we have to thank Buchanan & Co. for the endless supply of ammo!<\/p>\n

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ThinkProgress<\/h3>\n

On Saturday, Pat Buchanan<\/a> hosted a conference<\/a> to discuss how Republicans can regain a majority in America. During one discussion, panelists suggested supporting English-only initiatives as a prime way of attracting \u201cworking class white Democrats.\u201d The discussion ridiculed Judge Sotomayor for the fact that she studied children\u2019s classics<\/a> to improve her grammar while attending college. The panelists also suggested that, without English as the official language, President Obama would force Americans to speak Spanish. <\/p>\n

One salient feature of the event was the banner hanging over the English-only advocates. The word conference was spelled \u201cConferenece.\u201d View it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The panelists pressed on with their anti-bilingualism diatribe without noting the irony of the obvious misspelling on the banner: <\/p>\n

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PAT BUCHANAN: Judge Sotomayor is up there at school in New York, she gets a scholarship to Princeton, she\u2019s graduated with all these big honors and awards they said she never won. What\u2019s she doing there in the summer? They said her adviser told her to read children\u2019s classics so she can learn English better. How do you graduate number one in Princeton if you\u2019re in the summer and you\u2019re reading Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White?<\/strong> [laughter] […]<\/p>\n

PETER BRIMELOW: I really do recommend the language issue because you know that polls better than immigration and affirmative action<\/strong>. Eighty-five percent of Americans say they would favor official language policy. The wonderful thing about this issue if you look at what\u2019s going to actually happen here is you\u2019re going to find that the Obama administration is going to gradually institute institutional bilingualism in the country. It\u2019s going to be required to speak Spanish in key positions, the police force and so on<\/strong>. This is a direct attack on the American working class because they are not going to be bilingual. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

ThinkProgress attended the event and obtained audio of the panel. Listen here:<\/p>\n

Mocking Sotomayor\u2019s struggle to learn English has become a habit for Buchanan. On CSPAN a few weeks ago, Buchanan tried to undermine Sotomayor\u2019s qualifications by saying she had read Pinocchio as a part of her \u201ccollege work<\/a>.\u201d Buchanan was referencing a New York Times article<\/a>, which talked about how hard Sotomayor had to work to graduate at the top of her class from Princeton. The article stated that she \u201cspent summers reading children\u2019s classics she had missed in a Spanish-speaking home and \u2018re-teaching\u2019 herself to write \u2018proper English\u2019 by reading elementary grammar books.\u201d Sotomayor never read children\u2019s books as part of her \u201ccollege work\u201d and the books consisted of classics such as \u201cHuckleberry Finn\u201d and \u201cPride and Prejudice<\/a>\u201d \u2014 not Snow White, as Buchanan contends. <\/p>\n

Peter Brimelow, one of the panelists to the event, is the editor of Vdare.com. He has written extensively against immigration and has long advocated that the GOP must \u201cappeal to its base: white Americans<\/a>.\u201d Brimelow has defended accusations that he writes and publishes white supremacist material by declaring his content to be merely \u201cwhite nationalist<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Update<\/span>Brimelow also urged the attendees of the Buchanan conference to attack affirmative action in an effort to attract the votes of “young whites” and “yellow people.” After claiming it would be “suicidal” for any “white man” to vote for Obama, Brimelow contended that immigrants should not be eligible for affirmative action because “they weren\u2019t slaves to this country, they\u2019ve never been discriminated against”: <\/p>\n

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