Only further confirmation of what's been known for some time now.

No, junkmailqueen, you're not wrong. You're spot on. Buchanan's spew? Loutish, and ignorant, yes. But does this really rise to the level of a CEC (career-ending-comment), the ultimate gotcha for media-types? I think MSNBC needs Buchanan as a foil, to keep it from being another show which all us Liberals can gather to watch, and nod sagely at each other. We've got much much larger fish to fry. Just look elsewhere on this site.

Pat is a odd and funny man who wears his beliefs on his sleeve. He hides nothing. We know who he is.
Justin, yours is an interesting piece of research, but you probably could have spent your time doing something more constructive though.

Like others have said, he uses the term because he's racist. I'd like to emphasize that it's also because he clearly buys into American exceptionalism, though.

If you think this article is off the wall, go back a year or so when the Rev. Wright tapes hit the tube and read his ranting articles and read the comments. Human Events is an evangelical train wreck in a racist car crash and the stupid ferry sprinkled moron dust over the whole site.

It's the worst of the worst of the worst.

Read particularly
A Brief for Whitey (Whitey I assume having to do with the notorious Michelle Obama Whitey tape or due to the fact Obama referenced his white grandmother being afraid of people of the opposite color she encountered on the street, regardless...) with classic lines like this one referring to Obama's speech on race as "the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, 'everybody but the rioters themselves.'"

He's also got great lines like this one "First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known." pointing to how African Americans should be thankful for being brought over as slaves and introduced to Christianity.

He then throws out his statistics he likes to bring up on MSNBC every time there is a racial discussion on to sidetrack the discussion.

Buchanan writes articles on sites like that to keep race hatred fueled up and keep it burning. His followers enjoy it and it keeps him relevant to a right that doesn't care what people think about them.

I believe Tavis Smiley, while he was on the Bill Maher Show called Pat Buchanan a "racial arsonist" at least.

It is at the 4:30 mark in this clip

This is another legit reason for why I always find myself not liking & irritated by Buchanan. Politically he's great for the Dems, just like Hannity, Limbaugh, Oreilly & all. But, having to listen to his shrill voice & watch him pretend to be objective is barely worth it.

Keep in mind racism is just pseud-scientific mysticism. It's always been those with the least accomplishments to show empirically who turn to genes or their religion as "proof" of their inherent superiority. It's no surprise that the most uneducated and unaccomplished population also overlaps considerably with the most fundamentalist and most racist.

An ironic case are the Neo-Cons, many of whom are Jews with strong sentiments regarding the holocaust and Zionism. Many are exceedingly paranoid, and feeling constantly put upon, have developed a hyper aggressive worldview of do unto others before they do unto you. Rationalizing that, neo-cons are some of the most virulently racist people about the inherent inferiority of all their enemies. Which then justifies just about anything.

If we are on the trash pick up watch Hardball tonight where Buchanan openly condones torture.

When I was growing up (1980s Vermont), "scrub" was slang among schoolkids for redneck (not really used much among adults, though). And since there really were no African-Americans, Latinos or other non-White/Caucasian kids to speak of at that time, it was basically a white-on-white term of abuse, more of a class/culture thing than anything else (maybe akin to the use of "Bama" among African-Americans).

That said, I absolutely agree that Buchanan's comment is totally wrong. No doubt Buchanan and his allies have a counter-narrative of their own at this point, insisting that Pat's meaning was in no way racist, but I don't really care. Buchanan's words are clearly motivated either by racism, classism, nativism/xenophobia or some combination of the three. And none of those things are okay.

Hey at least he didn't use the term mud person.

I wonder how the 19th century Californios felt about the scruffy immigrants from the east?

Irony of ironies----For several years, I have been straining to find just the right phrase or word to describe the position Mr. Buchanan holds in the world of credible pundits. I am genuinely surprised and delighted to learn that Buchanan himself has provided the most accurate possible term: scrub stock.

Mr. Buchanan, no Irishmen need apply.

He is what we like to call, a racial arsonist. He lights the fire and walks away like it wasn't his fault but laughs as the racial flames burn. It's obvious he is a racial arsonist the campaign totally brought it out of him.

Yet another example of a values conservative who has none.

Pat Buchanan is also under attack by Jeffrey Goldberg and The Weekly Standard for anti-semitism for calling the Israeli fight with the Palenistians a "blitzkreig" and for defending Demjanjuk.
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/04/15/the-case-against-demjanjuk-and

It appears the campaign against him is gaining steam.

I'm actually willing to cut him a bit of slack on this one, primarily because the most contemporary use of the term, the only one that I'd bet anyone these days is at all familiar with, is the scrubs on the bench in sports lingo. Now, that's not to say Buchanan doesn't harbor racist sentiments, but I don't know if it's fair to interpret his use of this term as relating to 19th century eugenics. Also, the TLC song "No Scrubs" was a huge hit - penetrating the zeitgeist pretty far and wide I think - that year when it was hot, and it carries none of the connotations you're describing.

I hate, hate, hate the political correctness that handles people's racist thoughts and feeling by telling them to shut up.

Eric Holder called us a nation of cowards because we aren't willing to talk about race, but articles like this calling for people's jobs are exactly the reason why there's so little discussion.

In the days of Martin Luther King and Jim Crow and all that, it seems unlikely to me that they had any capability to make racists shut up and say only nice things. Yet they made enormous progress. And what about the 10-20 years after that? Seems to me we stagnated quite a lot.

Only, ironically, in the Bush era, when the racists could come out of the closet were we then able to face them down again with the election of Obama.

Making racists shut up doesn't make racism go away, it just means they're more careful who they say such things to. -- They only say it to people who won't disagree with them or who will even reinforce the belief. It means the wrongheaded toxic things they think don't get answered because those of us who disagree with them never hear them. It means that statements against racism get relegated in the public mind to the kind of platitudes everyone says because it's socially required not because they believe in it.

It changes the social appearance of things -- like driving the homeless out of public parks. Doesn't really change what's going on in the streets.

Besides, this is America and that should mean -- that so long as people follow laws designed to protect everyone -- that they should have the freedom to be themselves -- not what society would have them be. Maybe that makes for an uglier society, but at least it would be an honest one. I personally, would rather know who the racists are and argue with them about it then have them hiding among us with their hatred, quietly and secretly spreading their beliefs and constantly trying to find a way to undo everything this country has accomplished.

You can't legislate morality and you can't legislate people liking each other or liking particular groups of people and while campaigns to get people fired aren't law, they can have the same effect. And coming from people constantly complaining about people being fired or not hired simply for being who they are, it's a bit more than hypocritical.

You can't campaign against the right of people to descriminate in the workplace against people who are gay or of a different race and then turn around and demand the right to descriminate in the workplace against those who hold ideas you find offensive. It's hypocritical and it's immoral.

Buchanan has a history of racially insensitive remarks

That's not quite right. Don Imus has a history of racially insensitive remarks. Pat Buchanan is an open, unabashed racist. He's also a very, very smart man -- which leads to cognitive dissonance, because we've all agreed to pretend that racism has been heroically defeated, and only brain-dead yokels still espouse the doctrines that were discredited by Adolph Hitler. It ain't so; but because we so fervently wish it were, Buchanan -- who is far removed from the moron down at gas station who thinks the nigras are eying his white women -- gets to go on CNN and be treated like regular folk. The fact that he's clever and subtle masks his malignancy.

Let me get this straight. President Obama and the mainstream of the Democratic Party is still bombing Afghanistan. President Obama and the mainstream of the Democratic Party lent not only verbal, but monetary and military support to Israel while is comitted mass murder against civilians in Gaza. Pat Buchanan, as far as I can tell, is in favor of none of this. And yet, he, for using similar terminology as racists once used, is labelled a racist. The worse racism is imposing a level of violence upon swarthy foreigners that we as a nation would simily not tolerate being imposed upon ourselves. I think most people on the business end of U.S. foreign policy would take Pat Buchanan's racism over that of the sensible centrists any day of the week.

Hey!Values are now on sale........they have no value!Wow, that means you can have all or none or any combo! What a deal!!
Now we don't have to worry about that at all.
Was looking at this page and wondering......if there are any offspring from the limpblah and pathacannon link.
Fortunately that thought train stopped almost fast enough.
But, since almost no one is staying glued: has anyone figured out there is no news in the media at all?
Media is the distraction, not the informer.
Ok gang.... your turn.
You have to check it out.
Almost all the media extravaganzas are meaningless, inconclusive and only somewhat factual if they have an on scene vid.
Pay attention.
Sorry,don't waste your time but check it out for a few minutes.
Aha, you see? It's over here not over there.For sure it's not what they put in front of you.
Remember, they have been doing this over 50 years.
They be good at it guys and girls.
Don't be distracted. At least don't stay distracted.

Buchanan has been an overt racist his entire life clocking his beliefs in protectionism, though ineffectively. At this point, he is little more than an offensive bore. MSNBC, NBC should cut him loose. It is unfortunate, but he appears to be one of those public figures that does not know when it time to retire gracefully. The majority of the country moved beyond his brand of racism and dogmatic faith long ago.

Pat B., like our founding fathers and practically everyone up until the 1960s, understands how our society is being dumbed down to materialism and low-life pragmatism by the mixing with lower races and demonizing of the white male.

Go Affirmative Action to replace white people.... Are minorities really this dumb that we need to place them in positions above white people?

Do you honestly believe that any other race could have produced Western Civilization thought and culture other than the white race? Why is it that we worry about the breed of the dog, stereotype it, etc., but doing the same with humans they're so "outraged."

Typical liberal writer! "I'm so outraged... blah, blah, blah."

Pat B. understands the world situation all to well, but the outcome is for God to decide.

All your comments remind me of a story I heard a long time ago, but it was rather a folktale.

Once upon a time there were two peoples who rediscovered each other: The KLUBINGS and the KLINGWUCKS.

The KLUBINGS went to the KLINGWUCKS in order to initiate treaty relations. After nine hours of discussions that ranged from politics, culture, religion, culinary arts, customs, habits, to philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology etc..., the KLUBINGS assumed the same haughty attitude that had predetermined their decision to "normalize" relations with the KLINGWUCKS.
The KINGWUCKS had timber and precious metals.

Noticing that negotiations were moving so very slowly, one of the advisors to the KLINGWUCKS who was so frustrated and could no longer contain himself, said to the Chief of the KLUBINGS "Get off your horse, Mister!" But the Chief of the KLINGWUCKS intervened and whispered, "No. Let him. They look so good together." And the Chief of the KLINGWUCKS said, "Please continue, Great Chief of the KLUBINGS. You will pardon the interruption." And the Chief of the KLUBINGS spoke for another three hours and a half.

Then the Chief of the KLINGWUCKS continued, "We understand 'where you're coming from,' Great Chief of the KLUBINGS, and we have gifts to welcome you and to cement our new relationship." And the Chief of the KLUBINGS, apparently surprised by the overture, replied, "Thank you, Great Chief of the KLINGWUCKS, we appreciate your kindness."

Then the Chief of the KLINGWUCKS clapped his hands twice. In came, with all the great pompous solemnity of royal entourage, two KLINGWUCKS "subjects" who, very meticulously uncovered the two packages they brought to the Chief of the KLUBINGS for all to see: a toilet and a coffin.

The eyes of the Chief of the KLINGWUCKS met the eyes of the Chief of the KLUBINGS, and for one minute and a half, there was total silence all over both "realm-doms."

And then, mustering as much energy as he could to put in his voice, the Chief of the KLUBINGS muttered, "Let's talk again great Chief of the KLINGWUCKS; we are sure that, with mutual respect, we can come to a common agreement that addresses both your real concerns as well as our own interests."

Isn't it possible in this case that Buchanan referred to Ortega-Chavez-Castro as scrub stock among leaders in the Western Hemisphere gathered at the Summit of the Americas, and not among races in the Western Hemisphere? In other words, they are poor leaders of ill-governments.

I could see Buchanan using the term just to get people buzzing (as you have here) about possible double-meanings. And he'd enjoy knowing he'd succeeded.

One irony in your analysis, though, is that Buchanan is indisputably an anti-eugenicist w/r to the clearly eugenic ideological history of the pro-abortion American Eugenics Society whose membership was laundered by the moniker Planned Parenthood Federation after Hitler actually tried out eugenic theories against inferior races such as those Margaret Sanger decried. The serial euphemisms have overpopulated the world from BS-for-profit PP ever since.

Please don't blame Buchanan's bigotry on being Irish. His paternal ancestors were Scottish Protestants and slave holders in the South before the Civil War. The Catholicism in the family came from his mother who was of German catholic ancestry. The Irish have had enough trouble with their own bigots, including Joe McCarthy. I think the best comment on Buchanan's remarks were about a rant he gave to the GOP National Convention in San Diego. The late Molly Ivins put them in proper perspective by noting in her column that they sounded better in the original German.