Recommendation: Pat Buchanan as Morgan Spurlock?

I just read Pocketnines diary re: Pat Buchanan.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
I tried to post this as a comment, but it didn't work, so here is my first diary entry.

Pocketnines thought we should have a plan of action re: Pat Buchanan's current comments on African Americans. If Pat Buchanan is up for a dialogue, we could recommend that he take the Thirty Days challenge. Morgan Spurlock (the SuperSize Me guy who did the McDonalds diet for a thirty days) produces a new documentary series called Thirty Days, where someone lives very differently for thirty days. Pat Buchanan could live for thirty days as an African American with an African American family, attempting to get a job, find housing and transportation. There must be makeup artists that could make this believable. There was an interesting Thirty Days episode "Immigration" where a MinuteMan lived with an illegal immigrant family.

Basically, what Pat Buchanan lacks is empathy. Perhaps thirty days as an African American could help him obtain that empathy.

BTW, I love Pocketnines diaries on the popular vote and delegate math. As a major math geek, the details are fascinating.

•  there was a series like this

  called black/white where to families had race changes and lived different lives. it was interesting from what i could see. i doubt pat would go for it though.

  by Liberal Youth on Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 01:41:41 AM PDT

•  Classic Buchanan Quotes

  For those who don't know how hateful the man is deep down inside.

  http://www.mtsu.edu/...

  by Dont Just Stand There on Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 01:58:50 AM PDT

•  Ummm... no.

  Perhaps thirty days as an African American could help him obtain that empathy.

  This might work for an open minded person or one with half a brain, but Pat's just an asshat.  Pat Buchannan can keep his stupid ass right where he is.

  I say we tie him down in a Section 8 apartment, feed him government cheese, collard greens, fried chicken and watermelon while forcing him to watch reruns of Roots, Amistad and Good Times.  All this before making him listen to Ice Cube's first album 100 times, ride public transportation and the best part - get a monthly stipend from the government!

  This is the only experience people like Pat B. would think was black anyway.  He is too simple to understand the complexities and nuances of racial disparities.  Slavery would be too good of an experience for him.

  Look at him?  Don't Jesse Helms and the younger Strom Thermond serve as his model heros?

  ugh!  not a good thought to start my day with.

  by ILean Left on Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 02:32:59 AM PDT

•  where is he?

  He seems to have disappeared after his racist shit pile of a column, "A Brief for Whitey".

  what a stinking scum bag.

  by ratador on Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 05:54:37 AM PDT

  •  Sent on a sabbatical

    To perfect his rants on persons of color and members of the Muslim religion, I presume.

    Asshat, scum-bag, hateful, mean are kind adjectives describing this piece of work.

    MSNBC lost me with their persistent patronage of this fool.

    by griz4u on Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 06:15:54 AM PDT

  •  He wrote another one even worse after that

    I won't link to it but it was on Human events online.
    The article is bad enough, but the comments are down right scary. I've never seen so much pure hatred in one place in my entire life.

    by atlliberal on Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 07:41:37 AM PDT