Pat Buchanan says he did as well as Sotomayor in college ... after he got out of jail

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907170012

Did Buchanan do as well as Sotomayor in college?

July 17, 2009 12:28 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

Watching Pat Buchanan's not-so-slow descent into Sotomayor madness has been a depressing spectacle to watch, and an embarrassing one for MSNBC to sponsor.

Witness his attack last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, in which he claimed he graduated from Georgetown University "as high as did" at Princeton, and added, "I'm not qualified for the United States Supreme Court. And neither is she."

But in his 1990 book Right from the Beginning," Buchanan wrote that after being arrested and expelled for assaulting police officers and subsequently allowed to return after his father, "by personal pleading, had the expulsion reduced," "I was graduated cum laude" {original emphasis} from Georgetown in 1961.

[Chemisse]

1. So he got special treatment

Just like he claims Sotomayor did.

You can certainly bet Sotomayor's family was not positioned to have the clout to influence the college's decision. So Buchanan benefited from affirmative action for rich white boys.

[wellstone dem]

12. But remember the affirmative action of race and class privilege is

acceptable.

[Turbineguy]

2. Pat Buchanan

used to be a reasonable man. But then we had Bush as President.

Pat is bat-shit crazy again and all is right with the world.

[JI7]

3. Pat use to be reasonable ?

he was always a racist from what i remember.

[Turbineguy]

5. Reasonable

relative to many.

[Renew Deal]

4. I just don't understand how he doesn't ever learn

Buchanan is trapped in the 60's. He's a smart guy, but he's not wise.

[RoccoR5955]

7. Don't you mean that Buchanan is trapped in the 1860s? n/t

[geckosfeet]

9. Trapped in the 1920's south.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Gotta Love When "Legacy" Bitch About Qutoas

Look at how many rushpublicans have had strings pulled for them along the way. They were "legacies" or had a powerful daddy who could buy their way to a nice job or out of the military.

It's been said over and over, Pitchfork Pat permanently lives in the 1950s...

[RoccoR5955]

8. Don't you mean 1850s? n/t

[KharmaTrain]

10. Ooop...My Bad...

:spank:

:rofl:

[mother earth]

11. Ain't no hiding from the truth any more...he must've

forgotten there are people who know how to read.:rofl:

Buchanan has gone Nancy Grace.