If Russian President Vladimir Putin were a journalist, Pat Buchanan argued in his latest column, he would be eligible for a Pulitzer Prize.
“For a year, 74-year-old socialist Bernie Sanders has been saying that, under DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the party has been undercutting his campaign and hauling water for Hillary Clinton,” the former White House speechwriter wrote in his column late Monday. “From the 19,200 emails dumped the weekend before Clinton’s coronation, it appears the old boy is not barking mad. The deck was stacked; the referees were in the tank; the game was rigged.”
“Among the lovely schemes the DNC leaders worked up to gut Sanders in Christian communities of West Virginia and Kentucky, was to tell these good folks that Sanders doesn’t even believe that there is a God. He’s not even an agnostic; he’s an atheist,” Buchanan noted. “The WikiLeaks dump came Friday night. By Sunday, Clinton’s crowd had unleashed the mechanical rabbit, and the press hounds were dutifully chasing it. The new party line: The Russians did it!
“Purpose: Change the subject. Redirect the media away from the DNC conspiracy to sabotage Sanders’ campaign. Will the press cooperate?” Buchanan rhetorically inquired.
He then recalled the Pentagon Papers that plagued the Nixon administration. “In 1971, the New York Times published secret documents from the Kennedy-Johnson administration on how America got involved in Vietnam. Goal: Discredit the war the Times had once supported, and undercut the war effort, now that Richard Nixon was president. The documents, many marked secret, had been illicitly taken from Defense Department files, copied and published by the Times. America’s newspaper of record defended its actions by invoking ‘the people’s right to know’ the secrets of their government.
“Well, do not the people have ‘a right to know’ of sordid schemes of DNC operatives to sink a presidential campaign?” Buchanan added. “Do the people not have a right to know that, in denying Sanders’ charges, the leadership of the DNC was lying to him, lying to the party and lying to the country? What did Clinton know of Wasserman Schultz’s complicity in DNC cheating in the presidential campaign, and when did she know it?
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“For publishing stolen Defense Department secrets, the Pentagon Papers, the Times got a Pulitzer Prize,” Buchanan pointed out. “If the Russians were helpful in bringing to the attention of the American people the anti-democratic business being done at the DNC, perhaps the Russians deserve similar recognition. By the Times’ standard of 1971, maybe Putin deserves a Pulitzer.”
Buchanan concluded in saying that if foreign powers were seeking to intervene in the US. electoral process, they were following America’s lead. “Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has used cyberwarfare to sabotage centrifuges in the Iranian nuclear plant in Natanz. We have backed ‘color-coded’ revolutions in half-a-dozen countries from Serbia to Ukraine to Georgia … to dump rulers and regimes we do not like, all in the name of democracy.”
“Unsurprisingly, today, Russia, China, Egypt and even Israel are shutting down or booting out NGOs associated with the United States, and hacking into websites of U.S. institutions,” he added. “We were the first ‘experts’ to play this game. Now others know how to play it. We reap what we sow.”
