Pat Buchanan saying things that are racist isn’t exactly news. Still…
In his latest Human Events column, entitled “The Affirmative Action Nobel,” the MSNBC analyst predictably rails against the Nobel committee for honoring President Obama.
Of the committee members, Buchanan writes:
They have reinforced the impression that Obama is someone who is forever being given prizes — Ivy League scholarships, law review editorships, prime-time speaking slots at national conventions — he did not earn.
Buchanan employs a favorite trick here. He doesn’t explicitly say that Obama has been given prizes he didn’t earn. That might be going too far even for MSNBC (though probably not.) All he says is that an impression exists that he has.
An impression, of course, that Buchanan himself has had no role in promoting.