Today in Bigotry

Apparently Pat Buchanan was a bit jealous of all the attention Mel Gibson and George Allen have been getting, and he want's to reclaim his rightful place as supreme bigot. Mr. Buchanan (shown here with pie on his face) has been making the rounds promoting his new Mexican-hating book. And it's full of doozies.
Essentially, he wants a to stop immigration from Mexico because "The civilization that we as whites created in Europe and America could not have developed apart from the genetic endowments of the creating people." Furthermore, he went on Hannity and Colmes to state that "Many Hispanics, as a matter of fact, you know what culture they are assimilating to? — the rap culture, the crime culture, anti-cops, all the rest of it."

Think Progress hands Pat his own ass by comparing his statements to statements made in previous generations about other immigrant groups.

Speaking of bigotry, I hate to keep going back to Mel, but I have to for two reasons... One, this lovely beer label I created on the right, and, two.... the funniest thing I've read on the whole incident. Over at slightlydrunk.com, there's a hilarious rant about the bad name Mel has given to the drunkards of the world. Despite what my picture suggests, antisemitism doesn't come in a bottle. From the rant.... "You see I have been waiting patiently for a formal apology to be forthcoming to all of us 'drinkers' of the world since his ignorant & bigoted words did a great deal to harm our mangy, ill-favoured group, as it has been insinuated by a number of media outlets that the alcohol was the main root cause of all this trouble. That is just so wrong!" Classic!