Who Said It? “Old Heroes Like… Robert E. Lee are Replaced by Dr. King and Cesar Chavez”

…It’s perennial basket of contradictions Pat Buchanan! No further explanation needed.

A fuller quote, from Buchanan’s column in Human Events this morning:

One part of America loves her history, another reviles it as racist, imperialist and genocidal. Old heroes like Columbus, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee are replaced by Dr. King and Cesar Chavez.
But the old holidays, heroes and icons endure, as the new have yet to put down roots in a recalcitrant Middle America.
We are not only more divided than ever on politics, faith and morality, but along the lines of class and ethnicity. Those who opposed Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and stood by Sgt. Crowley in the face-off with Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates were called racists. But this time they did not back down. They threw the same vile word right back in the face of their accusers, and Barack Obama.

Here he is loving on Barack Obama’s DNC acceptance speech:

(h/t The Boston Phoenix)

(sources: PETA, The Atlantic, MSNBC.com)