Sam Tannenhaus
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He invited us over to watch the Houston Convention the next night.
Buchanan had spoken the night before.
And he made this speech that in our parlance, we'd say, had gone viral.
Pat Buchanan said, you know, this is a war about who we are as Americans.
Nobody really talked that way back then.
Everybody does today, left and right, right?
Identity, who are we?
That's what Buchanan said this election would be about.
And he really got hammered for that, including by people like David Gergen.
Remember him?
He'd go on PBS.
news hour and say, well, you know, I think Papi Cannon's going a little far here.
He's setting people against one another.
He's polarizing.
And I said to Bill Buckley, I kind of assumed Buckley would agree, friend of George Bush.
I said, what'd you think of Papi Cannon's speech?
He said he loved it.
I said, why?
He said, fire.
He brought some fire to it.