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...this must fuel Buchanan's ego. "Pitchfork Pat," as his supporters call him, is proving to be the leading annoyance to patrician politicians named George Bush. If he stymies W.'s aspirations the way he hindered his old man, don't count on the "love" to linger...
...drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will always hasten back. --Horace, Epistles...
...third of the big-three cash streams is broadcasting. In his last 13 months on Crossfire, Buchanan made $367,350. When his campaign is over, says cnn spokesman Steve Haworth, "we very much hope to have him back." No doubt they do, but Pitchfork Pat's higher name recognition should make his fees negotiable. He could also take a second crack at radio. Hugh Rodham, formerly a Florida Senate candidate and still the brother of the First Lady, launched a show of his own in December that's already on 43 stations. Buchanan's talk show last year was picked...
...PITCHFORK PAT BUCHANAN AND HIS DEVOTEES CLAIM WHITE RACISM IS NO longer a problem. He should visit the Black Belt of Alabama, where African-American churches are being torched, a black judge's home has been shotgunned, and people generally feel under siege. From this vantage, it might not seem so wise to keep waving the Confederate flag and pretending there is no difference between singing Dixie and We Shall Overcome...
...done, and The Horse Whisperer has climbed the best-seller lists, alongside Michael Crichton and Sidney Sheldon. It's something of a vindication for Evans, since most reviewers made their own pitchfork fondue out of his prose. ("Sentimentally bloated, and wholly devoid of authentic feeling," said the New York Times.) The similarity to another huge-selling novel about a mid-life romance caused some wags to dub it The Horses of Madison County. Evans is rankled by the comparisons to Robert James Waller's best seller. "Both books are about middle-aged people who fall in love...