Buchanan columns send me right to google to uncover the lies

To The Daily Sun,

When ever I see Pat Buchanan's column I move right to the computer and load my google search engines. I know what he says will be a mixture of truth and lies. The lies will mostly be something anti-Democratic. In Friday's column for instance he talks about the riots of the 1960s to infer they were caused by the Democrats and the protests from Ferguson and New York to include and blame Sharpton, Holder and Obama. But some fact checking always helps in cases like this.

The riots of Watts started from a DUI and both Newark and Detroit were based on poverty and basic living conditions. The Newark riot was because, ­well, what do you expect from Jersey. The Detroit riot started at an after-hours bar while a group of people were celebrating the return of two GIs home from Vietnam. The governor of Michigan was Romney's father, so he should shoulder some of the blame. The riots after the assassination of MLK were the last of them and were terrible as I remember them. Buchanan refers to the election of LBJ before these riots occurred. So, I assume that because LBJ was a Democrat he was to blame.

Regarding the protest marches in NYC, Buchanan goes out on a limb saying the marchers were associating the police with the KKK while they were calling for "dead cops". Again, it never happened. The dead cop comment was something FOX News spliced together from previous broadcasts. Just ask Clayton Morris. But Buchanan only wants to divide and incite. The social revolution of the 1960s brought a lot of changes and made our country better.

Since then the GOP has done nothing outside of trying to bring us back to the 1950s. That we can't let happen but in order to stop it you have to vote and hope it's not too late. This column by Buchanan who, did win the New Hampshire GOP primary back in 1996 but has been a consistent loser ever since, I give little credence to.

Jon Hoyt

Plymouth