Watch Pat Buchanan punch himself, over & over & over ...

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

This video begins with the conclusion of President Obama's stirring speech to the NAACP before segueing into a debate between Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan that quickly devolves into a dying generation digging its own sad, isolated grave.

Terror-publicans

Rachel Maddow joins Keith Olbermann on Countdown to eviscerate the ludicrous leaps made by political and media terror merchants in today's increasingly unrecognizable United States:

They have to come up with super-human powers for Al Qaeda because they want to use Al Qaeda to justify a super-extreme agenda for the United States of America. If you really, really want to radically transform our government and radically transform who we are as a country; if you want East German style policing, and people informing on their neighbors, and you want to get rid of the Fourth Amendment, and you want endless wars conducted for profit; if you want to completely get rid of the safety net function and the regulatory function of the government; if you have an agenda that radical, you better have a really radical justification for it. And so they have to elevate this band of death cults, fundamentalist criminals into a threat that is greater than the Soviet Union ever was when they not only had a military but they had thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at our country. They have to make Al Qaeda even worse than that.

Plus, as the US government slides deeper into an irrational abyss, Rosa Brooks of the LA Times says forget Congressional oversight -- have Bush & Cheney committed!