On Thursday, MSNBC pulled the plug on Pat Buchanan, an anchor on Joe Scarborough’s three hour conservative commentary every weekday morning. The rabid, racist Republican right, along with Buchanan himself, are claiming that the left silenced his freedom of speech. Lets examine Buchanan’s history and character, and lets see why the Republican claims are lies.
Yesterday, Pat Buchanan announced [propaganda delinked] that his tenure as a commentator at MSNBC was finally over, ending months of speculation about his absence from his once-frequent perch aside morning anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
Calls for Buchanan’s firing by groups like Color of Change, Credo, and Media Matters had been loud and growing, following years of controversial, offensive and outright bigoted statements made by Buchanan without apology or remorse. Here is a look back at 10 of the most offensive and outrageous statements made by Pat Buchanan:
1. Wanted to close the borders to protect white dominance…
2. Blamed lower test scores on minorities…
3. Claimed Jerry Sandusky’s atrocities are because of “Homosexual marriage…
4. Said the Jewish population in the United States dropped in the 90s because Jews aborted all their babies…
5. Asserted Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people including 69 teens in Norway, “may have been right.”…
… [emphasis original]
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Click through to review the documentation on the first five items and to see the other five, which are every bit as egregious, if not more so.
MSNBC fired Buchanan because he plugged his racist book on the air, on MSNBC’s time, without consent. This led to a public outcry against him and boycotts of MSNBCs advertisers for the show. Buchanan’s termination for just cause does not violate his right to free speech. Nowhere does the First Amendment state that the right to free speech includes the right to a public microphone. Concerned citizens exercised our right to free speech in voicing our objections to MSNBC and our intent to advertisers that we will not support them with our patronage, as long as they finance Buchanan’s microphone. Buchanan still has the same right to free speech that you and I do. What we took away was his microphone, and the US is better for it.
13 Responses to “Bye Bye Buchanan!”
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Buchanan’s views on Demjanjuk and Hitler are incredible; shocking beyond belief. And the rest of it is merely insane!
“2. Blamed lower test scores on minorities…”
I won’t miss him… CYA
Aren’t those two a real kick in the teeth? Are you aware that Demjanjuk had Tea party connections?
Good riddance to that racist bastard. He’ll probably end up with his own show over at Fox “News”, joining all the other kooks over there.
I would not be even a little surprised.
HallebaLOOjah! Bye-bye! So Long! Farewell! Don’t let the door hit you in the arse on your way out!
Welcome bRendering! 🙂
Amen to that!
Good riddance– now let the Racist , hate filled Rat slink back into the sewer he came from, yep Fox News would fit him fine-
Bingo!
I knew there was a reason I din’t find Morning Joe quite as offensive anymore. Although Joe and Michael Steele continue to irritate me in the AM.
Patty, I don’t like Joe, and seldom agree with him, but I have never called for his microphone to be taken.
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer fellow! The very idea that his right to free speech was denied him is absolutely outrageous! No one told him what to say or how to say it; they didn’t duct tape his mouth (although some may have like that) to prevent him from speaking. What MSNBC did was make a business decisiion and Buchanan, a racist’s racist, was gone from the airwaves. That does not deny him his constitutional guarantee of free speech, it only takes the soap box away! I’m sure we haven’t heard the end of this which is too bad!
I just notice the wording on the picture — “Our Fatherland was built by whitemen for whitemen!”
From Alternet — As he wrote in his 2006 book State of Emergency: “If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.”
Obviously Buchanan does not acknowledge that his white European ancesters took this land from the First Nations people of North America. His ancestors built on stolen land. How does that square in his book?
It squares this way. They think it isn’t shit when they dump it.