MSNBC is, in my opinion, the most balanced of the news networks. While their daytime reporting follows a standard right-slanted corporate agenda, they have three excellent commentary shows in the evening from Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O’Donnell. Providing balance from right are three continuous hours of Joe Scarborough in the early morning. Sadly, one of Joe’s daily sidekicks has been Pat Buchanan, an ideologue whose racist comments have fouled the airwaves far too often. Fortunately, he may have gone too far.
Can there really be a line that even right-wingers can’t cross when it comes to cable news? Or is it simply that Buchanan isn’t a good fit with the network’s plans?
PASADENA, Calif. — MSNBC’s top executive said Saturday that he hasn’t decided whether conservative commentator and author Pat Buchanan will be allowed back on the network.
Buchanan, a former GOP presidential candidate and a paid MSNBC contributor, hasn’t been on the network since the publication of his book “Suicide of a Superpower” last October. The book has chapters titled “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America” and its author argues that the United States is in the “Indian summer of our civilization.”
“When Pat was on his book tour, because of the content of the book, I didn’t think it should be part of the national dialogue much less part of the dialogue on MSNBC,” said MSNBC President Phil Griffin. The minority advocacy group Color of Change has circulated a petition urging MSNBC to fire Buchanan…
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Here’s the video:
Buchanan talks about minorities as ‘tax consumers’ but ignores that the biggest tax consumers of all are the Banksters he defends daily.
Buchanan has a long history of racism. I defend his right to believe and say what he will, as long as he does not advocate violence, like so many other Republicans do. At the same time, I have a right to try to co curtail not his speech, but his microphone by advocating his dismissal both to MSNBC and to their sponsors. Let Buchannan and Republican racists like him, keep their bigotry under their sheets and hoods, not on the public airwaves.
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I sort of remember the name Pat Buchanan from a previous presidential race but that is all. However, listening to this fellow along with Hannity, he appears to almost make sense until you really listen. A lazy listener is going to buy his line because to them it will sound reasonable. But really listen and you’ll hear his fear of the Republican/Teabagger party going into oblivion. There goes the neighbourhood — no one to speak up and protect the banksters and corporations. Listen to him carefully, and he spins his racist remarks, partially with the help of Hannity, into seemingly plausable statements, but they are anything but.
A very dangerous man to the millions who only want to be spoon fed pablum and can’t tell that the pablum is rancid. I hope they do take him off the air.
I must say, based on the picture of him, he is a miserable SOB that looks like he has a mouthful of sour grapes.
Lynn,
He’s always looked like that – that’s why he can’t get elected for shit. He’s also a big Evangelic to top it off. He very much has a holier than thou attitude. And let’s see, who was the last governor? A Repub – that’s who. So, who should we blame for the bankruptcy of CA? If these assholes wouldn’t give so much money to their cronies, they wouldn’t be bankrupt.
It’s more that that too, Lynn. The loss of the White majority is a code for nativist racism. Except to racists, it makes no difference if whites lose majority status.
The less I see of that pompous and arrogant close-minded racist Buchanan the better!
Jack just said all that needs to be said about Pat— Now he needs to just fade away , what a miserable , unhappy man he seems to be-
Amen Pope Jack!
It was Buchanan that inspired my response that you nailed me on Tom, which was to generalize that libertarians were racists and supremacists – he and Paul are birds of a feather! The only two that I recall ran for president and had the same “values” –
Lee, Buchanan is no more a true Libertarian than Racist Ronnie. He’s Bircher, as is Paul.
I was so happy to hear of his suspension from MSNBC. I watch Scarborough’s show daily because of some of the others on his show. Whenever Buchanan souted his nonsense, my blood pressure went up and I would yell at the tv. Oftimes, I would leave the room. I just hope they don’t let him back on the air ever again.
When I watch it, it’s opposition research.
I am glad that he has been removed from the airways. I used to watch him on Rachel’s show (she called h;m “Uncle Pat”) and I never could understand why she would associate with such a sour, negative, grumpy old idiot as him. I agree that he is probably fearing the inevitable demise of the Teabagger and is constantly trying to defend them.
Welcome Richard. 🙂
Buchanan was one of the few right wingers would appear on a show with a left leaning host, which is why Rachel had him on frequently.
he seems to be forgetting about a significant piece of history as to why california is broke. he is blaming the economic situation on the non-whites, but it was a very white, very racist and very neo-nazi conservative republican that drafted the energy policy with enron and cheney that put california into the deep, deep red. that governor was pete wilson. because of the deregulation of enron, and the lying about the energy market to governor grey davis, california went from 12 billion in the black to 15 billion into the red in a matter of few years. then the next governor that decided to slash taxes, continuously, during the deep, deep red was schwarzeneger, also a republican governor. buchanan needs to get his facts straight and others need to hold him accountable for the bull that comes from his mouth.
Welcome Cat. 🙂
Thank you for the history lesson. I completely agree. Republicans always blame Democrats for the messes Republicans made.
I’m Caucasian; I wonder how he would explain my liberal leanings. I saw through trickle down and voodoo economics when Reagan first proposed them. Having blown the whistle on one of those jumped-up “entrepreneurs,” I was railroaded out of Civil Service on a trumped-up charge of incompetence. Our Contracting Officer tried to bar the “entrepreneur” from further government work, so they fired her too.
But my words and acts couldn’t possibly be well founded: that would be politically incorrect. For the “faith based,” political correctness is everything. They have no foundation except the Disney Fallacy: “Wishing will make it so.”
Thanks Tom. If memory serves, wasn’t the term voodoo economics coined by GHW when running against Reagan?
Together they are enough to make you want to puke, huh?