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Another liberal station proving they lack tolerance.
He brings some good ideas to the table, but I'm not a fan of him.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/1...-pat-buchanan/
Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan has been fired from left-leaning news network MSNBC after more than four months of suspension, the longtime contributor revealed Thursday night.
In a lengthy screed published to his personal website, Buchanan tore into his former employer of 10 years for what he called “an undeniable victory for the blacklisters,” in which the former Nixon aide calls out MSNBC for caving to organizations like the African-American advocacy group Color of Change, LGBT advocates with Human Rights Campaign, Jewish advocates at The Anti-Defamation League and progressive media watchdog Media Matters for America.
MSNBC President Phil Griffin said recently that Buchanan’s suspension came after the publication of his latest book, “Suicide of a Superpower,” which contains a chapter called, “The End of White America.” Griffin said last month that he did not think the book belonged in the public discourse and Buchanan has been off the air since October, but news of his suspension did not break until January. At the time, MSNBC said there was no decision yet on his potential future with the network.
In that chapter, Buchanan writes: “Those who believe the rise to power of an Obama rainbow coalition of peoples of color means the whites who helped to engineer it will steer it are deluding themselves. The whites may discover what it is like to ride in the back of the bus.”
He adds: “Mexico is moving north. Ethnically, linguistically, and culturally, the verdict of 1848 is being overturned. Will this Mexican nation within a nation advance the goals of the Cons ution—to ‘insure domestic tranquility’ and ‘make us a more perfect union’? Or has our passivity in the face of this invasion imperiled our union?”
In another chapter, Buchanan claims that “49 of every 50 muggings and murders in New York are the work of minorities,” saying the statistic “might explain why black folks have trouble getting a cab. Every New York cabbie must know the odds, should he pick up a man of color at night.”
But it wasn’t just his latest book — Buchanan has long courted racial controversy in his rhetoric. Last April he said that President Obama’s path to the White House was the result of “affirmative action all the way,” and in 2009 he asserted that the U.S. “has been a country built, basically, by white folks.”
In a brief statement issued Thursday night, the network said simply: “After 10 years, we have decided to part ways with Pat Buchanan. We wish him well.”
~~~He'll be on FoxNews soon. He cracked me up on Morning Joe.
Another liberal station proving they lack tolerance.
He brings some good ideas to the table, but I'm not a fan of him.
The uncoded, old timey, unashamed bigotry represented by Pat Buchanan, is apparently no longer welcome on MSNBC.
I thought Pat was a particularly well-spoken and courtly example of it. If he doesn't land on his feet somewhere else, i.e., if this is in effect PJB's retirement from broadcast media, I'll miss him. Disagreeing in an polite way is one of his strong points, though what he has to say is seldom polite.
Not following the logic... a bad message with good PR is something to be missed?
You can't get away with writing a book like that unless you are a person of color.
More along the lines of respectful debate perhaps.
Hey, different strokes for different folks. I get that others won't miss Pat and I'm totally cool with that. All I meant was, Pat Buchanan has a pleasant personality.
Sully lays it on a bit thick, but I agree with the general tenor of this:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast....-buchanan.html
Why MSNBC Dumped Pat Buchanan: His 10 Most Outrageous Statements
By Adam Peck on Feb 17, 2012 at 11:10 am
Yesterday, Pat Buchanan announced 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. 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.”
2. Blamed lower test scores on minorities. In his most recent book Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?, he blames minorities for dragging down the country’s test scores. “[T]he decline in academic test scores here at home and in international compe ion is likely to continue, as more and more of the children taking those tests will be African-American and Hispanic.
3. Claimed Jerry Sandusky’s atrocities are because of “ sexual marriage.” Buchanan appeared on a right-wing radio show on November 15 to make some convoluted comparisons: “Let’s take this Penn State thing…these horrors, there’s an organization that marches in the gay pride parade in New York called—used to—called the North American Man Boy Love Association, which advocated voluntary sex along the lines of exactly what was going on at Penn State. Many of our political icons have marched in that parade right behind that NAMBLA float […] This is now, sexual marriage is now the civil rights cause of the decade.”
4. Said the Jewish population in the United States dropped in the 90s because Jews aborted all their babies. Buchanan explains that the decline in the American Jewish population during the 1990s (a decline that a Brandeis study says never occurred), “is a result of the collective decision of Jews themselves. From Betty Friedan to Gloria Steinem in the 1970s to Ruth Bader Ginsburg today, Jewish women have led the battle for abortion rights. The community followed.”
5. Asserted Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people including 69 teens in Norway, “may have been right.” Buchanan called Breivik a coward, evil, and cold-blooded, and then proceeded to defend his twisted rationale for the killings: “As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right.”
6. Claimed that all great nations punish the gays. In a Human Events column, Buchanan attacked California’s 9th Circuit Judge Vaughn Walker after his ruling of Proposition 8 as uncons utional as a “judicial tyrant,” before going on to explain that “through history, all the great religions have condemned sexuality and all the great nations have proscribed or punished it. None ever placed sexual liaisons on the same plane as traditional marriage, which is the bedrock ins ution of any healthy society.
7. Penned “The Affirmative Action Nobel.” That’s the le of Buchanan’s October 13, 2009 column on Townhall.com in which he claims that President Obama’s Nobel Prize was simply the result of affirmative action. And the column only got worse from there: “They have reinforced the impression that Obama is someone who is forever being given prizes — Ivy League scholarships, law review editorships, prime-time speaking slots at national conventions — he did not earn.”
8. Argued that Poland and the United Kingdom had it coming in World War II. Buchanan seems to suggest in a 2009 column that World War II—and all the atrocities that accompanied it—was really the fault of Poland and Britain, for refusing to engage in diplomacy with Germany. “Why did Warsaw not negotiate with Berlin, which was hinting at an offer of compensatory territory in Slovakia? Because the Poles had a war guarantee from Britain that, should Germany attack, Britainand her empire would come to Poland’s rescue.”
9. Dabbled in Holocaust denial. Pat Buchanan danced alarmingly close to denying key facts of the Holocaust. In a 1990 column for the New York Post, he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk (whom he later compared to Jesus Christ) against charges from Holocaust survivors that he was guilty of murder by accusing the survivors of misremembering all of it: “This so-called ‘Holocaust Survivor Syndrome’ involves ‘group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.’ Reportedly, half of the 20,000 survivor testimonies in Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem are considered ‘unreliable,’ not to be used in trials[…]The problem is: Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.”
10. Argued Hitler was an individual of “great courage.” That’s just one of the quotes that the Anti-Defamation League attributes to Buchanan in their compendium of offensive remarks from Buchanan over the years. In 1977, he qualified his labeling of Hitler as racist and anti-semitic by adding that “he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier in the Great War, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him[…]His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”
With views like this, Buchanan would probably be a nice, cozy fit for Fox News.
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/...us-statements/
So Sullivan thinks this Buchanan asshole should be debated because of his seriousness, and integrity.
There are plenty of assholes in, eg, paranoid freaks Oath Keepers and all kinds of other repulsive, deluded fringe groups that should be debated?
Buchanan will find another platform, surely it will be Fox Repug Slander Propaganda network, where he'll fit in perfectly with all the other Repug/Murdoch trash.
LOL @ the myopic ball of hate.
#7 might have a bit of truth to it.
So do lots of great con-men.
sure. why don't you tell us what you really think, baseline?
heard the guy say that the country was better off when there were a higher percentage of whites on Hannity, implying whites should not breed with other races and should not allow them into the country if we want to solve our problems. dude is an idiot.
There was a time when a person of color wasn't allowed to read and write.
I thought he was good on Morning Joe but some of his views are way out there in right field.
If he had just confined his hated to Israel, he'd still have a job at MSNBC.
Yes. The liberals would absolutely love him!
lol NAMBLA float
Yeah because when minorities write books on modern racism the likes of you and WC never criticize. you keep on pulling the martyr card for whitey, Darrin..
So for you, as long as the abuse comes in a pleasant package, it's palatable.
Fascinating.
And from the shallow end of the pool, "I admire his personality."
lol abuse.
I take issue with Sully's claim he's not a propagandist. The NAMBLA float lie alone makes him one. On most issues he's fairly reasonable and even insightful, but he goes off the rails often enough to dismiss the good.
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