NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ Brings Back ‘Racist’ Pat Buchanan, Twitter Goes Nuts

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: The Wrap



NBC’s “Meet the Press” reserved a seat at the table Sunday for conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, much to the chagrin of social media users.

Buchanan, 76, previously worked as a commentator on MSNBC. But the cable network dropped him in 2012 amid fallout over his book “Suicide of a Superpower,” which claimed diversity and immigration were ruining the country. Buchanan has also previously drawn fire for defending Adolf Hitler, and complaining that “homosexual sex is unnatural and immoral.”

A former adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, Buchanan ran for president himself in 1992, 1996 and in 2000.

On Sunday, he joined “MTP” moderator Chuck Todd to discuss “the return of populism” in the 2016 presidential race, along with similarities between his ’92 bid and Donald Trump’s current campaign.

Read more: http://www.thewrap.com/nbcs-meet-the-press-brings-back-racist-pat-buchanan-twitter-goes-nuts/

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Invited by the same Chuck Todd ( https://twitter.com/chucktodd) who is replacing Ed Schultz on MSNBC.

Combine this with the Trump gush-fest on Morning Joe Friday, in which reporters couldn't stop cooing about how "honored" they were to speak to the Birther King (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-thin-skin_55b271efe4b0224d88321543), and you can just how "lib'rul" NBC News is.

And let's not forget that Pat's 1996 pseudo-populist campaign imploded after it was revealed that he was staffing it with white nationalists like Larry Pratt, who were on record defending Tim McVeigh's murder of innocents in Oklahoma (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-pratt-and-radical-right).

If this is the sort of thing we can expect from the network's switch to "hard news," then they shouldn't be surprised when their ratings shrivel up further.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Seems they have a problem with a bigoted POS spewing no matter the topic.

Good for those raising hell! Hopefully, it won't inspire any poems.

[SoapBox]

2. Well WTF?

Boycott time.

[Dustlawyer]

15. You bet your as* it is!

[jwirr]

16. Not only a boycott. We need to make a list of sponsors to protest to and include our anger at

replacing Ed Schultz with the toad and his racist friends for what they call hard news. Toad is not Walter Cronkite and never will be. Tell them to leave the liberal programs alone and bring back Keith.

MSNBC and their rulers NBC have already pushed the liberal news programs into having conservative guests on every program so they can spout their crap and lies right in our faces. Enough - we need to do what we do best on DU - join together and make this protest heard.

[radicalliberal]

3. Hey, I remember Frank Conniff!

He was TV's Frank on Mystery Science Theater 3000!

[Kelvin Mace]

14. Yes, he an Mary Jo are unapolgetic liberals.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. Meh, if we're going to hear from the right I would rather hear from Pat Buchanan

than most of the neo-con or teabagger opinion leaders.

[procon]

5. Chuck Todd's pattern of racism grows.

This isn't an isolated incidence. Last month, right after the Charleston church massacre where a white guy killed 8 black people, Todd decided to air a segment on Meet the Press that featured black convicted murderers in prison discussing their own acts of gun violence.

There was a massive backlash against MSNBC then, bit apparently they learned nothing and today, in an offensive example of a tone deaf media, Todd doubled down by airing crazy Pat Buchanan's anti-immigration, racist rhetoric... and MSNBC is giving him even more air time?

[Cha]

11. Yeah, they're pathetically stupid.. going for the racists' ratings.

[PFunk]

6. And this is why I don't tune in anything NBC

And if things go from what I gathered so far I may do the same to MSNBC.

[delrem]

7. His defence of Adolf Hitler might have been his defining moment,

except there are so many others of the same kind that equal it or better.

I like going into the archives of the best. Here's TYT on Rachel's dealings with "uncle Pat"

[Chakab]

8. When a guy has said that black Americans should be grateful for the "nice boat ride" that their

ancestors got to the US, do you really need to put the word "racist" in quotations when describing him? Not to mention all of the other groups of people that he's disparaged.

[underpants]

12. Exactly

[davidpdx]

9. Meet the racist is about right unfortunately

[Martak Sarno]

10. MSNBC - Chuck Todd?

Isn't this the same cable channel that dumped Keith because he was too radical?

Racism, bigotry and abject stupidity seem to be ok with MSNBC. But voicing "radical" commentaries against the Right, corrupt politicians and corporations are not!

[dsc]

18. actually the dumped Keith because he is a jerk to work with

He is undeniably talented but the fact is every place he has ever worked has fired him over personality conflicts.

[Paladin]

13. "It probably sounded better in the original German."

That's Molly Ivins' immortal response to Buchanan's 1992 Republican National Convention speech.

There is no excuse for allowing that old fascist any sort of national TV platform at this point. Just further evidence of what an incompetent disaster Chuck Todd is.

[samsingh]

17. chuck todd is a disgusting shit and i refuse to watch any program he is on let alone hosts

nbc has a death wish.