MSNBC Ousts Contributor Pat Buchanan Over Racist Book

[ProSense]

MSNBC Ousts Contributor Pat Buchanan Over Racist Book | Conservative contributor Pat Buchanan’s tenure at MSNBC may have finally come to an end. AP reports that MSNBC president Phil Griffin has indicated the controversial former presidential candidate will not be allowed back on the network after the release of his latest book. “Suicide of a Superpower” has been roundly condemned for its racially-charged content, including chapters titled “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.” Griffin said, “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.” As ThinkProgress has reported, Buchanan has a long history of bigotry and has made many offensive statements while in the network’s employ. 275,000 people signed a petition calling on MSNBC to fire him.

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/01/08/400173/msnbc-ousts-contributor-pat-buchanan-over-racist-book/

[Kingofalldems]

1. I see a Fox news gig in his future

[AlinPA]

42. He would be perfect on Fox 'news'.

[yourout]

2. Oh well......off the Fox. Although he might not be crazy enough for them.

[one_voice]

3. Fuck you very much Pat...

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!

Buh-bye!

[WCGreen]

4. They should also ban Bay "at the moon" Buchanan as well....

[csziggy]

51. I haven't seen her anywhere for months and months

Maybe she was riding her brother's coat tails and now that no one wants to be around him, they are ditching her?

[Louisiana1976]

5. Hooray--it's about time!

[joeybee12]

6. It's amazing that it took MSNBC this long...

The guy was a racist, sexist, homophobic anti-Semitic fascist gasbag.

[fishwax]

8. +1

[wordpix]

17. he is also not very bright, as well as being boring as hell

I used to turn off MSNBC when he came on

[Withywindle]

27. And he has a really annoying voice.

Redeeming qualities? None.

[Hepburn]

39. Stupid bigot comes to mind when I think of Pat B.

What a dumb ass...and so full of himself.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Put up the GOODBYE BANNER...its about time

[alp227]

9. But Buchanan still keeps his seat on McLaughlin Group, a PBS show (thus funded by US)?

Conservatives who constantly howl "DEFUND PBS AND NPR!!!!!": (crickets)

[KharmaTrain]

41. The Show Is Funded By Underwriters...

I haven't seen the McLaughlin circus in a long time but if you look at the end of the show you'll see whose really paying the bills. IRC GE was one of the sponsors. It runs on a lot of PBS stations because the costs are underwritten so it costs the network nothing to run. PBS plays their own corporate games. Tax money generally goes to the mechanical side of operating stations...

[marmar]

10. MSNBC is just now discovering that Grand Wizard Pat is a racist?

nt

[MFrohike]

11. Which one?

I can't believe nobody said this yet.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. K&R

I suppose he'll go joion the rest of his kindred spirits:

[alp227]

13. amazon.com 1-star reviews of Suicide of a Superpower

http://www.amazon.com/Suicide-Superpower-Will-America-Survive/product-reviews/0312579977/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar

yes, those reviews do get helpful ratings 50+%

and Thom Hartmann's interview with Buchanan about Buchanan's claims about minority children

[Vanje]

14. Good!....................................................finally

Its not exactly a breaking news story that Buchanan is a bigot.
But props to MSNBC for figuring out what most of us have known for a couple of decades.

[Raffi Ella]

32. +1

The things he used to say on air and get away with! ugh, Good Riddance to him.

[Tx4obama]

15. Now if only they would give Joe Scarborough the boot too :) n/t

I can not stand to watch that man!

[caveat_imperator]

16. If only they would bring him to justice

for what he did to Laurie Klausutis.

[wordpix]

19. this is a very interesting synopsis of the Klausutis case

She must have been sitting at the desk in Scarbie's office, fallen over and hit her head, causing her death.

Yeah, right.

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

[Drunken Irishman]

25. Remarkable how the media tore down Gary Condit over Chandra Levy - ending his career...

And not a peep of this in the national press when it happened.

Condit wasn't the greatest guy (or Democrat) around, but they railroaded him something awfully and there was no real evidence to ever link him to the murder...just that he had an affair with Levy.

[RKP5637]

21. Ditto! IMO the show is far better when he's not on. I never watch the show

because of him.

[Major Hogwash]

34. Me neither. I can't stand Banjo Boy. He's a GOP syncophant.

He wouldn't tell anyone which of the GOP assklowns he supported for President last August because he wants to wait until there is a definite winner out of that group of misfits that will be the eventual candidate.

I like Mika, but I can't stand Willie Giest.
He's just a suckup.
He was taught how to suck up by Tucker Carlson, the king of the suckups.

[RKP5637]

37. I like Mika too, the show is better IMO when Joe is off for the day/week and

she's running the show. Much of the time she looks like she's PO'ed at Joe and simmering underneath. Joe IMO always comes off as a bully and pugnacious. He reminds me of the schoolyard bully with snot running down his nose.

[DeathToTheOil]

43. A-FUCKING-MEN!!!!!

JS thinks he's JC.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

18. BRAVO

IT IS ABOUT TIME

[RKP5637]

20. Excellent!!!

[Cleita]

22. Buh-bye Paddy.

Don't let the door hit ya on your exit!

[unblock]

23. msnbc is obviously lying about the reason for the departure.

you can't just hire a well-known and demonstrably racist, anti-semitic bigot,
proceed to keep on a well-known and demonstrably racist, anti-semitic bigot,
after he continued and repeatedly provided further proof that he's a racist, anti-semitic bigot,
and then, when you finally fire him, plausibly claim the reason was that...
he's a racist, anti-semitic bigot.

the obvious truth is that he was hired and retained in spite of his being a well-known and demonstrably racist, anti-semitic bigot (or perhaps even BECAUSE he was a well-known and demonstrably racist, anti-semitic bigot) but the cost-benefit analysis somehow showed him to be worth it, and that simply became no longer the case.

not likely because the book or the book tour changed him image any, but simply because the old fool is simply no longer as relevant or as interesting as he used to be. that is, it has NOTHING to do with his negatives -- it's his positives that are now lacking.

[MMJjestic]

24. He wrote a book in which the British and Americans were dumb

for fighting Hitler instead of Stalin? Yet they kept him, and KO was dumped for a lot less, Ed Shultz gets suspended for exposing RW psycho talk. The real problem is that the media is run by White Males, break up the media via the Sherman anti-trust Act. Force diversity in the airwaves.

[Blue Owl]

26. He's only a few decades past the curve

'bout freaking time!

[Major Nikon]

28. Everyone knew Buchanan was a bigot back in the 80's

Even conservative pundits wrote about it.

MSNBC is just now figuring this out?

[Scurrilous]

29. Good news. n/t

[CarmanK]

30. Sounds like the right decision to me. Our country is in trouble. American PPL need truth!

MSNBC is taking extra steps to gain credibility in the NEWs media. FOX has so corrupted our air waves betrayed the trust of the american people, that it will take some doing. But, it also, looks like CBS is heading in the right direction with its new morning program. We have to have truth in order to make responsible decisions for the future of our nation. GOOD RIDDANCE Pat Buchanan!! Time to retire.

[Rex]

31. Good find! Someone said that he

crawled off under a rock for mysterious reasons. Guess we all know why now.

[Grammy23]

33. What a relief!

My blood pressure used to spike whenever he was on Morning Joe or Hardball. At least now I am less likely to have a stroke. Good riddance to that racist blow hard. See ya in hell.

[Skip Intro]

35. I love it when people who don't sound like me are silenced!

Whooo Hooooooo!

Shut the fuck up!

[AtomicKitten]

36. No worries. Faux News always has a place for extremists.

[Bluenorthwest]

38. When they make it official, and apologize for employing him knowing all of this already

which they did, we all knew all of this, I might watch some of their stuff again. Not certainly, as they promoted him with full knowledge and I stopped watching the first time Rachel had Pat on and smiled and called him Uncle. Watched a few minutes of Al to see Al, checked in on Larry O once, when he was going after the network, other than that, do not watch them at all, due to Pat.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

40. This is long overdue.

F U, Pat. You racist, homophobic POS.

[Mosaic]

44. Finally, good riddance

Should have been done years ago. Shame on msnbc for keeping him so long.

[Gregorian]

45. I'm sure he'll still have C-SPAN.

[frazzled]

46. Hey, but he opposed the war in Iraq

I'm being very cynical here to make a point about discussions that have been taking place elsewhere on this board, especially with respect to Ron Paul.

In those threads, people have constantly made the argument that it's legitimate to speak up for Paul because he's talking about things like ending the war, "empire," certain narrowly defined first-amendment issues, and legal weed. The fact that he's a raging racist and homophobe, has dangerously insane economic views, and wants to shrink government till it can fit in the bathtub to drown, are immaterial. As the argument goes, these other things are important, so people should listen to him.

So why shouldn't MSNBC let people "listen" to Pat Buchanan, since on those rare occasions, he also has isolationist anti-war views, etc.

The reason should be obvious: because the wrongs far outweigh the rights, and you never give a platform to a racist. They should have fired Buchanan years ago. He's totally fringe. (And so is Ron Paul.) But if you're all for "listening to" Paul, you should be for "listening to" Buchanan as well. Let's separate the men from the boys on this one--try to wiggle out of it!

[Smilo]

47. Well said.

I wish people would look behind these men and find out what they really want.

[ddeclue]

50. probably mostly because Saddam Hussein liked the Nazis and modeled his gov't on the Nazi regime..

Uncle Pat has a soft spot in his heart for the die Vaterland...

[spanone]

48. so pat had to put his sorry ass opinions in a book before m$nbc realized he's a racist?

[csziggy]

53. MOST of his books for the last twenty years have been racist

He just finally went pas the line that the powers that be at MSNBC could pretend to ignore with his most recent book.

Just take a look on Amazon at the books he has written. Over and over again he has pushed racist views.

[ddeclue]

49. Good bye Uncle Pat!

[lazarus]

52. weird Pat trivia

He and Hunter S Thompson used to be drinking buddies. They were supposedly having a beer by the pool the night of the Watergate break-in.