Pat Buchanan gets the ax from MSNBC
By Los Angeles Times
This article was published February 17, 2012 at 1:37 p.m.
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Pat Buchanan has been dismissed by MSNBC, the left-leaning news network, four months after the channel suspended him.
In an angry post on his blog, conservative commentator Buchanan took his critics to task, writing, “After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous.”
Buchanan says the calls for his firing began with the publication in October of his book “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” about America’s decline, which critics have called racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic.
Upon his suspension, Buchanan quotes MSNBC President Phil Griffin as telling the press regarding his new book, “I don’t think the ideas that (Buchanan) put forth are appropriate for the national dialogue, much less on MSNBC.”
Buchanan, a former White House aide to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and a former Republican presidential candidate, had been with MSNBC as a political analyst since 2002.
On his website, Buchanan called his ouster “an undeniable victory for the blacklisters.”
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jhunter says... February 17, 2012 at 2:40 p.m.
I am a life long liberal democrat and MSNBC is my favorite news channel. It goes without saying, that Pat Buchanan,s book and opinions are a bit over the edge. Firing Mr. Buchanan over his writings and opinions is Unamerican. Open dialogue is what we are about. There is room for ever opinion, whether it fits our beliefs or not.
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Jjackk says... February 17, 2012 at 3:20 p.m.
Pat Buchanan tells it like he sees it. Conservative yes, but he doesn't tow the party line. You never have to ask him what he really feels. Smarter than Romney and Santorum combined. You conservatives would really learn a lot if you read his weekly column.
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jackalope says... February 17, 2012 at 3:30 p.m.
Read the first few chapters of his book (indeed just read the preface) and tell me that book is not extremely racist and christian-centric
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amazon. com/Suicide-Superpower-Will-America-Survive/dp/0312579977
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A few select quotes: "...peoples of European descent from the steppes of Russia to the shores of California have begun to die out, as the Third World treks north to take over the estate" (Oh noes! Non-white people outnumber white people in the world! Hey Pat, it's always been that way.)
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"Old heroes like Columbus and Robert E. Lee have been replaced by Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez..." (Oh, no! Not replacing the guy who started the genocide of the actual native inhabitants of this country and the guy who represents the racist South! We can't NOT celebrate those guys!)
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"Religion is the foundation of morality and only a moral people can sustain a free republic... Without religion, morality withers and dies, the community disintegrates, the nation falls." (Has he ever heard of Denmark? One of the countries consistently at the top of the charts for quality of life, stability, citizen happiness, and also one of the most secular countries in the world)
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The rest is all a bunch of Muslim, Jewish, immigrant, and non-white scaremongering about what's "happening to America". Typical Buchanan fare.
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Jfish says... February 17, 2012 at 4 p.m.
jhunter, I really don't like MSNBC mostly due to Olberman's antics, but I do respect you for that comment.
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CajunBilly says... February 17, 2012 at 4:29 p.m.
Oh the left are so tolerant as long as you are not conservative. If you say something that they don't agree with or if they feel some victim group may be offended then you will be demonized and destroyed.
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Jjackk says... February 17, 2012 at 6:22 p.m.
I bet Pat wouldn't have lasted ten years on Foxnews. They would have canned him for not spinning the agenda.
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