Pat Buchanan

I wrote yesterday about Pat Buchanan’s latest crap article apologizing for Hitler and saying how he was the peaceful one. What I missed was the fact that MSNBC actually had the article up on their site. That lead to some big pressure:

David A. Harris, President of the National Jewish Democratic Council, condemned MSNBC's promotion of the "deplorable" column and urged that it be removed from MSNBC.com.

MSNBC has now pulled that article, but the question still remains – will they continue to employ someone who wrote something so factually wrong and insulting to millions of Americans?

Could you imagine if Pat Buchanan were on FOX and did the same racist rants he did on MSNBC? We would see images like this nightly on Countdown. Instead he is safe on base and there are no tags or tag backs.

Rachel took Pat Buchanan to town last night on the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings and forced Pat to show his ugly little racist head:

Again – why does MSNBC continue to give Pat a microphone? He would fit in much better at FOX News, where he can be surrounded by fellow racists.

Here’s Buchanan on Levi Johnston yesterday:

BUCHANAN: “Well, first, with regard to Levi, I think First Dude up there in Alaska, Todd Palin, ought to take Levi down to the creek and hold his head underwater until the thrashing stops.“

It’s amazing that MSNBC continues to bring Buchanan on the air. Its not just statements like this, but his past patterns of racism. I am finding it harder and harder to even watch that network given their tendency to ignore such problems. I don’t even watch Olbermann or Maddow that much anymore. Perhaps if more people turned of MSNBC they would get the idea that we don’t want to give credence to a network that employs a mad man such as Buchanan.

This has had me laughing for awhile now:

“Conferenece”? Sure misspellings happen. Hell I’ve had a lot, but the sweet irony here is that this banner was hanging above Pat Buchanan and Peter Brimelow arguing for English-only initiatives.

And with Buchanan always showing his pride for his racism, why does MSNBC still have him on? I never see any Black Panthers on MSNBC regularly. I really think its time they cut this old hater loose.

After watching this clip you really start wondering just that. Lawrence O’Donnell make Buchanan look like such a huge fool. Well more so than he already is.

I was watching Morning Joe this morning and in utter amazement at the dialogue going on. For a moment I thought FOX had taken over the show. Here’s a clip caught by Think Progress:

As Think Progress points out:

What’s more, as Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta pointed out to Scarborough minutes later, these tax cuts were something that “Barack Obama campaigned on all year long” — and he encountered the exact same fearmongering accusations of “socialism” from conservatives. If Americans didn’t support Obama’s tax plan, they wouldn’t have voted for him.

Yup – this country voted for Socialism by the Republican’s very definition. If they don’t like it then they can find a new place to call home, but that is what America wants, so Scarborough needs to get over himself.

But the fact is Scarborough and Buchanan both said they didn’t want help for the lower and middle class, but would rather have tax-cuts to the corporations. Again – screw us, but save them.

Maybe the best solution to this problem is letting Joe and Pat actually feel the recession by turning off their propaganda filled hate show. If enough people do that and the ratings go down, then Joe might start getting nervous.

Pat Buchanan on MSNBC just now saying how Eric Holder being AG would be nothing but problems because he is close to Obama. Funny how it was never a problem with Republicans when Gonzales was AG and so close to Bush.

Talking about Obama's speech about Middle America, Pat Buchanan said "This is what he thinks of us?" As Cesca points out, Pat is not Middle America at all. He is a D.C. insider. To sit there and try to claim he is Middle America is an insult to Middle America.

Obama said that Middle America is bitter for losing their jobs and turn to God and guns in that time. I live in Middle America, where flags fly on Sunday for race car drivers and abandoned factories litter the landscape. What Obama said was right on. I can point to numerous people I know that lost their nice paid job of years to outsourcing. They are facing foreclosure and can barely afford food, yet come Sunday they are at church giving what money they don't have to the collection plate. Come hunting season, they are the first ones out there with their guns killing anything that moves.

Hillary and McCain's response has been about that same, that this makes Americans stronger. Starving and being out of home makes us stronger? Talk about an elitist comment, that is a blatant one right there. I think there should be a challenge to all the Presidential candidates. You have 2 weeks to live on unemployment, or a common Middle America salary, and see how it goes. I bet they would fold within a few days.

Shockingly, one network seems to be standing up for Obama. That network is CNN. Watch this panel slam Clinton and McCain over this:

(h/t AmericaBLOG)

I believe what Obama said does resemble us in Middle America. McCain and Clinton are out playing the elitists on this and voters won't buy it.

Also Cesca reminds us of when Clinton surrogate, and Pennsylvania Governor, Ed Rendell basically said Middle America was nothing but racists.

Pat Buchanan flipped out on Dan Abrams last night. He was trying to say that Obama only won states with heavy black populations. When another guest tried to correct him, Pat responds by telling the guest to shut-up. That was followed by Pat getting scolded by Rachel Maddow.

That's what Pat Buchanan called him this morning on MSNBC:

This is a stunning indictment of McCain. Of course we can't forget that Buchanan has some problems with McCain over immigration, so that should be taken into account.

War monger Frank Gaffney was on Hardball tonight talking about the NIE. This is how idiotic the war mongers are getting - Gaffney thinks they should have a "do over" on the NIE. Buchanan called his bluff and asked Gaffney if he wanted this in 2005 when the NIE said Iran was working on nuclear weapons. Gaffney of course said no.

So reasons for war we shouldn't double check, but reasons that can prevent war we should double check? What an absolute idiot. Check out the video at MSNBC's site.

Looks like people from the right side of the aisle are upset with Bush trying to lie this country into another war and want Joe Biden to start holding hearings over it. My suggestion is that Joe Biden drop out from the Presidential race (let's face facts - I like Joe but he doesn't have a prayer) and during that announcement tell the people he is doing so to focus his energies into getting to the bottom of this scandal.