Community | October 25, 2011 | 31 comments

Let's all help stop Pat

source: http://mediamatters.org/action/buchanan/

MSNBC shouldn't keep this clown around any longer!

http://mediamatters.org/action/buchanan/


Pat Buchanan's bigotry has been on full display these past weeks as he appears across the media promoting his latest book about the harms he thinks America will suffer as it becomes more racially diverse. Buchanan's recent inappropriate remarks are nothing new for him -- they are part of his long history of bigotry. That's why in 2009, the Anti-Defamation League labelled Buchanan an "unrepentant bigot" and warned that he "increasingly demonizes Jews, blacks, and non-white immigrants."

Buchanan is a paid MSNBC analyst. For too long, MSNBC has helped validate his vitriol by giving Buchanan a national platform. But enough is enough. It's time for MSNBC to stop ignoring Buchanan's bigotry.

Please sign the letter to MSNBC's management explaining why they can no longer ignore Buchanan's bigotry and why they must act now.
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31 comments // Let's all help stop Pat

  • RevKen
  • EdJoyProductions
  • GRC54
  • Progresshiv
  • faye59
    • +2
      faye59  

    • At least we know what he's thinking. The more subtle forms of bigotry are more harmful like in hiring, medical care and in business. Buchanan wears his racism on his sleeve for all to see. I'm more worried about the talk radio nuts and some of the presidential candidates and their large dog whistles.

    • 7 months ago
  • warman1138
  • maasanova
    • -4
      maasanova  
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    • You may disagree with Pat Buchanan, but what does the title of this post mean?

      Stop Buchanan from doing what? Stop him from promoting and selling his book? Stop him from speaking?

      Why is does the letter from Media Matters suggest that it is wrong to be "pro-white?"

      I don't see them complaining about Asian solidarity in the US, or "black pride" which doesn't even pretend to be anti-white, or "Mexican pride," which is virulent and sometimes provokes hatred towards blacks and whites alike.

      Furthermore Anti-Defamation League has no credibility as they were previously the target of a criminal investigation for spying within San Francisco Police department and for being in possession of stolen police files.

      Thus when someone quotes the discredited ADL, they themselves lose credibility.

      http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/02/25/the-adl-spying-case-is-over-but-the-strug...

      Not only were critics of Israel under ADL’s surveillance,including thousands of Arab-Americans, but labor organizations such as the San Francisco Labor Council,

      ILWU Local 10, and the Oakland Educational Association, and civil rights groups such as the NAACP, Irish Northern Aid, International Indian Treaty Council and the Asian Law Caucus were also found in the "pinko" files of ADL’s undercover
      operative, Roy Bullock.

      The San Francisco Superior Court has awarded former Congressman Pete McCloskey, R-California, a $150,000 court judgment against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

      McCloskey, the attorney in the case, represented one of three civil lawsuits filed in San Francisco against the ADL in 1993. The lawsuit came after raids were made by the San Francisco Police Department and the FBI on offices of the ADL in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, which found that the ADL was engaged in extensive domestic spying operations on a vast number of individuals and institutions around the country.

      During the course of the inquiry in San Francisco, the SFPD and FBI determined the ADL had computerized files on nearly 10,000 people across the country, and that more than 75 percent of the information had been illegally obtained from police, FBI files and state drivers, license data banks.

      Much of the stolen information had been provided by Tom Gerard of the San Francisco Police Department, who sold, or gave, the information to Ray Bullock, ADL,s top undercover operative.

    • 7 months ago
  • BabeHardy
  • maasanova
    • -2
      maasanova  
    • BabeHardy:

      So in other words you want to impede on his right to free speech is that it?

      What are you afraid of, that people may agree with him?

      Personally I could respond pages and pages on this but the short answer to your silly question is yes I actually probable do agree with Buchannan but not because I'm a racist, I'm not even white.

      The reason I'd say I'd probable agree with some of his views is because I'm not a hypocrite that supports the solidarity of minorities but not the solidarity of whites.

    • 7 months ago
  • faye59
    • +2
      faye59  
    • maasanova:

      You don't get it. Progressives support the solidarity of the American people. We don't want to Balkanize our country, but to work together to solve her problems.

    • 7 months ago
  • kvb1
    • +1
      kvb1  
    • maasanova:

      Nobody is saying Pat can't go to Fox where he will right right in with there bigotry, hatred for the middle class, and complete lies in their news reporting.

    • 7 months ago
  • maasanova
    • -1
      maasanova  
    • kvb1:

      No one is complaining when Tom Joyner gets on the teevee and starts talking about what the government can do for blacks or some blacks start bragging of their solidarity, and then no one is complaining when the immigrant groups talk about what the government can do for their particular group or how Mexicans are displaying racial pride in huge numbers.

      No one has addressed my question why it is so wrong for whites to be "pro-white" or to be concerned about their people when there is no problem for blacks to be pro-black and Hispanics to be pro-Hispanic.

      Don't dodge the question.

      Waiting for a response...

    • 7 months ago
  • Dagum
    • +5
      Dagum  

    • Actually he is remarkably useful and should stay on MSNBC. He is a caricature of the far right. Everyone of the left's fears and phobias of the right are embodied and captured in Pat Buchanan.

      He is like the token liberal, Alan Combs on Fox news there to give the appearance of balance of views.

      MSNBC deliberately selected one of the biggest extremists they could find, Pat Buchanan, because then they can pretend he is representative of main stream right wing views, and scare their viewers away from anything moderately associated with right wing ideas.

    • 7 months ago
  • oldbanjo
  • faye59
    • +2
      faye59  
    • oldbanjo:

      In a way Steele is more harmful than Buchanan. Someone who is surely aware of the inequality his party touts, who is himself a minority and protects the status quo. That's a more dangerous animal than bumbling Pat Buchanan.

    • 7 months ago
  • oldbanjo
    • +1
      oldbanjo  
    • faye59:

      He is a very smart person, and he is like able, The way he defended Palin was sickening. The Tea Party can say nothing wrong even though they would throw him under the bus in a heart beat. He's either more loyal than anyone that I have ever seen or he is bought and paid for by the Koch brothers. He and Cain are alike in a lot of ways.

    • 7 months ago
  • faye59
    • +1
      faye59  
    • oldbanjo:

      Yeah, the world has passed them by. Pat still wants segregation. He doesn't realize that noone wants to listen to his nonsense anymore. The war has been over for quite a while, but those troglodytes drag out the same old talking points for every election.

    • 7 months ago
  • BKsaysAction
  • timelord999
  • faye59
  • Leen61
    • +9
      Leen61  

    • Signed! Buchanan is a life long bigot. He was the architect of the Southern strategy for Nixon, which for the first time, shifted the Southern vote from Dem to Rep by playing up racial bigotry. You don't just stop being cut from that cloth.

    • 7 months ago
  • Hardytoo
  • Leen61
  • faye59
  • trut
  • BabeHardy
  • wolfess
  • trut
  • EdJoyProductions
    • +7
      EdJoyProductions  

    • Well, in order to prove that MSNBC is not as biased as FOX, they need to have a house, crazy racist on staff. Pat is kind of perfect for that role.

      It just illuminates that FOX never has a well spoken, liberal with balls on staff. I think it proves that MSNBC is more balanced.

    • 7 months ago
  • Dagum
  • letsliveinpeace
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