Pat Buchanan is a long-time opponent of affirmative action, but on the Rachel Maddow show, Buchanan let loose some of his most regressive ideas about saving white males from the scourge of women and people of color that victimize them. You can read more about this recent appearance here.
Buchanan is a paid news contributor for the cable news program MSNBC. As Media Matters recently wrote:
Pat Buchanan has finally crossed the line and MSNBC should no longer be paying him for his racist views.
It's time for MSNBC to fire Pat Buchanan.
From Media Matters: "That MSNBC grants Buchanan such a platform is remarkable in light of the long history of bipartisan denunciation of him. In 1991, conservative icon William F. Buckley wrote in National Review that it was "impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination, the military build-up for the Gulf War, amounted to anti-Semitism." During Buchanan's 1996 presidential campaign, he faced considerable media scrutiny of his views and statements, including an extremely contentious appearance on ABC that featured a grilling by conservative George Will and fellow Beltway insider Cokie Roberts. That same year, then-RNC chairman Rich Bond said Buchanan was "heading toward a low-road message of anger, hate and race-baiting." During Buchanan's 1999-2000 presidential campaign, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said, "There's no doubt he makes subliminal appeals to prejudice."
And last night's screed was the final straw.
Please tell MSNBC that they shouldn't be paying contributors for racist and sexist commentary anymore.
It's time for MSNBC to fire Pat Buchanan.
Pat Buchanan is a long-time opponent of affirmative action, but on the Rachel Maddow show, Buchanan let loose some of his most regressive ideas about saving white males from the scourge of women and people of color that victimize them. You can read more about this recent appearance here.
Buchanan is a paid news contributor for the cable news program MSNBC. As Media Matters recently wrote:
Pat Buchanan has finally crossed the line and MSNBC should no longer be paying him for his racist views.
It's time for MSNBC to fire Pat Buchanan.
From Media Matters: "That MSNBC grants Buchanan such a platform is remarkable in light of the long history of bipartisan denunciation of him. In 1991, conservative icon William F. Buckley wrote in National Review that it was "impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination, the military build-up for the Gulf War, amounted to anti-Semitism." During Buchanan's 1996 presidential campaign, he faced considerable media scrutiny of his views and statements, including an extremely contentious appearance on ABC that featured a grilling by conservative George Will and fellow Beltway insider Cokie Roberts. That same year, then-RNC chairman Rich Bond said Buchanan was "heading toward a low-road message of anger, hate and race-baiting." During Buchanan's 1999-2000 presidential campaign, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said, "There's no doubt he makes subliminal appeals to prejudice."
And last night's screed was the final straw.
Please tell MSNBC that they shouldn't be paying contributors for racist and sexist commentary anymore.
We signed the "Ask MSNBC to Fire Pat Buchanan" petition!
# 1,430:
6:55 am PST, Nov 17,Helene Mccarthy, Florida
isn't having joe scarborough enough to show the world that msnbc is not one-sided? Pat Buchanan is areally sick person full of hatred and an unabashed racist. he reaally makes me sick.
# 1,429:
7:20 pm PDT, Oct 31,Edward Wilson, Colorado
I am a retired military veteran and Pat Buchanan's racism and repeated (and explicit) defenses of Hitler are unacceptable. If NBC/MSNBC is paying this anti-Semite why don't you hire the head of the Ku Klux Klan? Fire this man.
# 1,428:
10:46 pm PDT, Oct 14,Selam Samuel, New York
Let's get rid of this Hitler loving ass!
# 1,427:
11:36 pm PDT, Oct 13,Kathryn Dougan, Washington
# 1,426:
8:11 pm PDT, Oct 13,Alice Jefferson, Indiana
# 1,425:
7:11 pm PDT, Oct 10,Jack Paterson, New York
# 1,424:
5:38 pm PDT, Oct 4,Esther Ahonen, Florida
absolutely and hurry up already - freedom of speech, and the forum of any and all opinion, while in an open democratic society is to be valued, also must be honored, and what Buchanan does is abuse this right so much as to become more a weapon of hatred and fear than useful dialogue. If msnbc feels they must, for some reason keep his voice coming, then they really should at least make sure that for every word of his claptrap there are TWO words of human sensibility from people who have a vision of America as a better society in the future. I do not understand why his voice of insanity from the past has to be given constant airtime, usually with only half-hearted attempts at debating his terrible philosophy
# 1,423:
3:04 pm PDT, Sep 30,Name not displayed, Texas
Today, Pat Buchanan attempted to justify folks in AZ carrying concealed weapons into bars. Sorry folks, but alcohol and firearms do not mix well. He also attempted to justify carrying weapons within 50 yards of where the President was speaking. It seems he chooses not to recall the assassinations/attempted assassinations that scar this country's history. Buchanan's justification: people are afraid that the government can no longer keep them safe. (?) Angry, scared people should not be encouraged to walk about with loaded weapons--it's a disaster waiting to happen. Buchanan is more concerned about maintaining his perceived alpha male status than objectivity.
# 1,422:
6:08 pm PDT, Sep 25,Thomas Phelps, Indiana
I'm boycotting Starbucks until Pat Buchanon is fired for his racist, sexist and anti-Semitic bigotry.
# 1,421:
2:59 pm PDT, Sep 24,Akiva David Miller, Oregon
I genuinely hope this petition works; however, I am not betting on it. So, unless MSNBC fires the racist, Anti-Semitic, homophobic gasbag, Pat Buchanan, I am beginning to organize a boycott of Starbucks, the title sponsor of Morning Joe.
# 1,420:
12:56 pm PDT, Sep 19,Rich Siegel, Louisiana
# 1,419:
6:45 pm PDT, Sep 17,Marshall Bucci, New York
Not only a blatant racist, but politically irrelevant.
# 1,418:
2:56 pm PDT, Sep 15,Vaughn Stull, Ohio
# 1,417:
12:22 pm PDT, Sep 15,Shahryar Rizvi, Texas
No white supremacist who peddles such falsehood should be allowed as much public influence as he.
# 1,416:
2:13 pm PDT, Sep 14,Bhaskar Sunkara, New York
http://theactivist.org/blog/pat-buchanan-and-msnbc
# 1,415:
1:34 pm PDT, Sep 14,Jason Schulman, New York
Why on Earth do you continue to employ this reactionary buffoon? Time for him to peddle his xenophobia elsewhere.
# 1,414:
11:05 am PDT, Sep 10,Richard Hauer, California
This man has a long track record of over-the-top anti-semitism. MSNBC should have known that in the first place. Get rid of this piece of crap now.
# 1,413:
2:29 am PDT, Sep 9,Darlyne Burns, Hawaii
# 1,412:
3:51 pm PDT, Sep 8,Peter Sullivan, California
# 1,411:
3:06 pm PDT, Sep 8,Name not displayed, Florida
We do not more RACIST remarks and LIES being spread as TRUTH on MSM, people who enjoy that garbage watch FOX NEWS because they would not know truth if it landed on their head. I turn off MSNBC everytime he comes on, because I do not want my children exposed to such HATE. It's very scary what we have been seeing on TV and constantly showing it or giving a voice to those wingnuts thru NBC NEWS is DISGUSTING!!!
# 1,410:
2:58 pm PDT, Sep 8,Name not displayed, Virginia
As if his appearance on Rachel Maddow wasn't enough, the anti-semitic column and now he has been on Morning Joe and Hardball defending the lie started by Sarah Palin of "death panels"! Send him over to Fox, where the truth and facts don't matter!
12:44 pm PDT, Sep 5,Justin Olson, Kansas
I am signing this petition as a result of Mr. Buchanan's most recent column which was recently placed on MSNBC's website "Did Hitler Want War?"
There is no excuse for the anti-semitic propaganda that this man spews.
