Originally Posted By skinnerbox Pat Buchanan is blaming just about everyone but himself for his impending firing as a political analyst for MSNBC: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/10/402021/pat-buchanan-blames-militant-gay-rights-groups-people-of-color-for-pending-msnbc-termination/" target="_blank">http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/...ination/</a> <> Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan attacked gay rights and civil rights organizations for pressuring MSNBC network president Phil Griffin to fire him after the release of his latest book, Suicide of a Superpower. The work, which has been roundly condemned, includes chapters titled “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.” “Look, for a long period of time the hard left, militant gay rights groups, militant — they call themselves civil rights groups, but I’m not sure they’re concerned about civil rights — people of color, Van Jones, these folks and others have been out to get Pat Buchanan off T.V., deny him speeches, get his column canceled,” Buchanan said during a radio interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday. “This has been done for years and years and years and it’s the usual suspects doing the same thing again. But my view is, you write what you believe to be the truth.” Buchanan said he has not received a “formal notification” of his termination from the network, although executives have hinted that he will not return to the airwaves. <> Pat has been gone from MSNBC for weeks, and I personally don't miss him one bit. Good riddance to white supremacist ideals. Now if only the MSNBC execs would replace Michael Steele with the Muppet Michael Steele from the Daily Show. Actually, have the two of them give commentary as a duo. I'd tune in to that for sure.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I do wish msnbc would bring him on to be questioned about the content of his book. Hard questions, not the stuff he'll get from Hannity and the like, that will force him to support the illogic of his own conclusions publicly. I don't think it would change his mind, but it would expose his crap for being crap.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones White America will kind of end over a long period of time, though. I've heard people cheerfully exclaim that one day humanity will become this mocha-colored being and then we'll finally have peace. That really doesn't argue in favor of diversity as being anything other than divisive when you really think about it. There is brown, black and "azn" pride, and it is often celebrated. I'm not surprised to see white pride backlash. I'd like to see it all that "pride" go away.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Sadly, people seem to always find a reason to fight. Skin color only sometimes has something to do with it. Witness the Serbs and Croats, the Sunni and Shia in Iraq, the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. All people most of us would never be able to tell apart (certainly visually), yet have these divisions that seem to loom sooooo large periodically.
