A true pig, wanting those with darker pigmentation to keep their ass at the back of the bus, as God and white men intended ...

That post was very well put. I saw the Buchanan interview on air, and I was appalled. By any standard of decency, it should have been an Al Campanis moment.

But it wasn't.

... just underscores how low the news media has sunk. We don't have journalistic integrity or objectivity - we have smarmy torture apologists like Chuck Todd and crusty old Nazi relics like Pat Buchanan polluting the airwaves.

Spiro Agnew resigned from office, and Buchanan idolized him. Sarah Palin resigned from office, and Buchanan idolized her. If he resigned, he would no doubt idolize himself.

I disagree that MSNBC should fire Pat Buchannan. We need to keep a few guys like him around so that we NEVER forget what a real racist pig like he is.

This just about sums it up.

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Pat Buchanan's old saw about how white males built everything and deserve special treatment has become incredibly stale and sour. People of all colors have been contributing enormously to this country, and for Buchanan to deliberately ignore that fact simply exposes him more widely as the racist bully we always knew he was.

Rachael Maddow is far too polite to this nasty old man. There is no longer any reason to give this malevolent racist a soap box to spew his bile at a national audience.

Why does Buchanan assume that being an "affirmative action baby" means being unqualified and inferior? Maybe being an affirmative action pick means that being black or female or hispanic would have kept you from being noticed at all UNLESS affirmative action was considered. I think Sotomayor meant that she was qualified but that nobody would have bothered to look in her direction without affirmative action; they would have just picked one of the white guys the way they always did in the past. The problem here is that Buchanan and those like him just CANNOT believe that anybody is the equal of white males; they are convinced, without even being consciously aware of it, that the only way any black or hispanic or woman can be picked over a white man is if actual qualifications are not the primary consideration.

is likely not a bad idea, I disagree that he should be paid for his opinions. Then again, that would be a tad too much like slavery.

This link pretty much sums up Pat's outlook on non whites.

In another memo from Buchanan to Nixon: "There is a legitimate grievance in my view of white working-class people that every time, on every issue, that the black militants loud-mouth it, we come up with more money.... If we can give 50 Phantoms [jet fighters] to the Jews, and a multi-billion dollar welfare program for the blacks...why not help the Catholics save their collapsing school system." (Boston Globe, 1/4/92)

The fact that Eugene can sit next to this person is amazing.

Is this more evidence of a Catholic cabal at MSNBC?

There clearly is a bias in academia and the corporate world against native-born Americans of modest means - particularly white and black males. It's just a fact, immigrants and children of immigrants have a much better chance of gaining acceptance to college or finding employment in this country than white or black Americans from poor backgrounds. While the anti-Americanism of liberals is responsible for some of this, it's also true that people with a foreign background are simply perceived as being harder working and more intelligent than native-born Americans. A few years ago in fact, the President of Cal Tech wrote an op-ed stating that Americans were dumb and that high end academic positions should be reserved for immigrants.

While Pat Buchanan is wrong on a lot of issues, his *nativist* arguments do have a certain resonance, and people on the left should have the temerity to admit that.

I couldn't sit through all that. Did Maddow actually manage to make any other point apart from harping on the "108 out of 110 supremes have been white men" line? (a figure that is hardly suprising given the historical level of discrimination against non-whites in the US).

Buchanan may be a racist old fart, but he did at least manage to sound as if he'd done something more to prepare himself for the interview than memorize a statistic.

Pat is a excellent example of the proud bigots in the Right Wing-Nut party.

I need some mind soap to wash away the filth that was coming out of his mouth. GE/MSNBC should be embarrassed with themselves.

One thing I had to laugh about (it's better than beating my head with a hammer) was the point where he held Scalia up as the intellectual gold standard, saying that Obama should find those candidates who could hold their own with or against him. Scalia?!? Scalia is a cretin. How could anybody equate Scalia's low cunning for crafting shabby rationalizations as intellectual prowess? That's rich. That's really rich.
The only intellectual thing I've seen Scalia distinguish himself for is intellectual dishonesty. But, then again, that's Pat's strong point, too.

BTW, Buchanan never seems to have gotten the point that one of the underlaying purposes of Affirmative Action was to create role models of "success" in minority communities that had relentlessly been denied opportunities to participate in the American idea of success. It was understood at the time that the process would take time, but the investment would worth it, because the outcome would be beneficially transformative. Our society would become more just. The power of example would inspire the next generation to participate and to strive, simply because the concrete evidence would exist to show that the work would pay off. In that regard, Affirmative Action was not only a means of creating opportunities, it was an invitation for everybody to participate in the mainstream American experience.

One of the things that makes Pat Buchanan's bigoted and racist rants so offensive, is that you know.... you know... that had Affirmative Action never been crafted, and the benefits it has wrought had never have been realized, he would be sitting there today self-righteously and smugly proclaiming that this or the other minority group deserves it's place at the bottom of the social heap, because, "Jeez, look at them....they've never achieved anything in society!There lack of achievement proves they don't deserve anything." It's the same thinking kind of rationalizations that were deployed back in the day when injustice was excused by claiming that, "It's their natural state". I don't know who Buchanan thinks he's fooling.

as I watched him spew his white supremacist crap the other night. I had to change the channel. I could not believe what I was hearing. This guy is nucking futs.

Last night, Lawrence O'Donnell, subing for Matthews, actually called him "MSNBC's crazy uncle." Crazy like a fox,this is shaping up to be the major wingnut position. They are trying to whip people up into a race hating frenzy. Remember Rwanda?

Although I disagree with almost everything Pat Buchanan stands for, he nevertheless says out loud what many don't dare to say.
As long as there are anchors such as smart and educated as Rachel to firmly, but civilly, contradict him when he crosses the line, he should stay.
It is good for the country to have borderline extremism blown out of the water on TV.

In re Sotomayor's intellect, Buchanan didn't say anything that left-wing law professor Jonathan Turley said about her on Olbermann's show a month or two ago: she's a lightweight.