{"id":5533,"date":"2011-08-05T00:22:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T07:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2011-08-05T02:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T09:01:14","slug":"republican-racism-on-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/republican-racism-on-msnbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Racism on MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the mainstream networks, I like MSNBC the best, because they have Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell and Ed Schultz.\u00a0 However, they make up for it by featuring Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan in the morning.\u00a0 As wing-nuts go, Scarborough is probably more sane than most, but Buchanan is more typical of Republican politicians and pundits.\u00a0 He is notorious for frequent racist comments, such as referring to to the recent victory of Republican terrorism over Obama as \u201cnailing the coon skin to the wall<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Now he has even put his racism in writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"GOPRacism4\"<\/p>\n

MSNBC contributor and long-standing bigot<\/a> Pat Buchanan has a new book coming out called: Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?<\/em><\/span> This upbeat future \u201cbest-seller\u201d will hit the shelves in October, but this morning, Politico Playbook provided those waiting with race-baited breath a preview of the wisdom within. Chapter 4, entitled \u201cThe End of White America<\/a>,\u201d lauds:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[The] radicalization of the working and middle class, such as occurred in the Truman-McCarthy era<\/strong><\/span>, during the George Wallace campaigns<\/strong><\/span>, and in the anti-amnesty firestorm that killed the Bush-Kennedy-McCain push for a path to citizenship for illegal aliens.\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

To Buchanan \u2014 a member [racists delinked] of the Sons of Confederate Veterans \u2014 these \u201cmovements\u201d shared a \u201cpopulist rage\u201d and a \u201csense that they are losing their country. And they are right<\/a>.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

This man has a right to say what he wants to say, and I defend it, but people, like him, that foster hatred should not have a microphone to broadcast it.\u00a0 Ed Schultz was suspended for two weeks for far less.\u00a0 Why hasn\u2019t Buchannan for any one of his racist comments?<\/span><\/p>\n

The irony is that George Wallace, to whom Buchannan refers, learned that his hatred was wrong and changed, nut Buchannan never has.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of the mainstream networks, I like MSNBC the best, because they have Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell and Ed Schultz.\u00a0 However, they make up for it by featuring Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan in the morning.\u00a0 As wing-nuts go, Scarborough is probably more sane than most, but Buchanan is more typical of Republican politicians and pundits.\u00a0 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}