{"id":6695,"date":"2012-01-09T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2012-01-09T00:25:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T08:25:48","slug":"buchannan-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/buchannan-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Buchanan Banned?"},"content":{"rendered":"

MSNBC is, in my opinion, the most balanced of the news networks.\u00a0 While their daytime reporting follows a standard right-slanted corporate agenda, they have three excellent commentary shows in the evening from Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O’Donnell.\u00a0 Providing balance from right are three continuous hours of Joe Scarborough in the early morning.\u00a0 Sadly, one of Joe\u2019s daily sidekicks has been Pat Buchanan, an ideologue whose racist comments have fouled the airwaves far too often.\u00a0 Fortunately, he may have gone too far.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"9buchannan\"Can there really be a line that even right-wingers can’t cross<\/a> when it comes to cable news? Or is it simply that Buchanan isn’t a good fit with the network’s plans? <\/span><\/p>\n

PASADENA, Calif. \u2014 MSNBC\u2019s top executive said Saturday that he hasn\u2019t decided whether conservative commentator and author Pat Buchanan will be allowed back on the network.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buchanan, a former GOP presidential candidate and a paid MSNBC contributor, hasn\u2019t been on the network since the publication of his book \u201cSuicide of a Superpower\u201d last October. <\/span>The book has chapters titled \u201cThe End of White America\u201d and \u201cThe Death of Christian America\u201d and its author argues that the United States is in the \u201cIndian summer of our civilization.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Pat was on his book tour, because of the content of the book, I didn\u2019t think it should be part of the national dialogue much less part of the dialogue on MSNBC<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d said MSNBC President Phil Griffin. The minority advocacy group Color of Change has circulated a petition urging MSNBC to fire Buchanan\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the video:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Buchanan talks about minorities as ‘tax consumers’ but ignores that the biggest tax consumers of all are the Banksters he defends daily.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buchanan has a long history of racism<\/a>.\u00a0 I defend his right to believe and say what he will, as long as he does not advocate violence, like so many other Republicans do.\u00a0 At the same time, I have a right to try to co curtail not his speech, but his microphone by advocating his dismissal both to MSNBC and to their sponsors.\u00a0 Let Buchannan and Republican racists like him, keep their bigotry under their sheets and hoods, not on the public airwaves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MSNBC is, in my opinion, the most balanced of the news networks.\u00a0 While their daytime reporting follows a standard right-slanted corporate agenda, they have three excellent commentary shows in the evening from Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O’Donnell.\u00a0 Providing balance from right are three continuous hours of Joe Scarborough in the early morning.\u00a0 Sadly, […]<\/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-6695","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\/6695","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=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}