{"id":7197,"date":"2012-02-19T00:02:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T08:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2012-02-19T00:36:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T08:36:25","slug":"bye-bye-buchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/19\/bye-bye-buchanan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Buchanan!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, MSNBC pulled the plug on Pat Buchanan, an anchor on Joe Scarborough’s three hour conservative commentary every weekday morning.\u00a0 The rabid, racist Republican right, along with Buchanan himself, are claiming that the left silenced his freedom of speech.\u00a0 Lets examine Buchanan\u2019s history and character, and lets see why the Republican claims are lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"19Buchanan\"Yesterday, Pat Buchanan announced [propaganda delinked] that his tenure as a commentator at MSNBC was finally over, ending months of speculation about his absence from his once-frequent perch aside morning anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.<\/span><\/p>\n

Calls for Buchanan\u2019s firing by groups like Color of Change<\/a>, Credo<\/a>, and Media Matters<\/a> had been loud and growing, following years of controversial, offensive and outright bigoted statements made by Buchanan without apology or remorse. Here is a look back at 10 of the most offensive and outrageous statements made by Pat Buchanan:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Wanted to close the borders to protect white dominance<\/strong><\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Blamed lower test scores on minorities<\/strong><\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Claimed Jerry Sandusky\u2019s atrocities are because of \u201cHomosexual marriage<\/strong><\/span>…<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Said the Jewish population in the United States dropped in the 90s because Jews aborted all their babies<\/strong><\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Asserted Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people including 69 teens in Norway, \u201cmay have been right.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Click through to review the documentation on the first five items and to see the other five, which are every bit as egregious, if not more so.<\/span><\/p>\n

MSNBC fired Buchanan because he plugged his racist book on the air, on MSNBC\u2019s time, without consent.\u00a0 This led to a public outcry against him and boycotts of MSNBCs advertisers for the show.\u00a0 Buchanan\u2019s termination for just cause does not violate his right to free speech.\u00a0 Nowhere does the First Amendment state that the right to free speech includes the right to a public microphone.\u00a0 Concerned citizens exercised our right to free speech in voicing our objections to MSNBC and our intent to advertisers that we will not support them with our patronage, as long as they finance Buchanan\u2019s microphone.\u00a0 Buchanan still has the same right to free speech that you and I do.\u00a0 What we took away was his microphone, and the US is better for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, MSNBC pulled the plug on Pat Buchanan, an anchor on Joe Scarborough’s three hour conservative commentary every weekday morning.\u00a0 The rabid, racist Republican right, along with Buchanan himself, are claiming that the left silenced his freedom of speech.\u00a0 Lets examine Buchanan\u2019s history and character, and lets see why the Republican claims are lies. […]<\/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-7197","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\/7197","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=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}