Time for Pat Buchanan to retire too

[babylonsister]

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Time for Pat Buchanan to retire too
by John Aravosis (DC) on 6/07/2010 04:16:00 PM


From Media Matters:

Just days after making grossly inappropriate comments about Jews in Israel, Hearst columnist Helen Thomas has retired.

It’s time for Pat Buchanan to retire, too.

Despite a decades-long track record of offensive comments about … well, nearly everybody, Buchanan continues to write columns and appear as a commentator on MSNBC.

During his time in public life, Buchanan has defended Adolf Hitler -- repeatedly. He has peddled Holocaust denial claims and compared suspected Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk to Jesus Christ.

Buchanan has reminisced fondly about his childhood in segregated Washington, DC, and complained that “Old heroes like ... Robert E. Lee are replaced by Dr. King." He wrote that “integration of blacks and whites” was likely to result in “perpetual friction, as the incapable are placed … side by side with the capable.” Buchanan's anti-integration views were so hard-core, even Richard Nixon characterized Buchanan’s them as “segregation forever.” When 67 blacks were shot to death by South African police, Buchanan dismissed the massacre as “a few South African whites mistreating a couple of blacks.” In 1989, Buchanan defended Bob Jones University’s ban on interracial dating. 1989!

In 1983, Buchanan wrote that "homosexuals ... have declared war on nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution." (During his 1992 presidential campaign, he stood by that view, insisting "AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.") He has compared gays to alcoholics.

[Flying Dream Blues]

1. K&R! nt

[gratuitous]

2. Oh, well, see, that's different

I can't really tell you how it's different, but it's different, trust me.

Pat has a penis, and he's a well-connected white guy, so anything he says is de facto all right to say.

[Chulanowa]

4. I can tell! He's white, has a cock, and votes Republican

[gratuitous]

10. Hmmmm

You may be on to something there. Click and hold over the lower part of my post above, and see if I agree with you . . .

[Posteritatis]

18. And his employers actually *like* overt bigotry. (nt)

[Raine]

12. His people have his back

and will stand up for him that's one big difference.

[LeftishBrit]

3. It was time for him to retire 40 years ago.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. I couldn't agree more.

Why MSNBC keeps him on is beyond me.

[AndyA]

6. I can't stand to watch or listen to "Wheezer" Buchanan

He. Annoys. Me.

His voice is shrill, and yes, he's a bigot and a homophobe. And I'll bet he believes women should be at home, barefoot, and cleaning house, and not speaking unless they're spoken to. You can kind of tell he finds women inferior by the way he treats them on TV.

He used to be on Maddow's show all the time, but not so much any more, thankfully. I wonder if Rachel put her foot down and said she'd find better guests. (And she does.)

[DesertFlower]

7. i don't think he wants to be on

rachel's show. last time he was on she tore him a new one.

[deminks]

8. Everyone else is still working. Imus, Limbaugh, Boortz, Buchanan, Savage, Beck &

Hannity, Palin, Bachmann, and almost every RW congress critter in DC - they are all working and spewing their hate.

K&R

[eleny]

9. Damn right

[HopeHoops]

11. Pat Buchanan should be deported to somewhere he hates - like The Bronx.

What a waste of flesh.

[jazzelle]

16. LOL

preferably at midnight.

[Walk away]

13. Retire from what? . . nt

[SoCalDem]

14. Awww. he's just sweet old "Uncle Pat"..you know

like everyone's old relative who says crazy shit and people just laugh with him...:grr:

This difference is that he gets away with harassing & denigrating black people , brown people and poor people because THEY do not own/operate media venues and have not been in real places of power over decades .

He enjoys his tirades and because he throws in a goofy laugh, everyone cuts him slack & sayd that's just Pat, being Pat..:puke:

[Barack_America]

15. Might I suggest a nice villa in Argentina?

To carry on with tradition and whatnot.

[depakid]

17. Same point I made yesterday- but the corporate media in America lacks ethical standards

and accountability methods.

Probably the single greatest reason for the nation's inexorable decline.

[Blue Owl]

19. Arizona's seems more like Pat's scene

n/t

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

20. Have some compassion, would you? Pat's parents died in the Holocaust.

They fell out of the watchtower.

[JDPriestly]

21. Buchanan should have retired way back in 1968.

He is out of touch and bigoted. I can't stand to listen to him.

Helen Thomas's emotional outburst was a terrible mistake in a pretty much otherwise very compassionate career. I strongly condemn her outburst and hope she visits all the Holocaust sites in Europe (preferably with a survivor of that time at her side) and then revise her comments.

But Pat Buchanan is full of hate speech, and it is shameful that his hate speech is given air-time on TV. Yes, we should hear all points of view. But, no, we don't need hate speech.

[City Lights]

22. He should have retired years ago.

I predict he won't retire for quite some time though. msnbc approves of his message.

[JoePhilly]

23. Agree