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Blacklisted, But Not Beaten
Patrick J. Buchanan February 16th, 2012
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My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end.
After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous.
The calls for my firing began almost immediately with the Oct. 18 publication of Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?? A group called Color of Change, whose mission statement says that it exists to strengthen Black Americas political voice, claimed that my book espouses a white supremacist ideology. Color of Change took particular umbrage at the title of Chapter 4, The End of White America.
Media Matters parroted the party line: He has blasphemed!
A Human Rights Campaign that bills itself as Americas leading voice for lesbians, bisexuals, gays, and transgendered people said that Buchanans extremist ideas are incredibly harmful to millions of LBGT people around the world. Their rage was triggered by a remark to NPRs Diane Rehmthat I believe homosexual acts to be unnatural and immoral.
more, and more, and more:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2012/02/16/blacklisted-but-not-beaten/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/16/1065646/-Pat-Buchanan-s-Leave-Finally-Permanent-He-s-FIRED-MSNBC?via=siderec
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,985 posts)craigmatic
(4,510 posts)la la
(1,855 posts)on last night---she said that uncle pat was in 'talks' with the network...
he'll be on fox soon, you can bet on it...
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But by all means, go. And whatever lies you have to tell yourself to make yourself feel better, you just keep mumbling them to you over and over again. You don't have the first clue, and the notion that you have been "blacklisted" would be laughable if it weren't so patently offensive.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)& Rec !!!
rurallib
(62,482 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Better late than never.
Good riddance.
rocktivity
(44,586 posts)And good luck getting your 99 weeks unemployment!
rocktivity
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)Thanks for the news.
Sure he'll go to F*x, but at least he won't be part of the civil discourse like he belongs or something.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)to abandon the old "tiny violin" smilie!
flexnor
(392 posts)thank goodness we've gotten rid of a conservative who call out the warmongers in his own party - now we can have that war! He makes the case below, that Obama is the only thing that stands between us and another ruinous war, and it's certain if Obama loses in November. Dont worry, it's not like he had any credibility in Red states when he calls out Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum - they value DU hero opinions every bit as much/
but, it's great that he's gone - it's not like it would be you who would be coming home in a box from Iran anyway
"Why have the Iranians not followed through on their threat to close the Strait of Hormuz and begun to dial it back?
War with the United States would be a disaster. Though the Tehran regime might survive -- as Saddam Hussein's survived Desert Storm -- Iran's navy, most of its armor, anti-aircraft and anti-ship defenses, and its strategic missile force would be destroyed, as would much of the country's infrastructure. Iran would be set back years.
Who, then, wants war with Iran?
All those who would like to see exactly that happen to Iran.
And who are they? The Netanyahu government and its echo chamber in U.S. politics and media, the neoconservatives, members of Congress, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
And as the Obama administration is the major force in U.S. politics opposed to war with Iran, its defeat in November would increase, to near certitude, the probability of a U.S. war with Iran in 2013.
Yet if the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence community are correct -- Iran does not have a bomb and has not decided to build a bomb -- why should we go to war with Iran?
Answer: Iran represents "an existential threat" to Israel.
But Israel has 200 atomic bombs and three ways to deliver them, while Iran has never built, tested or weaponized a nuclear device. Who is the existential threat to whom here?
And though a U.S. war on Iran would be calamitous for Iran, it would be no cakewalk for Americans, who could become terrorist targets for years in the Gulf, Afghanistan, Baghdad's Green Zone, Lebanon and even here in the USA.
Year 2012 is thus shaping up as a war-or-peace election, with Republicans the war party and Democrats the peace-and-diplomacy party."
Read it yourself - From
http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2012/02/07/who_wants_war_with_iran/page/full/
flexnor
(392 posts)"Year 2012 is thus shaping up as a war-or-peace election, with Republicans the war party and Democrats the peace-and-diplomacy party."
as he said in that article, and I planned to vote for Obama for that reason ALONE, that as much as i hated the corporatist policies i had to hold my nose vote for obama to keep the blood of an iran war off my hands
sure you're glad to lose that voice?
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Buchanan is not the worst of the racist Republican wing. But, seriously, that's not saying well for him.
flexnor
(392 posts)can anyone dispute the truth of that?
the brilliance of modern corporate fascism, is that it can dress itself as both right and left