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...finally decides to pull the plug on Pat Buchanan.
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by JedReport on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:26:25 PM PDT
If he's fired whose ass will Rachel Maddow routinely kick?
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by Fozzie Bear on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:30:26 PM PDT
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by stagemom on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:32:06 PM PDT
He needs to be put out to pasture. But the corporate shills who run things think he still drives ratings. Even though he's never been elected to anything.
Oh well, it would either be him or Anne Coultergeist. Count your blessings!
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
by The Lighthouse Keeper on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:14:30 PM PDT
let me tell you youngster: youth and enthusiasm will never defeat age and guile! (Or maybe it will....) :-)
by gfv6800 on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:42:10 PM PDT
Bottled hot water for dehydrated babies? WTF?!
by JVolvo on Wed May 14, 2008 at 07:57:06 PM PDT
by crankyinNYC on Wed May 14, 2008 at 09:31:56 PM PDT
by worldwideellen on Wed May 14, 2008 at 09:47:03 PM PDT
Go Barack Obama
by concerned on Wed May 14, 2008 at 11:11:52 PM PDT
by concerned on Wed May 14, 2008 at 11:14:05 PM PDT
paste the URL in your browser.
http://www.youtube.com/...
How do you tell a predator from a protector? The predator will eat you sooner rather than later.
by hannah on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:58:58 AM PDT
The racial under and overtones that permeates America. This is not a laughing matter. If we do not rise above and say 'stop', it will never change!
by vixenflem on Wed May 14, 2008 at 10:24:13 PM PDT
the only things missing from PB's rant tonight were the white sheets and burning cross.
Disgusting.
There has to be an invisible sun / That gives us hope when the whole day's done -Police
by rightiswrong on Wed May 14, 2008 at 10:31:35 PM PDT
"gays have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution" or "public acceptance of homosexuality inevitably leads to societal decay and the collapse of the family" Just two of his many 'entertaining' NOT hateful rants
by vixenflem on Wed May 14, 2008 at 10:39:38 PM PDT
Change is a foreign policy that doesn't begin and end with a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged. Obama 6/3/08
by Lipstick Liberal on Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:55:11 AM PDT
the woods because there were a lot of deer rifles there.
I wrote my rant about it in this comment
by joynow on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:49:42 AM PDT
He said it on a slow Saturday morning and not many people seem to have seen it. I could not believe what I had heard and wrote MSNBC a LTE. I cannot believe that this kind of racist hate speech has become mainstream in America. People really need to speak up and say they will not tolerate this idiot and his racism. Some people, unfortunately, think it is ok if they see it on the Tee Vee.
Here is the link if interested.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Lies are the new truth.
by rivamer on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:41:34 AM PDT
say it On Saturday April 12th before 10 AM. I wrote to more than letters and all of the shows. I also wrote to the bigwigs at msnbc news phil.griffin@nbc.com and steve.capus@nbc.com. I am more certain of what he said because I wrote that same day so it was fresh on my mind. Obama better stay out of the woods when he gets back to Pennsylvania because there are a lot of deer rifles out there. Watching himself in deer hunter country was how he ended the column about Wright that came just days before the "Brief for Whitey: column responding to Obama's speech.
I didn't find the columns on his website, people didn't have to go there to find them. I found them at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ where I go to see all the polls and they link all sorts of political articles and column on their home page. On my comment I linked I linked the article too and gave the actual excerpt. Also my little rant. I am horrified by it them keeping him on the air. After his columns I thought he should not be allowed to play analyst in this campaign. After the comment I thought he should be off the air.
by joynow on Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:09:57 AM PDT
before she tried to calm Buchanan down? Thank god Chris Matthews challenged him at least.
by dclawyer06 on Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:29:31 AM PDT
came across as pitying him and being embarrassed for him to me. I didn't catch the whole statement, so I'm not sure if it was at the same time as the one JedReport is referring to, but Pat was blathering on about "socialist, protesting Vietnam, yadayada..." that caught my attention. Andrea looked uncomfortable and embarrassed for him saying "The world has changed, Pat". He's a dinosaur. Not because of his age but because of his backwards, unevolved views of the world.
by jodygirl on Thu May 15, 2008 at 07:26:24 AM PDT
with a fast mind, I do think she was embarrassed but she's also the anchor of a major news show. I expect better--stop being friendly with the Klan guy.
by dclawyer06 on Thu May 15, 2008 at 09:20:59 AM PDT
they all seem to feel a little sorry for him. I think he is an enormous asshole, but it must suck to have such an angry, hate-filled, really fearful attitude towards the world. He's really just a twisted, scared old man.
by jodygirl on Thu May 15, 2008 at 09:26:00 AM PDT
given her penchant for citing made up stats for American's opinions of this that and the other-- BUT- I think she was dumbfounded and trying to figure out what to say. After she finished speaking and Matthews started in on Buchanan you could see her shaking her head.
Strength and weakness for Matthews: he's fast with the comeback.
by Zulia on Thu May 15, 2008 at 07:27:17 AM PDT
to msn Buchannan was there also, spewing his same racism! it really isnt entertaining to listen to Mr Buchannan and it really IS time for MSNBC to cut him loose. the resident racist has got to GO
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by KnotIookin on Thu May 15, 2008 at 01:46:36 AM PDT
really voted for him. He is a racist, bigoted, jealous old man, and last night he showed us in full glory exactly what he's about. FIRE HIM MSNBC!!!!
All serious daring starts from within. ~Eudora Welty~
by livjack on Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:54:17 AM PDT
Who isn't so blatantly racist . What about George Will or someone else who has at least a shred of decency
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan
by atlliberal on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:33:22 PM PDT
Now.
by Kdoug on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:40:44 PM PDT
his head will explode when Obama is elected.
by cacamp on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:42:48 PM PDT
... of the pleasure of watching that live on TV?!?
by Fozzie Bear on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:44:21 PM PDT
Geraldine Ferraro has someone to pal around with.
When liberals saw 9-11, we wondered how we could make the country safe. When conservatives saw 9-11, they saw an investment opportunity.
by onanyes on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:45:04 PM PDT
Now that a black guy might win he is pining for a white woman.
"Somewhere. Someone's god is laughing." - Three Days Grace
by Intercaust on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:51:00 PM PDT
as most Republicans they rather have Hillary as our nominee since she must be easier for them to beat.
by mnguy66 on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:53:49 PM PDT
"I'm not going to be your monkey", Jon Stewart
by gabie on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:11:53 PM PDT
than a calculation of which would be the weaker candidate. He nearly jumps out of his chair at the idea of a black President. He seems on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
by NY John on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:33:19 PM PDT
Tweetie & A. Mitchell were obviously taken aback, somewhere between shocked and appalled, tonight.
To his credit (I suppose), Matthews managed to exercise some control and not have the segment spin completely out of control.
Buchanan was at a frothing, slavering high anxiety level.
by attydave on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:51:11 PM PDT
For those of you familiar with Chicago Sports Radio (I'm sure that's a majority of the DailyKos readers) you are of course familiar with The Score and their ex-announcer Les Grobstein, a beyond rabid Cubs fan.
I used to love listening to the airwaves when the White Sox were having a good season and the Cubs were down. It was like, listening to someone tormented in their own personal hell.
I get the same vibe watching Ole' Pat. It's like, the Democratic party just won in MS-01. MS-01! And, he has to come on the air every day, and talk about a black candidate for President.
It really couldn't get any better than this. I hope he never get's the axe. I'd rather watch him torment in this cruel, cruel world that is rapidly making him irrelevant.
by such sweet thunder on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:57:53 PM PDT
I think he'll retire or go to Fox. I think he'll die first before allowing television cameras to catch him on record address him with that title.
"To kill one person is murder. To kill thousands is foreign policy." Chinese writer Moh-Tze
by ILean Left on Wed May 14, 2008 at 08:20:04 PM PDT
At the end of the clip, when Matthews asks Pat if he'd love to live in a world in which race was irrelevant, Buchanan can't and won't answer, other than to say that it's not realistic.
The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because of racists like Buchanan who have encouraged (in order to exploit) generations of bigotry.
"Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing glove." P.G. Wodehouse
by gsbadj on Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:32:36 AM PDT
It's been looking lately like she's gone so far right as to be to the right of McCain.
Pat Buchanan: one more right-wing nutjob for Hillary.
McKinney/Clemente 2008: Parties that sell out the Constitution don't get my support or my vote.
by simca on Wed May 14, 2008 at 11:47:08 PM PDT
or hate. Buchanan very likely assumes that racism is antagonistic towards a particular group of people. He doesn't see himself as antagonistic towards black people and he doesn't recognize that distinguishing people on the basis of skin color is ipso facto an example of prejudicial thinking--making a judgment BEFORE, rather than AFTER an event.
by hannah on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:06:39 AM PDT
Keep Pat On The Air.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
by resa on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:17:10 PM PDT
'Pat's Head Explosion'show on as the intro show to silly cartoonish shows like American Gladiators or Beauty and the Geek and take him off the News.
Republicans need people to be stupid
by strengthof10kmen on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:50:31 PM PDT
He'll pull a Budd Dwyer live on air the moment MSNBC calls the presidency for Obama.
Did you notice how when Matthews asked him if he wanted to live in a world where people could date interracially and it didn't matter what color your teacher was, that Pat....just couldn't agree...he mumbled something about wanting to see MLK's dream come true (and it was a treat to watch him spit out MLK's name like it was castor oil). But he wouldn't agree with Chris, he just said something about 'one people, one nation.' =`0 yikes!
by ingle74 on Wed May 14, 2008 at 08:30:47 PM PDT
If you think about the horrible outcomes that allowing this spirit to unleash again in our country you would know that this is neither funny nor entertaining. Pat needs to retire, he can not handle this publically because TV legitimizes ideas just because they are on TV. His devolvement into tribal/racial identification of us against them and verbal war, can quickly become the movtivation for something much more serious in our society. He is bloated with hatefulness and needs to be retired from that platform.
by jazzyjay on Thu May 15, 2008 at 01:32:35 AM PDT
As long as they have people on there to counter balance him and show him for the silly fool that he is, it's a good thing for people to see.
You can't sweep racism under the rug. It's better to shine a light on it and expose it for what it is.
by resa on Thu May 15, 2008 at 06:53:00 AM PDT
what it looks like, and how it sounds. Many people as Chris quietly responded to Pat have seen this play out for 400 years. We fought a civil war in which more people died than any other war and then 150 years later the issues are still unresolved. You think because you and several others here can look at that see how foolish and outdated that thinking is, but having him say that and survive to say something else and something else legitimizes him in ways that feed into those tribal feelings that are overt in many and just under the surface of many more. His first statement last month was insane enough. To save that black people are better off having gone through 7 generations of chattle slavery because now they get to live in America should have been the end of his TV gig. Can you imagine someone saying that Jews are better off for having gone into the ovens because they got a country out of it? Would they have been allowed to continue pontificating after that? The airways belong to the people, not the station owners. We the people must establish a higher level of discourse and then police our airways so that there is a price to pay for going too far.
by jazzyjay on Thu May 15, 2008 at 08:01:49 AM PDT
Many people don't know what racism is or how it sounds.
I've done several small workshops/discussion groups on racism and you would clearly be surprised at how many otherwise well meaning people do not believe that there is any racism or that race doesn't matter or that people thought things like this a long time ago. The best way that I've ever been able to demonstrate that racism does exist is through the use of the media.
I make no distinction between antisemitism and racism.
If someone was saying similar things about Jewish PEOPLE, I would hope that there would be someone reasonable and rational on air with them at the same time to respond to it and to demonstrate to the watching public how stupid and ludicrous such a statement is.
by resa on Thu May 15, 2008 at 09:09:51 AM PDT
as you say to know how many people don't know what racism sounds like. If that is true it may be because people particularly in the media get away with sanctioning it by hiring people who behave like PB. Behind the scenes letter writing campaigns are only effective if they create enough fervor to get the offender off the air. If they are off the air or if people stop watching or supporting their sponsors then that would contributes to labling these attitudes and comments as unattractive and innapropriate for public discourse. If after saying something like this and the next day the person is back on the air smiling and the station is using their ridiculously racist comments as promotional material as they are this morning on MSMBC, then the listening audience begins to normalize this behavior. Regression in this area is certainly something this country doesn't need.
by jazzyjay on Thu May 15, 2008 at 11:16:51 AM PDT
you are not making any sense. I'm A/R trained and I do this all of the time. It's the people like PB who help me to demonstrate that racism exists to the people who don't believe it and it's particularly helpful when such people are counterbalanced by people like Rachel Maddow unlike some of the other things from the media that I use.
Censuring racists allows people to go on believing that everything is just peachy keen. It isn't.
Shutting them up will not make them go away. Shine the light on them like the roaches that they are.
by resa on Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:24:42 PM PDT
unless your experience regarding the results of racism extends beyond your classroom demonstrations. If Pat's hateful and racist words against Barack influences someone to take up Pat's advice and go after Barack with a rifle, well that event could provide lots of material for your discussions, however it would be an extreme loss for this man, his family, and our country. We can agree to disagree on this, you certainly have a right to your opinion. But I think I have a right to believe that in the midst of a heated campaign season when violence has already reared its' ugly head, getting known racists off the air especially those who are subject to racially infused trantrums is a very sensible response.
by jazzyjay on Thu May 15, 2008 at 06:14:56 PM PDT
and for me, you are it.
by mellowinman on Thu May 15, 2008 at 06:10:42 AM PDT
the past ... I am so darn sick of the older generation and their fears and phobias - get lost, beat it already!
by We Shall Overcome on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:44:40 PM PDT
you'll be the old fart someday, too, and be mocked for your outdated and retrograde thinking.
As well should we all - that's how social progress works.
Wingnuts hate Big Media cause it sometimes tells the truth.We should hate it for the rest of the time when it don't.Oh, also when they eat brains.
by Ugluks Flea on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:54:12 PM PDT
Atari! We used to TALK on the PHONE, and one other thing... <snore>
McCain is a Chode.
by dnamj on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:04:39 PM PDT
Starting out on an 8088, 40 meg HD, 300 baud modem and DOS. Before the internet, on BBS.
Toasting the Clintons...
McCain's daily Gaffe is a laugh a day.
by redtex on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:12:24 PM PDT
I hooked my cassette recorder to my TI99/4a and pressed "record".
Under the latest new rules, I win.
by dji on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:14:07 PM PDT
I also believe we must impeach Antonin Scalia for protection from his inhumanity.
by SciVo on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:33:18 PM PDT
Portable. Weighed thirty or so pounds. Little bitty green screen. Looked like a science project from the 60's. Two 5 and a half inch disk drives. Megs? What megs? Used Wordstar for word processing. If you wanted anything that looked better than notepad, you used dot commands.
The damn thing cost more than $2500. The 80's sucked.
The meek are ready to probate.
by ironpath on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:42:50 PM PDT
by such sweet thunder on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:59:39 PM PDT
information super highway
"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength", George Orwell, "1984" -7.63 -5.95
by dangoch on Wed May 14, 2008 at 08:32:51 PM PDT
and Basic. Those were the. er "days and days of code for little moving pictures. I love me my Macbook pro, now that I'm an old fart.
Patriotism may be the last refuge of scoundrels, but religion is assuredly the first.
by StrayCat on Wed May 14, 2008 at 09:11:40 PM PDT
hooked up to a black and white TV. Remember those?
-6.5, -7.59. Dump Harry Reid. Put in someone who can rid us of Holy Joe Lieberman.
by DrWolfy on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:57:28 AM PDT
Wish I still had my C64. Saw one last year someone saved, never used, still in box.
"...one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."
by adamsrw on Thu May 15, 2008 at 07:05:42 AM PDT
were cool games on the Amiga.
by adamsrw on Thu May 15, 2008 at 07:08:49 AM PDT
a skill I use to recommend diaries like this that ask why in the world would anyone keep a racist like Pat Buchanan on the air. He should have been canned when he tried to explain how some white Europeans were not suited to be American. . .
Habeas Corpus:See Hamilton quoting Blackstone in The Federalist Papers, number 84.
by Ignacio Magaloni on Wed May 14, 2008 at 08:42:09 PM PDT
I was looking for specs on an older computer today for comparison and found this great historical reference webpage - ah, there should be a word for "anti-nostalgia" as in OMG, that's the thing that ate my thesis! There's that wretched doorstop! Damn, I forgot just how small and horrible the screen on the Trash-80 was!"
"Don't be a janitor on the Death Star!" - Grey Lady Bast (change @ for AT to email)
by bellatrys on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:41:52 PM PDT
"Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity."
by SLKRR on Wed May 14, 2008 at 07:14:02 PM PDT
programming with toggle switches in 8k memory was read fun.
The user interface was spectacular, as long as the power stayed on.
by dangoch on Wed May 14, 2008 at 08:34:29 PM PDT
Eights rods. Five beads per rod.
Take that, add an ink pot, a brush, and some papyrus, and you were good to go!
Never did manage to adjust when those newfangled slide rules were invented...
This nicely summarizes what's wrong with American political life today. (Source)
by GreenSooner on Thu May 15, 2008 at 02:01:58 AM PDT
by Lipstick Liberal on Thu May 15, 2008 at 06:00:41 AM PDT
"You are very wise, Van Helsing, for one who has yet to live a single lifetime." - Count Dracula
by collardgreens on Wed May 14, 2008 at 07:22:09 PM PDT
But we won't get Racist!
"We the People of the United States..." -U.S.Constitution
by elwior on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:56:07 PM PDT
a lot of birthdays, still refuse to grow old. It's in the thinking. Keeping your mind open to new ideas and concepts is the real secret to staying young. It also prevents a slide into old fartdom.
OWW4O (Old White Woman 4 Obama) OWW40's Unite!
by Cyber Kat on Thu May 15, 2008 at 07:10:35 AM PDT
Led my kids to Obama.
(Before he decided to run.)
by redtex on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:10:23 PM PDT
by gfv6800 on Wed May 14, 2008 at 06:44:00 PM PDT
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