Dear Rachel - boot the bigoted "Uncle Pat"

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Thursday July 16, 2009 · 7:19 PM PDT

2009/07/16 · 19:19

I watch Rachel Maddow most every night. Signed petitions to MSNBC advocating for her to get her own show. Listened to her on Air America.
I realize that she probably reads DKos, as does KO.

I feel like vomiting every time she has "Uncle Pat" Buchanan on (he ain't my uncle and I doubt most of you would want him in your family).

This evenings racist, sexist spew from Pat, comparing Sonia Sotomayor to Harriet Miers, was the last straw. His lament about the poor white males of America who are being discriminated against in a country that they founded singlehandedly and built singlehandedly was worthy of a David Duke.

He went on to simply write her off as an affirmative action statistic, who did not earn her grades at Princeton or Yale, and has no other qualifications other than being female and a Latina.

To Rachel: Perhaps you think you are being "fair and balanced" by inviting a bigoted race supremacist, anti-Semitic, homophobic dinosaur on your show as some type of foil for your liberal pov.

Perhaps you are afraid to stand on your own for who you are and worry that you will be perceived as somehow lacking in "objectivity" if you don't have a counter-point to your insights.

Well, imho, it isn't necessary. There's an entire news network called FOX that is 24 7 trash. CNN hosts xenophobes and concern trolls masquerading as "journalists". Your own network has forced me to abandon morning news viewing due to Morning Joke and his trusty "side kicked upon" Mika.

By giving him airtime - you give him legitimacy as a commentator. By calling him "Uncle Pat" you make him family. You know, those irritating relatives we always disagree with but accept cause they are "family".

Well Pat BucKKKanan isn't any garden variety crabby uncle. And your decision to grant him license to vomit filth into my living room is neither cute, nor educational. I don't need an education on racists. I've recommended to my students that they watch your program. They too have been more than disturbed about his visits.

I rarely post polls on DKos, but I'm putting up one now. I am asking that anyone here who finds him as objectionable as I do to please comment.

Perhaps even suggest some other conservative (if you feel that is necessary) Frankly my attitude is fuck all of them. They dominate the airwaves. Let us have a safe space.

Thanks for reading my rant - if I can find the video of the episode I'll stick it in later (if you can stand to watch it).

Media matters applauded her for slamming Pat yesterday:

If you agree that she should drop Pat, drop her a line. Her email is rachel@msnbc.com

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Should Rachel Maddow have Pat Buchanan as a guest?

Absolutely not

No one should

Only on Halloween if he'll wear his hood

Sure, he's harmless

Other

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Should Rachel Maddow have Pat Buchanan as a guest?

Absolutely not

72 votes

No one should

102 votes

Only on Halloween if he'll wear his hood

53 votes

Sure, he's harmless

6%

16 votes

Other

5%

13 votes

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