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It just occurred to me that I haven’t heard the racist stylings of one Patrick J. Buchanan on MSNBC lately and I really haven’t missed him either. Pat got himself into a bit of hot water with his latest book Suicide of a Superpower and hasn’t  appeared on the network since October. Buchanan known for his racist comments both in print and on the air got the Color of Change Treatment when they pushed as they have been doing for years for MSNBC to fire him. It may have worked this time.

The book was a punch to the gut of America’s increasing diversity intermingled with fears on religion, crime, and the survival of the nation among things that Pat says has declined mostly due to folks of color.

For example this excerpt from the book… Half a century after Martin Luther King envisioned a day when his children would be judged ‘not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character,’ journalists of color are demanding the hiring and promotion of journalists based on the color of their skin. Jim Crow is back. Only the color of the beneficiaries and the color of the victims have been reversed.

And this one…Not until the 1960s did courts begin to use the Fourteenth Amendment to impose a concept of equality that the authors of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, The Federalist Papers, and the Gettysburg Address never believed in. Before the 1960s, equality meant every citizen enjoyed the same constitutional rights and the equal protection of existing laws. Nothing in the Constitution or federal law mandated social, racial, or gender equality.

Only in Pat’s America did he see every citizen enjoying the “same” constitutional rights and equal protection as everyone else. I had no idea Pat suffered from delusions. Not only did he write all of this bullsh*t he went on white supremacist radio show The Political Cesspool to promote it.

Initially he was asked by MSNBC President Phil Griffin not to appear on the network during the book promotion but it became more once Griffin really looked at some of what Buchanan was saying. “The ideas he put forth aren’t really appropriate for national dialogue, much less the dialogue on MSNBC,” said Griffin.

Pat took to the airwaves on Wednesday to set the record straight and to blame anyone but himself for his troubles, “Look, for a long period of time the hard left, militant gay rights groups, militant — they call themselves civil rights groups, but I’m not that sure they’re concerned about civil rights — people of color, Van Jones, these folks and others have been out to get Pat Buchanan off TV, deny him speeches, get his column canceled” he said on Sean Hannity’s radio show. “This has been done for years and years and years and it’s the usual suspects doing the same thing again. But my view is, you write what you believe to be the truth.”

Did he just put Van Jones on blast? This poor guy can’t catch a break, he was already unceremoniously made to leave his post as Green Jobs Czar over allegations he was associated with a  Marxist group but mostly after reports linked him to efforts several years ago suggesting a U.S. government role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Glenn Beck who would see his own star fall(laughing out loud) often made Jones a target of his show labeling him  “radical who wants to fundamentally change America.”

It’s true that Van Jones is a co-founder of Color of Change but Pat’s undoing is all his own, you just can’t say whatever you want. It’s okay to keep your racist thoughts to yourself.

Posted by Libergirl