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Controversial author and pundit Pat Buchanan went to Fox News on Friday for his first television appearance since his stormy departure from MSNBC the day before. Speaking to Sean Hannity, Buchanan lashed out at his ...
The book, "Suicide of a Superpower," was published in October. Almost immediately, Buchanan was roasted for writing chapters such as the one entitled "The End of White America," and for appearing on a white nationalist radio show to promote the book. Gay rights and Jewish and civil rights groups launched a campaign against him. MSNBC president Phil Griffin said that sections of the book were not "appropriate for the national dialogue" and kept Buchanan off the air for months until letting him go.
Buchanan still has friends at MSNBC -- Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Chris Matthews all made public statements about their regret over his departure -- but he turned to another friend, Hannity, on Friday. Before appearing on Hannity's Fox News show, he called into his radio show on Friday afternoon, where he said that his departure from MSNBC was "not my idea."
"I think they're engaged in a blacklist, Sean, a blacklist of conservative and traditionalist thought," he said. Hannity agreed, saying that Media Matters and others were at "the root of an organized campaign to...ultimately silence conservatives."
"There are elements in our society and they are predominantly on the hard left that say it's no longer enough to challenge and contradict or defeat or fight these fellas in arguments," Buchanan said. "We've got to smear them, stigmatize them as racists or homophobic and then we've gotta silence and censor them and the way we do it is go after the media outlets that put them on the air...this is un-American what is going on right now."
Hannity noted that Buchanan's views have not changed in the years that MSNBC has employed him. "So what happened here?" he asked. Buchanan said that MSNBC was worried about the persuasiveness of his words.
"They can't be afraid of me," he said. "I'm not going to be President of the United States. They are afraid of the ideas we express because they're afraid of the people."
Hannity then quizzed Buchanan about the chapter in his book called "The End of White America." Buchanan said that he was merely trying to push back against the idea that the end of the country's white majority was a good thing.
"Why can everybody else celebrate this and say it's wonderful, and I can't even write about it without being blacklisted?" he said. "...I don't know why they say this is going to be better when there's a smaller percentage of white folks."
Hannity asked if Buchanan really meant to warn against cultural, and not racial, shifts in the country. Buchanan rejected that idea.
"If you remove the ethnic core of the country...I think you imperil the unity of the country and the culture," he said. "...My point is, an ethnic core -- in other words the fact that we were a Western and European people predominantly and we had 10 percent African Americans -- this was one of the strengths of this country as well as the culture."
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Controversial author and pundit Pat Buchanan went to Fox News on Friday for his first television appearance since his stormy departure from MSNBC the day before. Speaking to Sean Hannity, Buchanan las...
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23 minutes ago (11:43 AM) MSNBC blacklists conservatives? And Fox 'News' has an open door policy for liberals to voice their opinions without interruption.
25 minutes ago (11:41 AM) The funny thing is no one really care about Buchanan getting fired from MSNBC.He's a racist bigot who shouldn't be allowed to use MSNBC tevee audience to spread his message of hate .
26 minutes ago (11:40 AM) He can't understand that he has a perfect right to be a bigoted, hate-filled anti-semetic racist homophobe, but MSNBC has a perfect right to fire him for being one? Blacklisted? More like getting fired for telling Pollack jokes when your boss's name is Stanley Kowalski.
32 minutes ago (11:34 AM) It is becoming SCARY, that people of differing views can no longer be tolerated in the media. I don't care WHAT your views and ideas are.... people should not be stopped from speaking their minds. I don't agree with a LOT of people, but it doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to speak. Is anyone else concerned that once the conservatives OR liberals go after a person.... they will very soon be kicked off their respective network? We are becoming a country that doesn't tolerate ideas different from our own. We belittle, castigate and crucify anyone who disagrees with us.
34 minutes ago (11:32 AM) Pat Buchanan, an unfailingly polite gentleman, needs to visit the Statue of Liberty and revisit his "ethnic core" philosophy in light of the following words..
37 minutes ago (11:29 AM) Haha What a pair...they deserve each other. Enjoying not seeing Pat's face or big mouth, very nice change!
37 minutes ago (11:29 AM) Pat Buchanan was also on McLaughlin Group this a.m. (Sun) and he always is, so clearly there are plenty of venues who still want his hate and fear mongering and racist rants. Kudos to MSNBC for deciding not to pay for that slop any more.
49 minutes ago (11:17 AM) "Black-listing"? Oh, you must be referring to what happened to innocent Americans during the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950s. Evidently we liberals are having a very hard time "silencing" you, Pat, because you appear to be spouting your nonsense quite freely on FAUX News. It's kind of hard to claim "censorship" when you've been handed a platform to make your self-serving case without being challenged on the facts, don't you agree?
16 minutes ago (11:50 AM) Only MSNBC is doing the censoring. Liberals are proud when they can get rid of people who don't agree with them. What a dangerous group of people.
52 minutes ago (11:14 AM) Being fired from one network does not a blacklist make. I'm sure Cenk Uyger would have Pat come on the Young Turks anytime (although he might have to answer some hard questions in the process) and of course, Fox News is always happy to have him aboard. They have a demographic that hangs on his every word.
Pat has just put himself over the line as far as being associated with MSNBC goes. There are certain things they will not condone, including extreme radicalism on th left or the right. They would not hire Keith Olberman back (even if he would accept the offer) and they would not hire David Duke. Since Buchanan and Duke have become such soul mates in recent months, it stands to reason that Pat could no longer be an MSNBC employee.
54 minutes ago (11:12 AM) He is confusing black-listing with a good old fashioned firing. Ask the people who were actually black-listed where they got to go and vent about the unfairness of it all to a million viewers. The man knows history about as well as he knows current politics.
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