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Tell MSNBC: Fire Pat Buchanan
For years, Pat Buchanan has passed off white supremacist ideology as
legitimate mainstream political commentary. And MSNBC continues to pay
him and give him a platform on national TV to do it.
Buchanan just went on a white supremacist radio show to promote his new
book -- which argues that increasing racial diversity is a threat to
this country and will mean the "End of White America."
Please join us in demanding that MSNBC fire Pat Buchanan now.
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I'm writing to demand that you fire Pat Buchanan immediately. Buchanan
has a long and consistent history of peddling white supremacist ideology
as legitimate political commentary, on your network and elsewhere. He
recently went on a white supremacist radio show to promote his new book
-- which argues that increasing racial diversity is a threat to this
country and will mean the "End of White America."
Pat Buchanan has the right to express his views, but he's not entitled
to a platform that lets him broadcast bigotry and hate to millions. If
MSNBC and NBC want to be seen as trusted, mainstream sources of news and
commentary, you need to fire Buchanan now.
Here are a few examples of what Buchanan has said in the past:
- "This has been a country built basically by white folks ... "[3]
- "Sonia Sotomayor does believe in race-based justice basically at the
expense of white males and to advance people of color. The truth is that's
what Barack Obama believes as well."[4]
- "America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here
that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a
community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached
the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known . no
people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold
trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent
supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services,
Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring
the African-American community into the mainstream."[5]
- "[Former KKK Grand Wizard] David Duke is busy stealing from me. I have a
mind to go down there and sue that dude for intellectual property theft."[6]
These are just a few of many, many examples of Buchanan's barely-disguised
bigotry.[7,8] Buchanan has defended Hitler.[9] He's said that "in a way,
both sides were right" during the civil war.[10] Buchanan often implies that
white people are more intelligent than people of color, and just this
weekend (in a different radio interview), he refused to disavow the idea
that white people have superior genes.[11]
In general, Buchanan is pushing a vision of America that portrays white
people and "white culture" as genuinely American, and diversity and
multiculturalism as a threat to America. Buchanan tries to blame the
country's economic problems on programs like affirmative action, welfare,
and food stamps - programs which help vulnerable and disadvantaged Americans
of every race, but which Buchanan and others on the far right have portrayed
as only helping lazy and undeserving minorities. He takes every opportunity
to stoke the racial anxiety and fear that exists among some white people. In
short, Buchanan wants to pit white people against people of color. He
believes in it, he thinks it's good political strategy, and in his new book
he encourages the GOP to become "the white party."
If Buchanan didn't have a powerful media platform, he'd be just another
person with outdated, extremist ideas. But it's irresponsible and dangerous
for MSNBC to promote his hateful views to an audience of millions.
Please join us in calling on MSNBC to fire Pat Buchanan immediately:
http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/buchanan/?referring_akid=2257.1013230.moKE
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Thanks.
References
1.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/twelve_pretty_racist_or_ju
st_crazy_quotes_from_pat_buchanans_new_book.php?ref=fpblg
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2. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110230003
3.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/rachel-maddow-duels-with_n_237036.h
tml
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/rachel-maddow-duels-with_n_237036.h%0Atml>
4.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/bob-shrum-explodes-over-pat-buchanans-r
?highlight=%22Pat+Buchanan%22
<http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/bob-shrum-explodes-over-pat-buchanans-r%0A?highlight=%22Pat+Buchanan%22>
5. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25634
6. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2553
7. http://mediamatters.org/research/201107290005
8. See reference 6.
9. http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909020026
10. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004080046
11. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110210018
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