DISQUS

kaninchenzero · 5 months ago

Might this finally be specific enough to fall under the definition of incitement? He's suggesting a named person kill another named person and gives a method for doing so. What on earth makes him think he's entitled to do this?

deeky · 5 months ago

he's one of the reasons i don't like Rachel Maddow or her show. i'd respect her much more if she didn't chuckle every time she had him on and comment on what a great guest he always is.

blondie · 5 months ago

I agree on the designation for the despicable Pat Buchanan, as well as not understanding why Rachel Maddow seems to like having him around.

Scott Madin · 5 months ago

Seriously, openly calling for an individual's murder like that can't be legal.

ErisDiscordia · 5 months ago

Buchanan inexplicably remains a valued contributor at MSNBC

The explanation: A few well-placed, wealthy, and clinically insane people are very well-invested in attempting to make us all think that Buchanan holds sane, majority views, in order to get us to endorse their outlandish policies and products.

Alternative explanation: The teevee is the natural habitat of Jerkus fundnutticus.

TheDeviantE · 5 months ago

it's shit like this that makes me sigh in confused melancholy.

Melissa McEwan · 5 months ago

he's one of the reasons i don't like Rachel Maddow or her show.

Ditto. She describes him as something like the crazy uncle that everyone has or wev, but my feeling is, "Yeah, and I don't want to be around him either."

schmiss · 5 months ago

Question: is there any right-wing pundit who has been *too awful* for the media to handle?

Pat Buchanan pulls all the B.S. detailed in this post, he still appears on MSNBC five times a day.

John Gibson suggests that white people need to make more babies and mocks Heath Ledger's death, Fox News still distribute his radio show.

Oliver North... well, he's Oliver North, and he's still a respected Fox New analyst.

Hell, G. Gordon Freaking Liddy commits crimes against his own country, proudly admits to plotting assassinations, instructs his radio listeners on how to kill ATF Agents, and continues to push Obama conspiracy theories... yet he's treated like a conservative hero! And don't forget how he's one of John McCain's friends, because you know, he did the time for his crime or whatever the excuse was.

If Ralph Reed actually succeeds in his recent goal of bringing back the Christian Coalition, I... well, I won't be surprised. His fellow Abramoff-buddy Grover Norquist is still the toast of DC, right? Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Abramoff himself leaves prison with a contract for his own CNBC show.

QuakerDave · 5 months ago

Buchannan as a wacky, "crazy uncle"? Yeah, if your crazy uncle is an unReconstructed racist, an unapologetic homophobe and Islamophobe, a raging sexist, a Nazi apologist, a documented denier of certain aspects of the Holocaust, and a generally ignorant dope.

breadf · 5 months ago

Is it possible that Rachel Maddow is pressured by execs to feature him as a guest and only treats him like that for the sake of her job? I only really started watching her show about a month ago, and I actually don't remember him being a guest. If someone with a longer history with the show could let me know if my question is off-base or not, I'd appreciate it.

spryte · 5 months ago

I actually haven't seen Buchanan on Maddow's show for a while...though I don't watch every night. I'm wondering if she finally started getting fed up enough with him...??

But either way, this guy is so offensive and reprehensible that I hate even spending time thinking about him, but...then I feel like I need to because I want other people to know about revolting statements like this...UGH.

And cue the people who will say that having Buchanan on MSNBC provides an "opposing viewpoint" or what the fuck ever. I say fuck that. For one thing, his "viewpoints" oppose basic human morality and decency, and opposing such things should not bestow on someone a national freaking pedestal from which to spout them. For another, you can be an "opposing voice" or whatever without being a racist, homophobic bigoted jackass. Or at least...some people can be. Apparently not Buchanan.

Ugh ugh ugh.

Kathy_A · 5 months ago

I watch Rachel regularly, and she hasn't had him on in months, at least since the election if not before. She had him on early in her show's run because she hadn't built up a go-to list of regular pundits, but since she's got one now, he hasn't made a repeat appearance.

jay_bee · 5 months ago

Maddow has said a couple of times in interviews that when she was first coming out, Buchanan loomed much larger in the national horizon as a presidential candidate, and he was such a large, angry, negative, influencing voice during a time that also saw the Contract w/ America and all of that 'fun' stuff, and she likes now being able to debate him as a peer and take down his arguments, to his face. That put it in a little context for me, that I could understand why she would choose to talk to him. But I haven't seen him on her show in a long while... months, even?

He's awful,though... everytime he says something horrible like all those examples, I hope it means he's sliding into irrelevance. But he keeps popping up.

amish451 · 5 months ago

Liss, thanks for the msnbc address, email sent.

Crazy Uncles can be incarcerated, some should be. Those who publicly advocate Murder should be. Buchanan is no better than the gang boss who "suggests" someone might have an accident.

CParis · 5 months ago

ErisDiscordia says: The teevee is the natural habitat of Jerkus fundnutticus.

LOL!!! I almost peed my pants. Too bad we can't move these wingnuts into a zoo.

AlmostAmanda · 5 months ago

Ten bucks says that within a few weeks, Buchanan will go on a tirade about how Barack Obama is not a real Christian.... you know... like him.

Ashley · 5 months ago

As far as I can recall, it's been months since Buchanan has been on Rachel Maddow's show.

willow329 · 5 months ago

Thirding (fourthing?) the observation that I haven't seen Buchanan on Rachel's show in months and months. Keith Olbermann never has Pat on either. As many problems as there may be with MSNBC, those are two blissfully Pat-free hours.

Unfortunately, it seems he's making up for it by going on every other goddamn show they have.