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Pat Buchanan: 'Militant Gay Rights Groups' And Van Jones Behind My MSNBC Troubles

Jillian Rayfield | January 11, 2012, 12:54PM

Pat Buchanan's explanation for his problems at MSNBC is exactly what you might expect: "Militant gay rights groups" and "people of color, Van Jones" are responsible.

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Topics: Color Of Change, MSNBC, Pat Buchanan, Racism, Van Jones

Tea Party Nation Head Defends Pat Buchanan: The Real 'Racist Nuts' Are In Color Of Change

Jillian Rayfield | October 26, 2011, 11:18AM

Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips defended Pat Buchanan against charges of racism by African-American civil rights group Color of Change, arguing that "the racist in this story is the group, the Color of Change."

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Topics: Color Of Change, Judson Phillips, Pat Buchanan, Racism, Tea Party Nation

Twelve Pretty Racist Or Just Crazy Quotes From Pat Buchanan's New Book

Jillian Rayfield | October 24, 2011, 5:20AM

Pundit and MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan's new book, "Suicide Of A Superpower," is a veritable treasure trove of eye-popping assertions about the decline of America at the hand of increased diversity and multiculturalism.

TPM went through and picked out some highlights, so that you really really don't have to.

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Topics: MSNBC, Pat Buchanan, Racism

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Pat Buchanan Book Gives Special Thanks To Infamous Racist Karate Chopper

Jillian Rayfield | September 29, 2011, 4:26PM

In his upcoming book, Pat Buchanan gives special thanks to his researcher Marcus Epstein -- a former staffer for Tom Tancredo who became infamous for a racist karate chopping incident in 2007.

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Topics: Marcus Epstein, Pat Buchanan, Racism, Tom Tancredo

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Pat Buchanan: Sarah Palin's Use Of Blood Libel Was 'Excellent' (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | January 12, 2011, 2:38PM

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Pat Buchanan said Wednesday that Sarah Palin has been a victim of the media in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), and she was right to use the phrase "blood libel" in defending herself from charges that her language had anything to do with the mass shooting.

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Topics: Gabby Giffords, Gabrielle Giffords, Pat Buchanan, Sarah Palin

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Buchanan: White Americans Are Losing Their Country!

Zachary Roth | October 20, 2009, 11:32AM

Pat Buchanan, in his latest column, in reference to white Americans:

America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right.

Don't tell MSNBC!

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Topics: Media, Pat Buchanan, Racism, Right-wing extremism

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MSNBC Promoting Buchanan's Hitler-Sympathizing Column

Zachary Roth | September 3, 2009, 11:34AM

It's one thing for a national cable network to feature a Nazi sympathizer as a political analyst, and refuse to answer questions about it. It's another for that network to actively promote that person's apologies for Hitler.

But that's what MSNBC is doing.

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Topics: Pat Buchanan, Right-wing extremism

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Buchanan: Hitler Didn't Want War -- MSNBC Mum On Employing Hitler Sympathizer

Zachary Roth | September 2, 2009, 5:44PM

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Usually, historical revisionist arguments of the "Hitler Was Actually A Man Of Peace" variety are confined to the kind of poorly designed and little-read white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites that Holocaust Museum shooting suspect James Von Brunn patronized.

But that doesn't account for the mainstream media's token Hitler sympathizer, Pat Buchanan. To mark the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Buchanan, a frequent commentator on MSNBC, has written a syndicated column entitled "Did Hitler Want War?"

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Topics: Media, Pat Buchanan, Right-wing extremism

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Buchanan: Nicaraguan Leader Is "Scrub Stock"

Zachary Roth | April 24, 2009, 2:50PM

For the last decade or so, Washington has indulged Pat Buchanan as a sort of crazy political uncle. Everyone, it seems, has agreed to forget about his long track record of racially questionable commentary and writing, and to look kindly on his continued nativist leanings, because he's an entertaining and surprisingly insightful TV performer, and it's fun to watch him argue with Rachel Maddow.

But every now and then, the centrality to Buchanan's worldview of racial difference rises to the surface. In addition to his frequent MSNBC appearances, where he plays a mostly well-mannered, if hardline, conservative, Buchanan also writes a column for the far-right web magazine, Human Events. And that's where he gets himself into trouble.

His most recent effort, "The Rooted and The Rootless," takes as its premise the notion that there's a "blood-and-soil, family-and-faith, God-and-country kind of nation" that's competing with a minority represented by the "rootless" Obama and his "aides with advanced degrees from elite colleges who react just like him."