It's about time: MSNBC should have gotten rid of Buchanan a long time ago, Ari Rabin-Havt, executive vice president of liberal watchdog Media Matters for America, tells the Associated Press. "He's been making the same racially insensitive, anti-Semitic and homophobic statements for the past 50 years." This book "was not his first, nor his worst offense," but it's certainly more proof Buchanan does not deserve a public platform on any cable news channel.
"Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan dropped from MSNBC"
MSNBC should be ashamed: "I disagree with Pat Buchanan" on just about everything — from World War II to marriage equality to immigration, says Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast. He's a "sometimes outrageous, a flame-thrower," but he's also an intellectually honest and decent man who has "thought carefully about his extreme out-of-the-mainstream views." Shame on MSNBC for trying to silence him, and taking "another step backward from real debate on cable 'news.'"
"The hounding of Pat Buchanan"
This is actually a win for conservatives: Buchanan wasn't a legitimate spokesman for the right, says David Zurawick at the Baltimore Sun. He was a snarling troll that the increasingly liberal MSNBC presented "as the nasty, mean-spirited face of conservative values." Whenever he said something veering toward hate speech he "confirmed the worst stereotypes that liberals believed about the right." Without him maybe MSNBC will focus on honest debate, instead of cynically airing propaganda.
"MSNBC drops Pat Buchanan — and that's good for cable TV, country"
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