The precise reason I stopped watching Morning Joe. MSNBC are trying to capture some of O' Reilly's audience. It is danaging their brand as a whole, IMHO. I must stick with NPR. It's not as exciting but the BS factor is nil to none.

that was indeed an appalling diatribe - entertainment value or no. i hope and pray that maddow won't have him on again.

You know, I feel out with Pat when I first heard he stated that blacks need to be thankful for slavery...otherwise--you know--we'd be in a jungle somewhere with no clothes on, eating babies and spearing one another. He is willfully ignorant of the history of the continent, the contributions of black americans, and the changing tide facing America right now. He doesn't need a hood and robe, this is the klan 2.0; the new klan is allowed to infiltrate millions of homes with their doctrines of reverse discrimination, moral majority bullish, Obama is a muslim, communist, socialist, (not AMERICAN!)......and this is prime time television. Entertainment disguised as journalism to reach the absolute bottom of the barrel type of audience, inspiring the worst in people. Pat has simply risen to the upper echelons of this blatant baffonery. I don't wish death on people. But he seriously needs to SIT DOWN and wait on it to come. He is too antiquated for progress or civil discourse.

I agree as well, I may have to give MSNBC 50 feet. I watched last night as he spewed his usual racial filth and I just couldn't believe it. I read an article on some other blog or site and they asked "What does Pat have to do to get fired?" Well I guess insulting every race besides his own is not one of the things. I, like the author is going to miss Tamron and Carlos (Morning Joe-not so much), but I need to find another source to get my daily info. Sadly, I can only listen to NPR on the radio.....

There's always Caught on Camera and Lock Up to tide you over...

o_O

Cosign BablyonSis-

I turned on Maddox to see what was up & got hit with this racist prick's rant.

I don't think she handled that situation well. Not sure if she was stunned or what.
I was amazed that he could say all of that smack with a straight face. At times, he looked like he was having too much fun with it all.

except from where I am sitting, where my parents & my grandparents & greatgrandparents sit,

that isn't funny.

yea, pat is a clown. but he's entitled as any of us are to say what's on his mind.

Danielle,
How do guest posts work? Is there any way that I could write up a guest post? It seems like you allow your readers to write them from time to time.

Racist and cable news? Shocking! Seriously you should just watch Democracy Now

Most of MSNBC's audience could probably use a reminder that people still think those things, still say them, and still get listened to. (Which doesn't mean you have to watch it, of course.) And at least, unlike Fox's audience, they'll care.

It’s as if MSNBC is deliberately trying to piss me off. Every time I go to watch one of my favorite shows I have to turn it off because of Pat “what about the white guy” Buchanan or Ron “RNC talking points” Christie.

Well, I can relate. I basically stopped watching Fox years ago and now I'm putting Morning Joe on the blacklist as well. Pat is getting more and more intolerable, so perhaps I'll throw him under the bus too.

What Pat said is exactly what is still wrong in this country. You have a large sector of the population that thinks that if it is not white (white men, to be specific), it is deficient. I could not believe that Pat could think these things and say them outloud in the America of 2009. Good thing! his days are numbered. How about Congressman Todd Tehart that came out today about abortion of black babies. True! he only mentioned the possibility of aborting the President and Clarence Thomas but we know what he meant: women living below the poverty level having access to free abortion. In other words, black women and white women having babies with black men would have a field day if abortion was made free to them. Racism has a new cover now, it's called free speech. I get sick to my stomach listening to all that hatred. Those people are so hateful that they don't see what they are doing to non-white Americans while they're spewing out all that ugly nonsense.

And don't forget that Buchanan is on PBS too.

"Those people are so hateful that they don't see what they are doing to non-white Americans while they're spewing out all that ugly nonsense."
- Missyme

Yes, they do. That's the point of the exercise.

Please sign this petition to have Uncle Pat's ass removed from MSNBC.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ask-msnbc-to-fire-pat-buchanan

I'd be glad to. A petition is a good start, but you may also want to look into getting a boycott going. A boycott is the only reason we don't have to sit on the back of the bus. I can't afford cable at this point, so I can't make a list of their advertisers, but I --like most -- can afford the necessities of living, and I'm sure the companies that sell these necessities advertise on MSNBC.

If you can get a list of their advertisers/race-baiting-supporters and threaten their pocket book with a Black/anti-racist boycott of their products and services MSNBC will have no choice but to remove this racist prick from their network. Always remember, the color White folks love most is GREEN.

COSIGN WITH INTELLIBRO

I don't know... Doesn't anyone else think that Pat Buchanan maybe just getting paid to play a role for MSNBC? Kind of like a pro-wrestling heel (or bad guy), on these pundit shows I think Uncle Pat's role is to be the dissenting voice of the other side, no matter how ignorant or stupid his comment may be. I don't think he even believes half of the crap that comes out of his mouth, MSNBC pays him to get a rise out of people and flame the debate.

Out of the many times I've watched this network, I've seen him break character on one or two occasions. If I remember correctly, he did it during the DNC coverage last year directly after Obama's address to the convention. Pat gushed all of the his speech and was all excited to a point where Chris Matthews had to cut him off to cut to someone else's view and a commercial (he later returned to grumpy old man -self after the commercial break).

I'm not attempting to downplay what he was quoted saying, his comments on The Rachel Maddow Show were the most idiotic and racist things I've ever heard on MSNBC and I think an apology may be in order. I just happen to doubt his sincerity to those thoughts. This reminds me of that episode of The Boondocks where they show Ann Coulter as saying the stuff she says to sell books while living the opposite in her personal life.

By not watching MSNBC you are not asserting a form of power they will understand or appreciate. They don't care if you stop watching and your pompous attempt to reassure yourself that you are a noble fighter is all vanity for yourselves at this point. The evidence is clear that even if we propose a commercial boycott it is fleeting. Only advertisers care and they are catching on that since we are now lagging behind Hispanics in technology now with all the other circumstantial increments of regression we are showing in numbers in real-time, they are not having to really worry about us as much anymore in mainstream media. Our power is cosmetic and circumstantial.

Blacks have shown a propensity to herd in response to dramatic insults of vivid, overt racism but after the concession is applied, we disburse and go about our own singular businesses to compete against one another and convey singularity instead of collectivism. The activism proves only to be a reactionary and we should know that our political and social capital was only dramatic theatre to produce theatrical outcomes to aid in our pathology of playing the game, "See There".

We like to see ourselves play the "See There" game. It makes us think we doing something and we like to see others apologize to us but what more, we like to see media show other Whites see Whites apologize to us. We like the shaming. We like seeing equal embarassment dispensed through social and political theatrical. The problem with it is that it ends. It dies down and power is never transferred. We think power is transferred because we feel the instant "redemption" of the real-time theatre absolving us but no power is ever transferred that really makes structural changes we can benefit from and build upon.

See There has become our de facto rationale in understanding the only solutions to dismantling racism when the "See There" approach is the same approach Sharpton and Jackson applies. Dr. King did not play the See There cards. He was far more complex and his strategies with his colleagues required long-term cohesive interactivity. They had a level of trust we don't have or even understand in intimacy as a norm these days among our own since we have been programmed by family and society to mistrust one another. So the furthest we can planned is to plan strategies so limited that don't require as much invest and trust that the members of the Civil Rights Movement had to offer freely to be pliable tools of action in building their sustainable strategies at that time.

And we know how we cringe that Sharpton and Jackson only know that model to facilitate to gain results. But we fail to realize we are not that far and different from them. It's that our complaints stratify to illiuminate their limitations but by reading the comments here, I see the same limitations in social mechanics as Sharpton and Jackson and the likes.

That one model that the usual suspects choose is so similar to what has been suggested above. They are tired and vain. They only produce outcomes to punish Whites instead of teach them. The cameras sensationalize the insult and hurt but that is all the audience learns about. It learns that Sharpton and Jackson will embarrass you but it does not show if and when they do try to create residual teaching measures afterwards. So instead the public learns that Blacks have only one card and it is reactionary to cry and whine and we learn that too in only having the limited dimension to flex and exercise one model. The opposition and those nuetral that advance in communications strategies and advocacy strategies learn that we are not that "smart". They learn that our developmental tract of reason and cognition stopped developing at the models practiced after the Civil Rights Movement. Even the strategies utilized during the Civil Rights Movement prove to be too complex for us because it requires we really be more cohesive all the time instead of only bonding when we can wait for a public figure to insult us or for an organized group to show racist tendencies and exhibit themselves.

For this call for a boycott to work and mean something, it matters that we develop--not Pat. The reason racists are equipped with power is because they are uniform and they don't compete against each other in their everyday lives. Their interest is to see the group superior. Blacks...we say we want to see ourselves advance but from experience I have learned that we say that when we really are displacing the pronouns to not sound so selfishly in the first-person. We have no idea what racists "get" in understanding that the group must advance together because they don't show us or break it down in a dumbed-down manner of efficiency for us to understand. But thinking that by silencing Pat we are doing something, we are vain and supercilious. Nothing happens but dramatic effect. We pat ourselves on the back and tell ourselves we are heroes when we are doing nothing but the tired, old models of inefficiency that Sharpton and Jackson never elevated from.

And as much as Sharptona and Jackson look duplicitious because they are, they really are simply stuck even when exhibiting their most altruistic sides of themselves. They are not that sophisticated. They refused to grow and adopt new learning strategies and I think it is because the new strategies would decentralize their authority as the "race firemen" they made their brands out of by model.

So hear...listening to another batch of "I'ma do dis and I'm do dat", I can't even applaud these comments here. It's as much as sincere as much as the sincere is blind egotistical rally. We have it learned how to REACT but we have not the structure to really help ourselves. Pat is not the problem. Racists are not the problem. Our ignorance...our blind ignorance is the problem. Our inabilities to trust our own and let go our competiting keeps us stuck in inertia. As these incidents contine to rear it's heads, we think things are getting worse. It actually is not getting worse. Our inability to advance to create structure to save and strengthen ourselves gets worse.

Pat is a sympton of our lack of organization and we have to learn that the organization we seek in seeing the theatrical by-products of cohesiveness is just dramatic social theatre with no core structure that sustains or grows to build us out (building blocks) for sustainable growth as a centralized group.

And the usual suspects...the Black male Leader types...they don't have the language, social history, or experience or desire to take on a title-less and unrewarding (no fanfare) job. We keep looking for our "Leaders" to produce magic when it really is blood, sweat, and tears intelligence and sweat labor that we need to learn how to build trust to take on trying to advance in social evolutions. They don't even speak the language to understand this to replicate teaching it to us in modeling. We need strategies to strengthen us--not to silence Pat.

Silencing racists is not power transferral. We have work to do that requires a lot of giving up of our tangible selves and tangible self-protections against losing ourselves to other Blacks in trust. Pat is not the issue. That is why we get it twisted when we see these incidents. The quiet...the silence fools us that progress has been initiated when all that happened was that the volume of hate was turned down to appease our weak and egotistical spirits that can't handle being taunted by those more organized to rattle, taunt, and shame us. We are too damn soft and weak spirited and in actuality..

You've got to be kidding BooBooKitty...

Can you save your dissertation for your own blog?

Thanks much in advance.

BooBoo Kitty:

Can all u do is point out the problem with "us"? Wgat are the solutions? Keep it simple and precise. No one one wants to read all of that nonsense.

Please go away BooBooKitty.

BooBooKitty is PARTLY correct -- we do need to get far more organized against these racists and include other minorities in the fight (White supremacists despise them too), but it's dangerous and against our present and long-term interests to let scum like Pat Buchanan spread their hate to the many weak minded Whites looking for someone else to blame for their problems and feelings of inadequacy. We are greatly outnumbered! Never forget that.