MSNBC Should Finally Drop Kick "Brown Shirt" Pat Buchanan Over the Goal Posts and Into Oblivion

Will Pat Buchanan finally get the boot at MSNBC?

It is way past time for the "progressive" channel to drop kick the "brown shirt" pundit into oblivion.

Although ThinkProgress has announced his departure, statements from MSNBC President Phil Griffin are more ambiguous.

What we do know is that Buchanan published a book last fall, "Suicide of a Superpower." It was so racially and religiously offensive that even MSNBC, which had allowed Buchanan to spew his white/Christian-centric bigotry as a paid commentator, suspended him for the time being while the thug pundit peddles his American version of "Mein Kampf."

Over the years, BuzzFlash at Truthout has taken note of Buchanan's repeated brazen bigotry and Aryan Nation assertions of what amounts to a DC-tolerated version of "white power" - with an emphasis on males running the show. Media Matters put together a compendium of just some of Buchanan's racism, gender bias and defamation of anyone who is not Christian and white.

Even though his latest diatribe on behalf of Aryan Nation beliefs - with chapters such as "The End of White America" and "The Death of Christian America" - finally set off an alarm at MSNBC, Griffin refers to Buchanan as "a good guy." Inside the DC beltway, Pat's got a likeable reputation as always being nice to chat with at cocktail parties, but so did a lot of Nazi diplomats.

In one of our past commentaries on Buchanan, BuzzFlash at Truthout observed:

The psyche of the white male yearning for the patriarchal hierarchy was reassured by Bush as president - who proved that any idiot white male could rise to the top of the pyramid, even if his strings were being pulled by two other white males: Cheney and Rove. But then the psychic crack-up happened: an African-American male was elected to the highest office in the land by a landslide.

So for the Pat Buchanans of the world who saw Clinton as a Bubba who had betrayed them, Bush gave hope that the ante-bellum order of white male plantation dominance would be restored.

And then it all came crashing down and now is manifesting itself in demagogic outbursts of forcefully overtaking the government and restoring the white man on top.

That's Pat Buchanan and the long goodbye in a nutshell, because the tide of American demographics is wresting power from the white male, forcing a power sharing agreement that they don't want any part of.

It's time for Buchanan's mainstream media perch to be taken away. His is a pernicious, abominable, nativistic ideology that should not be condoned or sanctioned - let alone paid for - by the media.

Let him pick a street corner upon which to rant away. That's his First Amendment right. But MSNBC shouldn't be giving him a salary for espousing a "more palatable" version of "The Turner Diaries."