Buchanan must be personable indeed, because loyalty to a criminal president is not a virtue. Matthews knows Pat Buchanan is a simple racist and he should say so. There can be respectful disagreement over tax policy, trade policy, foreign policy and all the rest, but not on whether black people should be able to vote. History has dismissed Buchanan's kind of politics, and good riddance.

"There are two aspects of Pat Buchanan I`d like to mention. One highly and wonderfully positive; the other -- well, that`s the one that gets him into trouble."

The other that got him into trouble is always the one that is punished. A thief can be wonderfully positive but that doesn't cover for the fact that he does bad things.

Buchanan is a despicable old man with despicable ideas. The world has for the most part passed his despicable ways and left them behind. His voice is no longer needed.

So how many nanoseconds before he gets a show on fox?

So Tweety's saying a stopped clock being right a couple times a day and useless the rest is what he's gonna miss?

To each his own, I suppose.

Like a boil on my ass.

That's the problem with the MSM, bobblehead shows in particular. They all think they're just 'entertainers,' so when they get together backstage and take off their costumes, they all recognize each other as just one of the fellows/gals, not the racist, hateful, bags of bile that they present on the teeveetron.

O'Reilly, Beck, and now apparently Buchanan aren't really ignorant crackers, they just play one on teevee, they're just entertainers. That's what's so frustrating about Jon Stewart, or Tweety, they see them off camera and think they're decent human beings because they're not 'on,' but they're not. They are entertaining us into a new Dark Age, and they know they are doing it, but it's OK because they don't really mean it and they're making piles of money.

THAT is what makes these cretins so despicable. If they actually believed what they were saying instead of just whoring themselves for a buck they might be worth a modicum of pity or respect.

Your money's on the nightstand Pat, now get out.

I know they keep moving to the left and that can only be a good thing for the country as a whole, indeed I believe the whole world should move to the left and get along.

My first wish was granted and now Buchanan can drift to Fox with the rest of the .........!

My second wish is that Chris would have the guts to come out of the closet and admit he is a Republican and join Pat at Fox.

This is a bullshit post. Matthews was being a gentleman. It is like if you have shitty family member that you know is a bigot but you like that person for whatever reason. Maybe that person helped you work on your car when you were a kid or something. Or helped you with your homework. Who knows. I don't have such a person in my life but I have heard others that do. I would not have a friend like that (bigot) but there are a lot of people who do. Matthews didn't heap sugar all over Buchanan. He acknowledged he was a turd In a way that a friend would and he did it in a way that respected his long friendship. You can give Matthews a hard time for having such a friend but not he way he announced that he was leaving.
Matthews didn't agree with Buchanan on those magical days back in the 1950's when we still had segregated schools and prior to the Civil Rights movement that was the fantasy. Why do you say they exist in Matthew's mind? I remember the sixties with good feeling along with the bad. We all remember the good times when we were kids. Matthews point was just the opposite of what you insinuated. At least that is what i got from it yesterday when I saw it.
You do not like Chris Matthews and never will but he has done a shitload of good in the past year or probably two at least. He has been hammering on the right wing crazies as hard as anybody. He has his personality problems like everybody like trying to please and be nice to people who are shitheads like Tom Delay (Man. I get pissed off when that asshole is on Hardball but I still watch because I know in the next segment Tweety will be hammering on Noot Gingrich or Santorum or somebody else.). Maybe it is a good thing that Matthews had Buchanan on his show because it shows that there are people out like Buchanan who are bigot and for whatever reason have a voice. Chris Matthews has done a great job for a while now and you hardly ever acknowledge it and when you do it is not because of what Matthews had done it is because of what one of his guests have done. It is really lame but it is your choice. So go ahead and don't like him but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. And don't say something that was not there. It makes you look bad and little.

matthews and buchanan are birds of a feather. i think it's downright ludicrous to view msnbc as anything more than it is: a cable infotainment channel that bases its coverage of events based on what it thinks will garner the most viewers, and thus generate the most ad revenue.

matthews, like maddow and o'donnell and scarborough, etc. all work for the same team, all pull in the same direction. sure, they might disagree from time to time of issues, or even all the time, but when push comes to shove they are aligned in their interest to further msnbc's bottom line. they all play a similar he said/she said game of faux-news coverage, and serve as infotainers to the masses.

like others i still watch a lot of these programs (and scream at the TV) but it is always pretty obvious these are just TV personalities reading from scripts--however democratically-leaning some of the scripts might be.

I won't.

Enemies Lists ,Slush Funds ,Latin American Criminal Hit Squads?Blind,corrupt , bigoted,greedy,paranoid and viscous ...and they call themselves Christians??/Buchanan cares about one thing ,his own bottom line,our Country is in deep trouble as our Pols and Pundits are all just Wall Street Pimps and Corporate Profiteers!Mathews please go to the Repubs,anyone that can cry for two disgusting beings as Chris did by covering for a/holes like Pat Buchanan and Tom Delay is the reason Dems will never get a thing done,you cannot reason with hate filled bigots who care for only Oil and Gold!

Matthews can always invite the irascible David Duke on and dscuss his loyalty to the segregated, Jim Crow South of his youth.

You know, I may have disagreed with bin Laden's attitudes about religion, civilization and using passenger jets as weapons of mass destruction, but the man was very polite in front of a camera, and you could tell he put a lot of thought into his terrorist plots.

Osama is gone now, but never forgotten. Same with Pat Buchanan, but we'll still get to see him rationalize his white supremacist views on Fox, CNN and wherever a rebel battle flag reflects the racial attitudes of fearful white people.

Someday, Chris Matthews too will be gone. Like Ted Koppel, I will miss not just his enormous head, but his attitude that the size of a thing outweighs any moral imperative to pursue truth and journalistic integrity. Letting giant bigots like Pat Buchanan spew their dementia on a regular basis is just like getting history lessons...from Newt Gingrich.

When Chris Matthews does his segment, "Let Me Finish," I am in awe of the irony, that a man addicted to interrupting others, himself never seems to be done talking.

Buchanan is a white supremacist, a gaybasher, a Christian crackpot, a Nazi apologist and a Holocaust denier, Why he hasn't been given a show on FOX is beyond me- but i suspect that will soon change.

Why tweety is sucking Buchanan's wrinkly sack is beyond me. Pat Buchanan is white supremacist scum, through and through.

Maybe it's time he joined his "bro" Pat.

Mr. Buchanan's racist rants belong in the trash bin of history, he soiled his reputation all on his own. Chris Mathews white-washed that racism and is dishonest about how that impacted the tv audience.