December 09, 2009 06:00 AM
Hardball Brings on Pat Buchanan to Discuss Harry Reid's Slavery Remark
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Chris Matthews' wants to discuss Harry Reid's slavery remark and who better to bring in than flaming racist Pat Buchanan.
The guy would have been a slave owner 150 years ago. Hell, I'm not sure he isn't a slave owner today. So why not have the guy that supports slavery to comment on slavery. You really need both sides presented to understand an issue.
And the other side of the issue was defended by....?
telling the truth about the decades long republican bad behavior...
He and Grayson deserve a metal but reids should be smaller bcause it took to long...What is so bad about telling the truth..I know it is not PC but Pc got us in this mess...Call it what it is...
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I don't think that Mr. Buchanan would have been a slave owner 150 years ago, the complete opposite actually.
Is it worth mentioning that today is the 50th anniversary of the John Birch Society? :)
I thought it appropeux.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Must be a local holiday in Orange County (CA).
My company's office is in Yorba Linda, about 3mi from Noxin's birthplace/museum. Maybe I get a paid day off today?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Tweety is BFF with Tom DeLay and Pat B.S Buchanan.
No Surprise but what will it take for MSNBC to take Tweety off the air?
Will he have to say something stupid about the President giving a speech
to West Point Cadets?
Hmmm
right?
Funny how a liberal (or a supposed one, or even a moderate) says anything, anything at all, it becomes automatically "controversial" and has to be triple-checked, questioned, and contrasted by the opposing view by the media.
Conservatives can make all sorts of sh*t up, and zip, zilch, nada in contrast... as it is the supposed "accepted self apparent wisdom"
Heck, at this point... I am expecting to see a witch doctor asked to provide the GOP's POV regarding health care reform, as contrast to the liberal doctor with 5 degrees and 2 Nobel prices in the subject which will only have 3 minutes to state his position only to be cut off by the commercial break....
Only if the GOP can find white ones...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Donny Deutsch asked Steele why this analogy offended him and Steele refused to answer . .
Steele: "Next question"
Hmmmmmmm, isn't this what people say when they have no answer, eh??
I saw that this morning and Steele tried to play the offended card but he looked more like he was playing the joker. Donny looked pissed at Steele's asshole-e-ness.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Look, he has those guys in the GOP convinced that he's going to Boehner's tanning booth. If they should find out he's an honest to goodness--er--"fascist," he'll lose that job for sure.
Discussing Afghanistan, Bob Woodward was sitting next to Pat Buchanan. Yes Pat, Nixon was a crook, and Woodward helped bring your master down! Classic! MSM is becoming more and more of joke! How did Woodward sit next to him with a straight face?
Oh for heavens sake. The republicans need to grow up. They know damned well their history of standing in front of big changes in our country and the improvements those changes have brought.
Buchanan is a disgrace when it comes to matters such as this and show me one person who sincerely gives a flying fu*k about what he thinks about anything.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Pat Buchanan.
Why? Was George Wallace not available?
He apparently has the hots for that racist loon Pat Buchanan, but bringing him on to discuss a racist remark is like asking a pig to have a BLT. It just does not compute. I have written letters to Hardball ranting about the bigoted, nationalist Buchanan and saying they should dump his ass, as I am sure many viewers have--and of course Matthews and the Powers That Be don't give a rat's ass about what the viewers want--they just do what their corporate masters tell them to do. I think the only way we will get Pissy Pat off the air is for him to be struck by lightening (are you listening, Lord?).
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Phony outrage is the same as genuine outrage when you have today's "press" to validate it for you.
Buchanan must be cheap, they can claim he's a conservative, and he's house trained. The fact that nobody cares what he says anymore doesn't seem to matter. He makes an outrageous comment and nobody cares. He can't get the network in trouble this way. Why not have Newt on sonetime ? He prob costs a lot more but at least he has at least a few people that care what he says.
...as usual, Wolfe misses the point... Am I alone in really not liking this guy?
Senator Reid was not comparing Health Care Reform to slavery, he was pointing out right wing obstruction of any progress. Note, it was not always the 'Republican Party', but is was always the people who were for the rich over the poor, the status quo over progress, the white over the black, fear over rationality, propaganda over education, and personal greed over shared prosperity.
They're just upset to learn so late that slavery ended.
Hearing white people explain racism is like a fish being an expert on dry skin.
It's an epidemic!
I didn't hear what you all seem to agree on at all. Pat B. didn't say that Reid was wrong or even that his analogy was not apt. He did say that by using such a controversial and sensitive subject he enabled the GOP to play the victim and whine about how unfair majority rule is. Woolfe even started off his bit by stating that Pat was correct.
Now it may be that Reid is a partner in Barak's deep game. In that scenario, Reid would know that the Republican party is now centered on the Southern bloc of Senators, many of whom were once Democrats back when that was either the only party or the party most devoted to supressing their minority citizens. These folks are very sensitive to any mention of slavery, even if, when you look at it closely; it turns out to be a slam on the Democratics of the mid nineteenth century. Because that was who their ancestors were. These Southern Republicans are repeatedly entangled in hyprocisy because that is the basic structure of their lives. They want to be heirs to the legacy of the "Great Emancipator" while still honoring a flesh peddler turned General like Nathan Forrest.
I believe that the President and the Majority Leader are both smart enough to incite the GOP this way in order to get them off balance at a critical juncture and perhaps lure them into saying or doing something really stupid that would provide the Dems with some substantial advantage.
If both Medicare buy-in and Al Franken's premium/payout ratio get through we will have won a small but important victory. It is like the old joke, "Would you have sex with me for a million dollars?"
"Yes."
"How about five hundred thousand?"
After the initial success it is merely a matter of price.
And don't get me wrong. It causes a bit of a mental shudder to even begin to give good ole Pat credit for being correct on something. It's like biting tinfoil.
But Buchanan is correct - Reid's comments were nothing but cannon fodder for the right wing. And he should have known it before he ever said it.
Sounds more like Shrivelled Balls to me.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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The whinging wealthy just LOVE throwing bipartisan red herrings to see which ones we'll swallow, or fight over...
Why should our species render sacrosanct any historic events?! Notice that the ones that get the most frequent coverage are those about which we feel the most guilt.
Ironic, yes. Iconic, not so much.
Some historical literacy is badly needed by these folks on the Right. A short breakdown of conservative resistance to change: http://girlordog.org/?p=444
So i didn't watch Hardball when the Buchanan came on - the channel just changed on it's own it seems, like it always does now when confirmed haters come on these shows. Buchanan is driven by hate so there's no reason on earth to listen to him.
So i missed the rest of Hardball, and i may not watch tomorrow. There's no excuse for bringing this man on your show - contracts can be broken and Hardball should fire this unpleasant and destructive person.
Besides, Buchanan is in love with himself - see they way he plays with his expensive jewelry - he thinks he can buy his way into God's grace with gold rings and a huge bank account. God has different plans for the likes of Buchanan.
Still, i bet he wastes his whole life being spiteful and disturbed and never realizing as much.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It's interesting you bring this up at a time when MSNBC'S Rachel Maddow is investigating the role of The Family (no, not Manson's, the C-Street theocrats) played in the death-to-homosexuals legislation being debated in Uganda. If you recall, Buchanan used the occasion of a Repub convention speech to attack the sexual minorities and in particular gays, something along the lines of "criminal," "agenda," "child molesters," and so forth. I will google the speech to get it verbatim. I want to be armed when anyone praises Pat or even when they invite him on TV to punditate.
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
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