Why is Pat Puke-Cannon still on MSNBC?

[wizstars]

Can't they find a way to get rid of that worthless douche-bag??

[asjr]

1. I've wondered if maybe he is the

charity case taken on by MSNBC. Maybe he can't get another gig.

[Donnachaidh]

2. why is Ron Christie still there?

Neither one should be on msnbc.

[kysrsoze]

9. Comic relief? If not them, who else would be willing/able to defend the Teapublicans?

[JaneQPublic]

3. I'm just glad Rachel quit having him on as her "fake uncle" (nt)

[msanthrope]

4. Because MSNBC seems to think we need a 'crazy uncle' character during the 'news.' n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Why? Just because he said things like this.....

"Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free." (Pat Buchanan, September 1993 speech to the Christian Coalition)

"If a woman has come to believe that divorce is the answer to every difficult marriage, that career comes before children ... no democratic government can impose another set of values upon her." (Pat Buchanan, Right from the Beginning, p. 341)

"Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism." (Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 11/22/83)

"The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer." (Pat Buchanan, Right from the Beginning, p. 149)"

"Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody." (Pat Buchanan, challenging the "notion" that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by Diesel exhaust in Treblinka, New Republic, 10/22/90)

"If U.S. Jewry takes the clucking appeasement of the Catholic cardinalate as indicative of our submission, it is mistaken. When Cardinal O'Connor of New York seeks to soothe the always irate Elie Wiesel by reassuring him 'there are many Catholics who are anti-Semitic'...he speaks for himself. Be not afraid, Your Eminence; just step aside, there are bishops and priests ready to assume the role of defender of the faith." (Pat Buchanan, commenting after Cardinal O'Connor criticized anti-Semitism during the controversy over construction of a convent near Auschwitz, New Republic, 10/22/90)

"...despite Hitler's anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was an individual of great courage...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path." (Pat Buchanan, from a 1977 Syndicated column)

"If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?" (Pat Buchanan, "This Week With David Brinkley," 1/8/91)

" an across-the-board assault on our Anglo-American heritage." (Pat Buchanan, in a September 1993 speech to the Christian Coalition

"George Bush should have told the that black America has grown up; that the NAACP should close up shop, that its members should go home and reflect on JFK's admonition: 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather ask what you can do for your country.'" (Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 7/26/88)

"There is a legitimate grievance in my view of white working-class people that every time, on every issue, that the black militants loud-mouth it, we come up with more money.... If we can give 50 Phantoms to the Jews, and a multi-billion dollar welfare program for the blacks...why not help the Catholics save their collapsing school system." (Pat Buchanan, Boston Globe, 1/4/92)

After Sen. Carol Moseley Braun blocked a federal patent for a Confederate flag insignia, Buchanan wrote that she was "putting on an act" by associating the Confederacy with slavery: "The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance," Buchanan asserted. "How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?" (Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 7/28/93)

White House advisor Buchanan urged President Nixon in an April 1969 memo not to visit "the Widow King" on the first anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, warning that a visit would "outrage many, many people who believe Dr. King was a fraud and a demagogue and perhaps worse.... Others consider him the Devil incarnate. Dr. King is one of the most divisive men in contemporary history." (Pat Buchanan, New York Daily News, 10/1/90)

[madamesilverspurs]

6. And his lovely sister, Bay,

is currently campaign manager for Tom Tancredo.

Interesting family values. . .

[political_Dem]

7. Because America rewards racists with social mobility.

Pat Buchanan will always shoot his mouth off with racist diatribes because there is an audience who will watch him. And like him, this audience denies that there is a racial problem in the U.S. all the while they do their damnedest to "take their country back". It's the great hypocrisy in plain sight. Any one who benefits from white privilege plays the game.

[NBachers]

8. Points for Pat Puke-Cannon. Very appropriate visuals

[wizstars]

10. The other option was "Bat BuKKKlanan"

it fits, I just like the other one a tad more...