The New Blacklist—Pat Buchanan On His MSNBC Firing

Pat Buchanan’s strong Republican voice in the mainstream media against the wars against Muslims and the US Constitution has been shut down.
02/16/12

My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end.

After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous.

The calls for my firing began almost immediately with the Oct. 18 publication of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”

A group called Color of Change, whose mission statement says that it “exists to strengthen Black America ‘s political voice,” claimed that my book espouses a “white supremacist ideology.” Color of Change took particular umbrage at the title of Chapter 4, “The End of White America.”

Media Matters parroted the party line: He has blasphemed!

A Human Rights Campaign that bills itself as America’s leading voice for lesbians, bisexuals, gays and transgendered people said [9] that Buchanan’s “extremist ideas are incredibly harmful to millions of LBGT people around the world.”

Their rage was triggered by a remark to NPR’s Diane Rehm—that I believe homosexual acts to be “unnatural and immoral.” On Nov. 2, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, who has sought to have me censored for 22 years, piled on.

“Buchanan has shown himself, time and again, to be a racist and an anti-Semite,” said Foxman. Buchanan “bemoans the destruction of white Christian America” and says America’s shrinking Jewish population is due to the “collective decision of Jews themselves.”

Well, yes, I do bemoan what Newsweek’s 2009 cover called “The Decline and Fall of Christian America” and editor Jon Meacham described as “The End of Christian America.” After all, I am a Christian.

And what else explains the shrinkage of the U.S. Jewish population by 6 percent in the 1990s and its projected decline by another 50 percent by 2050, if not the “collective decision of Jews themselves?”

Let error be tolerated, said Thomas Jefferson, “so long as reason is left free to combat it.” What Foxman and ADL are about in demanding that my voice be silenced is, in the Jeffersonian sense, intrinsically un-American.

Consider what it is these people are saying.

They are saying that a respected publisher, St. Martin’s, colluded with me to produce a racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic book, and CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN, Fox Business News and the 150 radio shows on which I appeared failed to detect its evil and helped to promote a moral atrocity.

If my book is racist and anti-Semitic, how did Sean Hannity, Erin Burnett, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Megyn Kelly, Lou Dobbs and Ralph Nader miss that? How did Charles Payne, African-American host on Fox radio, who has interviewed me three times, fail to detect its racism?

How did Michael Medved miss its anti-Semitism?

In a 2009 cover story in the Atlantic, “The End of White America?” from which my chapter title was taken, professor Hua Hsu revels in the passing of America’s white majority. At Portland State, President Clinton got a huge ovation when he told students that white Americans will be a minority in 2050.

Is this writer alone forbidden to broach the subject?

That homosexual acts are unnatural and immoral has been doctrine in the Catholic Church for 2,000 years.

Is it now hate speech to restate traditional Catholic beliefs?

Documented in the 488 pages and 1,500 footnotes of “Suicide of a Superpower” is my thesis that America is Balkanizing, breaking down along the lines of religion, race, ethnicity, culture and ideology, and that Western peoples are facing demographic death by century’s end.

Are such subjects taboo? Are they unfit for national debate?

So it would seem. MSNBC President Phil Griffin told reporters, “I don’t think the ideas that (Buchanan) put forth (in his book) are appropriate for the national dialogue, much less on MSNBC.”

In the 10 years I have been at MSNBC, the network has taken heat for what I have written, and faithfully honored our contract.

Yet my four-months’ absence from MSNBC and now my departure represent an undeniable victory for the blacklisters.

The modus operandi of these thought police at Color of Change and ADL is to brand as racists and anti-Semites any writer who dares to venture outside the narrow corral in which they seek to confine debate.

All the while prattling about their love of dissent and devotion to the First Amendment, they seek systematically to silence and censor dissent.

Without a hearing, they smear and stigmatize as racist, homophobic or anti-Semitic any who contradict what George Orwell once called their “smelly little orthodoxies.” They then demand that the heretic recant, grovel, apologize, and pledge to go forth and sin no more.

Defy them, and they will go after the network where you work, the newspapers that carry your column, the conventions that invite you to speak. If all else fails, they go after the advertisers.

I know these blacklisters. They operate behind closed doors, with phone calls, mailed threats and off-the-record meetings. They work in the dark because, as Al Smith said, nothing un-American can live in the sunlight.

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  1. So true.
    But how to bring back the sunlight?

    This is the only way that I can see to do so.

    http://keepamericaatwork.com/?page_id=205756

    By: Virgil Bierschwale . February 18, 2012 . 7:38 am |

  2. losing the voice of Napolitano is much greater than buchanan’s but of course its all really the same- an attempt to silence those who dont fall in lockstep with the system

    By: tom . February 18, 2012 . 4:27 pm |

    • Napolitano was fired for reasons very different than Buchanan. Buchanan was fired because many found his most recent book to contain racially offensive claims. I do not think he should have been fired.
      A frank discussion of racism can only be therapeutic; censoring it only makes a martyr of a speech which should instead be challenged openly.

      Napolitano was fired for business reasons as the whole array of Fox News commentators were shitcanned in the face of very low ratings. I found his libertarianism to be sometimes bracing, sometimes naive. But his instance that imperialism and liberty were incompatible was worth his racier comments.

      Anti-war sentiment is black-listed from the corporate media. On second thought, maybe Fox, which loves war, was relieved to get rid of Napolitano and blame it all on lousy ratings. Those who call for an end to war are either killed or marginalized. Perhaps this is a purging of the anti-war forces on the right, which if joined with the same forces on the left, could forge a powerful alternative to the established parties of war. This may be wishful thinking, but the wish is father to the deed.

      By: dale . February 21, 2012 . 12:48 am |

      • Yes. The elites fear criticism of the perpetual war policy of the USA from the right. It upsets the fake left /right channels the media forces Americans into. That’s why FOX has it’s loyal opposition liberals along with Neo-Conservatives on their panels. And MSNBC does the opposite. But they never put someone on that violates the dualism that keeps real thought provoking criticism.

        On your comment of Napolitano being naive? That displays a mentality of one who is still partially conditioned by the faux information blitz of the establishment. Keep working on being open minded.

        By: Jamie . February 22, 2012 . 11:45 am |

        • lol your a joke.
          what anti war liberals are ever on fox and what show on tv is progressive with anti war voices?

          the answer is none.
          if you think msnbc is an example of progressive voices you spend way to much time getting your information only from the MSM.

          there are 1000s of anti war progressives on the INTERNET and NONE of them have ever been on a single show on msnbc or fox who by your laughable labal of “fair and balanced “

          By: JADEZ . February 26, 2012 . 4:38 pm |

  3. MSNBC, like the rest of the big media, are responsible for all of the misery this country has inflicted on the poorest nations. It used to be their duty to keep the public honestly informed. It is why they are particularly protected by the constitution of this country. Instead, they have joined arms with the elites and have aided and abetted their treason, murder and torture. They are not the fifth estate. They are the PROPAGANDA MINISTRY. G.W. Bush gets a pass for mass murder and Pat Buchanan is gone for writing a book. This is a nightmare and I need to wake up. Right?

    By: James Ruhnke . February 18, 2012 . 6:03 pm |

  4. Both Napolitano and Buchanan have a choice to make- are their ideals more important that fat paychecks? My guess is they both are pretty much set financially at this point and can take less money to go to independent media- what little there is! hopefully we will see them both on some internet channel before long but my guess is the Judge stays at Fox and is tuned down and Buchanan winds up at some other mainstream media company- that way their views are cut off – the way the powers that be want it to be

    By: tom . February 20, 2012 . 4:36 pm |

  5. A study of commentators used by the MSM (which includes Fox) during the runup to the war in Iraq found that 97% were pro-war and 3% anti-war. The leading intelledtuals of the anti-war movement (folks like Chomsky, Tom Hayden, et al) were…and are….blacklisted.

    The “liberals” on Fox are the weakest, least appealing “liberals” that can be found.
    On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow is always trying to get Republicans and rightwingers to appear, but usually they refuse.

    The only way to get independent views is to use the non-corporate channels, like Democracy Now, Link TV, and RT TV, which give an international picture with voices not heard on any of the corporate networks.

    Yesterday, I was shocked to see Newsmax and CNN both carrying uncritical pro-war propaganda (Iran has nukes, etc). When Santorum said he wanted to go to war with China, the MSM just ignored this inflammatory remark. I am sure they did not ignore it in China.

    To understand what is going on, it is necessary to pay attention to the left and right of the MSM as well as the independent networks, as well as read historians and scholars (I am reading the Age of Reagan by Wilentz) and independent journals, as well as tune in to independent intenet sources. My daily intake includes the radical anti-globalist globalresearch.com, the libertarian Activist POst, and progressive sites like HUFFPO. I used to subscribe to the Tea Party Townhall.com but I found its articles and comments to be very
    fascistic (“bomb the sheetheads”) and racist. Often, the same commentary was made that finds its way into the neo-Nazi Stormfront.

    Most of all, one needs a strong BS detector, which only comes with practiced critical thinking skills and the ability to listen to a wide range of ideas.

    Essential reading to develop such skills: 1984 (Orwell), Manufactured Consent (Chomsky), et al. “What violence is to dictatorship, propaganda is to democracy.” Therefore, we must all become experts on propaganda which includes not only lies and distortions but much more commonly the omission of critical information.

    The MSM ignored the al Quada leadership of the Libyan revolt and today is hardly noting that in Syria, the regime is fighting an armed uprising, not a group of non-violent protesters. Likewise, in Iran, the press has hardly noted that both the Dept of Defense and the CIA have stated the Iranians have no nukes and have not started a nuclear weapons program. I have not seen one word or image in the corporate media about the huge protests in Spain, for instance.
    During the runup to the Iraq war, hundreds of thousands in the US protested and many millions worldwide protested, but it was basically ignored, as were the protests of the leaders of Russian and France and many other nations and the AEIA against the conclusion that Iraq had WMD, for which the Bush adm had NO real evidence. And today, the media is playing the same role in regard to Syria and Iran, pushing the pro-war propaganda while ignoring the counter voices.

    By: dale ruff . February 26, 2012 . 11:39 pm |

  6. Do we now add another to the list- Mr. Breitbart? What has happened in this case is that Breitbart was likely viewed by the non neo con audience as a weirdo, so therefore even the slightest possibility of him being offed by the government in power isnt that concerning to most people. Terrible times we are going into!

    By: tom . March 6, 2012 . 12:55 pm |

  7. Months ago when I heard Pat question the disproportion number of Jews on the Supreme Court..versus the Jewish population (2%) in the US…I knew he was in trouble,

    By: BARBBF . March 13, 2012 . 1:24 pm |

  8. US has 24% Catholics, but Catholics are a majority on the Supreme Courts. A more significant disproportion is that most people in Congress belong to the 1%.

    By: dale . March 14, 2012 . 8:53 am |

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