Former Nixon aide and ousted MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan penned a new op-ed column on Tuesday calling on conservatives to continue to oppose marriage equality for LGBT couples and urging them toward “a new era of civil disobedience” if they are not heard. According to Think Progress LGBT, Buchanan even…
A former top aide to Mitt Romney says that she quit her career as a television pundit and began taking online real estate classes after the former Republican presidential nominee’s “brutal” loss to President Barack Obama. Bay Buchanan, the sister of former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, told the Washington…
Conservative pundit and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan is hopeful that a woman will not become president of the United States for at least the next 30 years. During a panel discussion on PBS over the weekend, host John McLaughlin asked Buchanan when the U.S. would elect the first…
Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan has been fired from left-leaning news network MSNBC after more than four months of suspension, the longtime contributor revealed Thursday night. In a lengthy screed published to his personal website, Buchanan tore into his former employer of 10 years for what he called “an undeniable…
Pat Buchanan on Tuesday blamed “militant gay rights groups” and former Obama administration official Van Jones for a campaign to oust him from his commentator gig at MSNBC. MSNBC President Phil Griffin suggested last week that the former Republican presidential candidate had been indefinitely suspended from MSNBC after the publication…
(Updated below.) Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan has been suspended indefinitely from MSNBC, according to a statement from that network’s President Phil Griffin. An Associated Press article on CBSNews.com blames reaction to Buchanan’s latest book Suicide of a Superpower for his ouster from the cable network, as well as a campaign…
It’s not April Fool’s Day, is it? One of the stalwart go-to blogs on the right — competing up there with rants at Freeperland several years ago was Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs. Even LGF has had enough of the lunacy coming out of the teabagger/birther/fundie wing. Enough to write…
The wall-to-wall ghoulish coverage has begun and it’s not an understatement — “After the private ceremony, Jackson’s body will be taken to the singer’s public memorial.” What, is the body going to be on stage?!. I had CNN on this AM and, while at least I had it on, all…
Okay, this has been on the backburner for a couple of days, but I have to address it. Matt Yglesias catches Pat Buchanan expressing his true feelings about people whose first language isn’t English—that they’re stupid and should be permanently barred from ever even being considered worthy of college or…
After reading Jesse’s post about Pat Buchanan’s racist ranting, I had an idea that it was super-duper mega-bad, but really, watching it, it’s exponentially worse than that. It’s also self-contradictory—Buchanan claims segregation is the choice of black people and then starts ranting about crime statistics, which is a tacit admission…