Buchanan: 'Van Jones' and 'militant' gays are out to get me

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 of his book "Suicide of a Superpower," which contains chapters titled "The End of White America" and "The Death of Christian America."

"The reports of my suspension are highly overrated," Buchanan chuckled to Sean Hannity Tuesday. "In November, I had a medical condition, shakes, fever, chills, and I was in the hospital for 11 days, and pretty big hit. ... There's been no formal notification of anything like that."

"Look, for a long period of time, the hard left, militant gay rights groups, militant -- they call themselves civil rights groups, but I'm not sure they're concerned about civil rights -- people of color, Van Jones, these folks and others have been out to get Pat Buchanan off TV and deny him speeches, get his column canceled," Buchanan noted, speaking about himself in the third person.

"This has been done for years and years and years. And it's the usual suspects doing the same thing again. But my view is you write what you believe to be the truth."

In an email to supporters on Tuesday, Color of Change, an organization co-founded by Jones, credited the more than 275,000 members who signed a petition demanding MSNBC fire Buchanan.

"This is a huge victory for everyone who cares about keeping hateful, racially divisive rhetoric and misinformation out of the mainstream media," the group wrote.

Listen to this audio from The Sean Hannity Show, broadcast Jan. 10, 2012.

(H/T: The Huffington Post, Think Progress)