Please stop with the false advertising. That wasn't a racist freakout for Pat Buchanan. That was a calm conversation in his world.

Don't worry, Alternet. The racists freakouts will come. As soon as Hillary drops out, and Obama's numbers start jumping up, you will see racist freakouts, and not just from Buchanan. This was not it.

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I enjoyed Chris needling him on what he would HOPE for the world.

He is very negative about any kind of a positive future, like his job is to throw water on any progressive ideas that might pop up. He is so much older and wiser then anyone else in the room. He is the squasher.

I have seen him more stressed, but not much. He was positively glum this morning. He is defending racism and sexism and it just keeps getting harder and harder to do.

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Pat Buchanan comes from a different time, where racism and prejudice was the norm and was considered ok.
Racism is still around like Pat says, but with each generation it becomes less profound.

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so deep and so entrenched that he can't see it. What kind of mind can suddenly see it that being African American in America is the biggest (and unfairest) advantage you can have? It is the very illogical and assumption-warping circumstance that makes this kind of hysterical justification necessary. And it makes it necessary to state it loudly and stridently so that the very baselessness of it is less apparent. Poor Pat.

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A third of marriages in Iraq are shia - sunni unions. Not reported in the U.S., because the agenda was divide and conquer - deliberate splitting along religious and/or racial lines - a favorite pastime of the right (and also the left) within the United States.

This is also a favorite pastime of government-corporate agent provocateurs within antiwar and environmental groups.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckDFWq3V8xk

"Sunni-Shia mixed wedding in Iraq"

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WRRRRROOOOONG! Pat Buchanan.

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MSNBC's continued use of asking the opinion of this purveyor of hate and Prejudice which infected our countries Political system inthe '80's is an outrage!Buchanan not only goes against Every basic Principle Our country was founded on - he is a Heretic!

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pat buchanan,chris matthews,wolf blitzer, are all assclowns. who listens to anything they have to say? and andrea mitchell give me a break. she's like a prom queen,from queens.

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He's a Harvard trained Constitutional lawyer who voted for the National ID act, the re-authorization of the Patriot Act, numerous funding bills for our multiple ongoing wars, and promotes granting the Fed oversight powers of the entire financial market (These are the same people who float in and out of the revolving doors onto wall st, and the same proposal as G.W. Bush). Race shouldn't play any part in it, and for me it doesn't. It's about everyone's rights, civil and financial. Barack's been playing the same big corporate donors as everyone else, for more money than everyone else. In fact, he's received more money from the subprime lenders than any of the other candidates (opensecrets.org). The general election ain't gonna be pretty once the media completely turns on him. You're going to have a financially strapped populace going into the voting booths weighing the national debt with new taxes that Obama would propose to cover his boilerplate democratic policy proposals that have always gone nowhere because we don't have the money to pay for them. A gentleman who's speeches have excited us so far, but lacks experience (save three years in the Washington culture that he's not part of, but claims experience from.) You know they'll build up McCain as the war hero with great international/domestic experience who's "seasoned" enough to take the reins at this "perilous" time in our country's history. McCain is an idiot from the bottom of his Naval Academy class who crashed three jets before the one that got him captured, but he's an idiot that won't take more of your money. God help us, they both suck.

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Don't we all agree that it is time for MSNBC to retire this dinosaur .. Pat Buchanan?

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People have been winning this competition since its inception based on gender, race, and religious affiliation. Now that rumors abound that a candidate may be getting attention due to a race other than the one typically privileged in the U.S. we don't seem to know what to do with ourselves. I, personally think it's the same old game, but any little change is a cause for hope...

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So, according to Buchanan, we can't talk about the world as we wish it to be, we can only describe reality. In that case, Pat, I don't ever want to hear you talking about the things you believe in and want, which is exactly what you do. But, according to your rules, that has to end. So, that means we can expect you to shut the "eff" up from now on. Just the facts, sir... just the facts.

There is nothing uglier (or louder) than an angry white man who is afraid of losing his power and privilege.

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Pat Buchanan said it, so it must be true. The best title for him, on the television screens, is what he just said..."a white commentato"r. Everyone in the media - just put the following on when he's speaking...
Name: Pat Buchanan
Title: White Commentator

OK, next...?

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but what exactly did he say that was not true?

I have asked that same question about what Rev. Wright said as well.

Shouldn't we be more concerned about what they actually say and if it has merit, than our opinion of what they were referring to?

This is weighty stuff and there are no easy answers.

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Did Chris Matthews experience a personal transformation lately? Between this and the Kevin James thing, he seems like a new man. Maybe he's learned a few things in the last 7 years. I'm proud of him.

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Watching msnbc's coverage of some of the recent primaries, I've been horrified to find myself thinking that Buchanan seemed to be making sense. Called my friend & used Wanda Sykes' line, "OMG, Pat Buchanan is sounding sane to me. Where are the other three horsemen?" This clip is reassuring -- he's sounding like Pat Buchanan again.

Poor ol' Pat. I think he'd been making an effort, but Hillary's last barrage of race-baiting was just too intoxicating for him to resist.

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Pat Buchanan's wild rants are a major reason I no longer watch Chris Matthews, who engages in many, frequently contradictary, rants of his own, on an all too regular basis.

Jon Stewart has identified Matthews perfectly, and he isn't the "commentator" on the American political scene who offers any hope for forward movement.

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Wouldn't it be better to ignore these radical Christian groups? Free publicity, any way they can get it, is important to them ... and so embarrassing to the rest of us who cherish our relationship with God.

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