MSNBC Removes Pat Buchanan from Programs Indefinitely

NJDC — January 9, 2012 – 4:40 pm | Abusive Holocaust Rhetoric | Republicans Comments (0) Add a comment

MSNBC announced over the weekend that former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has been removed indefinitely from MSNBC programming because of the content of his most recent book.

Over the years, Buchanan has had a unique obsession with Jews and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. Notably, NJDC rebuked Buchanan for writing a column that defended Adolf Hitler and for wrongfully sounding alarm bells over Supreme Court Justice Elana Kagan’s religion. Further, in his most recent book, he baselessly insinuated that there is a “collective decision” among pro-choice Jewish women to seek abortions and—strangely—obsessed over an imagined decline in the American Jewish population.

Mediate reported:

MSNBC President Phil Griffin said that Buchanan was not allowed on the air indefinitely after the release of his latest book, and has not decided whether to allow the commentator to return…. Griffin was unhappy with Buchanan’s book, and had not made a final decision on whether he would be back on MSNBC….

The book, Suicide of a Superpower, brought to MSNBC calls from several civil rights groups and the Anti-Defamation League to drop Buchanan for its incendiary racial and anti-Semitic remarks, among which are, according to the Times, claims that America is being damaged ‘ethnically, culturally, morally, politically’ by the rise in minority populations and the lament that the ‘European and Christian core of our country is shrinking.’ Griffin described the ideas in the book as not being ‘really appropriate for national dialogue, much less the dialogue on MSNBC.’

NJDC welcomes MSNBC’s action against Buchanan and we hope that the network will break with Buchanan once and for all. 

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