MSNBC’s history in this regard is well-known. The cable channel gave Michael Savage his own television show, and then had to fire him when he told a caller to “get AIDS and die.” It gave Don Imus a television show, and then had to fire him when he called members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos.”

But through it all, MSNBC has continued to employ Pat Buchanan, despite a long record — which he builds on frequently — of bigoted speech. Throughout his time in public life, Buchanan has engaged in speech characteristic of an era in which open prejudice was the norm. And yet no one in the mainstream media bats an eye over the fact that he continues to enjoy a position of influence and prestige on what is increasingly — though not convincingly — described as a “liberal” cable channel.

Buchanan has used his position at MSNBC to lead the charge against Sotomayor with dishonest and often unhinged diatribes against the nominee. He even offered an ugly and misleading attack on her for doing exactly what he has always claimed to want non-native English speakers in America to do: practice their English language skills. [ READ MORE ]

Rachel Maddow Challenges Buchanan on RACE | Sotomayor | Senate BIGOTS

Maddow on Buchanan tapping “white people’s racial grievances”: “You’re playing with fire… you’re living in the 1950′s”

In showdown with Maddow, Buchanan says Sotomayor “was appointed because she’s a Latina, and a Hispanic, and a woman”

Buchanan: Hispanics Shouldn’t Get Affirmative Action Because “They Were Never Enslaved”

O’Donnell slams “crazy uncle” Buchanan’s “ugly thought about what it means to be born a Latina in this country”

References:

1. The State of Hate in America – Sweet Home Alabama!
2. Hawking Racism — Pat Buchanan’s Latest Book Is A White Nationalist Screed
3. The intellectual dishonesty of Pat Buchanan

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