MSNBC, Buchanan may be parting ways
Published January 10, 2012
MSNBC president Phil Griffin told the New York Times over the weekend that because of the anti-Semitic nature of some of the arguments in “Suicide of a Superpower,” Buchanan might not be invited to return to his position at the station. Book chapter titles include: “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.”
Buchanan has been off the air since he began a book tour in October.
Griffin told the Times that he and Buchanan would meet to discuss his future with the network.
The Anti-Defamation League recently sent Griffin a letter urging the network to drop Buchanan as a commentator.
“In spite of his continuing role as a political commentator for the mainstream media, former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan now increasingly advances an anti-Semitic, racist, and anti-immigrant ideology. Many of the views he holds are identical to those of self-declared “white nationalists,” the ADL says in its information pamphlet “Patrick Buchanan: Unrepentant Bigot.” Buchanan repeatedly demonizes Jews and minorities and openly affiliates with white supremacists. Among his frequent claims is that the sovereignty of the United States is being undermined by Israeli control and Mexican incursion, a belief which he disseminates on mainstream cable and network television and in his prolific writings. Buchanan releases a book nearly every two years, many of which take the view that non-white immigrants destroy Western culture.
A former official of the Nixon and Reagan administrations, Buchanan ran in the Republican Party primaries in 1992 and 1996 and as a Reform Party candidate in 2000. He has been accused in the past of making racially insensitive and anti-Semitic comments.
Click to login and write a letter to the editor or sign up for the Daily Briefing.
This article was made possible by the support of readers like you. Donate to JTA now.
