Buchanan: "It's hard out here for a wealthy, white Chrisitan male!"
Courtesy of
GLAAD:
During a radio interview with Sean Hannity this week, [Pat Buchanan,] the former politician-turned-commentator (who was reportedly dropped from MSNBC’s roster over inflammatory comments in his new book) says he knows who was really responsible for his apparent suspension.
“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 T.V., deny him speeches, get his column canceled.”
Pat, who seems to have taken to referring to himself in third person, continues:
“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.”
Was it something he said? Well, there was this:
"In A Healthy Society, [gay people] Will Be Contained, Segregated, Controlled, And Stigmatized, Carrying Both A Legal And Social Sanction."
That's not very nice.
It isn't only the gays that will weep for Buchanan's absence. Pity the African-American people will now be robbed of Buchanan's insightful punditry on their community:
“America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.”
I'm sure
women will miss him, too:
"The rise of women to power in a civilization is very often the mark of its decline."
And his absence is yet another heartache for the
Jewish community to endure:
“(Holocaust Survivors have experienced) group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics."
The
Latinos weep too for his important commentary on their contributions to American life:
"(America) cannot survive a bifurcated culture or a heavily Hispanicized culture, tilted towards Mexico... I think that's the beginning of the end of the United States.”
Happy as we militant homosexuals are to be mentioned by Mr. Buchanan in the same breath with Van Jones, he may be overstating the gay community's influence. Color of Change and Credo Action
helped target Mr. Buchanan, too.
So, who should we silence next? Salon offers a handy list of "America's worst pundits" in "The War Room Hack Thirty," if you need some inspiration.