What to do about crazy Uncle Pat
So, what should responsible progressives and people dedicated to anti-racism do? I mean, this is “our” station giving Buchanan a platform, not Faux News. It is MSNBC that pays handsomely for a talking head that has said that women are “simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.” Who offered, “If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?” Who lamented, “Someone’s values are going to prevail. Why not ours? Whose country is it, anyway? Whose moral code says we may interfere with a man’s right to be a practicing bigot, but must respect and protect his right to be a practicing sodomite?”
My blogsister Professor Tracey says if MSNBC can’t quit Uncle Pat, then we need to quit MSNBC (including my girl, Rachel). She may be right. On the other hand, you know being fired from MSNBC wouldn’t shut Buchanan down. In short order, he’d be spewing his foolishness on rightwing media with even less accountability and contradiction.
What do you say? Should we even bother getting het up about Pat Buchanan? If he is worth our bother, what can we do to ensure MSNBC gets the message that he undermines the credibility of their station?
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