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Article Source: Politico
Longtime political analyst Pat Buchanan is being dropped by MSNBC as a result of the controversy surrounding his book, “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”
“After 10 years, we have decided to part ways with Pat Buchanan. We wish him well,” read a statement from the network, according to the AP.
"Let error be tolerated, said Thomas Jefferson, 'so long as reason is left free to combat it.' What [ADL President Abe] Foxman and ADL [Anti-Defamation League] are about in demanding that my voice be silenced is, in the Jeffersonian sense, intrinsically un-American," he added.
Another conservative bites the dust, finally. I'm not sure the mention of Thomas Jefferson was intelligently considered.
Jefferson was part of the Virginia planter elite and, as a tobacco planter, owned hundreds of slaves throughout his lifetime. Like many of his contemporaries, he viewed Africans as being racially inferior. He remained a widower for the rest of his life after his wife of eleven years, Martha Jefferson, died in childbirth. Their marriage produced six children. Even though there is some disagreement on the subject, modern Jeffersonian scholarship generally acknowledges that Thomas Jefferson was likely the father of all of his slave Sally Hemings' six children.
Click here. Doesn't sound like old Thom had Buchanan's extreme Catholic morality.
#1 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:23 PM ESTLet's be clear that "the incessant clamor from the left" were Pat Buchanan's words, not MSNBC as the headline might imply. The network's reasons were quite different: they were related to the narrow minded, bigoted, way this man expresses himself. A once great mind festering with hatred. Pat was always too conservative, but there was a time when he made good points and offered interesting perspective. Now he just has ugly things to say. No one wants to hear his spewing anymore... except, maybe on Fox?
FOX already has enough narrow minded, bigoted, talking heads.
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