Why MSNBC Analyst Pat Buchanan Won’t be on MSNBC to Promote his Book

[RamboLiberal]

He once hosted a two-hour show on the network, but these days Pat Buchanan couldn’t get on MSNBC if he checked in at security under the name Bill Press.

Buchanan is doing the rounds promoting his new book Suicide of a Superpower. He’s been on CNN, with Erin Burnett, and on Fox News, with Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly and he was on FBN last night (anchor David Asman called it “a terrific new book”). But the MSNBC political analyst has not — and will not — be on MSNBC to talk about the book, which is #18 on the New York Times Best Seller list.

An MSNBC executive told HuffPo‘s Michael Calderone that there had been a conscious decision not to have Buchanan on air because of the views expressed in the book which is described this way on Amazon.com:

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The groups CREDO Action and ColorofChange.org — which took credit for the beginning of the end of Glenn Beck on Fox News — is going one further. Today the groups announced they have delivered 275,000 signatures on a petition demanding the network fire Buchanan for his “long history of bigoted rhetoric.”

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/why-msnbc-analyst-pat-buchanan-wont-be-on-msnbc-to-promote-his-book_b97351

[bluestateguy]

1. It's Pat!

[chollybocker]

2. "Next on Fox: The Beck & Buchanan Show!"

Bet on it.

[DLnyc]

3. Ah, Pat. Such a waste of human potential.

I think he must have gotten beaten up when he was a kid and never got over it.

Fairly intelligent guy, if you can drag him away from his obsession with his own particular racial and religious identity.

A sad, sad waste of human potential.

[trueblue2007]

4. good!! fire him. pat buchanan stinks

[Raine]

5. Stick to Faux Pat, that's where you belong! nt

[MrSlayer]

6. I voted that he should be allowed on.

Why not have him debate Sharpton over it? It would be gold.

[lamp_shade]

7. From ColorOfChange yesterday > >

http://colorofchange.org/press/releases/2011/11/9/275000-call-msnbc-fire-pat-buchanan/

[dgibby]

8. I had written to MSNBC about Pat before CREDO and ColorofChange

started this petition. Asked them to fire him because of his racism,bigotry,etc. I was so happy to sign that petition, and am so glad to see so many signatures on it. Molly Ivans was right-Pat sounds better in the original German.