Pat Buchanan: 'Militant Gay Rights Groups' And Van Jones Are Behind My MSNBC Controversy (AUDIO)

Embattled pundit Pat Buchanan lobbed another grenade at MSNBC on Tuesday, saying that a smear campaign by "militant gay rights groups" and Van Jones was contributing to his months-long absence from the network.

Buchanan has not been seen on MSNBC since late October, and network president Phil Griffin told reporters on Saturday that the views his employee laid out in a recent book are to blame. The book, "Suicide of a Superpower," contains a chapter entitled "The Death of White America" and posits that the "European core" of the country is being throttled by immigrants. Griffin said that Buchanan might not be allowed back on MSNBC at all.

However, Buchanan has recently been pushing back against his bosses. On Monday, he spoke to radio host Hugh Hewitt, saying that medical problems had sidelined him and that he has not been formally suspended from MSNBC. On Tuesday, he spoke to Sean Hannity on his radio show and repeated that claim. But he took things one step further. He said that the issues in his book were the "great issues facing the country for the next 25 years" and should be discussed.

"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 TV," Buchanan continued. "This has been done for years and years and years and it's the usual suspects doing the same thing again."

Buchanan has recently been the target of a sustained campaign from Color of Change, the group Jones founded, as well as the Human Rights Campaign and the Anti-Defamation League.

Listen (via Think Progress):

Some of Buchanan's controversial statements.

• Buchanan calls Obama Al Sharpton's 'boy' on debt deal

• Pat Buchanan: Black people bought 'propaganda' on the 'liberal plantation'

• Pat Buchanan: Sonia Sotomayor an 'affirmative-action appointment,' U.S. 'built basically by white folks'

• Pat Buchanan: Santorum's 'facts are correct' on black people and abortion

• Pat Buchanan defends Geraldine Ferraro's comments that Obama received preferential treatment because he was black

• Pat Buchanan attacks gay marriage, judge who struck down Prop 8

• Buchanan supports limiting Muslim immigration, mosques

• Pat Buchanan tells black MSNBC guest: "You can keep your 14th Amendment rights -- with some modifications."

• Pat Buchanan: There are too many Jews on Supreme Court

  Buchanan complained that <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2010/05/153417/" target="_hplink">there are too many Jewish appointees</a> to the Supreme Court during Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings.

• Pat Buchanan defends Hitler

  Pat Buchanan wrote that <a href="http://buchanan.org/blog/did-hitler-want-war-2068" target="_hplink">he did not believe Hitler was to blame for WWII</a>.

Comments

[denicci1977]

07:34 PM on 01/17/2012

He should have been gone. Why did it take so long ? Nothing changed, he has always been the same.

[Tonydeeee]

06:39 PM on 01/17/2012

Hotels have dramatically reduced the cost,of,bed linen thanks to conservatives like Pat Buchannon. See, he travels with his own sheets.

[daniele7ster]

05:53 PM on 01/17/2012

This guy is still alive?

[panamarine]

05:31 PM on 01/17/2012

Oh, poooor Pat. He is reaping what he has sown. Who needs his "point of views" anyway in today's day and age. His old Southern way of thinking about the "European core" of this nation is exactly why this non-monolithic country will survive and thrive. Why? Because the European core has ignored the other Worldly cores that have contributed to this country's might and growth. The different strands that built the country have too long not given credit and the face of their contributions have been deleted or ignored just to keep America -European. Oxymoron? Yes.

[screwitall]

05:30 PM on 01/17/2012

Pat, with all of you extra time,you would be able to submit an application to the human race,and request a copy of the US Constitution

[Tonydeeee]

04:24 PM on 01/17/2012

If Buchannon would just take the hood off I might see him differently.

[panamarine]

05:32 PM on 01/17/2012

Tony,
He can't he won't let himself do it. He likes the feel of the white robes on his skin.

[huffingmad]

05:38 PM on 01/17/2012

agree.

[bohikke]

04:08 PM on 01/17/2012

Pat Buchanan and MSNBC are perfect to each other. Pat uses MSNBC as a platform for his radical opinions. MSNBC uses Pat as an example of republican radical thought. The truth is that neither has any credibility.

[Randy0216]

06:08 PM on 01/17/2012

MSNBC has a LOT more credibility than FOX News.

[bohikke]

06:50 PM on 01/17/2012

Its credibility is what explains MSNBC ratings. Opinions are never news and in the case of MSNBC their opinions are not even original but a repeat of every opinion in the rest of the liberal media. Just a little more extreme.

[Progress08]

12:41 PM on 01/17/2012

Seriously??? Militant Gays??? I'm afraid of Bubba, the dummy in Kentucky who dropped out in 10th grade and hates everyone but those exactly like him. I'm not afraid of militant gays (as if there were such a thing). A roving gang of poofsters who violently give makeovers and mani/pedi's. What a bigoted and childish claim. Who else thinks he's just saying that so that bigots will buy his book?

[jackbutler5555]

09:57 AM on 01/16/2012

A true test of one's commitment to civil rights is the willingness to support the civil rights of those with whom one disagrees. Suppressing the viewpoints of Pat Buchanan -- with whom I disagree on most issues -- can hardly be in keeping with my commitment to freedom of expression. The precedent of excluding certain viewpoints from the public arena is a two-edged sword. The suppression of those with whom one disagrees becomes a principle which can apply to those with whom one agrees -- when the other side gains ascendancy.

[Little Princess]

11:30 AM on 01/16/2012

What are civil rights, i.e. freedom of speech, worth if a few have the financial means to domiate the media and nake use of the right to express their opinion while others don't have the same means of expressing their opinion?

In other words: Own bigger media outlets, collect more financing by advertising -- and your civil rights are just a bit more equal than those of others.

[jackbutler5555]

02:06 PM on 01/16/2012

Yep. True. The lack of perfection is not a justification for censoring, is it?justificati

[Progress08]

12:44 PM on 01/17/2012

Ya, it's funny isn't it. Rush blames MSNBC for Joe's centrist behavior even though Rush only exists in the Zeitgeist because Reagan allowed media outlets to exist as partisan. What a pathetic piece of trash Rush it.

[Raptor2u]

04:14 PM on 01/13/2012

Thank You COMCAST. This is a nice MLK Day present to the country.

[Jakovo Perez]

12:57 PM on 01/13/2012

I love Pat Buchanan! He speaks the truth.

[Rosella Alm]

12:10 AM on 01/13/2012

Why does anyone pay any attention to this old so-and-so Pat Buchanan? I thought he died a long time ago.

[OnAndOnSOH]

06:45 PM on 01/12/2012

The only guilty parties are the ones who make you say the things you say, Pat. (Here's a hint, start by taking a look in your bathroom mirror...)

[sejoseph]

04:24 PM on 01/12/2012

I think that the "Militant Gay" old Patty is referring to is Rachel Maddow since she was the first host to ban him from her program. His head must be exploding that Melissa Harris Perry, a black woman will have a show on MSNBC starting next month. I cannot wait for whatever racist, homophobic gems come out of this man's mouth in the next couple of weeks. It should be fun!

[Bill J White]

04:36 PM on 01/13/2012

I can't either...this man is the reason why GHW Bush did not get a second term back in '92. GHW Bush allowed this man to speak at the GOP convention and his chances to get re-elected flew out the window. Patty--go home and look at yourself in the mirror, before you open your mouth with your hatespeech.

[Gary St Lawrence]

02:47 PM on 01/12/2012

I distinctly remember back in 1990 when I was preparing for an interview with Pat Buchanan in Rochester, NH during his run for president. I was there, going over my questions with Buchanan's press aide, when Buchanan walked in, sat down, adjusted himself, and pointed to my photographer (who was black) and said, "Get me some coffee, will you son? There's a good boy."

He moved seamlessly into his rehearsed rhetoric about how the stories of him being racist were "way, way out of proportion."