Fox News Pundit On Pat Buchanan: MSNBC Almost A 'Communist Channel' (VIDEO)

A Fox News host and contributor tore into MSNBC on Saturday for its treatment of controversial pundit Pat Buchanan.

Buchanan has been off of MSNBC since October, following the release of his latest book, "Suicide of a Superpower." The book contains some highly charged musings on topics like "the end of white America." Earlier in January, MSNBC president Phil Griffin said that Buchanan was being kept indefinitely off the air due to the book. Buchanan has said that he was given no word of his unofficial suspension and that he has been the target of "militant" gay and civil rights groups. He has also been making regular media appearances elsewhere.

One place he seems sure to find support is Fox News, if the views of host Gregg Jarrett and contributor Liz Trotta are any indication. Trotta harshly condemned MSNBC for keeping Buchanan off the air, saying that his book was "jam packed with facts" and that he had been "mercilessly assailed by the homosexual lobby" and Van Jones.

Jarrett said that some of the book did seem to "lament the browning of America." Trotta responded that nobody could be offended by statements like that. "Those are facts," she said.

Jarrett then seemed to come around to Trotta's point of view, saying that there appeared to be a double standard at MSNBC, since the network employs Al Sharpton as well as Buchanan. He wondered why a black man like Sharpton was allowed to remain on the air, while controversial white pundits like Buchanan and Don Imus were kept off. "Does MSNBC make its decisions through the prism of race?" Jarrett asked.

"MSNBC has become close to being a Communist channel," Trotta said. "They have moved all the talent that they support so far left. No one will touch Al Sharpton for making anything that might be considered an anti-white comment."

"If an African American says something that's arguably racist, he doesn't get fired," Jarrett said. "He gets his own show."

(via Johnny Dollar)

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

[aspen colorado]

06:50 PM on 02/18/2012

Trotta is an old Nazi

[Franco Vutera]

10:25 AM on 02/18/2012

To a Fascist, the minimalist anything to the left is Communism.

[Deborah H]

07:41 PM on 02/17/2012

And so that makes FAKE NEWS......... WHAT?

[capt ayhab]

01:58 PM on 02/17/2012

Isn't  Liz Trotta same person that said women in the army should expect to be raped since they work in close proximity of males?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/fox-news-liz-trotta-rape_n_1274018.html

[Franco Vutera]

10:26 AM on 02/18/2012

That's why we need more male gays in the military.

[cptbfhrt]

08:36 AM on 02/17/2012

If he's not careful 'militant gays' will break in and 'mercilessly' redecorate his house.

[capt ayhab]

01:59 PM on 02/17/2012

lol

[hlma-1]

05:34 AM on 02/17/2012

A person could criticize MSNBC for dropping Buchanan, but to hear the criticisms coming from Fox people is absolutely hilarious. Hey Roger Ailes, where's your "left-wing show"? Oh, that's DIFFERENT, isn't it?

[xendude]

08:04 AM on 02/02/2012

In general, the truth pisses people off when it doesn't fit their personal narrative.

[aspen colorado]

06:51 PM on 02/18/2012

Right..... that's why fake Fox is so biased

[natlist1]

08:30 PM on 01/22/2012

There is very little that Buchanan said in those clips of "controversial statements" that is factually wrong. You are doing what you love to do best - reading emotion into matters you know little about and not bothering to review what is actually being said and the evidence involved. I will give a couple examples -
1) Hitler: Buchanan's view is not pro-Nazi, it is that the US should have remained neutral in the war and that the war basically was engineered by Churchill and other specific British politicians, similar to today's neocons, who deliberately manoeuvre nations into war. That does not mean he thinks Germany was invaded, only that Germany was antagonised. And no, the Holocaust is NOT relevant, that began after the war commenced. Churchill was no friend of Jews, no progressive, no anti-imperialist (his record on this matter was WORSE than Hitler and his general racism comparable).
2) Too many Jews on the Supreme Court: I think Buchanan is POed at hearing endlessly, just as I am and many others like myself, that there are too many white males in positions X, Y, or Z. White males are 1/3 of the population and span all social classes. They hold disproportionate power in society, but lower class white males have basically no chance, being beneficiaries of ZERO affirmative action programmes.

[ogledude]

09:04 AM on 01/19/2012

To all you libbies the conservatives are coming your boy obama is going back to being a community consultant and its all so funny

[schlinky]

02:57 PM on 02/17/2012

If this becoms true, you will be crying for the rest of your life for the good old days,the GOP"ers wil run this country in to a hole so deep ,that it will take centuries todig out again. look at what the last one did,and that was childs play.

[aspen colorado]

06:54 PM on 02/18/2012

Check the polls ............ say Hello to 4 more yr's with Obama & then Hillary in 2016 & 2020!! Maybe Romney can run in 2024

[dan laurie]

03:54 AM on 01/19/2012

Pat Buchanan should have been SO off the air long since. He's racist, anti-semitic, masogynist -- he's blatantly for rich white men controlling America entirely and has been open about it. ("White men founded America. They SHOULD have the power." Also "Too many Jews on the Supreme Court" -- never even mind the six Catholics.) By the way, his family's childhood heros were Francisco Franco, Joe McCarthy, and (anti-semitic radio priest) Father Coughlin, and he never seemed to change. Shame on MSNBC should they take him BACK.

[aluap]

12:49 AM on 02/20/2012

so happppppppppppy that he is gone......was fortunate that he got paid for being ignorant. only in america..............

[glitterik]

08:22 PM on 01/18/2012

Everyone knew Buchanan was a racist, misogynist fool. Only he needed to write a book and spell it out to convince MSNBC. Glad they finally woke.

[brklynivn]

02:00 PM on 01/18/2012

And Fox is full of treasonous fascists who want to get rid of our Constitution and replace it with a Biblical Sharia.

[bighat]

09:47 PM on 01/18/2012

Obama will do anything to usurp congress. He is drunk with power.. Obama renewed Patriot Act and signed legislation allowing the detention of any American the benefit of a trial and hold anyone for as long as he so desires.. Obama taught constitutional law. Did he teach the constitution or how a lawyer can get around the constitution and Americans be damned. . Obama is the poster child of a President being limited to two terms. The same two terms should apply to both houses of congress as well. Does Obama even want to be president for a 2nd term. He seems much more likely to be a law professor at an Ivy League school and enjoy drinks with other members of the1% club. Maybe go on a lecture tour. But, Obama will never get the fees for speaking that Bill Clinton receives. Ole Bill might not have been that good a President considering NAFTA and other such legislation but give the man his due. Ole Bill is quite the speech maker. Personally, I am quite surprised that Obama did not push for Bill to head up the UN. But Bill's star might have been brighter than Obama When was the last time an American been the head honcho of the UN? Even thought the US pays 25% of the UNs expenses has the US ever flexed its muscles to make an American the head of the UN?

[dan laurie]

03:56 AM on 01/19/2012

I would say too ill-informed, but I keep it to "too many words."

[aspen colorado]

06:55 PM on 02/18/2012

I think we should give Obama 3 terms

[dax49]

01:26 PM on 01/18/2012

Totta sure is a bitter little person- I guess having a career in the toilet and being reduced to playing third fiddle on fox will do that to you!

[Mystic14]

11:33 AM on 02/17/2012

I Feel Liz is a shap gal, smart, and correct!

[aspen colorado]

06:56 PM on 02/18/2012

You could add Lying Racist to that description

[valluhree]

01:23 PM on 01/18/2012

Hey, Fox. Welcome to the Free Market you hold so dearly to your heart. Should an employee fall out of step with a company's policies, they can get fired or suspended!

Oh waiiiit. I suppose the only time you defend someone being taken to task for their views is when you agree with them. Remember how you reacted to Keith Olbermann being let go?

How's THAT for 'fair and balanced'?

[JonnyLogic]

08:45 AM on 01/18/2012

I have yet to hear of a Fox "News" viewer who has fact checked anything the network says. I wonder why...

[aspen colorado]

06:57 PM on 02/18/2012

Because fake Fox has Liars on everyday. THe King Liar is Hannity