Pat Buchanan To Sean Hannity On MSNBC Exit: 'Un-American' Blacklist Pushed Me Off The Air (VIDEO)

Controversial author and pundit Pat Buchanan went to Fox News on Friday for his first television appearance since his stormy departure from MSNBC the day before. Speaking to Sean Hannity, Buchanan lashed out at his critics and staunchly defended the book that got him kicked off of the network he had called home for ten years.

The book, "Suicide of a Superpower," was published in October. Almost immediately, Buchanan was roasted for writing chapters such as the one entitled "The End of White America," and for appearing on a white nationalist radio show to promote the book. Gay rights and Jewish and civil rights groups launched a campaign against him. MSNBC president Phil Griffin said that sections of the book were not "appropriate for the national dialogue" and kept Buchanan off the air for months until letting him go.

Buchanan still has friends at MSNBC -- Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Chris Matthews all made public statements about their regret over his departure -- but he turned to another friend, Hannity, on Friday. Before appearing on Hannity's Fox News show, he called into his radio show on Friday afternoon, where he said that his departure from MSNBC was "not my idea."

On Fox News, Buchanan repeated an argument he'd made in a Thursday column: that a left-wing witchhunt had hounded him off the air.

"I think they're engaged in a blacklist, Sean, a blacklist of conservative and traditionalist thought," he said. Hannity agreed, saying that Media Matters and others were at "the root of an organized campaign to...ultimately silence conservatives."

"There are elements in our society and they are predominantly on the hard left that say it's no longer enough to challenge and contradict or defeat or fight these fellas in arguments," Buchanan said. "We've got to smear them, stigmatize them as racists or homophobic and then we've gotta silence and censor them and the way we do it is go after the media outlets that put them on the air...this is un-American what is going on right now."

Hannity noted that Buchanan's views have not changed in the years that MSNBC has employed him. "So what happened here?" he asked. Buchanan said that MSNBC was worried about the persuasiveness of his words.

"They can't be afraid of me," he said. "I'm not going to be President of the United States. They are afraid of the ideas we express because they're afraid of the people."

Hannity then quizzed Buchanan about the chapter in his book called "The End of White America." Buchanan said that he was merely trying to push back against the idea that the end of the country's white majority was a good thing.

"Why can everybody else celebrate this and say it's wonderful, and I can't even write about it without being blacklisted?" he said. "...I don't know why they say this is going to be better when there's a smaller percentage of white folks."

Hannity asked if Buchanan really meant to warn against cultural, and not racial, shifts in the country. Buchanan rejected that idea.

"If you remove the ethnic core of the country...I think you imperil the unity of the country and the culture," he said. "...My point is, an ethnic core -- in other words the fact that we were a Western and European people predominantly and we had 10 percent African Americans -- this was one of the strengths of this country as well as the culture."

Watch Part 1 above, and Part 2 below.

Also on HuffPost:

Some of Pat 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

[Fred Rynearson]

07:36 PM on 03/03/2012

Flash: Fox news plans welcome home party for Pat Buchanan. MSNBC bites another bullet...Tea Party notches another one...Come on November

[Sherran Dennis Davis]

07:31 PM on 04/10/2012

Buchanan and his out dated ideas need to "rest in peace".

[Walter Antoniotti]

08:56 PM on 02/28/2012

Pat Buchanan was just let go by liberal MSNBC for what some think are overly conservative views detailed in his new book
Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization. I tend to follow Pat more than say George_Will
because George ducks behind the Government caused it every time he gets backed into a corner whenever a solution to some serious problem.
I used to be a big fan of Charles Krauthammer but he keeps moving to the right and never saw a fact he wouldn't misuse.

I'm a sixty-eight year old centrist who tends to vote democratic because of our need to solve the health care problem, a personal need to receive the health benefits from stem cell research, and women's reproductive freedom "rights."

Many late 19th century religious American conservatives wanted keep our country free of Irish Roman Catholics. The Irish, many named "Pat," came anyway and then they themselves turned against dark-skin Italians Roman Catholics who were the nemesis of conservative beliefs. Now this Pat wants to keep non-Christians and dark skinned people out of America to preserve what he thinks is our "America Heritage."

I'll bet religious conservative native Americans want to keep white people out of their country.
Extreme conservatives the world over tend to tolerate only one controller of acceptable beliefs and for them, it is their church.

[BabyBoomer21]

04:03 PM on 02/25/2012

Pat Buchanan is my generation, and I remember the horrible things he stood for when he was running for President. His sister was even worse! I was so relieved he got defeated -- thought we had finally moved to a better place. Now here we are again refighting women's rights, civil rights, anti-semitism, scape-goating, fear-mongering...... Yikes! I don't ever want to go back to those old days. I hope the younger generation has read their history and stays vigilent against those trying to turn back the clock. THOSE WERE NOT THE GOOD OLE DAYS!

[notoideologies]

12:26 PM on 02/23/2012

As I said, Patrick J. Buchanan is a good Catholic. I know that Patrick J. Buchanan doesn't think highly of Indian Hindus (I'm non-religious) as my parents came from India, but I don't care as Mr. Patrick J. Buchanan is right on the topics. Mr. Patrick J. Buchanan believes in = chances for all ethnic groups-Blacks, Whites, Asians, etc. Patrick J. Buchanan also uses Bengali words such as pundit, pariah & guru sometimes in his columns so it proves he has understanding of other ethnicities & as I said Patrick J. Buchanan has been to China, Europe & Africa-he is a well traveled man.

There's nothing wrong with Mr. Buchanan & Laura Ann Ingraham having a Catholic bias. There are people who complain about Catholics (esp. Spaniard Catholics) such as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, yet he asked Catholic Drs. to save his life after he got sick. The same groups who complain about Catholics but then ask Catholics to give them jobs & teach them engineering, accounting, law, etc. I know alot of people are anti-Catholic as Mr. Buchanan is Catholic, but it's the Catholics you complain about who help the poor, educate in schools, give jobs, etc.

[MelSelecta]

05:55 AM on 02/23/2012

These racist men have a hard time with the fast change in the U.S. lol "white's only" america is a thing of the past, sorry Pat!!!

[el diablo negro]

09:08 PM on 02/22/2012

I didn't want Patrick Buchanan fired form MSNBC, I wanted Black People like Adolph Reed Jr., Margaret Wimberly and Bruce A. Dixon of Black Agenda Report to debate Buchanan when he bought up issues of race with people who are qualified to add balance instead of the same black talking heads whom the producer knows Buchanan would crush. In their firing of him they made him a martyr of the neo- conservative racialist right wing and conservatives in general.

Though I agree with Color of Change, GLAAD, and the Anti- Defamation league and think they do great work this does not sit well with me. He should be debated and shown for the racist, homophobic, xenophobic, man he and his family is.

[notoideologies]

07:57 PM on 02/22/2012

Patrick J. Buchanan is an educated man who has been to China (1972 during Nixon administration), Europe & Africa. My parents came from India & I as a non-religous Hindu agree with Patrick J. Buchanan on many topics such as the fact that he is against gay/lesbian activities & his opposition to sex changes. Patrick J. Buchanan also supports nuclear powerplants for energy. Yes, Patrick J. Buchanan has a pro-Catholic bias, but I don't care. Catholicism as he says is good for Amerindians in Latin America as the Spanish Catholics abolished human sacrifices. Now people will say that los conquistadores were sometimes ruthless but I agree with Mr. Buchanan that the Spaniard Catholics treated the Amerindians anywhere from better to no worse than the way Amerindians treated eachother & that the American Indians got more better things from the Spaniard Catholics such as jobs, education, etc. I don't have Cable, but Mr. Patrick J. Buchanan is a smart man who is a good Irish Catholic unlike Mr. Bill O'Reilly of Fox & 1970s musician Don Henley of Shiloh & the Eagles.

[notoideologies]

08:23 PM on 02/22/2012

Patrick J. Buchanan gets called 'homophobic' because he is against gay/lesbian activities, but he is right that gay/lesbian activities must be viewed the same way as crack smoking is. Patrick J. Buchanan is also right about sex changes being mutilations which must be abolished as sex changes are sad just as trying to change skin color of those who think they're of another ethnicity. As my posts prove, there are non-Whites such as me whose parents again came from mostly Hindu India who agree with Patrick J. Buchanan. Patrick J. Buchanan again is right that Catholicism is better than the American Indian religions & American Indians got more from Spaniard & Portuguese Catholics.

Patrick J. Buchanan speaks his mind & I praise him for saying what he believes, going on TV to debate those who differ. I don't always agree with Mr. Buchanan such as I don't go to the extent he does on the illegal alien topic, but Mr. Patrick J. Buchanan wants the best for American.

[looneydoone]

09:05 PM on 02/22/2012

>>"Catholcism is better than the America Indian religions"

As you are NOT "American Indian", I suggest you refrain from making any further statements as to what's "the better " religion for *them*

Your admiration for Buchanan is entirely due to your being as racist, homophobic, and religiously bigoted as he is

[Alpha Nerd]

04:46 PM on 02/23/2012

Dude, are you for real? Just how did the Europeans help the Native Americans of this land? How many of them do you see walking around in our towns and cities? What you are saying is that you have no problem with the genocide of an entire group of people.

[dcgal1]

06:26 PM on 02/22/2012

Pat Buchanan is a pathetic, bigoted old man being interview by a pathetic right-wing lunatic, and I think the formation of Mr. Hannity forehead may be a window into where his irrational and hateful presentation comes from.

[jonesification]

08:03 AM on 02/22/2012

I do not understand this guy. It is as if he is saying only white folks can adopt American values of freedom. The funny thing is that the English Americans used to say the same thing about New Irish Americans both is that he means about "european values." I am always glad to see people who come here for a better life. What it means is that they share the values of prosperity based of discipline and sacrifice. This notion prospers their family and especially a better life for their kids. This is MY America Pat.

[brklynivn]

03:11 AM on 02/22/2012

Yet he was Joe McCarthy's biggest supporter.

[Andrew Hernandez Jr]

01:35 AM on 02/22/2012

I GUESS THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR ENDORSING RON PAUL! BAD, BAD BOY! DID YOU THINK THIS WAS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? DID YOU THINK YOUR VIEWS WOULD BE PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION? SILLY, MINION. BOW DOWN TO YOUR MASTERS. PAT!

[CaptainSacto]

12:36 AM on 02/22/2012

I think these Talking heads shows have turn into reality shows

[DDay52]

10:53 PM on 02/21/2012

Why do all the supposed "Democrats" on Faux News look looney or creepy? Just a coincidence?

[X Williams]

10:46 PM on 02/21/2012

I'm happy the old coot was fired... He was espousing ridiculous and racist views...

[Clevelandinwi]

10:23 PM on 02/21/2012

patty bewcannon - one of the original racist haters. Go away.