AndreaGail
9th January 2012, 08:35 PM
Pat Buchanan might not be coming back to MSNBC after finishing his tour for a book that laments the perceived loss of a more racially and religiously homogeneous America.
Many groups have taken issue with the premise of Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?, particularly the content of one chapter titled "The End of White America" (borrowed from an Atlantic article, which Buchanan cites), for racial and religious bigotry.
Buchanan, who serves as a conservative political analyst for the 24-hour news network, has been off the air since October. Over the weekend, Deadline Hollywood asked MSNBC president Phil Griffen to shed light on Buchanan's employment status at the network. Griffen stopped short of making anything official but said that the ideas put forth in the book are not "appropriate for the national dialogue, much less MSNBC." Griffin continued: "Pat’s a good guy. He didn’t like [being removed from the air], but he understood."
Griffen made similar comments to other media outlets in recent days. "Pat and I are going to meet soon and a decision will be made," he told the New York Times, adding that while Buchanan is a "good guy" some of his ideas "are alarming."
Buchanan, who has a history of controversy (see his 1992 RNC "culture war" speech), posits in his book that America as a nation is "desintergrating" because of religious, racial, and national diversity. An excerpt posted on the Diane Rehm Show site elaborates further:
For what is a nation?
Is it not a people of a common ancestry, culture, and language who worship the same God, revere the same heroes, cherish the same history, celebrate the same holidays, share the same music, poetry, art, literature, held together, in Lincoln’s words, by “bonds of affection ... mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone”?
If that is what a nation is, can we truly say America is still a nation? The European and Christian core of our country is shrinking. The birth rate of our native born has been below replacement level for decades. By 2020, deaths among white Americans will exceed births, while mass immigration is altering forever the face of America.
It's unclear why MSNBC has decided to reconsider Buchanan's status now. He's been on air regularly on the network since 2002, and the ideas in his book are very similar to what he's been asserting for years.
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/01/09/pat_buchanan_vs_msnbc_controversial_book_causing_t ension.html
Many groups have taken issue with the premise of Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?, particularly the content of one chapter titled "The End of White America" (borrowed from an Atlantic article, which Buchanan cites), for racial and religious bigotry.
Buchanan, who serves as a conservative political analyst for the 24-hour news network, has been off the air since October. Over the weekend, Deadline Hollywood asked MSNBC president Phil Griffen to shed light on Buchanan's employment status at the network. Griffen stopped short of making anything official but said that the ideas put forth in the book are not "appropriate for the national dialogue, much less MSNBC." Griffin continued: "Pat’s a good guy. He didn’t like [being removed from the air], but he understood."
Griffen made similar comments to other media outlets in recent days. "Pat and I are going to meet soon and a decision will be made," he told the New York Times, adding that while Buchanan is a "good guy" some of his ideas "are alarming."
Buchanan, who has a history of controversy (see his 1992 RNC "culture war" speech), posits in his book that America as a nation is "desintergrating" because of religious, racial, and national diversity. An excerpt posted on the Diane Rehm Show site elaborates further:
For what is a nation?
Is it not a people of a common ancestry, culture, and language who worship the same God, revere the same heroes, cherish the same history, celebrate the same holidays, share the same music, poetry, art, literature, held together, in Lincoln’s words, by “bonds of affection ... mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone”?
If that is what a nation is, can we truly say America is still a nation? The European and Christian core of our country is shrinking. The birth rate of our native born has been below replacement level for decades. By 2020, deaths among white Americans will exceed births, while mass immigration is altering forever the face of America.
It's unclear why MSNBC has decided to reconsider Buchanan's status now. He's been on air regularly on the network since 2002, and the ideas in his book are very similar to what he's been asserting for years.
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/01/09/pat_buchanan_vs_msnbc_controversial_book_causing_t ension.html