Without the god awful Bush administration and the god awful Iraq war she and Keith have nothing.

It seems a lot of the MSNBC commentators are doing that during the past week. It makes me wonder if they are trying to push Pat out. If Pat goes I am never watching that network again. I like Morning Joe and of course Pat, but otherwise that network is pathetic.

http://onestdv.blogspot.com/2009/07/maddow-and-buchanan-analysis.html

The commitment to dueling echo chambers will be our undoing. Politicians will continue to take advantage of the public’s perceived ignorance and private citizens will pay the price. Corporations will continue to own the political process, and networks will make money broadcasting the bickering between both sides. Facts…truth…will be inconsequential, and we will be having these exact arguments 20 years from now. What’s the point?

Note that much of what Pat said simply wasn’t true. White people were not 100% of the people who built this country and there were Blacks, Latinos, and Asians who fought in the wars. But that doesn’t matter right? As long as he scored some points on Rachel, or she on him…because at the end of the day that’s what this is all about. Superiority. Whoever is on top, whoever has the most votes (regardless of how they earned them), whoever has the most support (regardless of intellect, policy points, or integrity)—that person gets control and free reign to guarantee their own interests at the detriment of the country. We don’t need terrorists. We’ve got this well in hand.

All she could do was resort to name calling.

As was stated before, Buchanan was rejected from the draft in 1960, several years before US sent troops to Vietnam. However, it’s obvious you didn’t know this detail when you brought it up, as you probably just read it somewhere on a lefty blog that “Buchanan dodged the draft.” Yet you still insist on bringing it up. So then you criticize him for not volunteering some 6 years later, give me a break.

Also you pontificate on other things you know absolutely nothing about. Whatever the reason Buchanan has no children is none of your business, and not having children is not antithetic to family values. It’s not like he’s mormon. How do you know whom Buchanan socializes with? For a got guy who doesn’t appreciate Buchanan, you must follow him around everywhere to know what he does when he’s not on the air.

Having and utilizing connections is a fact of life in all aspects of life and not something that can be institutionalized away…right down from a kid who takes a summer job for his uncle to all the zillions of young hollywood actors that are the children of famous stars.
It’s true that blacks were discriminated against institutionally for hundreds of years, but the lesson from this is that institutionalized discrimination is wrong, not that it should be altered to “make up for lost time.” And the fact that “whites” may have “gained control of the system” is Maddow says is irrelevant since the kind of whites who control the system from the top all the way down are the guilty white liberal stereotypes like those characterized in the book “Stuff White People Like,” the ones actively promoting affirmative action.

I’m sorry that you have such little respect for people of other races to think that can’t succeed without lowing the intelligence bar dumbing down our society and industries. When Martin Luther King said men “should be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” I took it literally. That’s why it’s a mistake to continually “groupify” people, color categorize them and even think of people in terms of race if we are going to ever begin to achieve that goal.

And what was this distinction of Buchanan’s that got him out of the draft? A talent for medicine, so he should go on to become a talented doctor? A skilled scientist? Nope – just having the connections to get out of an obligation to his country, not using his connections to advance anything worthwhile. A man who has made his living at the public trough, without contributing anything. A man who claims to stick up for family values, but has no children of his own. A man who sticks up for the white working class, but socializes only with wealthy whites of the DC party circuit.