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MSNBC Analyst Has a Meltdown
Patrick J. Buchanan, MSNBC's Senior Political Analyst, author and all-around "save the white race from annihilation and extinction" advocate comes closer and closer to losing it completely.
Buchanan, whom I had profiled in some detail here, has turned into the white man's foil during this primary season on MSNBC. Always quick to point out the problems with Obama's capture of the lunch bucket crowd and how he can't get out the white vote, Buchanan has warmed to Senator Clinton for becoming the "everyman" that he feels is necessary to capture the race for the Dems. The more Obama wins, the more agitated Buchanan becomes.
I'll set up the video below as I had seen the whole thing live and this clip, while great, does not capture what set Pat off.
This immediately followed John Edwards' endorsement of Obama last night. The subject of conversation with Pat, Matthews and Andrea Mitchell was if anyone thought that Edwards would help Obama capture the working-class white vote. The exit polling on race as a basis for voting in WV was astounding. When asked if race was an important factor for their candidate of choice, Clinton voters answered 85% that race was an important factor - far higher than any primary before.
As you'll see, Pat tries to blame Chris Matthews and others in the media for calling WV (and other white voters) dumb, poor and racist by virtue of reporting the exit polling results. Credit where credit is due, Matthews does a great job batting back Pat. From the beginning of this race, Pat has tried to frame Obama as the "black" candidate who cannot win.
I fear that Buchanan will be reporting in a straight jacket before November.
It's a long clip, but worth the watch for those of you who are following race factors in this campaign.
Recent Comments
(Page 2 of 8)SamTexas11:59AMMay 15th 2008
John, your statement:
John11:54AMMay 15th 2008
The Nazi lover speaks...doesnt he know that minorities as a whole fight and die for this country more than others since Vietnam. This is a scared White supremecists view of the election. Obama is the bes6t choice to put these type of idiots to rest
wreaks of racism. He is the best candidate because he is a monority? That doesn't make sense. He doesn't have the sustance to get it done. Just because he is a monority. So is Clinton, she is a woman, more so of a minority for this job, don't you think? Get real John, you make so sense and are very racist.
TJ12:03PMMay 15th 2008
BRAVO, PAT BUCHANON ,FOR STANDING UP TO THIS "MAN GUSHING OVER MAN" CHRIS MATHEWS...SICKENING PERSON.
MATHEWS LIVES IN A DREAM WORLD. A WOMAN IS CLOSE TO PRESOIDENCY SO THIS WHITE MAN -MATHEWS FALLS HEAD OVER HEELS WITH OBAMA, A BLACK MAN..WOW!!!
HE WANTS THE SAME WORLD OBAMA DREAMS OF "CELESTIAL CHOIRS SINGING"
CHRIS MATHEWS AND KEITH "MADMAN" OLBERMANN ARE INSANE.
sillyme12:03PMMay 15th 2008
TJ
of those 67% of Hillary voters 85% said race was an important factor. Explain to me what that means, in a white state.
iynaroc0212:06PMMay 15th 2008
JOHN MCCAIN NOW SAYS HE HAS PLANS TO WIN THE WAR AND SAVE AMERICA. HE HAS BEEN IN THE SENATE FOR EVER, HE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH BUSH SINCE BUSH TOOK OFFICE AND ALL THESE THINGS HAVEN'T HAPPENED. IF HE HAS THIS PLAN WHY HASN'T HE SHARED IT WITH BUSH OR ATLEAST HIS FELLOW REPUBLICANS. JOHN MCCAIN IS NOTHING BUT OLD POLITICS, SAY WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO SAY TO GET ELECTED. MAYBE PEOPLE IN PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA ARE BUYING THAT BS, BUT SMART AMERICANS SEE THROUGH HIM AND HIS PLANS. MCCAIN KEEPS TRYING TO REINVENT HIMSELF AS THE ELECTION CONTINUES. HE SAID HE HAS EXPERIENCE, SO HE SHOULD BE RUNNING ON HIS RECORDS AND NOT TRY TO REINVENT HIMSELF FOR THE 08 ELECTION.
roger in the valley12:07PMMay 15th 2008
kaflooey11:04AMMay 15th 2008
"Clinton voters answered 85% that race was an important factor - far higher than any primary before." In Philadelphia Pennsylvania 92% of the black vote went to Barack Obama. All 92% felt race was an important factor in their decision. "Astounding."
But Hillary Clinton still won the state.
KAFLOOEY THIS IS ALMOST A GOOD POINT BUT YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT ALL THE FACTORS. WEST VIRGINIA IS 97% WHITE, PA IS 87.6% WHITE. IN PA THAT MEANT THAT HILLARY GOT ALMOST ALL OF THAT 87.6% ON THE OTHER HAND PA IS 14.3% BLACK SO OBAMA GOT 95% OF 14.3%,WHICH MEANS THE BLACK VOTE IN PA ONLY GAVE HIM 13.5% OF THE TOTAL VOTE.
iynaroc0212:08PMMay 15th 2008
NOBODY IS RAMMING OBAMA ANYBODY'S THROAT. HE'S SIMPLY WINNING MORE STATES, VOTES, PLEDGED DELEGATES AND SUPERDELEGATES. HOW IS THAT RAMMING HIM THAN YOUR THROAT. HE'S WON DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF STATES HILLARY WON, HE PLAYED BY THE RULES AND WANTS TO ABIDE BY THOSE RULES FOR FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN. IF IT WAS OBAMA THAT HAS BEEN ASKING DNC TO CHANGE THEW RULES FOR FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN, YOUR LIKES WOULD BE SAYING THAT HE THINKS HE'S SPECIAL AND DOESN'T HAVE TO PLAY BY THE RULES. WHEN OBAMA BECOMES PRESIDENT, ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY SHOULD FREE TO DO SO AND GO BACK TO WHEREEVER THEY CAME FROM, AND THAT INCLUDES WHITES AND BLACKS.
Aero12:12PMMay 15th 2008
I don't watch that station any more, but I suspect you will be seeing less of Buchanan now that he has spoke without gleeming favor of Obama. MSNBC threw Tucker Carlson overboard for not being an Obama cheerleader.
Katherine12:25PMMay 15th 2008
It's really hard to take Chris Matthews seriously when there are youtube clips of him with compilations of him saying the some of the most sexist sh*t I have heard on TV.
Personally, if I ever saw Chris Matthews in person, I would scream at him and maybe hit him, and the arrest might be worth it! (lol) He's disgusting.
Ok, I totally understand why Pat is getting upset. Denise is putting her liberal slant all over this article, but partially what Pat is talking about it what will lose Obama the general.
Obama has been forced down everyone's throats for over a year. He still has not even been vetted, the Wright thing doesn't come close to vetting since it is just one of his many controversial issues.
The MSM has been protecting and promoting Obama for a year, and they've been attacking Hillary for a year.
The media has followed this campaign in an unprecendented manner: being biased to Obama, and calling on Hillary to drop out of the race for many many months.
Obama has been FORCED, and he hasn't been vetted--America doesn't know him. Anyway, we can blame the MSM, and the fact that investigative journalism is almost dead.
Sally12:25PMMay 15th 2008
I never thought that I would agree with anything pat Bucannan said but I agree with him that the press has a double standard for deciding what is a racial issue and what is not. I for one am sick and tired of hearing that if you don't like Senator Obama it must be because he is black and you are a racist! The media has made it about race since so Carolina when everything was about race. Hillary praised Martin Luther King Jr. but made the mistake of then praising Pres. Johnson for his courage in signing the civial rights bill of 1964. The press jumped on that like flies on sh--. That made the Clintons racists. I say BS to all of that talk. This primary process has been disected down by Hispanic voters, black voters, white voters, voters who make more than $50K or less than 50K.less educated voters, Jewish voters, Catholic voters, Evangelical voters, women voters etc. so why is everyone making such a big deal about West Virginia voters. Maybe they just think that Hillary clinton would make a better President! If Barack Obama becomes President I hope I don't have to listen to the press who think that everyone who has a difference of opinion dislikes him because he is black.
Katherine12:25PMMay 15th 2008
I can't believe people still use traditional "white" states as examples of Obama getting white votes earlier, because he's so amazing...etc (lol). Wasn't that during the Obamamania trend?
NONE of those hard-core red republican states would ever vote for him in the general. NONE. He's the #1 U.S. Senator. Obama won by caucus with help from MoveOn. These places are not good examples of Obama's electability. Hillary's blue states and purple states are.
MichaelBiggs12:28PMMay 15th 2008
Pat was not the issue. The issue is that Chris can not even mention Obama without getting an erection.
franz12:31PMMay 15th 2008
IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR OBAMA THEN YOUR A RACIST. THIS IS WHAT THE MEDIA IS PLAYING ON US!! HES ONLY BEEN A SENATOR FOR 3.5 YEARS!! AMAZING THAT OVER 90% OF BLACKS VOTE FOR OBAMA... HMMM AND THATS NOT RACIST!
Amber12:31PMMay 15th 2008
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE OBAMATRONS HAVE BEEN MOST EFFECTIVE AT - PAINTING EVERYONE THAT DOES NOT SUPPORT OBAMA AS A RACIST.
Que sera sera12:35PMMay 15th 2008
They keep on dumbing down these blogs at PM. By throwing out things like this, they hope to direct us away from the larger problems that are Mr. Obama.
Mr. Obama has posed in front of flags, many flags. He now wears the flag pin, but did he spit on it before he pinned it on? His latest farce in his attempt to seize America is this Kentucky leaflet.
Be sure and click on the photobucket picture link
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll30/EconGradStud/Obama.jpg
Barack Obama’s Pitch in Kentucky
Supposedly Barack Obama’s not playing for Kentucky. You could have fooled me. He’s got 16 offices in the state next to Hillary’s 5. Hillary has no office west of Louisville. Barack Obama’s offices go from the West Virginia border to the Mississippi River. I visited one of Barack’s offices today.
So how is Barack trying to appeal to Kentuckians?
As a religious candidate.
This is how Obama is appealing to Kentuckians. I had just finished doing an undisclosed activity at Church and a friend asked me to check out Barack Obama. I couldn’t say no to my Lutheran friend.
So I drive up to the Obama office and I noticed a crudely spray-painted image of Barack Obama and a cross. So my friend and I walked in. A cross on the wall and a tall black man (a Professor of mine) greeted me. Behind him were two elderly ladies wearing crosses.
So they launched into their pitch about how Obama would care for the poor and the “least among these”.
I can’t attest to how Obama’s other 15 campaign offices in Kentucky are run. In this one the appeal to Evangelical voters is in overdrive.
I wonder what Obama campaign commercials I’ll see in the Fall.
by Doug Forrester @ 7:11 pm. Filed under Barack Obama
http://race42008.com/2008/05/12/barack-obamas-pitch-in-kentucky/
kaflooey12:37PMMay 15th 2008
roger in the valley12:07PMMay 15th 2008
kaflooey11:04AMMay 15th 2008
"Clinton voters answered 85% that race was an important factor - far higher than any primary before." In Philadelphia Pennsylvania 92% of the black vote went to Barack Obama. All 92% felt race was an important factor in their decision. "Astounding."
But Hillary Clinton still won the state.
KAFLOOEY THIS IS ALMOST A GOOD POINT BUT YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT ALL THE FACTORS. WEST VIRGINIA IS 97% WHITE, PA IS 87.6% WHITE. IN PA THAT MEANT THAT HILLARY GOT ALMOST ALL OF THAT 87.6% ON THE OTHER HAND PA IS 14.3% BLACK SO OBAMA GOT 95% OF 14.3%,WHICH MEANS THE BLACK VOTE IN PA ONLY GAVE HIM 13.5% OF THE TOTAL VOTE.
roger, well that's why I said Philadelphia Pa and not just Pa. But thank you for almost agreeing with me. lol
Katherine12:39PMMay 15th 2008
This whole thing is getting very dirty. It's been setting up for months:
The media has forgot the issues, policies, voting records, experience, and anything that is of true substance as reasons for why anyone would or would NOT vote for Obama.
People are NOT stupid: They've been saying that people who vote for Hillary are uneducated and people who vote for Obama are educated.
As if Hillary does not get highly educated people? That's FALSE. As if Obama doesn't get uneducated voters? YES he does.
See, it's a set up to call racism, and to try to push race on people, and to cover up the fact that Obama hasn't done squat.
They want black people to feel ok for their racism: Voting for someone based on their epidermis and not on their experience, and they want white people who vote white to be called uneducated and racist, and they want certain white people to feel guilty (like Matthews seems to sound here in this clip--referring to slavery? Weird).
But, there is a backlash too, I don't think these media fools should make it about race like they have because it might embolden more people to not vote for Obama because this whole thing is turning into one big race card.
It also sounds like Chris Matthews and the media have given Obama a racial pass. You know, c'mon, let's let an unqualified black person get the job because we in the media want to report on something different, and hopefully there will be LOTS to cover in the news because there will be social problems if people have to adjust to that.
Pat is right, from what I saw, and he did bring up a an interesting point.
How many of those blacks voting for Obama are educated? We know the stats on the h.s. drop out rate, test scores, and literacy rate, and college graduation rate among black people % wise compared to white people, and it AINT good! No, it's terrible, especially black males.
So, we all know that, but why isn't THAT a factor if we are going to be talking about education in a non-biased way? Racial double standard.
Media better watch it, stop using RACE. There will be a backlash if they continue that.
Katherine12:44PMMay 15th 2008
This is going to be the next Obama-mania media spin to take us away from vetting Obama, it will be called Race-amania!
You cannot question Obama! He is BLACK!
Before it was: You cannot question Obama! He is MESSIAH!
LOL.
I don't think so. Dumb media is making this wayyy racial. REAL BAD idea.
D. L. GRAHAM12:47PMMay 15th 2008
THE NEW MAGIC NUMBER (2210)
So, what happened since no one in the media paid any attention to the statements of Lanny Davis about first the New Magic Number of (2209) from the previous (2025) Magic Number to maybe have (D-NY) US/Senator Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton, concession of the Democratic Nomination?
(D-IL) Barrack "Barry" Hussein Obama, could with the help of the "Super-Delegates" end the process, before the Kentucky and Oregon State Primary's by moving to Obama prior to those primary's taking the wind out of the Clinton Campaign, but the number would have been based upon (2025) and with the addition of a new Mississippi "Super-Delegate" (2026).
But, Lanny Davis, Phil Singer, Hillary and the Clinton Campaign have once again moved the bar, its not (2025, 2026,2209) but now the new Magic Number is (2210). Do I hear another bid?
And, the answer is no to the question if (D-NY) US/Senator Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton, will end the campaign on June 4th, or at any time prior to Aug. 25, this is going into the convention, the entire "Primary" process to that time is about just having "delegates" selected to be seated in the convention and nothing more. At the convention is were the candidates after "A FLAT BED TRUCK DEBATE" vote upon the "Democratic Nominee" for the "General Election"
And, the argument that the Clintons will make is that The United States of America has been, is, and will always be a racist nation, an a "Black-Guy" will never be elected.
eaglesnest12:54PMMay 15th 2008
obama is a loser....no amount of propaganda is going to work to give him the whitehouse. he has not earned it and cant get the white vote because he is an elitist snob. he ran on the race card and played it often. his supporters refuse to accept the facts that he is not electable, not now, and not ever.
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TJ11:55AMMay 15th 2008
Sillyme, IF THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS FOR BARACK, WHY DO YOU THINK 67% TURNED AROUND, AFTER THE TIM RUSSERT AND CHUCK TODD FUZZY "MATH" CROWNED HIM NOMINEE. WHY DO YOU THINK WEST VIRGINIANS, TURNED AROUND AND VOTED 67% -RESOUNDING "NO TO OBAMA" WHY THEY REJECT HIM. ALL OF A SUDDEN , THEY ARE ALL RACIST?
67% NO TO OBAMA.. THAT IS STUNNING.
THE DNC ARE IN A HURRY TO LOSE THIS ELECTION BY PUSHING OBAMA AND I WILL HELP THEM BY VOTING MCCAIN
TJ, THE OBAMA BUSTER.