Huffington Post revisits Pat Buchanan, James Edwards, and MSNBC with new article, old bromides.
The story that just won’t go away received another round of publicity today, courtesy of our friends at The Huffington Post. Pat Buchanan, the longtime conservative pundit, has been making the TV rounds in recent weeks promoting his latest book, “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” He’s sat down with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs and former Fox News star Glenn Beck, who now hosts a two-hour program on his GBTV online network.
But one network on which Buchanan hasn’t talked up the book is the one that actually employs him, MSNBC. Buchanan, a former Republican presidential speechwriter who later ran for the White House as a fiery populist candidate, hasn’t appeared on MSNBC since Oct. 22, a few days after his book hit the shelves. The book, however, wasn’t discussed.
Yet Buchanan has still managed to spark another race-based controversy that’s embroiling the network.
Buchanan argues in “Suicide of a Superpower” that “ethnonationalism” is tearing the United States apart and that the “European and Christian core of our country is shrinking.” In his dire introduction, he warns that the “nation is disintegrating, ethnically, culturally, morally, politically.” And he strikes the same themes during his TV and radio appearances promoting the book.