COMMENTARY | According to the Associated Press, MSNBC has finally dropped conservative commentator Pat Buchanan. Last fall the network suspended him following the publication of his latest book, and MSNBC President Phil Griffin said just last month that he didn't think Buchanan's book "should be part of the national dialogue, much less part of the dialogue on MSNBC."
Neither do I, and his firing could not have come soon enough. Buchanan's book, "Suicide of a Superpower" included chapters that were titled, "The End of White America" and "The Death of Christian America." Critics rightly called the book racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic.
Buchanan denied the charges by playing the victim card, yet anyone who has even a smidgen of common sense realizes just how ridiculous this is. The civil rights group Color of Change called on MSNBC to fire the political analyst after he was interviewed on white nationalist radio program "The Political Cesspool," to promote his new book.
During the interview, Buchanan stated that white males are the "victims of affirmative action, not the beneficiaries." He also warned of the dangers of America's increasing diversity.
The real danger here is Buchanan and men like him. Recently, it seems that many desperate white males, eager to hang on to their position of power in the United States, are also attempting to set female citizens back a century or more with some of their rhetoric.
Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is not only vehemently against abortion in any circumstances, he is also against birth control, even for married couples, because it violates his beliefs as a Catholic. He's gone on record to say that as that as president he would warn the nation about "the dangers of contraception." He recently stated that he's against insurance covering the birth control pill because it only "costs a few dollars."
Just as scary are the comments by Foster Friess, the billionaire investor who is backing Santorum. Thursday on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Report, Friess remarked, "Back in my day, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly."
It seems to me that these men would like to return to the days where blacks were slaves and women couldn't vote, and many females even died due to the repression of women after abortion was prohibited in the 19th century.
Mr. Buchanan, don't let the door hit you on the way out. We live in the 21st century. If you don't like it here, perhaps Newt Gingrich will find a place for you on the moon.
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