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Shrum to Buchanan on Sotomayor: "[Y]ou ought to get off this, because you're Hispanic-bashing all the time"

July 17, 2009 2:34 pm ET

SUMMARY: From the July 17 edition of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports:

Previously:

Maddow on Buchanan tapping "white people's racial grievances": "You're playing with fire. ... [Y]ou're living in the 1950s"

In showdown with Maddow, Buchanan says Sotomayor "was appointed because she's a Latina, and a Hispanic, and a woman" 

Buchanan on why he doesn't "understand" "the argument" for affirmative action for Hispanics: "They were never enslaved" 

Buchanan declares Sotomayor a "militant liberal Latina," Matthews and Robinson push back

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