Media Matters - Pat Buchanan

Media Matters - Pat Buchanan http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/pat_buchanan This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Pat Buchanan en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Media figures continue to cite National Journal ranking of Obama as "most liberal" senator in '07 without noting subjectivity http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270010 NPR's Renée Montagne, MSNBC's Pat Buchanan, and CNN's Bill Bennett all referred to the National Journal's 2007 Vote Ratings, which ranked Sen. Barack Obama the most liberal senator that year, without noting the subjectivity of the ratings. The National Journal based its rankings not on all votes cast by senators in 2007, but on "99 key Senate votes, selected by NJ reporters and editors, to place every senator on a liberal-to-conservative scale." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270010 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:21:07 EST MSNBC's Buchanan called Obama "exotic," said "[h]e's like the guys in the Harvard faculty lounge" who "don't know anything about their country" http://mediamatters.org/items/200806160007 MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan said of the Republican strategy against Sen. Barack Obama: "[T]hey're going to use his associations. And they're going to use his statements, his elitism. They're going to use the fact he's exotic." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806160007 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:35:32 EST After lambasting sourcing of NY Times' McCain story, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan ignore anonymous sourcing in Vanity Fair article about Clinton http://mediamatters.org/items/200806040008 Discussing in February a New York Times article about Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyists, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle, and Pat Buchanan criticized the Times for its use of anonymous sources. However, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan offered no such criticism in their discussions of a Vanity Fair article that also relied on anonymous sourcing in purporting to report on "post-presidential sexual indiscretions" by former President Bill Clinton. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806040008 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:47:51 EST On MSNBC, purveyors of sexism Buchanan and Barnicle purported to assess role of sexism in presidential campaign coverage http://mediamatters.org/items/200805220005 On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle and Pat Buchanan discussed whether "sexism [will] play a key role in what went wrong" in Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, with Barnicle saying that "reality," not sexism, "will play a much larger role in what has happened," and Buchanan asserting that, while "there's resistance to a woman being the nominee," "the fact that she's a woman has helped her." But Barnicle has referred to Clinton as "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court." Buchanan has described Clinton's voice as "rising to the level that every husband in America at one time or another has heard." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805220005 Thu, 22 May 2008 15:00:43 EST Following Buchanan's comment on Clinton's voice, Matthews warned: "Go the other way. You're in the danger area" http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230006 On Morning Joe, after Pat Buchanan said of Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech following the Pennsylvania primary that "only once or twice did that voice start rising to the level that every husband in America at one time or another has heard. You know, where it starts going up -- " Joe Scarborough said, "Be careful here, Buchanan." Chris Matthews added, "Go the other way. You're in the danger area. ... You're in the danger area, Pat, take my advice." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230006 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:29:35 EST Buchanan on Obama's race speech: "We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200803220001 Discussing Sen. Barack Obama's speech addressing race and controversial comments by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, Pat Buchanan wrote in his syndicated column: "Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American." Buchanan then asserted that "no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans," adding: "We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200803220001 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:42:56 EST What speech did he hear? Declaring parts of speech "grating," Buchanan accuses Obama of avoiding issue of personal responsibility http://mediamatters.org/items/200803180009 MSNBC's Pat Buchanan declared that "parts of" Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race and the controversy surrounding Rev. Jeremiah Wright were "very grating" because of what Buchanan asserted was "the constant sense of putting the burden on the society for what's happened to the African-American community and not enough of the acceptance of their own -- their own responsibility, frankly, for what's happened." However, Obama specifically emphasized during the speech that African-Americans should not become "victims of our past," but must instead "tak[e] full responsibility for our own lives." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803180009 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:18:23 EST Discussing Clinton's tax returns, MSNBC's Buchanan did not note that McCain has not released his returns http://mediamatters.org/items/200803070006 On MSNBC, while saying that Sen. Hillary Clinton should release her tax returns, Pat Buchanan asserted, "[L]ook, there's an awful lot of money that those two made, and they want to see where the money came from, especially where Bill's income came from if they filed a joint return," adding, "And I think Republicans will demand it." However, Buchanan did not note that Sen. John McCain also has not released his tax returns. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803070006 Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:51:48 EST "Offended" Buchanan stands up for "white males," claiming only "white males" died at Gettysburg, Normandy http://mediamatters.org/items/200802290021 After MSNBC's Tucker Carlson noted that Howard Dean reportedly said that the Democratic presidential field "looks like America," while the Republican field, made up of white males, "looks like the 1950s and talks like the 1850s," Pat Buchanan reported being "offended" by Dean's remarks and said: "[W]hat did white males do? OK, they were the only guys signing the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, all the dead at Gettysburg, all the dead at Normandy." In fact, "nearly 2,000" African-Americans took part in the Normandy invasion, at least some of whom apparently died as a result, and at least one woman and one African-American were reportedly killed in the the Gettysburg campaign. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802290021 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:46:13 EST MSNBC's Buchanan compounded sexist comments, misquoted Samuel Johnson http://mediamatters.org/items/200802270004 Referring to comments he had made about Sen. Hillary Clinton's voice, MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan said on the February 27 edition of Morning Joe, "Look, the famous Dr. Johnson, and I hate to repeat it, said, you know, 'To see a woman speaking is to watch a dog walking on its hind legs ... Sure, he said you're surprised not to see it done -- not that it's not done well, but to see it done at all." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802270004 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:13:21 EST Buchanan: Clinton's raised voice is one "every husband in America ... has heard at one time or another" http://mediamatters.org/items/200802260002 On Morning Joe, Pat Buchanan said that when Sen. Hillary Clinton "raises her voice, and when a lot of women do ... it reaches a point ... where every husband in America ... has heard at one time or another." He later stated, "I know that's a sexist comment." Commentator Mike Barnicle previously compared Clinton to "everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802260002 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:56:07 EST Buchanan claimed McCain's FCC letters were "in the normal course of business of a congressman" -- not according to then-FCC chairman http://mediamatters.org/items/200802210005 Discussing reports about Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyist Vicki Iseman, Pat Buchanan asserted: "I don't have a problem with John McCain writing a letter there, depending on what he says in the letter," adding, "[B]ut McCain shouldn't be denying that, I don't think, because it seems to me that's in the normal course of business of a congressman." But contrary to his description of McCain's actions as "the normal course" for a congressman, the FCC chairman at the time criticized McCain for his request, calling it "highly unusual." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802210005 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:21:49 EST Buchanan simply asserted Obama has "most liberal voting record in the United States Senate" http://mediamatters.org/items/200802110008 MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan claimed that if Sen. Barack Obama (IL) wins the Democratic presidential nomination, Republicans will "tear him apart because ... he has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate." Buchanan was presumably referencing the National Journal's 2007 vote rankings that claimed Obama was the "most liberal senator in 2007," but he did not mention that the Journal changed its methodology and has acknowledged a flaw in a previous vote rating. Buchanan also did not note a study that ranked Obama as tied with Sen. Joe Biden as the 10th "most liberal" senator last year. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802110008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:48:19 EST Buchanan equated purported rift in minority voters to "war[s]" in South Central L.A., prisons http://mediamatters.org/items/200801270001 Responding to columnist Eugene Robinson's statement that "I can't think of a whole lot of situations where there's an actual clash between Latino and African American issues," Pat Buchanan cited gang wars "in South Central L.A." and "in the prisons" as evidence that tensions between African Americans and Latinos would affect voting in the Democratic primary. Buchanan said, "I regret to say you're mistaken about the African-American community and the Hispanics. South Central L.A., there is a turf war going on. There's a war in the prisons. People who don't understand that don't understand America, I'm sorry to say." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801270001 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:05:29 EST Buchanan: "Sí, se puede" is "the cause of the illegal immigration movement and the amnesty movement" http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160010 Discussing Sen. Barack Obama's use of the phrase "yes, we can," in recent speeches, Pat Buchanan said: " 'Yes, we can. Sí, se puede.' That's Hispanic. That's the cause of the illegal immigration movement and the amnesty movement." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160010 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:47:35 EST