Buchanan attacks Sharpton for getting Imus “dropped off the air for two words at 6:15 in the morning” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 10/15/09 6:55 PM EDT From the October 15 edition of Hardball: Video file Previously: Buchanan on Hardball: Imus was “more a victim of hatred than a perpetrator of hatred” Pat Buchanan on Imus: "[T]he court of elite opinion ... pandering to the mob, lynched him" Media figures continue to describe Imus firing as “lynching”