In showdown with Maddow, Buchanan says Sotomayor “was appointed because she's a Latina, and a Hispanic, and a woman” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 07/16/09 9:52 PM EDT From the July 16 edition of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show: Video file Previously: What Would Pat Buchanan Have To Say To Get Himself Fired From MSNBC? Buchanan on why he doesn't “understand” “the argument” for affirmative action for Hispanics: “They were never enslaved” Maddow slams “Uncle Pat” Buchanan for “stoking... white people's racial animus” on Sotomayor Buchanan on Sotomayor's intellect: “That lady up there is a Scalia? Come on!” Buchanan declares Sotomayor a “militant liberal Latina,” Matthews and Robinson push back