Pat Buchanan Is Not Your Kindly Old Grampy

Posted on July 28, 2011 at 1:33 pm by Bob Cesca

Unless your grampy is a racist turd.

Evidently MSNBC’s animatronic wingnut, and the network’s favorite cuddly grampy character, thought the right-wing terrorist who went on a shooting spree in Norway “might have a point” about Muslims.

Yeah. Not a shocker. The only shocker here is that he continues to collect a check from that place.

I’ve been deliberately avoiding MSNBC recently, partly due to an animation deadline, but also because I’m utterly exhausted with it.

I hasten to note that Lawrence has been fantastic lately and, as always, Rachel is a genius, but everything outside of those two hours is skull-crushingly intolerable.

Be it Pat Buchanan’s inexplicable latitude to blurt out all varieties of awful things, or various anchors being unable to read basic prompter copy, or a good friend of mine being replaced, or the insufferable “both sides” meme that dominates the topicality in the morning (and all day long for that matter), or Chuck Todd’s douchey self-righteous seriousness, or the somnambulist Martin Bashir continuing to nap his way through his show, or Dylan Ratigan and Ed Schultz leaning on the fake outrage red alert button with the sincerity of used car salesmen, or, hell, the continued airing of prison rape docs even though the nation is on the verge of economic collapse, MSNBC is a nightmarish melange of stress-inducing hackery.

One thing is certain, it definitely isn’t the liberal network. It’s the shit sandwich station.

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  • D_C_Wilson

    Bob, I agree with everything you said about MSNBC, but . . . .

    It’s still better than Fox.

    • http://twitter.com/SugaRazor Razor

      So is SpikeTV… but it doesn’t mean I want to watch the 24 hour equivalent of a 1980s Budweiser commercial.

      Outside of Rachel Maddow – I’ll even contest Bob’s defense of Lawrence – cable news is hurting America. Whether it’s Fox, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, they’re all counter-productive. Varying degrees of counter-productive, but still bad for the country nonetheless.

      • D_C_Wilson

        Hey, 1,000 Ways to Die is a great show! ;-)

        I don’t know anyone who can watch 24 hours of any channel. You’re right, though , in that Maddow is pretty much the only bright spot on MSNBC these days. I’ll give 50% credit for O’Donnell.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1339404082 Jeff Dunn

    I agree as well. I have actually boycotted Shultz. He’s a clown, when he was on 6 he gave me indigestion. Maddow is the only reason to watch the network now. I only wish that Current were in HD so watching Olbermann wasn’t so distorted.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YM23FX2FBZEC3UVDPZRGCUBIZ4 staci

    With the exception of the reference to Cenk, I agree too. I couldn’t be more happy that dude is gone – hopefully from the public eye forever and ever.

    • http://extremeliberal.wordpress.com/ Extreme Liberal

      I second that, Staci, I think Cenk was the worst of the fake outrage bunch. Republicans turned faux-liberal just turn me off.

  • incredulous72

    O’Donnell and Maddow I still watch faithfully. Matthews I can still tolerate in 2 minute increments with 20 minute increments in between.

    I have to say though, Chuck Todd is in the top 5 of biggest douches on cable tv and that includes those douches at fox. I find him even more insufferable than Scarborough. He and that MSNBC White House correspondent that I can’t stand . . . and whose name I have forgotten (thank goodness) can both go jump in a lake.

    MSNBC has to keep Grandpa Munster there to seem “balanced”.

  • BuffaloBuckeye

    Yeah, Bob, that’s a pretty good read on MSNBC. Lawrence and Rachel are really the only two shows that I’ll watch/record.

  • Zen Diesel

    Aw man no luv for Ed, he’s fired up everynight…..lol. Actually I think he has gotten better since he has moved to 10pm.

  • JMAshby

    I only watch Lawrence.

  • mrbrink

    Ed’s not used-car salesman phony. I’ve been listening to him for years. I can spot a phony a mile away. It’s my gift. I’ve had conversations with murderers and millionaires and everyone in between. He’s an emotional guy. Hyperbolic at times, but he’s sincere and he wears his heart on his sleeve. I don;t really watch his tv show, maybe a couple times a week because I think he amps up the bombast to make some waves. One of these days I’m going to guess the popular response to his text poll questions! ha ha. But if he seems insincere, it’s because he’s actually toning down is outrage, and a toned down Ed might seem insincere for a guy with so much fire.

    Ed’s hosted countless town halls in middle America, broadcast from countless free clinics, given a platform to union leaders and labor organizers– people whom I respect and appreciate, even though I may disagree with them from time to time. Liberals of all gripes and stripes. I disagree with everyone from time to time, Ed included.

    He’s taken calls from people sobbing and weeping at the travesty of it all– truckers, teachers, retirees. In tears and crying. Weeping Truckers!

    That’s who and what pulls Ed’s strings, so if he mouths off about the methods of the president I get it, even though I disagree. If ever I cross paths with him, I’ll be sure to explain ACA, or financial reform and the progress the president has made in the context of it all. From civil rights to social justice– President Obama’s been doing great work.

    But Ed’s a trench dog and sometimes the things he sees pisses him off and fires him up, but also demoralizes him and saps his clarity and sense of political direction.

    He’s a lot of things, but he’s no Dylan Ratigan- Phony.

  • http://twitter.com/bphoon Brian C

    Buchanan has been routinely wrong about, well, everything since he came into public life. The man worked in the Nixon White House, for God’s sake. Whatever he says, reality is the exact opposite. It is hard, though, to listen to his racist comments knowing there will be no consequences…