By Tom Tancredo
MSNBC’s decision to dismiss Pat Buchanan shows the depths to which the mainstream media has caved to far-left pressure groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Council of La Raza, Color of Change and Media Matters.
There can be no doubt that these smear operations were responsible for Buchanan’s dismissal. Color of Change claims to have sent 275,000 petitions through the group CREDO Action demanding Buchanan be removed, and says his firing was their “campaign’s success.” After Buchanan was let go, Media Matters tweeted from its official Twitter account, “Thanks to tens of thousands of MMFA members’ voices, also @ColorOfChange & @CREDOMobile — You all made Buchanan’s exit possible!” Buchanan himself blamed pressure from “the blacklisters.”
Some, such as media critic Howard Kurtz, argue that Buchanan’s dismissal is merely a product of MSNBC’s leftward drift. While this may have been a big factor, both CNN, which is relatively moderate, and Fox News, which is conservative, apparently dropped hosts Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck after similar pressure campaigns from the same groups.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/24/the-real-bigots/#ixzz1nONPBj7Q
MSNBC’s decision to dismiss Pat Buchanan shows the depths to which the mainstream media has caved to far-left pressure groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Council of La Raza, Color of Change and Media Matters.
There can be no doubt that these smear operations were responsible for Buchanan’s dismissal. Color of Change claims to have sent 275,000 petitions through the group CREDO Action demanding Buchanan be removed, and says his firing was their “campaign’s success.” After Buchanan was let go, Media Matters tweeted from its official Twitter account, “Thanks to tens of thousands of MMFA members’ voices, also @ColorOfChange & @CREDOMobile — You all made Buchanan’s exit possible!” Buchanan himself blamed pressure from “the blacklisters.”
Some, such as media critic Howard Kurtz, argue that Buchanan’s dismissal is merely a product of MSNBC’s leftward drift. While this may have been a big factor, both CNN, which is relatively moderate, and Fox News, which is conservative, apparently dropped hosts Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck after similar pressure campaigns from the same groups.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/24/the-real-bigots/#ixzz1nONPBj7Q
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